I'll vote for Fletchers K-5 shame he wasnt selling it when I got my K-30!

"you need ta be yoursellllff, you can't be no-one elsssssee!" to quote a famous son of Manchester

Well personally I don't think you can go wrong with the Pentax DA 35mm 2.4 Yes its plastic but its cheap and light, relatively fast and has great IQ!

EDIT have a read here link

Don't mean to mislead anyone, when I say I've waited five years to get these I mean its just taken that time to actually have them within range of the 55-300. I go up the hill for a walk almost once a week and invariably have a different lens on when I see them or they are not in range. They are VERY skittish and appear to have excellent sight and smell, probably to avoid getting shot!!

I think I was just lucky in the right place at the right time with the right lens on and was down wind of them with the slight breeze from them to me.

Thanks everyone its encouraged me to go out more purposefully to see if I can get some better ones of them, I'd almost given up on it.

It sounds like a flippin nightmare to stitch. I love the phonebox too and would like to know what program you use you stick them all together??

Keep up the good work

Daniel.

Thanks Guys,

LU : It was K-30 + DA 55-300 at f8 max telephoto!

Daniel.

What a wonderful experience it was to have them so (relatively) close. I'm sure the pictures don't do them justice. It's taken me five years to get these pictures! (probably didnt try hard enough) they are just up the hill from me.

Bill and Aura, you are both far more sensible than me! I have an attachment to Spotmatics in particular for sentimental reasons. My Grandfather used one and when He passed away a few years ago my Dad inherited it. He doesn't use it, it just sits in a bag along with several lovely old lenses but I dont have the heart to ask him for it, even though He wasn't close to his Dad. .....So I bought my own! I have happy memories of the three of us making trips out together to shoot...wait for it......TRAINS! So I guess you can see why I'm excited about film, its in no way practical or sensible for me and I certainly won't be giving up my K30.

Daniel.

ps I am not a train spotter

Just throw this one in,

When I was at college doing my HND in Music Production we used to get great results with all kinds of music with just an old sony minidisc recorder and the plug in Sony microphone which had a wide stereo field selector ( so you could effectively limit the pickup to 120 degrees or a tight 90 (think i remember this correctly) thus eliminating to a large degree pickup from behind the mic.


I know its not on camera but it a pretty cheap and good quality option the minidisc supplies the power for the mic so all you need are the discs and batteries One AA for mine!

Think it might be worth a look and I'll post a link to the mic if i can find it

edit: found this link to the Mic link
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Last lens finally sold on ebay
Thanks everyone for your interest

Daniel