Personally I would have removed the small strands of whatever on the first one but very nice set non the less. Especially like number 3.

Cheers for the comments.

I got there around 6.30am on a Sunday morning and apart from a few cars the place was dead. By about 9.30 it was absolutely heaving, I could have sold my parking space for about £20 ten times over I reckon.

Anyway, it made a change and now I know where it is I will do it again.

Have been meaning to go for years but normally we go away in October so never got the chance up until last weekend. Took along the K-1 and 150-450mm and have to say they performed very well, the only let down being the buffer which left me standing around waiting a few times.


Deer rut - Bushy Park by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Deer rut - Bushy Park by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Deer rut - Bushy Park by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Deer rut - Bushy Park by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Deer rut - Bushy Park by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Deer rut - Bushy Park by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr

I'm guessing there is an article in the latest AP that you disagree with Kris?

I don't read it any longer as I jumped long ago.

Best anyone can say is this year but at the speed Ricoh move I wouldn't bet on it myself.

The fact much newer lenses have been released since and they have rear filters would suggest they are needed for digital I would have thought.

Not sure if the 560mm has one?

When I had mine it had a Penfax rear filter although I'm pretty sure it wasn't a UV. I was under the impression it was needed for opitimal performance.

Fabulous lens, works very well with the 1.7x

First off I would say I have always had problems with Sigma lenses and autofocus. You can fine tune them to your hearts content but they always seem very inconsistant when it comes to critical focus. WIth Pentax lenses there seems no such problems, I rarely have to fine tune mine and they are spot on, I ended up swapping out my Sigma lenses for Pentax because of this. (12-24mm for 15-30mm, 24-70mm HSM for 24-70mm WR, 70-200mm OS for 70-200mm WR, 50-500mm for 150-450mm) but then you are talking serious money.

Secondly, I have the K-1 and compared to other makes I have used (7D/D500) the autofocus speed is useable for most things but it's certainly not mind blowing and I personally think that is down to the size and spread of the focus points more than the AF system now. The centre point covers far too much space so on small birds and such like it is forever hunting to lock on.

Last but not least, AF-C tracking is basically pants, I'm going to get blasted for saying this here but it's rubbish, always has been with Pentax (had the K-5, K-5IIs, K-3, K-3II, KP) and is the reason I use other makes for fast moving small objects. The new crop body may well do something about both the focus point spread and the AF-C tracking and (as they are saying on the other forum) become a D500 beater but as far as I am concerned we don't have the lenses to take advantage of it.

So I would say if you want a good solid performer that excels at 75% of what people do with a camera then Pentax is a great choice but if you are in the other 25% then look elsewhere.

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