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Location: Whitemouth R., up the Escarpment
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At high ISO and f 5.6 here hand-held.
This is the first Kino made variant with the Macro tab ears ahead of the aperture ring.
There are no repro ratio scale markings on the lens body.

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Focused on the aperture blades here at f5.6 again.

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And focused on the name ring here at 5.6.

With the narrow depth of focus, I'm surprised I can use this hand-held.
All images at the 70mm zoom setting.
I am looking forward to getting outdoors with this lens this spring.

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It is big and heavy, but I really like the 1:2 macro.

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Quick shot of the front showing coatings.


The Kino made versions seem to lean towards magenta cast slightly.

A couple of non-macro mode shots here:

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At 210mm and f5.6.

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Hefty crop of near top right corner of the image above.

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At 70mm and f5.6

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Crop of near top right corner of the image above.
I quickly found that this lens wants at least 1/250 sec at 210mm~ 1/500 sec is actually better in my hands.
My copy seems slightly a bit low in contrast, but nothing un-manageable.
Will try again later this week for wide-open aperture shots.

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Doc Sharptail

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