This would be my answer currently...
another blessed jpg
This Tair is quite a piece of optics, bright enough to focus easily stopped down to 5.6 and leave it in Av
Too short for birdies of course so this is a big crop...
The background was very busy and overlit, that's about as messy as it gets
but better background and the pop is amazing. Thing I'm particularly pleased with is the low CA
hardly any green fringe in the background, while that purple on the reflecting staple is as bad as it gets.
The bespoke ring mentioned earlier is onboard but spinning free, as it were, while the drilling subbie is engaged
A terrible clever plan is afoot to use a spare Kmount female as the Pentax pin slot template...not brain dead yet eh
I really like how painterly the tones are with it. I think low ca must be a gift to sharpness ?
so then all yer wee pixels are more discrete and thus tonal depth ensues ...or not ?
Working on a new hood, the pvc drainpipe is a perfect sleeve fit on filter...
double the length over the plumbing fitting, might line it with corduroy