Excellent shots... Fantastic coloured birds

Also they have 3 for 2 on Tanglefoot at £4.99 so that's only £3.33 for 4 x 500ml cans..... the cheapest I've ever seen

Tanglefoot Website link

You certainly have some old cars in Wales!
Any body looking at them needs to click on them and open in another window (1024 wide).

The bokeh looks odd in the first one? Apart from that they are all nice shots

There's no need to change anything, but with the K-5 400ISO or 800ISO would have given you a faster shutter speed and possibly improved the 1st shot if the blur is caused by panning/shake.

How about a 55" Monitor link

There must be better things to photograph in Australia than
lemons Gary Nice bokeh on the 2nd shot

Modern Photography certainly knew how to review camera's..... Take them Apart!!!

This wasn't a review, but an article that followed a review of a stripped down K2. They later merged with Popular Photography and stopped taking things to bits

Too many switches to get knocked and 1/250th is slower than
some of the competitors.

Sorry seems to have been a few posts prior to my last one that I didn't see

The first elecronic cameras in the 80's were designed to capture STILL VIDEO onto a floppy link so we shouldn't really use RAW and JPEG, although I'm sure the early shots were save as JPEG (certainly not RAW) Kodak later brought out their Photo CD format which contained Jpegs of different resolutions.

PC's were originally targeted towards Vector graphics, but with the arrival of digital cameras they were forced to do a bit of a U-turn

Anything wider than f/5.6 will be too big and heavy. The Tokina 80-400mm f/4.5 - f/5.6 is one of the nicest lenses I've ever used, about 30mm shorter than my DA*300mm f/4 and being a zoom it's much more useful. The one I have is the earlier model (like this without the fungus link ) It doesn't need the foot, it's not big enough, very sharp at the other end as well. Sadly it doesn't seem too good on the K-5, better on a K20D in good light. Makes me want a cup of coffee though everytime I use it because it sounds like a coffee grinder!!

Not as sharp as the DA*300mm but so much nicer and versatile

Some samples on a K20D. All 280ISO handheld.

Mallard




Robin 1




Robin 2