Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-23-2023, 08:30 AM
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A spring herd of female elk near Sparwood, BC. This field is on the East side of Highway 43 perhaps 1 km North of Highway 3 on Highway 43 which runs from Sparwood to Elkford, British Columbia, Canada, a few miles West of the Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains. The herd is common in the early spring days as they fatten up for the summer.
K-3, DA 55-300 ED ISO 250, 1/320 @ f/11, 170 mm. DNG image cropped and adjusted in Lightroom Classic. Green (Grandma) program.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
02-05-2023, 04:53 PM
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That first shot is nothing short of excellent! PS I shot for a couple of local newspaper sports pages when I was considerably younger. I know how hard it is to get one shot in a whole game that is that good.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-28-2023, 10:26 AM
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I also have found over the years the the OM53 eyepiece makes a surprisingly large improvement. I'm still using the one I bought with the (film) KX in the 1980's
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-25-2023, 04:56 PM
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I rented one of those with the factory grill in Calgary, Alberta for a Christmas visit to a delightful RN posted to Calgary Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps detachment in December 1964. It was the same colour, even.
We met in the Canadian Forces Medical Services Training Centre, Camp Borden, Ontario earlier in the year, where I had the interesting (:fedup:) job of teaching first aid to doctors. She had just completed her crash course in English and as I was bilingual refused to speak to me except in Français. To use her words, I promoted her to the kitchen July 24, 1965 in the RC Chapel, Camp Borden. She's upstairs working on a cross stitch panel as I type this.
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Forum: General Talk
01-21-2023, 09:22 AM
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I don't think so: I think you just pay attention to your vehicles and do the necessary maintenance. I'm over 384,500 Km (114,600 miles) and have had a "won't start" twice -- when I didn't close the driver's door all the way and drained the battery over night. I cannot blame Mr. Toyota for that problem!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-06-2023, 12:39 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-05-2023, 02:32 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-05-2023, 02:30 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-17-2022, 03:28 PM
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Brrrrrrrr
It is just like that outside at the moment.
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Forum: General Talk
12-16-2022, 04:35 PM
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My daughter and her husband have a Honda Fit The SIL plays hockey at an outdoor rink, and managed to get 7 SEVEN! straw bales inside it. When he has larger stuff to move he invites his FIL (me) to come visit with the pickup truck.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-11-2022, 10:10 AM
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It seems to me that the Burrowing Owl would rather you were not invading his burrow! :)
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
12-07-2022, 05:08 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
12-07-2022, 05:08 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-06-2022, 11:24 PM
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I have a cubic metre cupboard full of film and slides. The earliest winner for me I will try and find. It's a Kodachrome 10 shot taken with an Asahi Pentax and Takumar 55/2.2 of a woman artist with her face lit up by the reflection from her drawing or painting. I see it in my mind, and it's in there somewhere. I was 20 or 21, and she was gorgeous!
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Forum: General Talk
12-06-2022, 01:30 PM
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I just received my new shipment of B&L contact lenses. I have had cataracts removed, and so my new in-the-eye lenses have no focusing system, as the old lenses supplied by nature had. That means that I need reading glasses or similar to pull out of my pocket when I want to read a dial on my K-3 or read the fine print on a prescription.
B&L PureVision Multi Focal lenses with ADD HIGH. They are multifocal contacts, (soft of course; I have no need to scratch my corneas). The Rx is 0 correction as the lenses inserted with the cataract surgery take care of distance viewing, but ADD HIGH for closeup work. The max closeup ability is 2.5 diopters. Basically there are overlaid rings of +1.25 and +2.5 diopters and after a short period of adjustment (minutes) the brain seems to use the necessary corrected images and ignores the other two out of focus images.
The advantages are multiple in the Rocky Mountains. They don't fog up when I enter the house in the winter. I don't lose them all over the house like my readers. Unlike varifocal spectacles, I get the close up correction throughout the entire field of vision. Fine print above me is as easy to read as below. I can use normal ski goggles for protection against blowing snow.
They work for me, but might just as well be wrong for you, but I thought I would just tell you my 82 year old's solution to reading glasses.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-28-2022, 04:47 PM
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Our coal trains run about 145 cars @ 10,000 tons (not tonnes, which is more). The coal is loaded by down chute and then sprayed with latex to stop the coal dust from spraying all over the place on the 600 mile (approx) trip to the port on the West Coast.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-14-2022, 05:18 PM
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Sharp as the proverbial tack!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-11-2022, 07:01 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-27-2022, 01:40 PM
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Too bad the Getty Images covers part of it, but I do understand the need for putting it there.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
10-25-2022, 09:29 AM
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With my Asahi Pentax, KX, and other cameras I wore my glasses while shooting. Since I have had cataract surgery, I have no need. I do find the ME53 very helpful.
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Forum: General Talk
10-24-2022, 09:23 PM
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It is worse as you get into locations with cold winter weather. There is a double whammy between using more electricity to keep windshields clear and drivers from freezing, not to mention the loss of efficiency when battery temperatures drop below freezing. They are hopelessly impractical where I live. We are experiencing freezing temperatures overnight already this year.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-21-2022, 03:47 PM
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Agreed! The colours are wonderful.
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Forum: General Talk
10-21-2022, 10:11 AM
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I much prefer the feel of my camera with the grip ON.
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