From what I have read it takes it to around 1:1.5, the older 52a version goes to 1:1 with the teleconverter but the IQ is nowhere near as good and it doesn't have the constant aperture.

Probably the same as I used here, the SIgma 135-400mm DG APO, may take the Tamron 1.4X Teleconverter as well.
I may still go for the Pentax 55-300mm yet just for the convenience of size, especially as the Tamron 28-300mm has gone.

Unless of course Pentax release the 60-250mm before the event ...

Crumbs, the Robins in your part of the world sure do seem to eat well don't they

Are you using the Sigma at full stretch for these?

I was looking for the "TT" effect such as when they come round a corner and you see the background blurred but the bike itself pin sharp but I guess maybe they were not moving fast enough to get that and the fact I was shooting at totally the wrong angle didn't help.
Thanks for the advice, will try the panning method next time on something a bit faster .. maybe I will just go up to the local through road here and try it out as the Spanish all seem to drive as if they are in a F1 race anyway.

Oh, and my apologies to Chris on the other thread, I was just a bit annoyed at being messed around and having the seller actually add words which were not even in his PM's"

We have a large powerboat race starting in Alicante in a few months and as I have never taken photos of fast moving objects I went down to a dirt track with a friend, his kids and quad bike to try it out.

First of all I found out that the Pentax focus system doesn't seem too quick at tracking moving objects but also I would like to know how you get motion blur in the backgoound while keeping the main subject in focus.

A few pics showing them riding the bike but it all looks a bit stagnant to me.

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And its just as easy to jump to the conclusion that one ot both of us read something into a statement that was or wasn't there.

Thanks for your input but I know exactly was was written in the PM and when you do please feel free to comment on one or both of us being wrong.
It is not even the fact that he has decided to take up another offer, it is his lens after all, just the way this sorry saga has been handled.
I will not publicly put Tobys PM's here so that is the end of that as far as I am concerned.

I hope you dont rely on that statement when your time comes to get you "upstairs" and I suggest you go to your sent PM's and read what you actually said.

Your quote to me was : I will accept £150 for the lens plus postage to Spain .. was it not?

To which I agreed.

Then someone else (I presume josh) made the same offer and you then post still open to offers.

Anyway, makes no difference now ..

Mike.

No need to go to PM, You have received the same offer from someone else and would rather go with them as they are UK based even though the agreed price was plus postage.
Yet you are still asking for offers even after this person has made theirs?

I withdraw from the sale thanks, best of luck with it.

Mike.

Well I thought we had agreed a price for the Sigma plus postage to Spain but obviously not ?