I don't know either whether fighting or courting but they are beautiful shots

Gosh, that does sound a little unusual. Looking forward to seeing a pic. I gather that red kites are generally scavengers although they will take live prey and are known (apparently) to take amphibians... Maybe this one is branching out

What great shots!! number 4 for me too. Very cool!

Hello again all. Continuing my threads from days out last week, here's a handful from the Natural History Museum in London. It was a mainly dull and wet day (hence an 'indoor day out') and inside it was dark! For some parts even f1.4 would not cut it with the k-7 at ISO800. I have always found one of the main attractions of the museum to be the building itself and it is always an amazing thing to study.

The wide shots here were all with the 10-17 fisheye, which I tried to close down as much as I could, to get the (hopefully) sharpest results, whilst still getting a just about manageable shutter speed (normally about 1/20th or something at about f9). The last two taken with the sigma 30mm f1.4, again using as small an aperture as I could.

The main hall from high:




Like something by Escher(??):




Mammals!




Bones:




Some tourists caught in a sunbeam




I hope you like these. I have had to do a little more extreme PP than I normally do owing to the fact that the shots were quite dark, although I am quite pleased with the outcome I think. There are some more (as ever) on my flickr. Any C&C welcome.

Regards

I like these Stefan. I think the previous posts have picked up detailed comments, but overall they make a very cool set of pics. I like the atmospheres created by the smoke/dry ice (?) and the coloured lighting; and number 6 is very cool! he almost looks like he is playing his bass in front of a wall of flame with the orange smoke behind.

Regards

I agree with Smeggy - it is a lovely shot. I like the undulations of the edge of the thatched roof and I think it looks good in B/W. I agree as well that the vignette looms a bit in the top of the image (especially the top left)

Regards

Gosh what a great looking place. I love your pics, especially numbers 1 and 2 - properly surreal!

great stuff

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No problem, I use a Kenko Teleplus MC7 (it also has 'DG' written in the side). It performs well, I think, and supports autofocus in more 'conventionally' powered lenses but it doesn't support SDM/HSM.

Have you tried cleaning the contacts on the lens and the camera? That would be my first step. The 60-250 has SDM focussing I think so those contacts should be included. Also, make sure you have the latest firmware in the camera perhaps. I used to have a K10d and that required a certain update to the firmware before SDM/HSM could be used - not sure whether the same is/was true of the K20d (I am sure others here will know more than I do about this).

Hope that helps