Thanks Chris.

It is a beast...definitely. I was lugging it round for about 4.5 hours and covered about 2 miles + trying out different locations.
You can get some lovely images with it though, so a bit of a love/hate thing going on!

That sky/lighting combination on the jet2.com B737 is what I look out for...only lasts for a few seconds so have to take it wherever i am.

My existing monopod is too lightweight for this combo but might invest in a more robust one as it will also take some of the weight off me whilst i'm standing around.

I've just posted another airliner image on ephotozine at 1200 pix (click to enlarge) of the Icelandair B757 taking off which I do quite like. Shame you can't do 1200pix on here as it makes a massive difference when viewing.

Regards

Karlo

Finally got round to testing this combination. Weather was a mixture of heavy cloud interspersed with the odd cloud break/sunny interval.
Was very windy though...12-15mph which made it harder to hold the pairing steady at times so most were shot at a higher shutter speed.

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I might have tweaked the curve on one or two, but i also want to capture the background sky accurately as well which limits the room for playing around.
I think the first few were taken on the 'natural' rather than 'bright' setting as well as I forgot to change from some nature shots a day or two earlier.

My main motivation was simply to try out this combo of lens and TC to see if i could get usable images...and I can up to an extent although they will never be as good as
using just the one lens on its own and the quality of light is critical to the outcome.

Regards

Karlo

Tried out this combo with my K-50 for the first time at the airport yesterday. As expected the combination was a bit soft and contrast lacking but not a total disaster
after tweaking contrast/brightness in PP. A very cheap way into a 160-400 range for about £55-60 in total albeit with limitations and definitely needs reasonable light.

I also took my son's Sigma 150-500 to try out on airliners for the first time...i'll post some images tomorrow or thurs from that.

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Nos 4,13,2 in that order for me.

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Karlo

Stick with the bad weather! It does look very poor.

Thanks for that Gareth...enjoyed watching and brave of you to open up and discuss your feelings. As others have said, wish you 'All the Best' on your road to a full recovery. As you said yourself...certainly helps having the great outdoors nearby.

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Karlo

Hi Paco,

welcome to the forum. Looing forward to seeing some images from your part of the world.

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Karlo

Great idea...nicely executed and as Gary says "colour really pops".

Regards

Karlo

My phone cost me about £30 about 3 or 4 years ago. I only bought it because my original phone...a Philips model was the original 1G and myself and about 32000 other users in the country had our transmitters turned off as everyone else had moved to 2G or 3G! Phone was useless and we didn't get any compensation. I spend the princely sum of about £10 per year on a top up.

One of my sons on the other hand (19 yrs) is about 2/3rds of the way through a £1000 contract on an Apple phone. He also spends money on cameras though...got a K-S2 with 18-135 and bought a used Sigma 150-500 last year. He's looking to upgrade his camera possibly to a K3II and also would like a Da* 300 . He's on a well paid apprenticeship though and can afford it...he's got more disposable income than me.

My other son (approaching 21) is a skint student in his final year. He's never really shown much interest in cameras but recently (since I got my Pentax 100 macro at Christmas) has expressed an interest and is talking about wanting a camera suitable for a beginner. I'm not ready to part with my K-50 yet but that would be ideal...weather resistant as well as we do like to get outdoors as much as possible. Have been looking at getting one of the SRS reconds for him.Once these are gone though people like him are basically going to end up buying an entry level Canon. Every Pentax sold is a walking advert for the brand via the neckstrap.

K-50 feels nice in the hands as well...nice and curvy unlike the K-S2 which I dislike due to its angular feel...even my son who owns the K-S2 prefers the feel of my K-50.
The 16MP sensor is great, loads of features on there to play around with...half of which i've never used. Would be nice to have a proper HDMI out and a flippy/twisty
screen but other than that it would be fantastic for any beginner/early intermediate. Most of the tech in it must be out of patent now i'm guessing...how expensive would it be to resurrect it as the K50 II and sell for £399 - £429 ?

My 'gut feeling' is that as a society there is a yearning for a return to nature and the 'outdoors'. Modern technology has turned us into an unhealthy indoor dwelling beast surrounded by harmful Electro Magnetic Fields leading a largely sedentary lifestyle. Photography (in the widest interpretation ..film/digital) offers us a healthy creative pastime...mainly outdoors based and can be combined with walking, travel and almost any other physical sport or activity...so it needn't be either/ or. Pentax is still best placed in my opinion to capitalise on its WR/robustness with nice ergonomics as a means to grow its markett share and capture new customers at the 'beginner' stage.