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Always had excellent service from SRS and have purchased the majority of my Pentax kit from them, a sad loss to all us Pentaxians

I looked on their website a week or so ago and did notice they didn't have any Pentax in stock whatsoever.

Comment by Chrism8 posted on SRS is closing down at 28/10/2026 - 13:17

An excellent set LB, the pick of the bunch for me are the barrels #11

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Bath, Cirencester and Bradford on Avon at 16/10/2026 - 07:04

smc wrote:
Still seems an insane price but does this help?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236317672326

Also from Japan thou

Comment by Chrism8 posted on WTB Unicorn droppings. at 07/10/2026 - 14:18

Excellent set, #2 is the standard out image for me with the light and the cloud formation.

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Landscapes from Kerala, South India. at 28/09/2026 - 08:51

Nicely shot Steve, I really like #3 for its simplicity and it would do well with a tighter crop.

Comment by Chrism8 posted on So Where's The Vignette? at 23/09/2026 - 08:13

Having had experience of a 500mm mirror lens many years ago, as well as the MF issue, your shutter speeds going to need to be pretty high.

With the fixed aperture prob F8 I guesstimate you'll need 1/1250 sec for any chance of a sharp image in reasonable light.

Increasing the iso much above 800 / 1000 will have its own issues as well.

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Sigma 600mm Mirror Lens at 28/08/2026 - 15:31

A superb set, the vine leaves pick if the bunch for me thou.

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Garden details at 23/08/2026 - 13:43

walkeja wrote:
[quote:3496ace15f="LennyBloke"][quote:3496ace15f="walkeja"It could have been a very day of gale force winds blowing loose dirt around, stranger things have happened, I stand by my original comment, no sign of movement.

Given the bikes went around the circuit anti clockwise and the sidecars went around clockwise and the dirt can be clearly seen coming from the spinning wheels, there is a clear sense of movement, and in gale force winds would the direction change 180 deg every 20 laps, plus would the spectators be watching in shorts and T shirts ???

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Roche Grass Track racing at 20/08/2026 - 12:22

roberrl wrote:
Great set.
Just to weigh in on the "blur to show movement" argument, for myself I prefer sharp because I'm often looking for detail that motion blur obscures. And I think the motion is entirely obvious in these images.
How long did it take to clean your rig? I do quite a lot of motorsport pictures and find that my gear often has a layer of muck/oil/rubber dust which is quite resistant to cleaning. That's also why I routinely have a neutral filter on my lens.

Morning Roberri

Thanks for your comment, a good hour or so to clean the kit, I did it that evening so to get it off pdq, the benefit of the 150 - 450 on a crop camera is I don't have to be tooooo close to the action but I did get hit by flying mud and of course the dust on several occasions

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Roche Grass Track racing at 20/08/2026 - 09:21

Thank you for the comments

I had to add this one, tis what happens if you get a poor start and no time to recover the situation with just 4 laps to race

Comment by Chrism8 posted on Roche Grass Track racing at 20/08/2026 - 08:26

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