[normhead]

Redpolls at my feeder,
K-5, SMC a-400, 800 ISO, F8 1/500
Cross posted from post your photos.

At it's minimum focusing distance, a redpoll almost exactly fills the frame on an SMC A-400. Pentax must have planned it that way.

[dragon132312]

My first birdie this year after resting for 4 months.

Welcome back Ken we missed your shots nice one

[dragon132312]

Redpolls at my feeder,
K-5, SMC a-400, 800 ISO, F8 1/500
Cross posted from post your photos.

At it's minimum focusing distance, a redpoll almost exactly fills the frame on an SMC A-400. Pentax must have planned it that way.

Really nice Norm you the master of the A400 and a great photographer

[Ducatigaz]

Redpolls at my feeder,
K-5, SMC a-400, 800 ISO, F8 1/500
Cross posted from post your photos.

At it's minimum focusing distance, a redpoll almost exactly fills the frame on an SMC A-400. Pentax must have planned it that way.

These are great Norm, they are very similar to our Lesser Redpolls.

[normhead]

Really nice Norm you the master of the A400 and a great photographer

hmmmm.. A-400 master....that's a big thing to live up too...do I get a black belt or something, maybe some funny clothes??

These are great Norm, they are very similar to our Lesser Redpolls.

Thanks...

[normhead]

Back to Costello creek this evening for whatever I could find, tonight it was ducks...

[dadipentak]

Nice set, Norm!

[Frogfish]

Love the Coppersmith Barbet Ken - looks like they are preparing their new nest so a place to keep an eye on !

Lovely Redpoll shots Norm - personally I'd always try to keep the feeder out the shots if at all possible (plant a small tree close by perhaps) ?

[Canada_Rockies]

Back to Costello creek this evening for whatever I could find, tonight it was ducks...

Great shots, Norm. I particularly like the first one in the post. The reflection is like a mirror!

[Ducatigaz]

Another great set Norm.
Here's two more Goldfinch pics from today.
First with the sun out second one without.

[kengoh]

Great capture Ken

And a great one !

Welcome back Ken we missed your shots nice one

Love the Coppersmith Barbet Ken - looks like they are preparing their new nest so a place to keep an eye on !

Thanks guys for the nice comments.
Frogfish, the adults take turns to appear only 3 times for the 4 hrs, the female adult appeared 2 times and suddenly flew str8 into the nest, not much chance to shoot. I guess tommorrow the chick would have fledged...

Managed to snap few flight shots, the below pic is one of the most presentable one..

[Canada_Rockies]

Managed to snap few flight shots, the below pic is one of the most presentable one..

Terrific shot!

[swip]

Redpolls at my feeder,
K-5, SMC a-400, 800 ISO, F8 1/500
Cross posted from post your photos.

At it's minimum focusing distance, a redpoll almost exactly fills the frame on an SMC A-400. Pentax must have planned it that way.

I didn't think the A-400 is capable of producing such sharp images.

Great shots.

[normhead]

I didn't think the A-400 is capable of producing such sharp images.

Great shots.

Thanks for commenting.

Even more impressive I think with the long shots is that these shots had to be cropped at least 50% so these images are enlarged a fair bit, and it' s till sharp, the one to one is quite acceptable considering the distance. The sad news is I used the 1.7 converter and didn't get acceptable results, so sharp but not 1.7 x sharp.

[RockvilleBob]

100% crop ~ smc 500 with 1.7x converter on K-5