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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 106675" data-attributes="member: 9240">Wonderful photos - all of them.&nbsp; Great score on the Bobcat.&nbsp; Most zoom lenses will be a little soft at the end points, and that's probably what you're getting with the 55-300.&nbsp; A lot of the great nature stuff you see out there is getting shot withpro bodies and 300, 400 and 600mm prime lenses.&nbsp; Big, expensive glass that is razor sharp, on bodies costing 3X what you're current investment is - maybe more.&nbsp; There's nothing to sneeze about with these shots.&nbsp; Hard to say whether you could have done &quot;better&quot;.&nbsp; The cat is in good focus in each shot and your shutter speed is more than adequate for handholding the lens.&nbsp; It's possible that you may have had a little less softness using a monopod, but I doubt it would be much different.&nbsp; Different post-processing software might - MIGHT - be able to add some more to it, but without knowing what you had in the basic RAW file it's hard to say.I'd be proud of all of these.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 106675, member: 9240"] Wonderful photos - all of them. Great score on the Bobcat. Most zoom lenses will be a little soft at the end points, and that's probably what you're getting with the 55-300. A lot of the great nature stuff you see out there is getting shot withpro bodies and 300, 400 and 600mm prime lenses. Big, expensive glass that is razor sharp, on bodies costing 3X what you're current investment is - maybe more. There's nothing to sneeze about with these shots. Hard to say whether you could have done "better". The cat is in good focus in each shot and your shutter speed is more than adequate for handholding the lens. It's possible that you may have had a little less softness using a monopod, but I doubt it would be much different. Different post-processing software might - MIGHT - be able to add some more to it, but without knowing what you had in the basic RAW file it's hard to say. I'd be proud of all of these. [/QUOTE]

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