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Forum: Photographic Technique
4 Days Ago
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If a photographic tour is an option at Antelope Canyon, do it! The experience in the canyon on the photographic tours if vastly different from the regular tours.
The slot canyons are very narrow, the best time of day to do a tour if you want to see the shaft of lights is in the middle of the day.
It's very dusty in the slot canyons because the guides are throwing sand in the air to show the shafts of light, don't even think about changing lens if you want your sensor to ever be clean again. Bring a blower or something to clean your lens while you are on the tour.
If you have more than one body go as wide as you can on one and short telephoto on the other. If you only had one body, I would go wide.
Bring a tripod, there's not much light and to get the classic trickling sand and shaft of lights shots a tripod is best. From memory, a tripod was required on the photo tour when I did it in 2016.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-09-2024, 02:45 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
02-27-2024, 07:01 PM
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I bought a second hand K1 body from Mapcamera's eBay store in 2022. The camera body I bought was rated B, it was pretty hard to distinguish it from new, it had less than 350 clicks. Even with tax and a customs clearance fee from DHL the price was significantly better than anything I could find locally.
My wife picked up a FA 43 limited lens for me from Map Camera in Shinjuku last year, it was rated average but the condition was still well above what I expected.
The prices on Map Camera's website ??????????????????????????????????? are much better than the same item in their eBay store, the website also has items not listed on eBay. Map Camera now offers international buyers the opportunity to buy from their website and use a Japanese reshipping company, Buyee. I tried it out with a FA 77 limited and was pleased with the service, the condition of the lens, and the total cost. Buyee's shipping was very reasonably but they clearly make a good cut of their profits from exchange rates, although nowhere near as much as Paypal.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-09-2024, 02:30 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-09-2024, 02:44 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-07-2023, 01:17 AM
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Some fur and feathers with my F*300 on a K1 x-posted from the F club thread
Black footed rock wallaby
for context the cliff on the right of this panorama is where the rock wallabies were hanging out
Western bowerbird
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A western grey kangaroo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-07-2024, 11:09 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-07-2024, 11:28 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-10-2023, 11:28 PM
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Some Western Australian mammals with the K1 and F*300
Western grey kangaroo
Black-footed rock wallaby
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-12-2023, 07:20 PM
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Red-capped plover male in breeding plummage, the odd shaped lumps in the background are thrombolites. With K1 and F*300.
The F*300 had a nasty fall onto concrete the day before this shot, no damage to the glass and the AF still works fine but the hood and filter ring is bent enough to stop the hood extending. I sent photos to the Australian Pentax distributor/repairer to see if it could be repaired, their technician had never seen a F*300 lens before :(
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-07-2023, 07:33 PM
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Works as a landscape lens
and for more conventional subjects
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-07-2023, 10:04 PM
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He was trying to figure out how to steal such a big camera.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-13-2023, 07:34 PM
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Zion National Park
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-12-2023, 07:21 PM
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Red-capped plover male in breeding plummage, the odd shaped lumps in the background are thrombolites. With K1 and F*300.
The F*300 had a nasty fall onto concrete the day before this shot, no damage to the glass and the AF still works fine but the hood and filter ring is bent enough to stop the hood extending. I sent photos to the Australian Pentax distributor/repairer to see if it could be repaired, their technician had never seen a F*300 lens before :(
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-13-2023, 01:47 AM
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One of the wild dolphins from Monkey Mia in Western Australia
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-10-2023, 11:03 PM
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Some landscapes from Western Australia
Island Rock in Kalbarri National Park
Yardie Creek in Cape Range National Park
Roadside termite mounds near Cape Range
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-10-2023, 11:04 PM
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Roadside termite mounds in the north of Western Australia near Exmount
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-11-2023, 08:19 PM
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That's the male, he has an iridescent pink/purple patch on the back of his head, it made the ID easy.
Your shot is very cute, it looks a bit magenta on my uncalibrated work screen.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-06-2023, 09:55 PM
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Very cute
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-06-2023, 07:12 PM
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I'll keep my Western Australia national parks theme going with Island Rock in Kalbarri National Park
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
12-05-2023, 06:19 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-06-2023, 07:22 PM
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Some fur and feathers with my F*300 on a K1
Black footed rock wallaby
for context the cliff on the right of this panorama is where the rock wallabies were hanging out
Western bowerbird
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A western grey kangaroo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-06-2023, 03:33 AM
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Yardie Creek in Cape Range National Park, West Australia
12 shots with the K1 and DFA 24-70 stitched in Lightroom
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-28-2023, 01:36 AM
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Pinnacles Desert in West Australia, managed to be there during golden hour and sunset
K1 and DFA 24-70, 11 images stitched in LR
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-29-2023, 06:09 PM
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It's a remarkable location. I've seen some incredible images taken there especially night shots incorporating the Milky Way (there was too much cloud to consider trying).
Here's another pano from slightly earlier in a different spot - this one was 10 shots
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