Thank's to all. I dit not buy yet but I may buy 55-300mm.

I have seen many allmost razor charp picture taken with FAJ but I haven't succeeded to to so. I don't know if my FAJ is "bad" copy or is my Kx the bad one or is it something what I'm doing "wrong", who knows.

Here in Finland Sigma 18-300 mm is 449 € - 475 €
and Pentax 55-300mm WR is 415 € - 459 €
The old FAJ 75-300 mm was 130€ - 180€.

So 55-300mm in on different price class and it should be much charper but is it worth using money to that or to Sigma.

Hi

I'm looking for new telepnoto zoom up to 300mm to replace my older FAJ 75-300mm zoom. I have two alternatives: HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED WR and Sigma 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Macro OS HSM C

https://www.ephotozine.com/article/hd-pentax-da-55-300mm-f-4-5-8-ed-wr-lens-revi...
https://www.ephotozine.com/article/sigma-18-300mm-f-3-5-6-3-macro-os-hsm-c-lens-...#Performance

But which one is better at the long end and in lower light. Any practical experiencies (from both)?

In Finlad they're just as expensive.

BW. Camera is Pentax Kx.

Finally, great news.

Thaks

I have pieces of copper and aluminium tapes, I'll try with those first.

Br. Jukka

Hi

This might be old issue, but I didn't find any pictures on where I have to clean the paintig off from Vivitar AT-22 extension tube to get "stop-down" metering to work.

Now my tube works totally manually; I have to adjust shutter speed and aperture both manually and change them if picture is under/over exposed. Green buttom (Tv Shift) adjust the speed only according to full aperture.

Great story. Steve McCurry used 6 month to take 36 frames.

Thanks.

It's nice to hear others opinions.

On that picture there are some elements that dosen't look very natural as Bob (gwing) said, like birch bark (too light, IMHO).

Yes, you might be right.

Exposure +0.5 EV (or +1 EV) would be needed and then play stand and background would be better, but the problem is snow, its too flat.

Here is one picture (single shot) runned through easyHDR with dramatic dark settings vs. original picture.

With easyHDR:




and original (not processed) photo: