[Tobiaswk]

Got a couple of pictures from the last months with the K70. I'm using the DA* 300mm F4 with the DA 1.4x AW AF Rear Converter. I really like this setup. It's fairly light so you can walk around and shoot.

[goldenarrow]

Something completely different when I had a K5II, a 2 element fluorite telescope optic (Borg 300mm f/4.5) + Takahashi 1.6x barlow (total 480mm, f/7.2). Owls are usually deep in shadows and had to expose at 1/125s on a tripod. Not the sharpest pic of an Eastern Screech Owl but it is representative.

[rkappleby]

Late day spruce grouse Sig 500/4.5

[tduell]

White-faced Heron at Jacana wetlands.
K-3 II + 150-450 + 1.4TC, see exif for details.

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[normhead]

The O-ME53 is a simple lens that replaces the cushion around the viewfinder eyepiece giving a bit of magnification, without obscuring the whole screen. With glasses, you would need to move the eye a bit to read the screen details because you are a bit further from the lens. Here is a picture of mine from the screen side, dirt and all. It makes focusing easier without putting all the garbage of micro prisms and split prisms in the middle of the screen. Even with the K-3 stock screen, it brings the grain of the screen up just enough to make manual focusing much easier.

It's been so long since I took mine off my camera I forget it's there.

[WPRESTO]

I think I started using an O-ME53 on my K20, Bought a new one for the K1 as soon as I bought the camera. I wore a hole through one spot on the rubber of the original.

[normhead]

I think I started using an O-ME53 on my K20, Bought a new one for the K1 as soon as I bought the camera. I wore a hole through one spot on the rubber of the original.

Mine bought originally for the k-20D has had a rip in it for years.

From my latest time on a campsite, my grand daughters pretty much adopted this guy as the campsite pet. There were lots of small toads that kept him really well fed, they were able to see the little toads feet hanging out of his mouth, then watch as it moved down in to his digestive tract from his mouth. He was quite the little science experiment guy for them. They named him "Fred" or something.

A couple with the K-1 and DA*200 with the F 1.7x AF adapter both shot wide open at ƒ4.5





Just the 200 at ƒ2.8


And again at ƒ11

[lukulele]

Milkweed feeding time.......K-3-A/400

[Kevriano]

Milkweed feeding time.......K-3-A/400

Fabulous. I wish we had these species

[Ducatigaz]

More K-3ii/FA*600mmF4ED[IF]/Eckla window mount shots.

[aslyfox]

need help iding a bird that I found at the Topeka Zoological Park today

I was talking to a docent when he said he just saw a heron in a tree behind me. We found it and I eventually found a spot where I wasn't trying to photograph it with the Sun behind it.

trying to id it

is it a Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Black-crowned Night-Heron, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology or

a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

We are more in the range of the first but the other is still a possibility according to quick research:

K 3 + SMC Pentax-DA L 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED + HD Pentax-DA 1.4x AW AF Rear Converter hand held

[gifthorse]

It's a yellow crowned night heron. The bird you shot has a black face with white cheek stripes and a yellow stripe (crown) on the top of the head.

Black crowned night heron.The black crowned has a white face and no crown.

[aslyfox]

thanks for the help.

that is the first time I have ever seen one.

my view wasn't great, the closest I could get put it directly between me and the sun and left me with just basically a silhouette up in the branches

the photos I grabbed with a better view came from across the pond and from those I posted the ones that showed the most details as it groomed its feathers

[jbrowning]

So how does the F*300 F/4.5 compare to the DA*300 F/4 image quality wise? I shoot motorcycle racing and wildlife and I do sometimes use the DA*300. But was wondering if the F*300 would be a step up from the DA*300.

Thanks
Jim

[rkappleby]

Cedar Waxwings from yesterday Sig 500/4.5