Nice idea.

There's some pretty obvious chromatic aberration on the building and on the trees. Lightroom 5 can easily get rid of that for you.

If you intended the building to be sharp, you might have been better using f/22 rather than f/10 - and increasing to ISO 400 if it was hand-held.

Andrew

I have one that looks exactly like that. It did come with a head - but not that one. I now use it with a Kood ball head, which is fine.

The tripod works well and is very sturdy - but heavy, heavy HEAVY. I doubt that you can do any better for that price.

Andrew

According to Wikipedia, the "Sir Nigel Gresley" was repainted green in Feb 52. We were at York station in the summer of that year. The engine I saw, was the same shade of blue, as the Mallard in your photos.

According to Wikipedia, there were around 34 A4 locomotives in service in 1952, so I suppose it could have been almost any one of those.

Andrew

I saw an A4 Pacific on York station - IN SERVICE - when I was 3 years old, in 1952. I don't know why, but I have always believed that it was the "Sir Nigel Gresley".

I have two memories of that encounter - the engine was incredibly loud and scary - but also that it was exactly the same colour of blue that the Mallard is, in David's photos. If Wikipedia is correct, the "Sir Nigel Gresley" would have been British Railways brunswick green in the summer of '52 - so it just might have been the Mallard I saw.

Shame I didn't own a camera at the time ...........

Andrew

I have tried micro-focus adjustment several times on a number of lenses with my K30 - DA 35 f/2.4, F 35-70mm, DA 18-55mm ALII kit lens, DA 55-300mm - and cannot yet convince myself that I have discovered a method that works reliably and is repeatable.

I have tried taking photos of focus charts; of steel tapes; of book or newspaper text and even tried a method involving interference patterns on a computer monitor. I am not convinced that any of them work reliably and repeatably. Is it that the mechanical tolerances involved do not allow accurate adjustment - or is it simply that my methodology is garbage?

What do you folks do? Have you found the micro-focus holy grail or are you still struggling as I am?

Andrew

Is this K5-IIs old rubbish or K3 old rubbish? I think the K30 is a great camera - and definitely wouldn't swap it for any Canikon old rubbish, even if it were full frame.

Andrew

+1

I don't have a problem with the technique per se - but many folks seem to use it to deliberately generate results that are not realistic.

Andrew

It doesn't surprise me.

I have yet to see a noticeable and consistent difference in IQ between 16"x12" prints from my K200D, K30 or any taken by any other marque, whether APS-C or full frame.

Andrew

I use a Kood ball head with QR plate. AFAIK, it is not compatible with Arca Swiss stuff.

Andrew

I already have rain covers and they are always in my photo bag(s). I don't see the point of taking risks I don't need to.

Andrew