GrumpyGrandPa

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geordie01 wrote:
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SOLD within a day on e8ay for £350!
aaow
How much do Ebay take off the sale price?
£35 BLOOMING QUID.
Insured postage was about £18 and would have happened anyway.

Hopefully it will be looked after and used by a happy Pentax person who has more muscles than me

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Sigma 50-500mm DG OS APO HSM at 25/05/2023 - 17:21

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Great. Pleased that it's found a good home.

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Jobu Design heavy duty Gimbal at 25/05/2023 - 16:52

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Our lovely neighbour has given me her late husband's camera kit.

It's immaculate and in a Pentax camera bag.
Pentax Super A (European Camera of the Year 1983) with AF200T flash with printed manuals.
SMC Pentax-A 35--105 f3.5 zoom and a SMC Pentax-A 70-210 f4 zoom, both with HOYA UV filters
and loads of other bits and bobs.
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. . . .and a 14mp Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ45 Bridge Camera!

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Is it Christmas yet, I ask because . . . . . at 24/05/2023 - 17:39

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I'll bee careful then Steve!

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Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Blooming heck! at 24/05/2023 - 10:58

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..... The morning after the night before, feeling a little limp .......

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Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Blooming heck! at 24/05/2023 - 10:37

GrumpyGrandPa
SOLD within a day on e8ay for £350!

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Sigma 50-500mm DG OS APO HSM at 24/05/2023 - 09:26

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Thanks. I have a focus rail thingy BUT I must say that the ability to dab on the rear screen to set a focus point is a fantatsic piece of new technology and very helpful when trying to do focus stacking on a still subject

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Blooming heck! at 23/05/2023 - 18:26

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Tis challenging taking close up of flowers. I tried focus stacking in Affinity photo2.
Used k-3iii with 16-85mm lens and LED ring flash attached and a tripod
(The whisky method - drinking a tot or two then focussing manually and hand held and taking photos as you sway back and forth didn't seem to work. Not sure why!)

Just a plain black folder for a background.
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Californian Poppy. The background was card, spray painted black - NOTE TO SELF: Do NOT use gloss car paint
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Californian Poppy. The background was card, spray painted black with the poppy resting on a piece of a fosillised palm tree
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Think I need to practice and need to improve, but a reasonable start methinks.

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Blooming heck! at 23/05/2023 - 17:40

GrumpyGrandPa
REMOVED from sale - now on e8ay ;-(

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Sigma 50-500mm DG OS APO HSM at 23/05/2023 - 10:38

GrumpyGrandPa
SOLD!
Thanks Peter

Comment by GrumpyGrandPa posted on Jobu Design heavy duty Gimbal at 22/05/2023 - 13:19

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