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Pristine body arrived next day, meticulously packaged.
Thanks Mo

Comment by Darkmunk posted on For sale: Pentax k5 ii s camera and 31mm limited fa f1.8 lens at 18/12/2013 - 09:06

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I sent an email 2 days ago but they haven't replied

Comment by Darkmunk posted on 55-300 WR €319!!!!!!! at 17/12/2013 - 14:50

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Comment by Darkmunk posted on K5 boxed with screen protectors at 17/12/2013 - 12:36

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My Spare, unmarked and still awesome K5 is now surplus to requirements.
I'll put some pictures up later, but for now I'll just get the word out.
£360 inc. P&P.
That's one hell of a lot of camera for next to nothing

Comment by Darkmunk posted on K5 boxed with screen protectors at 16/12/2013 - 16:57

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I make it £631 for the 200. Have I missed something?
They seem to be similar price in euros to what we have to pay in pounds. Familiar story.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on 55-300 WR €319!!!!!!! at 15/12/2013 - 15:21

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What he ^ said.
Cracking lens, pretty sharp, quick focusing and great for close-ups and portraits. Lovely creamy bokeh (out of focus areas).
It suffers from purple fringing in high contrast, but there's a simple fix for that - just ask here.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Telephoto Lens at 13/12/2013 - 11:57

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Or just holding (taping) a wide angle prime backwards on the end of another lens or tubes (bog roll)
Then clean your sensor...

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Macro on a budget? at 12/12/2013 - 20:40

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The Raynox will come in handy even if you get a longer macro one day. It'll work on your phone too
Tubes are brilliant, cheap and are essential kit for any macro enthusiast whatever lenses they own.
Surely your 50mm macro is already fine for dragon flies? they're huge!
Almost all these old images were taken with an SMC M 50mm 1:7 and tubes.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Macro on a budget? at 12/12/2013 - 20:20

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You can see it happening in the viewfinder. You have to move back and forth to re-establish focus. Whether that is because of movement of the camera, or the focal plane (or whatever) shifting because the camera was moved in an arc, is largely irrelevant. The fact is the subject has gone out of focus.
But this is off-topic really, I'm still trying to establish if we can't expect the subject to pop out of the frame unless we use the centre of the lens (wide open) and crop later.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Focusing fast lenses wide open. at 12/12/2013 - 13:38

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Focusing and recomposing would also bring us back to my original point that I think it's best to keep the subject in the centre and crop it later.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Focusing fast lenses wide open. at 12/12/2013 - 11:23

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