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Forum: Post Your Photos!
2 Days Ago
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To round out the MG part of the discussion:
A pretty original 1949 MGTC, the original wheels were skinny 19in, before that size became fashionable.
... and a a 1954 MG TF
Photos taken at Sunday's Wheels of Wamboin.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
3 Days Ago
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Yes, it is a TD, the least loved of the 'T' series, mainly because of the disk wheels. First was the classic TC, the first post-war sportscar, then the TD, known as the ... lets not go there ..., and my favourite, the TF, long, low and oozing sex appeal!. Only bettered in the sexiness stakes by the E-type Jag.
Where did you catch that one, that museum(?) is not familiar to me?
Bring on the classic sportscars, just make sure there is a Bugeye Sprite amongst them!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
3 Days Ago
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Nice one, good capture.
That is my old hometown, fun fact about St Saviour's: the stone for the tower came from the railway viaduct/bridge over the river, you can see it has a different colour to the body of the church.
Goulburn has/had two cathedrals, the second, just around the corner, is a very scarce greenstone one recently renovated - now a parish church since the 'cathedral' was transferred elsewhere with the Archbishop.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-14-2024, 07:19 PM
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Thanks guys! I just wish Ms Nervous could calm down a bit, and have the good sense to be on the other side of the web, where the sun would fall fully on her upper body sigh.
In the light (!?!) of Ms Nervous' disposition to sun her underside, I have pulled out the flash to fill the shadows. More incoming later, as I experiment with this ...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-13-2024, 02:27 PM
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Great find Rob, difficult shot well executed - that has to be MF?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-12-2024, 01:31 AM
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K1ii FA100.2.8 Macro
A ~1:1 crop from one of the photos taken this evening of my Golden Orb Weaving spiders. This one is about 2-3cm long in the body, will probably double that size.
I now have realised that the closer you get, the narrower the depth of field, something I need to work on ...
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go and get my dinner!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-12-2024, 01:08 AM
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Golden Orb Weaver spider photos ...
Stepped out into the evening sunshine, and the new generation of photographic models were putting on a display. Too bad for the bees, but hey, you take your food when you can get it!
Ms Placid had scored
... and around the corner, Ms Nervous was definitely doing well
This is interesting as I think the little spider is the male, unmoving so maybe done his job and she has removed the competition for food. When I went back out a little later he was still in the same place/position, and a third bee was in the web!
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A slightly later photo of Ms Placid, not sure what she is doing there but the bee is certainly history, err dinner!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-04-2024, 04:34 AM
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Rather you than me, but I know what you mean - I have had one walk over my face at night, when I was asleep, but that was involuntary! I half-woke when I felt it, as soon as I moved it scampered off and I went back to sleep. Couldn't find it in the morning, but there are so many places they can hide ...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-04-2024, 03:17 AM
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Nice! I haven't had one of those inside since I got my 100/2.8 macro (I think the two things are unrelated), but I doubt the ones I have (maybe greyer than yours?) are going to pose for me. How far away was the front element, it certainly looks close!!?
I think I would give it some space, and crop instead!!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-01-2024, 04:35 PM
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Nice shot, I like the water droplets on the web - captured early morning? Or after a shower?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-01-2024, 04:20 PM
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Thanks, I'm not sure if the correct aphorism is 'practice makes perfect', or 'shoot enough, and eventually you will get lucky'? maybe a bit of each!!
Thanks Todd, yes I thought it was surprisingly placid. Not that I have shot spiders before though, so not much to compare with. The trick was a) finding an opening that was not obscured to shoot through, and b) not touching the web while doing so - that tended to spark her up!!:lol:
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-30-2024, 05:35 PM
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Thanks Mike. As mentioned, I have lots of photos of this one, but none gave me that 'YES' reaction like this one did. Still not sure what made the difference, , I think it might be a combination of still air reducing movement in the web, and better light allowing a slightly higher shutter speed. Certainly the others didn't show the colouring as well as this, but it might also be the colouring is changing too.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-30-2024, 04:46 AM
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Absolutely! This one and one of the other two are quite placid, the third is very nervous and sets to plucking its web to frighten me off, then rushing up and hiding in the guttering. I am surprised the birds haven't got them, they clean out the small black spiders along the bottom of the guttering and the tops of the windows, but I haven't seen them do it for a couple of months or more.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-30-2024, 04:40 AM
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A cross-post, I hope you think it makes the grade here! FA100/2.8 macro on K1ii, a big crop but the detail ... :D This is a biggish Golden Orb Weaver, 40mm+ body, which set up shop outside my kitchen window. This is the best of a number of shots I have taken, shows the colouring nicely!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-30-2024, 04:23 AM
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I have been shooting this female Golden Orb Weaver spider for some weeks now, its web is outside my kitchen window. It is almost 50mm long in the body, pushing 100mm from tip to tip when its front and back legs are extended, this photo shows its colouring well, and is a very heavy crop of the original. It is also the last, it appears to have laid eggs and then died. All is not lost though, another two are doing well around the house!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-27-2024, 02:11 AM
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That's a ripper Terry! Well done!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-25-2024, 06:33 PM
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Wiping/drying the lens is good, but it will do little/no good in respect to the high humidity air sucked inside the lens due to changes to the internal volume as the lens is operated in a high humidity environment (ie wet weather)
If this is a concern, cycling the focus/zoom in a dry environment may help purge the humid air, preferably an airconditioned space where humidity is controlled. This is not something I have been concerned about to date, but now the topic has arisen I wonder if the dreaded lens fungus may flourish in such conditions ... ?
