Ah, Ricardo gives you the perfect solution. Just run down to your nearest camera store and plunk down your 3 grand or so and you can do what you want. 😱😱 Seriously a 18 mp camera can do what you ask under certain circumstances. Check out this website for a discussion on your problem 😊😁

http://www.photek.ca/blog/2011/04/04/get-a-big-print-from-a-60d/

Hope this is of some help.

LittleRed

Tis a female Northern Harrier searching for supper. Recognizable by the distinctive white patch on the top front of its tail.

LittleRed

Thanks Viki for the kind comment, it was appreciated. As I said, this lens is turning into one of my favourites also. However, the Canon 300mm prime is still my most favourite. Like you I find that a tripod is necessary to get good results with the Tamron but not with the 300. Thus the smaller Canon lens is my present walk-about.

Ron

Hi WDCash, thanks for looking in. Since my main interest is photographing birds or such I normally don't do much close-up. A lot of these pics is a bit of experimenting on my part. I used the high f stops in order to increase the depth of field making as much of the flowers in focus.

Ron

Thanks for looking and commenting. I agree tinplater that all you have listed can create softness. However the slight softness I refer too appears even when I am photographing wildlife when these don't appear, i.e. when using high shutter speeds (1/2000) and lower f stops (f7.1). I found this was also a wee problem with the Canon 100-400.

Ron

Thanks loads for the kind comment.

Ron

Thanks for the nice comments, tis appreciated.

Ron

Thanks MikWar for looking and commenting.

Ron

I'm sure you will really enjoy that lens once you get used to it.

Ron

While convalescing on my backdeck following leg surgery spent most of the time taking pics of my feathered friends. However having just purchased the Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens this spring I wanted to see just what else it could do. So I decided to try to capture some of my wife's flowers nearby. I'm very satisfied with what I found out. Even though at 600mm the pics still appear a bit soft, they can be easily adjusted with a photo editor. I don't use any of the fancy editors such as Photoshop, instead using an old simple one that came with my first digital camera, a Olympus point and shoot (Olympus Master Ver 2.3), but it does exactly what I require. The weather conditions at the time I took the pics were a mix of sun and clouds, with clouds being the greater. Also, all the flowers were in shade on our deck when the pics were taken. The only exception was the orange day-lily which was in our garden at the back of our lot. I was quite impressed with the shot of the day-lily which was about 14.5 metres away (approx 48 feet). All the shots were taken on a tripod using auto-focus with the VC (image stabilizer) off. I also found that I did not have to do much adjustment with my editor, that the pics were quite good right out of the camera. I realize that I could have improved the quality of my pictures by using diiferent (better) settings on my camera but I used basically what the camera told me too. I also found that the combination of my Canon T6i and this lens worked quite well under low light situations with quite high ISO readings. I realize that I have found that even though this lens is very good it still can't give me the sharpness that my Canon 300mm prime can, but it does give me that extra reach when photographing my small birds at a distance. All in all, I would highly recommend this Tamron lens to anyone whom is looking for a reasonably priced telephoto. I used to have the old Canon 100-400 which worked quite well, but I do believe that this lens performs better. I don't know how the new 100-400mm Canon would compare, but have heard that it is much better than the old one, and possibly better than the Tamron. Never had the chance to try it and as the price here in Canada at the time I bought was $3200 with taxes = $4190 while I paid $1750 with taxes = $2275, a difference of $1915, so it was a no-brainer for me to go for the Tamron. (I noticed that the Canon lens today at Canon Canada is on sale for $2500 with taxes = $3250 while the Tamron is on sale at Henry's for $1530 with taxes = $1990, still a difference of $1260). As you can see why I sure taint sorry that opted for the Tamron.

LittleRed (Ron)

Dahlia Group - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @150mm, 1/100, f16, auto ISO @1600, dist 5.5M (18')

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Dahlia Single - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @300mm, 1/250, f16, auto ISO @3200, dist 5.5M (18')

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Dahlia Trio - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @200mm, 1/100, f16, auto ISO @160, dist 5.5M (18')

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Lily Group - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @150mm, 1/13, f32, auto ISO @100, dist 3.5M (12')

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Lily Single side - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @213mm, 1/25, f25, auto ISO @800, dist 3.5M (12')

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Lily Single Front - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @273, 1/25, f20, auto ISO @200, dist 3.5M (12')

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Day-Lily - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600mm @552, 1/1000, f6.3, auto ISO @1000, dist 14.5M (48')

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Thanks sailorsmom for the kind comment, was appreciated.

Ron

Yes Carol, being immobile is a pain in the butt. But my leg needed the surgery and hopefully I will next year be out and about doing my favourite hobby of birdwatching. However, for the first time in quite a spell I will be stuck up north in the snow and 20 below weather instead of being south where the sun shines warmly. We had planned on your neck of the woods this year before my leg went bad. We love birding and taking pics at places like Viera Wetlands, Circle B Bar Reserve or St-Marks NWR to name a few. Usually we spend a copla months at least south at either the Rio Grande Valley/Gulf Coast of Texas, Dauphin Island area of Alabama or all of Florida. But even if my leg heals well enough to be able to walk in order to get health insurance for your country I have to be stable (healed completely) for at least 4 months. This countdown will probably start the end of December so I couldn't travel south till after the end of April. So for us it wouldn't be worth it as a great number of the birds we would be looking for would be heading north. Can't travel in the good old USA without health insurance as we couldn't afford the cost of your doctors and/or hospitals if something went wrong with my leg. Maybe next year.
Anyhows, thanks for looking in and I'm happy you enjoyed my birds. Take care, may God bless you and have a terrific Holiday Season.

Ron

Thanks briace for the thumbs up.

Ron

Thanks Emp for the nice comment, is appreciated.

Ron

Day # 21 - Date : Saturday, November 4, 2017

This will be my last posting on this series of Backyard Birds that had the occasion to visit me this fall. This is the Rock Dove, more commonly known as the Common or Feral Pigeon. This is one of my nemesis, along with the grackles, squirrels, raccoons, and black bears whom like to attack my feeding stations. Most people do not think that this bird should be called a Backyard Bird including myself. However, in the truth, the ones up here if allowed would spend all day there. Usually I don't take many pictures of these birds but for this posting I found a few to show you. Two are of the regular Pigeons while the other white one was a Racing Pigeon whom stopped off for a bite to eat uninvited. I didn't really mind this one as it only stayed for a day or two before it returned to his home base.
Most of these pests can be thwarted by positioning the feeders in areas that they can't get to by using baffles or hanging them from overhead wires. However, those flying pests don't worry about such tricks, so for most of these stations I make it impossible them to land on them. I prevent this by using wire cages to cover them. These cages usually allow the smaller birds up to the size of a Blue Jay to enter to feed but prevents the pigeons and crows to do likewise. The last picture shows just one of my platform feeders with the wire cage.
Like I said above, this is my last posting of my Backyard Birds. Even though I have many more species birds come into my yard over the year I only used them that I had the opportunity to photograph them this fall while I was convalescing from leg surgery. Because I was immobile for most of the fall and restricted to the back deck while I mended the only opportunity I had to use the camera was doing this. Twas better than nothing.
I hope some of youse took a bit of pleasure from the pictures I have posted.

LittleRed (Ron)

Rock Dove - Canon T5i, Canon 300mm prime, 1/2000, f7.1, auto ISO @ 800, dist 12M


Rock Dove - Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600 @256mm, 1/640, f5.6, auto ISO @1600, dist 10M


Local Racing Pigeon owned by Ralph Kinder


Example of one of my caged feeding platforms