A few images from last night.














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[Canada_Rockies]

Nice series, Norm.

[normhead]

Nice series, Norm.

Thanks for commenting, I decided to go with SIgma 70 and 21 ltd, and it turned out be capable of almost everything I wanted to do. Although I missed a couple shots because I didn't have the Sigma 8-16 with me.

[dbh]

That's a great place to walk! Nice pics.

[volley]

Very good series Norm! But what is the white stuff in the 3rd shot??

[CreationBear]

Very nice set; the second in series really ties things together for me.

A question about your DA 21mm, though: have you found a good system to run both a CPL and a lens hood on it under "field conditons" (e.g. with sweat in your eyes and no-see-'um's in your nasal passages)? For myself, I'm considering just shading the lens with my hat on those occasions I'm using the polarizer while shooting toward the sun and just forgoing the hood altogether, but perhaps you've got a more elegant solution?

[normhead]

Very good series Norm! But what is the white stuff in the 3rd shot??

White stuff is water, there's nothing else to see here, move along folks.

Very nice set; the second in series really ties things together for me.

A question about your DA 21mm, though: have you found a good system to run both a CPL and a lens hood on it under "field conditons" (e.g. with sweat in your eyes and no-see-'um's in your nasal passages)? For myself, I'm considering just shading the lens with my hat on those occasions I'm using the polarizer while shooting toward the sun and just forgoing the hood altogether, but perhaps you've got a more elegant solution?

I just shoot with it with the hood that came with it. It seems fine without a filter and the hood provides adequate protection.

[daacon]

Is that a K3 in your hands or are just Happy ? Very nice series Norm , pics look sharp and detailed. are you shooting Raw and pp or jpg's out the camera (I remember you mentioning Aperture did not support the K3 yet). Have you tired AF-C yet ? BIF ? How do you find the overall AF. Damn just so many questions when you post results like this.

[Bob Harris]

love the detail on these photos.

[CreationBear]

I just shoot with it with the hood that came with it. It seems fine without a filter and the hood provides adequate protection.

Excellent, thanks: I think that will be my MO as well unless I'm catching a lot of glare off of water and/or foliage.

[normhead]

love the detail on these photos.

Thanks Bob… a tripod and 100 ISO is the secret to my success.

Excellent, thanks: I think that will be my MO as well unless I'm catching a lot of glare off of water and/or foliage.

We use polarizing filters for sunsets, and anywhere we want clouds with a bit of depth, but the 21 seems to do just fine at that.

Is that a K3 in your hands or are just Happy ? Very nice series Norm , pics look sharp and detailed. are you shooting Raw and pp or jpg's out the camera (I remember you mentioning Aperture did not support the K3 yet). Have you tired AF-C yet ? BIF ? How do you find the overall AF. Damn just so many questions when you post results like this.

I developed raw in the Pentax software, the Ricoh Digital Camara Utility.App powered by SilkyPix, then exported to till file, then imported to Aperture. Someone advised me somewhere to download Adobe DNG Converter, which is a much fast process, and gives me a DNG file I can import into Aperture , loading 30 MP files instead of 145 MP files onto my hard drive.

I haven't tried a bird in flight or AF-C. On screw drives the AF is killer, they speeded it up, I think the limitation on electric drives is the electric motors, It will be interesting to see if new lenses have faster motors on them, at risk of not working as well on older cameras, now that they have an AF system that can accommodate faster lenses.