Female of The Species

by davidstorm

A Common Blue Damselfly Female. This is more of a record shot than anything else. It was taken while experimenting with the DA*300 and a Kenko 2x PZ-AF Teleconverter. The TC will not autofocus with the DA*300, the contacts are not right for the latest Pentax SDM. However, it's not too difficult to use it in MF mode, as I did here. Even with a 2x TC attached, the loss of IQ on the DA*300 is not very much.

Compared with the Pentax HD 1.4 TC though, the contrast and colours are much poorer and IQ not quite as good.

K-3, DA*300, Kenko 2x PZ-AF TC
Uploaded02/06/2014 - 12:30
CategoryWildlife / Nature
Shutter Speed1/200
Aperturef/8
LensN/A
ISO800
Focal Length300mm

senn
Posted 02/06/2014 - 15:27 Link
thanks for this new interesting experimentation David, .. result seems pretty interesting even somehow exiting; .. as for your colour comparison, are your sure there is no other factor (such a surrounding light condition ..) to explain the difference ?
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Edited by senn: 02/06/2014 - 15:28
davidstorm
Posted 02/06/2014 - 16:11 Link
Hi Nuri, no the colours and contrast are far superior when the Pentax 1.4 HD TC is used. I took some shots in the same place with both of them, so there is a direct comparison. I have increased the contrast and saturation on this shot during post processing, so it looks better on here than it did originally.

Regards
David
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fritzthedog
Posted 02/06/2014 - 22:30 Link
Any half decent shot using a TC makes me envious David. I have owned just about every 'rated' one there is including 3 Pentax 1.7s - never managed to take a decent shot with any of them and gave up a year or two back.

Carl
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davidstorm
Posted 03/06/2014 - 00:42 Link
fritzthedog wrote:
Any half decent shot using a TC makes me envious David. I have owned just about every 'rated' one there is including 3 Pentax 1.7s - never managed to take a decent shot with any of them and gave up a year or two back.

Carl

Hi Carl, I think if you tried the new 1.4TC you would break your duck! Especially if you have a DA*300. It's the best TC I've ever used, by some distance. The one used here (Kenko 2x) needs a bit more effort to coax a decent shot, but it is fairly sharp.

Regards
David
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