Thanks, good suggestion.
How did the world survive before sticky tape was invented??

That's what I was expecting from experience with other Q lenses, but moving the focus ring even a tiny bit had a big effect so I assumed the ring was there to be useful.

No time to try it out today, will have to wait until tomorrow or Monday. I'll be back...

Steve

Thanks. That explains why focus seemed quite random this afternoon. I'm not usually so bad at manual focus.

So is focussing a matter of either using the screen or trusting to luck? I was hoping to be able to use a one-handed 'point, quick touch on the lens then shoot' approach while walking the dog.

Steve

Has any Q enthusiast calibrated the focus scale on the Q 03 fisheye lens? The marks on the lens are no use without focus distances. A first play with it today convinced me that focussing does matter, and checking focus on the screen isn't always possible.

Steve

Just received a refurbished Q-S1 and couple of Q lenses from SRS. Arrived very quickly, as expected. Everything present and correct, as expected. What wasn't expected were 2 Pentax Q camera pouches, neither ordered nor charged for.

Now, I can understand one pouch for the Q-S1 as a generous free gift. But the 2nd? How could SRS have known that for ages I've been wondering about getting something similar for my original Q? The only thing I can think of is that SRS can read minds. Not even the data scavengers at Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. can do that.

So thank you, SRS. But should we be careful what's in our minds from now on???

Steve

Why do birds think that a car parked in a drive is there for target practice?

And why do they aim for the centre of the roof so it's difficult to reach and clean off?

Steve

First dotted bee fly of the year. And first time I've managed a half decent picture of one feeding at a flower - they don't stay long before moving on. Easier when they're hovering, they can be be still for a few seconds, or even longer if you're lucky. They'll be around for a few weeks then get on with the next stage of their parasitic life.

K3 + DA*300mm + 1.4TC, they won't let you get close enough to use a macro lens.




Steve

Real, running, rippling, reflecting, refreshing water. That's more like it!

A superb set, impossible to pick a favourite. And that crop of no 8 shows what can be seen if you're prepared to look and not blur it into a vague haze.

Clicking on no 3 and enlarging, the ripple pattern near the right hand end of the bright band makes an interesting abstract (to me, at least!).

Steve

Thanks Derek.

Very interesting to see the H2O version. The milk pulls my eyes upwards towards the trees and into the picture (I guess it's acting as a leading line). With the H2O, however, my eyes are pulled towards the detail in the pool at the bottom and not into the picture. In this case, the milk wins for me, it's doing something useful for the composition of the picture. Other people may see it differently, of course.

But I still can't get excited by a pier rising from a sea of milk.....

Steve

6 for me. It asks questions rather than gives answers. Then 3.
Presumably the wee hike was followed by a thoroughly deserved wee dram?

Steve

Another planed camera. Must be mirrorless, can't see a viewfinder. Early Q prototype?




Steve