In between the showers today.



Grey Wagtail





Copper Sycamore





Treecreeper







All K5, 150-500.
Hope you like them, any C&C most welcome!

Roger.

Exposure info. as promised:

1).
1/320, f8, ISO400.

2),3) &4).
1/180, f18, ISO 200 (Flash).

5).
1/800, f7.1, ISO800.

6).
1/1000, f9, ISO800.

7).
1/3, f18, ISO200.

All, Elements 11.


Thanks for the comments & interest shown,

Roger.

Thanks, Greg.

Only the three of the nymph in the little aquarium were taken with flash.

The adult shots were all daylight, with wings at rest.

I'll have a dig around & get some exposure info for you later.

Roger.

......the continuing story!




Recently emerged female Broad bodied Chaser, its wings still drying.
Also, I can't find any reference to their being hairy when first emerged.....




When first emerged, the wings are very shiny!




This is its exuvia, the dried-up case of the larva, which crawled out of the pond & onto a nearby chain-link fence(!) to burst out of the back of the exuvia & wait until its legs had hardened-off, then its wings to dry.



First two, K5, 150-500.

Third, K5, 100mm D FA Macro, daylight, mirror up, Remote F.

All, Elements 11.


Thanks for looking!


Roger.

This is/has turned out to be extremely interesting.....

I have the Sigma 150-500 os to use with my k5.

I feel I could lose the flexibility of the zoom & the in-lens os, to gain the lightness of the 300, along with the iq, obviously.
As long as I can achieve similar images by cropping, with as good as, if not better iq, printed (by me) to A4.

I find myself oscillating between the two.
It won't be an either/or choice, however.

Not in the short term, certainly!

In making decisions, as in most things, there's no gain without pain.....

Thanks for all your help fellas!


Roger

Thanks David & Algi for your v. Interesting
thoughts.

The performance certainly isn't in question but I think I may miss a) the flexibility &b) the in lens stabilisation, which I find most useful for the steadiness of the image in the viewfinder.......


Roger.

Thanks for that prompt response, Doc!

Your answer to my question would appear to be "Yes"!

Any further thoughts/images/examples from anyone?

Roger.

Looking for some advice re the performance of the da* 300 f4, which I'm seriously considering getting (from SRS).


I have the Sigma 150-500 OS, which I use a lot for birds & wildlife generally.


This is a JPEG, straight from the K5, the Sigma set at 440mm zoom.




And this is a crop therefrom, PPd in Elements 11.






Can I reasonably expect the 300, with the reduced focal length, from the same viewpoint, to match this performance, given the greater cropping required?


Any assistance would be gratefully received!

Roger.

This first shot taken last summer, the male defending his territory over our pond.







These three of the nymph stage today, in my small home-made aquarium.
(All returned to the pond afterwards, unharmed).

All K5, 100mm D FA Macro, AF240FT off-camera flash.



















They live in the mud in the bottom of the pond, so they're a little messy, I'm afraid!

Thanks for looking & any C&C welcome.

Oh, yes.......

Hadn't thought of that.





Be great, wouldn't it!

I feel a patent coming on!


Roger