Photo experiment: shooting a portrait at 900mm

Saturday 2 November 2019, 14:41 by Michelle Peeters | 5,406 views | 6 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Photographers and YouTubers Manny Ortiz, Irene Rudnyk and Gerald Undone recently teamed up for something completely ridiculous. During Sony's recent Kando trip, they were given a model, attached a 600mm f/4 lens to a Sony a6400 and tried to shoot some portraits at 900mm.

You can imagine how this went. Even headshots required so much distance between the model and photographer that someone soon shouted: forget those full body shots!

See the setup below:

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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6 comments

martinphili wrote on Saturday 2 November 2019 at 16:55 | reply
yes, useful!
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guest wrote on Saturday 2 November 2019 at 18:22 | reply
Impressive that you get sharp photos. You must have a steady hand for that.
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Paulussie wrote on Tuesday 5 November 2019 at 23:34 | reply
Have a Sigma 150-600, and indeed sometimes it's fun to do, portrait at a distance. That Sigma also has VC, so it works handheld. I don't know any full-frame 900mm lenses, but it would be way too heavy, so it would only work from a tripod, "spring" at a distance, but not fun anymore.
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Peter Versleijen wrote on Wednesday 6 November 2019 at 17:51 | reply
I saw a review of this lens on an A9 and you are amazed at how fast and super sharp this lens is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl5FDG0jQfI&t=759s
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toondevos wrote on Thursday 7 November 2019 at 15:45 | reply
Honestly, I don't believe any of this. The lens may well be fast and sharp, but 900 mm without a tripod simply cannot produce photos this sharp as is being suggested.
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Paulussie wrote on Thursday 7 November 2019 at 17:42 | reply
@ Toon :. This lens has VC and and with 800 or even higher ISO you can easily use 1/1000 or faster. Then it will work, really. And it's not 900, but 600 on a crop camera.
I do the same with that Sigma 150-600, and you'd be amazed at how well that works.
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