[WPRESTO]

K-1 + FA*250-600 @ 280mm (ok not 300m, but it's about the focal length or the lens itself? )

Coucher de soleil / Sunset

That is a wonderful eye-stopper.

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Stellar Steller's

[str8talk83]

This is for anyone who owns or is thinking about the DA 560 and/or the DA1.4 converter. They both can take excellent, beautiful photos, they both can take not so excellent, not so beautiful photos. Somehow I think the person behind the lens is in control of most of this! But here is a modification made to the DA 560, [3 months old] which I took a distant shot of, now it has perfect balance on a Wimberly without a battery grip. Yes, we do have a weight bag to attach to the bottom of the tripod to stabilize it but you don't carry rocks for 200 yards [ with the camera and tripod] unless there are nor rocks where you are going! Plenty of rocks here..... Ricoh should consider this option of reversing the foot for the DA 560....

How did you modify the tripod foot?

[WPRESTO]

but you don't carry rocks for 200 yards unless there are no rocks where you are going! Plenty of rocks here.....

I always carry a few rocks with me - - in my head. Ask anyone who knows me.

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Here's a little trick I use, I have a loop of 8mm rubber cord which I attach to the tripod hook, and then put my foot in the loop and stretch the rubber down to the ground. It needs a bit of trial and error to get it all setup right.\ orks well and weighs next to nothing.Cheers,Terry

That is akin to a trick suggested by a photo-mag back in the 1960's. Take a small 1/4 X 20 ring bolt and tie on a length of sturdy string with a loop at the end. In museums where tripods and even monopods are forbidden (and reasonably so), attach to the tripod socket, put a foot in the loop, pull up slightly to help stabilize the camera for longer exposures. The idea is not to pull up too hard - just enough to reduce vertical shake. Elastic would not be good as you'd be fighting it so it would probably increase the vibrations. Not a substitute even for a monopod, but it does help a bit, and easy to transport in a gadget bag, certainly lighter and more compact than even the flimsiest tripod. Today instead of a hardware-store ring bolt you could get a camera-accessory shiny steel swivel-ring with 1/4 X 20 thread intended to hold one of those attach-to-baseplate shoulder straps. If you use a nylon strap rather than a piece of string, you don't need a loop at the end, just step on the strap and you have a variable-length stabilizer, but it will be a little bulkier (a looped nylon shoulder strap would be too short, a straight, unlooped strap would be better). If the strap on your gadget bag has the right type of buckles to attach it, that can be used.

[Chris Mak]

Steller's Jay K3ii DA 560

Beautiful

Chris

[riseform]

Beautiful

Chris

Thanks, Chris. I had to settle for this after striking out looking for long eared owls.

Same bird, camera and lens, lousier background, different pose

[Ducatigaz]

Female Stonechat .k-3ii/FA*600mmF4ED(IF)/Eckla window mount

[marcusBMG]

FYI re post 27756
# 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11 were with the 500mm + K5; 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12 were with the 400mm + samsung NX20

[csa]

Red-breasted Nuthatch, taken with K3, Sigma 300 F4, and 1.4 Tamron TC. Handheld.

[Canada_Rockies]

Red-breasted Nuthatch, taken with K3, Sigma 300 F4, and 1.4 Tamron TC. Handheld.

Well shot, Carol.

[WPRESTO]

Red-breasted Nuthatch, taken with K3, Sigma 300 F4, and 1.4 Tamron TC. Handheld.

I like those little fellows. I would keep some suet feeders out for them, but M would constantly be warning me about bears - and they have destroyed several feeders and threatened our previous Shelties.

[jacamar]

Major cone and seed crops have brought lots of Crossbills and Siskins to Algonquin Park, but most are picking up grit from the side of the highway and very skittish, or singing from the tall treetops. These were taken from near the feeding station at the Visitor Centre viewing deck.







K-3, DA*300m + 1.4xTC (despite poor light)

[csa]

Albert, thanks so much!

[csa]

I like those little fellows. I would keep some suet feeders out for them, but M would constantly be warning me about bears - and they have destroyed several feeders and threatened our previous Shelties.

Yes, they do love suet, but especially love peanut butter! Very cute little birds!

[csa]

jacamar, great shots!

[WPRESTO]

Major cone and seed crops have brought lots of Crossbills and Siskins to Algonquin Park, but most are picking up grit from the side of the highway and very skittish, or singing from the tall treetops. These were taken from near the feeding station at the Visitor Centre viewing deck.

First class images.