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Koa‘e‘ula
Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda rothschildi
Hālona Cove, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/2000s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso1000



Ae'o
Hawaiian Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus knudseni
Kaelepulu Wetlands, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/1000s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso1600



Feeding Time
'Alae kea (aka 'Alae Ke'oke'o)
Hawaiian Coot, Fulica alai
Kaelepulu Wetlands, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/1000s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso640



Koa‘e‘ula
Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda rothschildi
Hālona Cove, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/2000s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso400

[K2 to K50]

Those two captures of the Red-tailed Tropicbird are spectacular!! Beautiful.

[red5isalive]

One pic using the crop function



One not using the crop function

[RobG]

Those two captures of the Red-tailed Tropicbird are spectacular!! Beautiful.

Seconded!

[womble]

One pic using the crop function



One not using the crop function

I'm assuming with the crop function the original images are smaller? Does it make any difference otherwise, e.g., faster write speeds or improved focussing? The manual is completely mute as to why one would use the crop function.

Thanks, Kris.

[red5isalive]

I'm assuming with the crop function the original images are smaller? Does it make any difference otherwise, e.g., faster write speeds or improved focussing? The manual is completely mute as to why one would use the crop function.

Thanks, Kris.

Yes jpg images are smaller but you can reach further, so its a fantastic idea for sports for example.

[mtkeller]

I'm assuming with the crop function the original images are smaller? Does it make any difference otherwise, e.g., faster write speeds or improved focussing? The manual is completely mute as to why one would use the crop function.

Thanks, Kris.

Raw files are not smaller, but some software will only show the crop portion and other software will show the whole thing. And I don’t mean that the image was cropped but you could “crop out”…Lightroom Classic acted like only the crop portion was in the file at all. (At least that was my experimenting right after release with Lightroom Classic and various Topaz products. Since none formally supported the DNGs from the K-3 iii, I can’t say for sure what might happen with Adobe products now that there is official K-3 iii support.)

[Erictator]

All look great! The duck bill got blown out, but that was the expense of getting everything else right, and is the same choice I would have eventually made, just a lot slower than the camera decided, heh.
It seems the A/F kept up nicely with BIF for you. How was the keeper rate on the Red-tailed?
Thanks!
Eric

Koa‘e‘ula
Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda rothschildi
Hālona Cove, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/2000s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso1000



Ae'o
Hawaiian Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus knudseni
Kaelepulu Wetlands, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/1000s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso1600



Feeding Time
'Alae kea (aka 'Alae Ke'oke'o)
Hawaiian Coot, Fulica alai
Kaelepulu Wetlands, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/1000s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso640



Koa‘e‘ula
Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda rothschildi
Hālona Cove, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX APO with 1.7x TC
1/2000s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso400

[Erictator]

One pic using the crop function



One not using the crop function

I like both very much, they each seem to have their own merit, subject wise. It's great to have choices, and the crop doesn't seem to lack for detail.
Eric

[mattb123]

A couple from last night's ride on Mt. Crested Butte. Really nice evening. (x-post)
K-3iii & 20-40

[red5isalive]

I like both very much, they each seem to have their own merit, subject wise. It's great to have choices, and the crop doesn't seem to lack for detail.
Eric

Thank you Eric, I was playing "on field" with the crop capabilities for the 1st time and I quite liked the option on getting closer to the subject.

[wtlwdwgn]

Cool! It's probably a Yellow-footed Antechinus I think? I used to see Antechinus in the rainforest at Mount Glorious near Brisbane. One time, an Antechinus was on the side of a tree when he saw me, and ran around the other side of the tree trunk, then stopped as if to say "What? You're still there!". As you say, the males generally only live until the next mating season, because they spend the mating season searching for females, fighting other males and mating (40 minutes at a time) and stop eating. Their immune system breaks down, they sicken and die, so no males until the next generation grows up. The females carry on alone. I once camped at Forest Top on the NSW/Queensland border during Antechinus mating season. It was hard to sleep with them scurrying around through the leaf litter all night!


Obligatory K3iii photo - a Chestnut Teal at Eden, southern NSW.


Male Chestnut Teal by RobGeraghty, on Flickr

Beautiful capture!

[wkraus]

DA* 300mm at f/5.6, 1/30, ISO 160, developed in RawTherapee 5.8.

[wkraus]

When I was in Badlands National Park, I was only lucky enough to have clear skies for one of my five nights. Glad I went out and made the most of it! This was shot at the Pinnacles Overlook at 0131 MDT. I used the K-3 iii's astrotracer mode to shoot a 110 second exposure at ISO 1600 and f/2.8 using the Pentax HD DA* 11–18mm lens at 11mm. This is cropped slightly. If you pixel peep too closely, you'll see that the astrotracer is giving a bit of star trails on the edges, even though there are spot stars in the core. Given that I cropped in for the final image, I probably should have shot at 16mm where astrotracer is known to do better. (I blended the foreground from another shot with astrotracer off.)

Big shout out to Erik Kuna of KelbyOne for both the Outdoor Photography Conference and KelbyOne classes. I used the low level light painting Erik taught at the Outdoor Photography Conference to light the foreground and the postprocessing followed Erik's class on postprocessing Milky Way images.

Amazing photo, congratulations! I think by now it is established that the K-3 III doesn’t feed on stars. I did not yet have the skies for great astro photos but in my first tests the Samyang 16mm f/2 is giving me fine results.

[troika]

@hawaiianonline

Those bird in flight photos are outstanding. Safe to assume you are happy with continuous autofocus?