Originally posted by dadipentak I'm only half in jest here. WE are on the thresh hold of technology that will revolutionize bird photography, and this is remote control.
While Pentax missed it on the K-01 it is the low end model, and if they follow through with an upscale mirrorless they will surely include support
for a full remote control package.
If I can plant a mirrorless (or even a mirrored) camera on a tripod, and toss a towel over it to make it a little less conspicioius (at least to the
camera theives) and retreat a 100 yards and fully operate my camera (and tripod) from an APP on my iPad, or lap top computer including
watching the image on the screen, I don't need a bizillion MM telephoto.
The ideal lens would then be the "high magnification" zoom lens do out by Pentax later this year on their road map, with the hope
that it included a remote controllable 'power zoom' function. You could set it up fairly close to where you expected the birds to come,
retreat a good distance, monitor the area in wide angle mode, and pan/elevate/zoom as appropriate hopefully fairly quietly
probably with better success than trying to sneak up on one with 50 lbs of gear.
We can do this on Mars, why not here.? So far the folks running the Pan-Cam on the Mars rover haven't sneaked a photo of martians making out, but but maybe some day????
Once upon a time Pentax had a power zoom function on their cameras--- its where the 2 came from in the KAF2---but I don't know if its still
available since the 2 has been hijacked for the SDM function or not.