Thanks, Gareth.
It's a good area for a holiday - come and enjoy it first hand!

Steve

So at least one Pentax user isn't worried about slow AF, poor tracking or possible SDM failure...

Wouldn't it be fun to have a Ricoh Theta in space. The whole universe in one shot!

Steve

The first walk with the FA 28mm f2.8 recently acquired from LennyBloke. And the first walk round the dog-walking fields since the dog became too old to walk that far early last year. And the first walk round the fields since the dog went to the Great Kennel In The Sky last month. Nothing startling photographically, but birds were singing, the sun was trying to shine, it was good to see that nothing in the fields had changed and the exercise no doubt did me good! Old habits die hard, though - even though there was no dog on a lead, I still found myself trying to take shots with one hand.

Thought, comments etc. welcome as usual.

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4. Thomas Hardye the author/poet used this footpath (allegedly).



Steve

An FA 28mm f2.8 from LennyBloke. Since damaging my back in January, light weight primes have become strangely attractive.

Steve

By way of thanks to LennyBloke for a few bargain lenses I've had from him (with another in the post today), this is a blatant plug for the Sigma 105. It's a ridiculously low price for an excellent lens that is capable of producing superb photos. Don't be put off because it's not the DG 'digitally optimised' version, it's the macro lens I usually take on walks (smaller and a lot lighter than my favourite Irix 150mm) and has never let me down. As LennyBloke says, it produces lovely results - I hope you don't mind me adding one of my own to illustrate (not in the LennyBloke style, though!).




Steve

You look in your mirror and see ME ?????:::

Steve

I identify myself by looking in the mirror and checking that the reflection looks like the person I remember seeing for the last XXX years. Is there any other way of doing it?

Steve

Pleased to have been able to help you .

Steve

I usually used the 35mm f2.4 (on a K3) when my two grandkids were that age. Allow space around the (moving!) kids and crop to taste. And be grateful for any shots where the kids are actually looking photogenic rather than in the wrong place and looking in the wrong direction .

Steve

Could it be that the K3 iii's focus screen guide lines aren't actually on the focus screen itself whereas they are with the previous cameras? The Ricoh website link says "The PENTAX K-3 Mark III features a transparent LCD viewfinder display that provides a broader range of data in the viewfinder window". Since you are setting the dipotre by focussing on the 'transparent LCD viewfinder display' rather than an image on the focus screen itself, what you think is in focus probably isn't.

Steve