[BlackRockBacon]

DA 18-135 and K-5 at Burning Man 2011.

@135mm

This is the third iteration of this photo, and by far the best.
Cropped a little bit off the right and top edges to simplify the composition.

[savoche]

Realities of life seen through the 50-200mm WR:



1/250s . f/7.1 . ISO 250 . 150 mm

[lumduan]

from DA L 18-55

[twitch]

DA12-24 @ 12mm

[Antifreez]

DA12-24 @ 12mm

twitch - awesome. love the composition, multiple borders, b&w conversion... there's a lot of interest in that shot too - great job!

Here's a re-work of a picture I took about 6 months or so ago. More experimenting with Silver Efex.

Kx + DA L 55-300 @ 150mm
1/250; f/6.3; ISO 400

[Antifreez]

Here's another with the DA L 55-300. Really enjoy this lens when there's decent day light.

This is taken from a ferry in the Puget Sound (outside Seattle). We rounded a couple islands and this view opened up - always a pleasure to see this mountain on a clear day.

Mount Baker

Kx + DA L 55-300
1/400; f/11; ISO 200

[savoche]

Here's another with the DA L 55-300. Really enjoy this lens when there's decent day light.

This is taken from a ferry in the Puget Sound (outside Seattle). We rounded a couple islands and this view opened up - always a pleasure to see this mountain on a clear day.

Nice one! But the 55-300 doesn't need daylight to perform - at least not combined with a K-5


K-5, DA 55-300: f/4, 1/500, ISO 20,000

[savoche]

...and one BIF shot (crossposted from the "No more tests"-thread in the K-5 forum):


K-5, DA 55-300: f/8, 1/800, ISO 320

[yeatzee]

wow great shots everyone! My DA 55-300mm is probably my least used lens, but it is certainly one of my most useful for when I need it.

[august]

birding with 55-300 + Kx
my favorite lens...great price, great value, very great optic, simple size n easy for carries it
my friend who have L series say that if this lensa manufactured by canon, it must be labeled L series













all SOOC

[NiftyFifty]

Date: March 25, 2011
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA-L 50-200mm f/3.5-5.6
PP in Photoshop (HDR)

[elpolodiablo]

DA 12-24 @ 12mm




No filter, no post processing, straight out of camera

[sheld]

My wife and I spent last weekend, in the Rio Grande Valley, birding in the southern tip of Texas, with my Pentax K-x. The lens I used for these photos was the Pentax 55-300mm, and a monopod. I also brought along the Sigma 150-500mm, but nothing beats the portability and ease of handling of the Pentax 55-300mm kit lens, and the image quality is very good. Usually, the Rio Grande valley is very mild in the winter. The best photos were taken on Sunday morning at the South Padre Island Nature center on the one mostly clear morning we had.

This set of photos were taken at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center. Some of these photos are heavily cropped, and then resized to 1200x800, and others were not cropped, most of these photos are taken at 300mm, stopped down to F/8.

Reddish Egret


Tri-color heron


Least Grebe, heavily cropped


Sandpipers?,


Western Sandpiper


Western Kingbird, heavily cropped


Snowy Egret


Great Blue Heron


Great Egret


Common Moorhen


Solitary Sandpiper, heavily cropped


White Ibis's, heavily cropped


This next set of photos were taken at the Harlingen Arroyo Colorado Nature center. The weather was cool and rainy, so the photos aren't nearly as good as the photos from the South Padre Island Nature Center, but they're still pretty good.

Harriss Hawk


Golden-fronted Woodpecker, heavily cropped


Chachalaca


Finally, this set of photos were taken at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge; these photos were also taken in the rain, from protected blinds.

Altamira Orioles,


Green or Mexican Jays


Red-winged Blackbird


Long-billed Thrasher


- Shel, my photos, Shel and Miriam's home page ....

[Freak]

DA 12-24mm

[vsl3-e]

Some lomo fun
Pentax Super A, DA 16-45, Lomography Color Negative 400