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The plan is to use my F17-28 Fisheye Zoom when it arrives (hopefully tomorrow), so in the meantime I'll substitute the DA10-17 Fisheye Zoom @ 17mm

K-1, FF mode, no crop.


Azalea to the fore

For the record, it is certainly possible to get more width at 14+mm in FF mode than the lens delivers at 10mm in crop mode.

Tried several shots today but this, and the darker version next to it on flickr, were the best. Surprisingly it took a little while to remember how to use the preset aperture - I'd become quite used to it chasing insects around the yard over christmas with the Industar macro.

I've gone with one of my recent acquisitions, the K 55 mm f2. My first single with a prime...

Seed head. With extension tube.



Park life. It's been too hot for much else!

Pentax K 3 with DA 40 limited.

Day One:



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K-3 with Spiratone Plura-Coat 28mm f2

First July session with the Fujinon-Z 43-75mm f/3.5-4.5. Looks like it could be a fun month.

Brought our horse to the summer pastures in countryside for the July.

K30 M40/2.8 ISO100 f8 1/320:


Did you know that word "roll" has 52 possible meanings in finish? I hand't thought about it unti I tried to translate his name "Vauhti-Jyrä" into english and found it quite impossible without loosing a lot of context. "Speed-Roll" just doesn't carry the fast moving all squeezing unstoppable force feeling that the finish name imply

Back in at last.



K-1 and the 10-17 fisheye, at 10mm and FF crop mode. The top and bottom were curved, so I completed the circle with a hard vignette.