it's bad finding the odd spare bit when rebuilding an engine, brakes or suspension but with that it's enough to cause some issues

Confession time, I'm one of those imbeciles who thinks it's hilarious to place bits of carburetor on the bench next to a completed carb when the tech hope to the loo etc -'one of my favourites is leaving bolts same or similar to those retaining the clutch assembly on the floor one the car is around 90% reassembled - I guess there is no place in heaven for me 😹

I like these my favourite has to be the one with the sheep ☺

Cracking shots☺

That walkway may well have been responsible for many underwear changes 😂

Hi Simon

I like the high key 6r4 images in the link.

It's typical, the Wales rally GB is on my doorstep this weekend and I will be away 😕

Perhaps one day, we (You, Gareth and others) could meet up at a Motorsport event - problem is I am in North East Wales and Gareth is at the other end of Wales, your travel may be longer than ours though depending on the venue.

Regards


Stu

Nice shot - it's good to see real work being done ☺ not pen pushing which is what I do 😑

Hi Paul

I am currently restarting wildlife's such as I just have not been making the effort to use my long glass but intend to.

I apologise if any of the below seems condescending, it is not meant to.

Birds in flight are a bit odd as even with the fastest af systems a lot of shots are awful as the old machine gun approach is literally hit and miss. Birds in flight can produce great and awful results in varying proportions regardless if kit used.

I use the centre 5 af points or single point if using af.

The best current Pentax body may well be the k3/k3ii as a cropped sensor is often used for this purpose and has improved af over older bodies.

I often use mf lenses 200/300/400 and attempt to predict where the best shot will be and prefocus the rig as such as I learned this having read a number of articles by Steve Bloom who advised that he does this even with his Cannon af kit or at least he did at the time the articles which are a few years old.

I use a monopod with my 400mm but a tripod and gimbal head would probably be better.

I don't have experience of the lenses you have so cannot comment on them, however, I have used other systems occasionally and whilst the af is faster if only by tiny amounts the pre empt and pre focus techniques seem to assist greatly.

I believe that the newer Pentax dfa lenses show af motor improvements in terms of speed but cannot speak from experience of this.

I have an inner ear infection at present so I am limited to say the least, however I have recently bought a Tamron 70-200 f2.8 from srs and intend to use it once my propensity to wobble and fall over has gone😁 I bought this as it costs a fraction of the dfa Pentax one - I am tight with cash 😀

I have not taken many bird in flight shots but have managed this with my k10 /sigma 70-300 and mf lenses, granted not with a huge success rate but still I have success and if you check my flick page/ wildlife set the should be there. - edit I just checked this and it is a bit hit and miss as some are just in the photo stream not sets, there are however, shots of airshows and Motorsport with the K10/k5 with the mf tokina 300mm, sigma 70-300 af and mf nps 400mm

I hope this helps😀

Regards


Stu

I like these ☺

I'm somewhat partial to using old mf 28mm lenses ☺

I thought I had commented earlier - oops

Cracking shots, very interesting and very different.☺

The Mg Metro 6r4 was a group B rally car made to look like a metro but in truth retained little more than bits of the dashboard and lookalike panels (I think the doors were the most similar part) it had a v6 engine in the back which was a cut down version of the rover v8 but heavily altered.

The firing order is an odd one which results from the engine it was based on and this gives it a distinctive sound.

The engine went on to be used in turbo guise in the Jaguar xj220 and had been developed by twr I think.

It was a group B rally car, group B was banned following accidents, most notably (possibly) being the rs200 accident involving spectators and the Peugeot t16 accident which nearly killed Ari Vatanen.

Regards


Stu 😀


I may now receive a boring post ban from the administrators

I like the second set more than the first ☺

Good to here the car was repaired, however, that looks way too organised for a side of the road patch up (well done those men) 😀

Oooh another mk1 image ☺

The mere mention if the group B stuff wets the appetite ☺ I took my son to the New Brighton stages as I believe that everyone should hear a 6r4 at least once in their lives 😀

At least your car/crew avoided a dnf 🙂

Please excuse the explanation above of magic spannering I only included it in case non rally types wondered what was meant.

Regards



Stu