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Forum: General Talk
03-22-2024, 04:49 PM
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You are at the same point pretty much as mine was, I hope yours just keeps on keeping on!
I walked away from mine at ~350,000kms of hard driving, both the engine and centre diff were failing and I couldn't justify putting the money required into a car that was showing its age in so many ways.
But you can't kill them .. a month or so after I left mine at a scrapyard I get a call from the local gendarmes, wanting to know if I own a Subaru Liberty! Turns out some of the local youth had stolen it from the scrapyard, taken it for a joyride (and who knows what else), and dumped it in some isolated spot. The coppers had tracked me down through the VIN and the vehicle registration system, as the plates had been handed back - presumably the scrapyard never reported the theft, maybe they never noticed it gone!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-22-2024, 04:28 PM
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I'm going to vote for the FA*300/4.5, crazy sharp on my K1ii, and I can crop like crazy - example here . I also have the DFA 70-210/4 for flexibility. I looked at the DA*300/4 but have no regrets with my choice. True, it is not WR but that has not yet been a problem, and there are work-arounds should I feel I need them.
Longer is difficult for me, the 150-450 is too heavy for me, and Pentax don't make a teleconverter for FF, so I make do with cropping, and the quality of the FA* allows that with little downside. For you, the DA teleconverter would be my recommendation as an easy button solution, I had one and was happy with the quality it produced, but then I went FF ... OTOH, if weight and portability is not an issue for you, go for the big guns!
Just my 2c.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-21-2024, 07:04 PM
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Thanks!
These two roost in a tree in my daughter's front yard, they seem to have made it their home, which is fine by me! :cool: They were the subject of my earlier post of four, including at least one juvenile, so I am now hoping they have a nest there and maybe there will be another batch of young ones. This was also taken in better light, their chosen spot seems always to be the same - high in the tree, obscured by other foliage. It may be a defence mechanism, the one I photographed in Sydney was sitting quite exposed, and attracted a swarm of magpies. peewees and others screeching and flying around aggressively. It was only seen once, never reappeared.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-20-2024, 03:44 PM
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A heavy crop from a recent visit to my tame models. FA*300/4.5 - this lens really delivers on my K1ii!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-20-2024, 03:24 PM
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I bought my Spotty back in 1970, still got it and a nice 50/1.7 ... so another no, for the same reason.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-20-2024, 12:19 AM
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For the record, I have just had the lens repaired for the second time. Well, maybe the third time, the first generated two job numbers - it was almost ready to return when I was informed they were waiting on a replacement PCB, I infer that it failed a QC check after re-assembly, and took another three months to resurface in my mailbox. It was supposed to have a 'new and improved' sdm motor, but four years later it is back being fixed for exactly the same symptoms (the first one lasted around eight years).
I have just has an email with a bill of around $AU300, whereupon I protested and asked for my concerns about this lens to be escalated - the repair bill has now been waived, a small win in an overall losing situation.
Yes. I have the DFA 70-210/4, and the DA*300/4.5 - the first is ok but no star (pun intended), the second is definitely a star! :lol:
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Forum: General Talk
03-17-2024, 03:47 AM
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Sweet looking car!
Geeze, if oiling is such a problem, just dry-sump it ;) :lol:
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Forum: General Talk
03-16-2024, 03:40 AM
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I am envious - that car was my dream car back when it was released, but out here it was expensive (had the 1600, not 1400) and as it turned out was prone to tinworm infestation. There are still examples around I see at car shows (and the later 4 headlight model), some of them exceptionally nice.
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