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Comment by Daronl posted on Pentax 55-300mm f/4.5-6.3 da Plm Wr at 20/02/2017 - 17:40
Would appreciate confirmation
Comment by Daronl posted on Pentax 55-300mm f/4.5-6.3 da Plm Wr at 20/02/2017 - 11:49
It great to be able to recall such lovely high qulity, well-crafted images from the drives, so much better than volumes of disintegrating plastic photo albums and fading, dog-eared photos.
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Comment by Daronl posted on Sifting through the drives at 19/02/2017 - 10:16
Comment by Daronl posted on FS: Pentax K-1 (New!) at 18/02/2017 - 15:06
Comment by Daronl posted on More than one moose loose aboot this hoose at 10/02/2017 - 10:16
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Daronl
For sale a pentax d-fa 100 2.8 wr bought dec 31 2016 from srs i belive the warranty can be transfered so its mint as new also a pz-af 1.5 dg kenko converter tryed it with sdm and hsm in the local camera shop and it works as i dont have any sdm or hsm lens mint condision but no box or soft bag would like to sell together to fund a bigma will post photos of the converter later as for the 100wr look on the srs site £400 plus postage uk only
Comment by Daronl posted on pentax D-fa 100 wr plus kenko pz-af 1.5 dg converter at 05/02/2017 - 09:33
Many years ago I was completely in awe of a BW photo (published in a BBC Nature book) entitled "a record of a moment in time" It showed an owl in flight about to take a small mouse, with its talons just closing around the mouse which was squating on a post but not, at tha precise moment, actually touching or gripping the mouse.
However, but I think the kingfisher is even more impressive.
Out of interest is there anyone out there who has a copy of the "Owl shot" they can scan and post ?
Comment by Daronl posted on Wildlife photographer of the year peoples choice at 22/01/2017 - 10:56
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Comment by Daronl posted on Mother Nature at her best at 22/01/2017 - 10:31
Well done David; a lovely lesson, great images and great fun; just how photography should be.
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Comment by Daronl posted on Some marbles at 13/01/2017 - 17:41
I also have the 28-105 FA for full frame walkabout (K1) stuff but it definately doesn't "out dazzle" the K3/18-135 .
As I have mentioned in numerous posts before , my portfolio is well populated with shots from the 18-135; the last lens I would get rid of.
Comment by Daronl posted on What lens(es) you been using? at 11/01/2017 - 22:20
Might sound a little obvious but am I right in concluding the lens will only function on the K1 in aps mode and that likely I will get vignetting if I try to use it in FF mode.
Would appreciate confirmation
If you shoot it on full frame you can see in the viewfinder how much vignetting there is and frame accordingly which can allow for a more usable area than crop mode (and crop the FF image to taste afterwards.)
This is a full frame image at 120mm which shows the vignetting, but used to effect.
At 300mm the vignetting is just a little bit in the corners as here (f6.3)
But just look at the centre sharpness at full aperture!
100% crop of centre:
You could almost scan the bar code!
Some 300mm lenses wouldn't get close to resolving that or the mesh in the satellite dish.