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Forum: Sold Items
12-02-2021, 12:29 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
06-15-2021, 10:50 PM
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Acquired, thanks for the response.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-07-2021, 01:07 PM
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Longtime lurker... Finally bit the bullet and bought a DA 300 off the PF marketplace. So here's a couple favs from the DA 55-300 non-PLM. I was often frustrated by the rendition of light and focusing capabilities, but the little lens was a trusty companion through some awful rain, snow, desert heat, and mountain roads. Hopefully I can get more keepers and not have to so often resort to manual focus - although in Arizona, shooting through palo verde or mesquite branches is a recipe for failure anyway.
Thanks all for so many insights into lens selection and use cases, I figure portable and sealed will serve me well. Then one day maybe I can get a Sigma 500 4.5 to compliment it...
A heavy crop, this Lesser Nighthawk has been part of my inspiration this last Covid year of getting out and finding birds. Once I started recognizing the outline of nighthawks under trees and napping on branches, it was like a whole hidden world of treasure potentially under every corner, and made 100+ F weather bearable knowing I might see another of these beauties. It also helps that they nap until an hour or so before sundown so they just watch instead of spooking like tinier birds. I also only could get this close since I was in a vehicle on a service road, and it was literally beside the road. Thanks for the reminders to turn off the vehicle to avoid shake! I would normally give more space to avoid stressing my subject. 300mm at F8
 Lesser Nighthawk by Ian Sandoe, on Flickr
This Green Heron was too busy fishing to notice me. But city parks also have much less perturbed wildlife since it's hard to disguise my 6"3" self tromping around. I should have raised the ISO but wasn't sure how much the early morning light could handle. 300 mm at F 5.8
 Green Heron by Ian Sandoe, on Flickr
The Great Blue Heron is my best attempt at BIF. It shows my unwillingness to figure out post-processing - I pull up a file in Darktable and just find myself going "well, the exposure is bright enough and that will do for now" and leave it at that. It's really daunting approaching RAW files. The K3 ii has been lovely though, and I'm pushing myself to shoot everything in RAW so that down the road I can come back to favorites and clean them up a bit.
 Great Blue by Ian Sandoe, on Flickr
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Forum: Sold Items
06-07-2021, 11:43 AM
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Hello forums!
I'm looking for the newest 1.4 Teleconverter to go with the DA 300 I just picked up off the marketplace. I know they were going on sale at B&H for ~=$400 USD but I wasn't willing to pick one up before I had a lens to use it with. If I can pay less than full current retail I'll be happy since they seem to last pretty well and I'm not too picky about normal wear as long as the glass is clear.
Hopefully someone has moved to longer options and wants to lighten their bag? I can have paypal payment in today as I'm super stoked to try out 420 mm. Thanks for your eyeballs and send me a PM if you have the goods,
Cagey Bea
*edit* I'm in the Phoenix area, in Arizona, USA
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Forum: Sold Items
06-06-2021, 07:44 PM
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PM sent with interest on 300.
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Forum: Sold Items
06-03-2021, 12:37 PM
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PM sent with intent to purchase.
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Forum: Sold Items
05-31-2021, 07:56 PM
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Nice looking lens! I'm interested too if brewmaster does not purchase.
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Forum: Sold Items
03-17-2018, 02:56 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 10:15 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:58 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:51 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:50 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:49 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:49 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:48 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:48 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2018, 09:48 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
05-28-2017, 05:37 PM
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Helios sold to me, thanks.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
05-05-2017, 03:02 PM
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I'm trying to gather together a decent setup for landscape and outdoor photography, and have decided on a filter holder trye solution for ND filters. I am aware that magic can be made in photoshop and lightroom but I got my camera to go take pictures more than to futz around pulling out highlights. Invest once and have done with, is the plan.
So for a starting setup, what would be a recommended group of ND filters to start with to cover as many bases as possible? I was thinking something like: 3-stop, 6-stop, 2 or 3 soft GND, and 3 hard GND. That would leave out a 10 stop for down the road if I really need one. I mostly hike in Arizona mountains and deserts but will be spending some time at the ocean later in the year. I'm not sure if a stronger grad ND would help for the strong Arizona sun during the day but was hoping to start without getting ten different filters.
Thanks for any input, there doesn't seem to be much consensus googling the issue of an all purpose ND kit. Reverse ND seems also something I might need but how many filters before one can't carry them all?
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Forum: General Photography
05-03-2017, 06:34 PM
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Hmm, I've been looking at a squared system, seems like the Breakthrough version has a good value holder but then a huge cost to participate for the ND squares...
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Forum: Sold Items
04-17-2017, 06:45 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
04-13-2017, 10:37 AM
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Looking for a functional SMC (not HD) 15mm limited to round out my starting lenses for a K-3 ii. Both the wide angle and and the pretty starbursts are of interest to me, and should uniquely help fill out my range options.
Alternatively, I'm interested in acquiring a DA 55-300 PLM WR version for a zoom since I'd rather invest in the more expensive version the first time around - I can live with the auto-shop sounds of the non-PLM version but the speed seems really compelling.
Obviously these are at extremes of the spectrum but at present I can't afford both: I'm keeping my eye out for either for a good deal on the 15 Limited (ugly or pristine, it seems an inevitable part of my collection) or any deal on the 55-300 PLM since it's WR and will eventually be obtained to give me some range. In magical Christmasland either of these would be under $300 but your idea of a fair price is worth considering.
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Forum: Sold Items
04-12-2017, 04:35 AM
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Would you consider selling the 18 135 WR separately if it's not taken with the body?
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Forum: Sold Items
04-11-2017, 02:24 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-07-2017, 03:44 AM
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I'm looking into getting my first DSLR and settled on Pentax. The best deals seem to be body only and I can jump straight to better lenses rather than spending extra on kit lenses.
With that in mind, any tips on thrift store/pawn shop lens hunting? To me part of the appeal of Pentax is the ability to collect older manual lenses but I'm not sure what to look for in terms of lens condition. People advertise no haze, fungus etc. online but are they visually obvious? I suppose that applies to any brand but you guys presumably have the most experience with k mounts and adapters.
Manual should be fine since I want to play around with macro and landscape mostly.
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