I've got a Watameter. If you need to know the distance it will provide it - amazingly accurately!

There are indeed. The second one especially appeals.

I certainly would not throw it away - it produces lovely results.

Not sure how these were processed but I really like those muted colours.

That looks like the beast. Thanks.

Lockdown has given us a lot of time to play so I wasted (?) an entire afternoon chasing bees of one sort or another,
including those hovering beasts that zip out of frame before you get chance to focus on them.

Starting with the worst picture, they are amazingly streamlined and built for high speed - teardrop shaped body, Buggatti sloped
rear aerofoil in place of a fat abdomen and I bet all those hairs lie flat whatever direction it shoots off.



One problem I found was that wherever you chose to stand, the thing would always turn its back on you ! I found it
almost impossible to get a head-first image. It's as if they take the stance, "out of sight, out of mind".



Almost but not quite a side view.



At least we now know they have a dark patch on each wing.



It isn't because they like a particular orientation to the sun. These pictures are from North East South and West.



K1 with an FA* 300mm, ISO800, f7.1 and 1/1250second.
Does anybody know what the proper name is for these bee drone things?

I hope they don't call it the KA. Reminds me of those cut-down shopping trolleys that Ford produced a while ago with the clever sound bite, "Get into the Ka!" As for a sensor underneath the viewfinder, that would be a Godsend. No matter how often I try to disable the Status Screen on my K1, it always reappears when I trigger the system from sleep mode with a half press and it blasts my eye with bright light. I hate it and I just can't make it desist.

There is no accounting for taste.

*IF you can manage with manual focus then there are a fantastic number of A series Pentax lenses that will more than fit your needs. Add an (expensive) F series auto focus converter and you are good to go!

There was a debate a while back over the advantages (or not) of card removal vs usb cable. Removal of the card won out but here are two good reasons to use the cable!