CANON 24-105MM L f4 vs SIGMA 70-300 DL MACRO SUPER vs SOLIGOR 100-300 VINTAGE LENS

NOW I am not a professional, I have no fancy testing equipment. I just have two cameras, three lenses and a Manfrotto tripod.
So I place the tripod in front to a window facing the park and set then cameras carefully by turn on the tripod.

Cameras were set to similar setting:
ISO: 100
F8
EXPOSURE: MANUAL
METERING MODE: SPOT
WHITE BALANCE: AUTO
EXPOSURE TIME: 1/350
FOCAL LENGHT: about 100mm

Here are the results!
1st lens (Canon 24-105mm L f4. lens)

Canon 5DII with Canon 24-105mm L f4. lens.
(Used on eBay $450 to $750)

ISO: 100

F8

EXPOSURE: MANUAL

METERING MODE: SPOT

FOCAL PI\OINT SET ON SIGN WITH RED LETTERS ON THE RIGHT

WHITE BALANCE: AUTO

EXPOSURE TIME: 1/350

FOCAL LENGHT: about 100mm

This is a 100% cropped in Photoshop.

No corrections applied.

2nd lens (Sigma DL Macro Super 70-300mm f4)

Pentax K20D with Sigma DL Macro Super 70-300mm. f4
(Used on eBay $60 to $150)

ISO: 100

F8

EXPOSURE: MANUAL

METERING MODE: SPOT

FOCAL PI\OINT SET ON SIGN WITH RED LETTERS ON THE RIGHT

WHITE BALANCE: AUTO

EXPOSURE TIME: 1/350

FOCAL LENGHT: about 100mm

This is a 100% cropped in Photoshop.

No corrections applied.

3rd Lens (Soligor 100-300mm Macro f5)

Pentax K20D with Soligor 100-300mm Macro f5.
(Used on eBay $50 to $100)

ISO: 100

F8

EXPOSURE: MANUAL

METERING MODE: SPOT
FOCAL PI\OINT SET ON SIGN WITH RED LETTERS ON THE RIGHT

WHITE BALANCE: AUTO

EXPOSURE TIME: 1/350

FOCAL LENGHT: about 100mm

This is a 100% cropped in Photoshop.

No corrections applied.

This is pretty amazing in my estimation! Of course not all aperture, speed or focal length were compared. So this is very limited in scope. Nevertheless is real world, real time, real everything test.
But I am sure that if the images were color balance and sharpened in Photoshop the difference would be small to say the least.
Is a matter of fact I will do that next and posted here! Stay toned!!

HERE IT IS!!!!!
The Sigma and Soligor photos have being sharpened and color balanced to look like the Canon.
They were sharpened and balance by the same amount (I just copy and pasted values between files)

#1

Sigma 70-300mm DL Macro Super

#2

Soligor 100-300mm Macro f5

(even at f8 the Soligor has a nice slight bokeh)

Do you think that with the availability of Photoshop and money in short supply

is necessary to spend a fortune for professional looking photos?

I guess big egos get the best of us. Who does not want to walk around with an L

lens around his neck?

It is more about making a statement that real necessity.

Do you need a Ferrari to get from point A to point B?

The Scream!

Ever had one of those days?!!!

Go to a secluded place, make sure there is nobody around and just scream at your hearts content, it works like just like Prozac!

Original Photograph available here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/171958776

Visual Paradox SERIES #2

I have several pieces under this SERIES. I was a lot of fun to create these very

evocative pieces.

This is number 2 in the series. It was a joy to shoot Lower Manhattan building and bay from the Staten Island Ferry itself.
Please visit me at:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/170532134

Visual Paradox: Carte Postale SERIES

I love the visual paradox! This is a comtemporary Lower Manhattan UrbanScape, but it has being treated to look turn of the century.

In my estimation this treatment imparts a gentle, peaceful and calming effect on otherwise frantic metropolis.

Please visit my Etsy Store to see this and other work:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/170457244

Shabby Chic, Old Rusty Skeleton Keys.

