Had a day out at Pensthorpe today - a nice waterfowl park - thought I'd take the camera and the 50-200mm kit lens and have a play.

Below are have a dozen pics from the day, the only mods to the pictures are resizing to 800 pixels on the longest side.

Any comments and criticisms welcomed......

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My fave - for comedy factor - "Duck in a basket" - At Pensthorpe they have a conservation artea and several crane hides. The area is "roofed" with black netting, and this cheeky little fellow was resting in the afternoon sun on top of the netting - about 20 feet from the hide. He looks quite chilled to me.

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arrgh - why can i not get the link to work?

Anyway a siggy 70-300 f4-5.6 macro AF.

Just need some nice weather and something to take some pics of......

No longer considering selling - thanks

Bag has now been sold

sorry numpty newie quetion, for which i am sure there is an obvious answer..........but unknown to me (at the moment)

Those images by the initial poster were all shot in good light conditions, so why did you choose to shoot at such a high ISO?

I thought the brighter the conditions, the lower number ISO...........

sorry to be thick (on DSLR type questions)

Ok - i'll take the bait, what is "HDR mode" - first saw this in a camera mag today and now on here......

Thanks

Greytop - yeah dead easy to rack up 400 shots - bung it on continuous shooting - you wouldn't believe how many exactly the same pics I have of Blickling Hall..........

Glad she likes it, I find as a newbie pretty easy to use, but can do some of the "clever" stuff as well........

Trouble is, got into the habit of flicking through fleabay, and trying to persuade myslef that as have a 28-55 and 55-200, I really don;t need a 70-300, but hey those golf clubs sold and the moneys in paypal...........

cheers guys - much appreciated, just having a look through ebay and potentialy another purchase coming on........ however with 28-50 and 50-200, and a 500 reflector, covered can I justify another lens?

Really good how these camera bods make it so easy for us newbies to understand....

DA = APS-C
DG = DA (ish)
DG = Digital camera


need to find me a book English to Sigmaese......

Hi all,

Sorry for a numpty question - whats the difference between DA / DG / DL in lens names?

Thanks.


Lynton