More accurately:- I'm going to be honest, I feel like everyone is taking shots at me just because I spoke my opinion which is not to anyone's agreement.
Agreed, it can take ages walking around a market finding the right fruit.
You're right, it doesn't. Thanks for the clue about the cat.

So you think it's easy taking shots of flowers? There is absolutely zero detail in your daffodil image.

PentaxExpert is perhaps overstating your abilities. The only definition of an expert that I can identify with is that an 'Ex' is a 'has been' and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure.

I think first, you need to understand what is meant by macro photography.

Macro photography requires a lens, or a combination of lens and extension tubes, that is capable of producing images at 1:1 magnification, or greater. That is, if a subject measures 1 centimetre in real life, it's image measures 1 centimetre on the recorded image (sensor or film).

This technique requires a lens capable of focussing from very close distances to infinity and the normal macro subject will be very close, like flowers or small bugs.

Your Miranda lens will make a distant subject, like a bird, appear larger when taken at 300mm than it would when using your kit lens at 200mm. Both will render the subject the same size when using the same focal length on each lens.

Zoom lenses claiming to have a macro capability or not true macro lenses, they just facilitate focussing a little closer than you would normally be able to and rarely give a magnification of better than 1:2, or half life sized.

Re-posted with PP details.




Processed entirely in Lightroom 3.3.

Started with Auto Tone, set a more realistic WB, tweaked contrast, clarity, vibrance, saturation, black clipping, highlight recovery, increased aqua saturation, cropped. Saved as JPG sharpened for screen viewing, uploaded to Picasa web albums and shared from there. The image has darkened somewhat having gone through the Picasa stage.

PS: I think it's worth posting a copy of your original image as well as the links in the initial topic so that those who might not want to take part can at least see what we've had to work with.

A lovely set, well done. Curious that the Blue Tit has a ring on it's leg though. Or is it bird bling perhaps?

I had the same problem with my Fujifilm F810. It went back for another fault but I mentioned the dust issue on my return report and it was cleaned FOC.

I'm 99.999% certain it can't be done. The principal reason being that the Canon mount has a larger diameter than the Pentax. You can fit Pentax lenses to Canon bodies, but not Canon lenses onto Pentax bodies.

Canon dust is not compatible with Pentax sensors I'm afraid.

Yes, there's a gaping great hole, you have nothing at 17mm .

I think you've settled on a very useful set of lenses. Looks like you'll be covered for everything ( except 17mm ) between 8mm & 135mm, with excellent portrait and macro glass too.

We have a pair that have been around for a couple of weeks now and I actually saw one of them fairly close up the other day. It was on a power line as I drive past it.

It's a Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) and is calling most of the day at the moment from shortly before sunrise, right into early evening.

I'm going to try and get some photo's of it this weekend.