Shabby Chic, Old Rusty Keys that speak of a bygone era. To me they are beautiful, enchanting.

I love the bokeh in this shot. I used my trusty Pentax K20d fitted with a vintage lens. I have several and I think this was the Super Takumar 50mm. 

This image is for sale on my Etsy Store, just click here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/170403288

New offering on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/161181659

New series: Hydrangeas!!

 I started a new series on Hydrangeas or Hortensias in Spanish.

The Hydrangea is a native of Japan, but seems to do well just about everywhere. Hydrangea make gorgeous landscape shrubs in the proper setting.

But their real beauty in my estimation is after death!

They dry to a beautiful, delicate bouquet and you can enjoy them for a really

long time. You can also enjoy them as Wall Decor, these here are my

artistic offering you can find then at my Etsy store.

Just click here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/153010558/30-off-hydrangeas-romantic-dreamy-nature?ref=shop_home_feat

or

click here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/158505772/30-off-hydrangeas-romantic-dreamy-nature?ref=shop_home_active

or here:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DancingPixelsStudio?ref=pr_shop_more

New Series - White Magnolia Love

Real Beauty Endures Series

 "Real Beauty Endures Series - White Magnolia Love 3"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155437199/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=shop_home_active

 "Real Beauty Endures Series - White Magnolia Love 2"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155431576/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=listing-shop-header-4

"Real Beauty Endures Series - White Magnolia Love 4"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155528155/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=shop_home_active

New Series - White Magnolia Love

White Magnolia - Real Beauty Endures Series - 3, Nature Art Shabby Chic Decor

Fine Art Photography by Magaly Burton 8x12

How much do you know about this beautiful but very delicate flower?

 Well, Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species.

It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.

A fascinating aspect of Magnolias that is considered to represent an ancestral state

is that the flower bud is enclosed in a bract rather than in sepals;

the perianth parts are undifferentiated and called tepals rather than distinct sepals and petals.

(Tepals are elements of the perianth, or outer part of a flower, which includes the petals or sepals)

Undifferentiated tepals are common in monocotyledons.

In tulips, for example, the first and second whorls both contain structures that look like petals.

These are fused at the base to form one large, showy,

six-parted structure. In lilies the organs in the first whorl are separate from the second,

but all look similar, thus all the showy parts are often called tepals.

All of the above is to me overwhelming evidence of design,

therefore, unmistakably the handy work of a Supreme Designer!

Print is available at 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155449924/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=listing-shop-header-0

Dry Orchid with vintage text blended in with the background.

8x10 available at Dancing Pixel Photography in Etsy.

For more info just follow this link:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155394435/dry-orchid-real-beauty-endures-nature?ref=shop_home_active

This is the newest member of the family!

MochieAnnie, she is very special, extremely sweet and also

very spunky.  She is missing her rear right leg, but I do not think she knows that, and

I ain't saying!

For more info visit my Etsy Store:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/154746437/photography-art-fine-art-photography-cat?ref=shop_home_active

Detail of the Norwegian Forest Cat Pastel painting.

It is difficult to resist when those eyes are begging to go

outside for a little while at night!

For more info click here:  Norwegian Forest Cat

For more info click here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121095456040

I just finished this painting of my Norwegian Forest cat.

This is Pastel on Canson Pastel Paper.

It was a real pleasure to paint it, and I am pretty happy with the results.

The eyes, the eyes that's what I love the most in my Misu!

But the most difficult thing to render, the mane!!!

Well, I put this original feline portrait up for sale on eBay.

I'm going to miss it when is gone.

This painting is an 8" x 10" on a 9 x 12 Pastel Paper

Please visit my ebay page:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121095456040

Can a single pear remind you of a Flamenco dancer?

Well, I just finished this oil painting and I can help to think of a Flamenco dancer

when I look at it, why? I do not know.

Maybe the colors or the swirls...

in any event you are welcome to leave comments!

by the way this is available at ebay, just follow the link,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=121132997707