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Comment by aminstar posted on Today's drops at 21/07/2009 - 21:42

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paulyrichard wrote:
I like this last one Amin.
Thanks Paul

It needs a bit tidying up but can't be too bothered right now , wanted to hear any comments so decided to upload as soon as I finished snapping them.
With a bit of tidying up specially the noise around the colours where they join could help a bit more though

Comment by aminstar posted on Today's drops at 21/07/2009 - 21:32

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C&C greatly appreciated as usual.

They didn't come up as good as I had expected, but well, got to try

Different colours different patters different backgrounds and lighting

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Comment by aminstar posted on Today's drops at 21/07/2009 - 20:59

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Mike-P wrote:
I will not buy a new K20D out of principle now. I am so disgusted with myself that I didnt buy one at Christmas when they were under £500 with the £100 cashback that I absolutely refuse to pay the present asking price even if they are going up again
Mike, why did you miss yesterday's bargain then for the K20D for under £500? The one you had mentioned about and you almost closed the deal?

You just teasing us aren't you?

Comment by aminstar posted on SRS, K20D one of dearest on-line now? at 21/07/2009 - 18:03

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Spad wrote:

I have just been thinking about that... I love night photography and hows this for an idea: use a long shutter setting (10 plus seconds) combined with f22 and then using a strobe flash gun. That may produce some interesting images!
There you have it , That's one way of doing it.

You don't always need a N***N for it. There are always ways around a problem and if we think carefully we always can come up with a process of solving it

But then again you might have a problem focusing and there are some cameras there that are better at AF

Comment by aminstar posted on Shooting Birds.... The feathered kind! at 21/07/2009 - 15:56

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scottthehat wrote:
but we are not aloud to big up other camera makers on this forum,
says who!!

Comment by aminstar posted on Shooting Birds.... The feathered kind! at 21/07/2009 - 15:17

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Unlocker wrote:
Just acquired my first long prime, a DA* 300mm off eBay for £600 (can't believe no one else bid on it!), and was just wondering what advice would you give for using it and getting the best out of it as I have only ever used zooms at that length.

Do you always use a monopod or tripod, prefer to go handheld, keep shutter speeds over say 1/450, focussing tips etc. I do find using zooms that I have got into the habit of zooming out quickly to get focus on areas of low contrast, then zooming back in to get fine focus easier (think I explained that right!) which obviously I can't do with a prime, so any advice appreciated!
Congratulations Danny. You are going to love the DA*300. If you find the 60-250 nice you definitely are going to absolutely love this one. It is slightly different than the zoom in my view, and it does take a bit of getting used to, but not a big problem at all.

My problems were only finding the subject through the viewfinder after picking it up on the naked eye initially as with the zoom I used to have it shorter range and then push it out from there keeping the subject in view, but very very rarely I would have a problem finding it, specially because the view through the lens is so absolutely fantastic also that you can literally use it as a binoculars and locate it roughly where the subject is and then focus it.

I have at times used it without the tripod, but my best results were with the tripod.

Comment by aminstar posted on DA* 300mm - Shooting advice at 21/07/2009 - 14:28

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I am a bit curious to know how popular is the AF.C focusing mode amongst our members here and where and when is mostly used.

Can someone please break it down this in details, other than obviously the most obvious which is that it constantly tracks and focuses the subject as long as the shutter release button is half pressed.

As an example here, if the Drive Mode, "Continuous Hi" is chosen in the Fn menu (aka machine gun mode, ok I just made this up), and if you have the focusing mode set for AF.C and shot a subject keeping your shutter release button completely pressed, would the focusing still track the moving subject? Or the moment the shutter release button goes from half pressed to full pressed the focusing locks and all the images under that shot will be taken at the locked focus?

Just curious what members understand from this feature and also reading from the manual please

Comment by aminstar posted on AF.C focusing, full explanation please at 21/07/2009 - 14:22

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Mike-P wrote:
Somebody sounds a little bitter
I was trying to control my temptation to throw in a comment but seeing now that Danny and Mike have blurted it out so I might as well just let it out too

marshy27 wrote:

Good bye pentaxians enjoy your k-7 cameras.

Paul
That's quite a bit of an over the top farewell I would think . More like a bit with an undertone of a sarcastic remark it seems.

And by the way, what makes you think we all have K7? Either that or you think that the ones who don't have the K7 are not enjoying ours?

Comment by aminstar posted on K20d + Da 35mm + 50-135mm at 21/07/2009 - 13:11

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Pentaxophile wrote:
OK, sorry Amin... perhaps I'm a bit overtired
Will, no worries , I didn't take it wrongly, just didn't want you to think I was annoyed by your helpful comment . You were being kind enough to point me the issue and even I too think I have ruined that shot by blurring it. But I did that only for the upload here, the original one is still intact.

I might as well uplaod the other ones too then and I have replaced the blurred one above too

Comment by aminstar posted on Train spotting at 21/07/2009 - 11:31

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