The price reductions on this camera over the past couple of months lend weight to the argument that the K-1III release might be imminent...possibly by Easter?

Got my very nice Samsung Evo Plus 128GB card this afternoon ...the prize for the newly started POTW format!

When you consider we here on the Pentax site get one of these to compete for every week with just a few dozen photos (currently) submitted for consideration...whilst the main ephotozine site users compete for the same but against hundreds of other images...we have pretty good odds at the moment of winning...make the most of it!!




Good luck to everyone going forward and thanks to Samsung and site owners for the prize.

Karlo

Very impressive...even better 'large'.

Would be interested in your thoughts after you've had a chance to 'play'...how does it compare to the K-5IIs?

I'm going to be in the market for a K-3 or K-3II soon to use alongside my existing K-5IIs.

Best Wishes

Karlo

Love the second image in particular...lovely shades of green with that OOF background...similar to the effect from ICM.

The first image is impressive viewed large as well.

Just shows...you don't have to travel far to get great looking images.

regards

Karlo

Just looked these John...really good images and a great record of the event...congratulations.

Regards

Karlo

Great images all round guys.

Not so keen on No.5 (although i quite like the perfume )...but the others are great...especially 4 and 6.

These scream 'Wall Art' to me..probably in a Miami style beachfront mansion.

regards

Karlo

Date mentioned above is May 2018...tried to edit it but insisted in substituting the smilie for the '8' !

I did consider possibility of satellites at the time and even did a cursory check of the main overflights on some app at the time (May 201 but didn't come up with anything.

But the main reason i discounted satellites was the movement of one of these...a pink/clay coloured one I labelled Anomaly 3 which appears in the following images in the middle of the Moon's disk...this one was basically hovering over the same general area but making short jagged 'jumps' for want of a better description in a seemingly random pattern. I had to keep manually adjusting the telescope to keep the Moon centrered in my camera viewfinder and lost this one briefly...when I regained the same position again it had disappeared. It seemed to be interacting close to the surface of the Moon...for that to be the case it must have been huge.

Also the sheer speed of these others and the slightly curved deviation from a straight line at the extreme right of the viewfinder before they flew out of my FOV. My 'gut' feeling at the time was that these were being actively controlled 'piloted' if you like rather than merely following a course.

1. Anomalies overall perspective...three of them.



2. Anomaly 3 200% crop



3. Anomalies 1 and 3 at 100% crop



That's it folks...all i've got!

Regardless of what you might all be thinking...isn't it amazing that it's possible to capture images like these with equipment costing a few hundred pounds?!