For an exciting moment I thought you'd misspelled the long, thin, wiggly fish. Thoughts of spiced eel ... YES!!!! Then I looked at the pictures. Still looks good though .

Not sure that things are getting better. On the plus side, my optician has confirmed that the odd vision in my left eye is - as I was hoping - nothing worse than a cataract . On the minus side, he told me that there was one in the right eye, too - which I wasn't expecting . Being a glass half full type of person, I'm just happy that the better eye is my viewfinder eye .

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"Let's make sure I heard you right - you said it's a wig? A WIG??!!"

Never mind the details of the lens, those photos ooze gorgeousness .

Steve

Nicely conveys the feel of fast flowing water .

I walked along my local river yesterday. Flowing fast. Nothing like the feel of your photos though, and I've just realised why: lack of rocks....

Steve

Thanks, appreciated .

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Thanks, helpful . It confirms my suspicions about focus speed but I wasn't sure whether that was my imagination or I'd really read it somewhere.

Any comment on tracking with the K3 iii + DA300 i.e. once focus is achieved on a moving object does it hold focus better?

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Thanks.

The colours in the last few surprised me during post-processing. I'd realised when taking them that there was colour in the clouds but the sun shining through light cloud was too bright to see the colour clearly.

The walkers in the last two (same pair of people) were probably thinking the same as me i.e. I hope I get home before those clouds dump their content on me. I live nearby, which was just as well because the sunny period was soon followed by a downpour .

Steve

Some interesting photos in that lot. Of the colour ones, the first solo bovine shot and the lofty crag stand out for me. Of the mono ones, I'm drawn to the one of the crag with barbed wire fence and the last but one rock pinnacle. The first few don't make the cut for me because there's too much clutter, while the pairs of bovines are looking out of the picture which I find mildly irritating.

No reason why a polariser shouldn't work with IR, it's just another wavelength of electromagnetic radiation and not far off visible light. If we were vampire bats, we'd be able to see IR just like light (according to internet sources) .

Steve

Question for K3 iii users: Is the K3 iii autofocus with the DA300mm f4 (also with 1.4TC) significantly better in practice than that of the original K3? I'm thinking here of (a) time taken to acquire focus; and (b) ability to hold focus during tracking (birds, butterflies etc.). Or is the lens the limiting factor so the improved AF in the K3 iii can provide little or no benefit?

I'm sure that at one time I read about this here and elsewhere but can't find the relevant threads now.

And please don't suggest the DA150-450mm instead of the DA300mm. I know it's a superb lens but it's not what this question is about .

Steve

A few hours of non-rain yesterday afternoon brought out a number of walkers around the local fields - including me. From a photographic point of view, the fields themselves were fairly boring - monotonous green of winter cereal crop contrasting with mud of well-trodden footpath and frequent puddles. Even the sky wasn't exactly interesting. Then the threatened clouds moved in from the south west. For a while, the interplay between developing clouds and descending sun made for some interest on the horizon. So here it is, the sequence taking about 30 minutes and three quarters of a circuit round the big field. All with K3, the first with DA 16-85mm, others with DA 55-300mm.

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