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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-16-2020, 01:11 AM
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Nice shot! Impressive, the optical performance of the SMC Pentax-FA* 250-600mm f5.6 ED [IF] !!! As a pentax wildlife shooter i find its really difficult to find decent lens on the 500mm (k mount) end for wildlife! ...close to the ground and no heat diffraction, you must have been really close to him!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-14-2019, 07:08 AM
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Thank you pichaser! A different photo from the same place but the weather was cloudy .
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-14-2019, 06:40 AM
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Thanks PJ1 ! For the hack a simple and not so elegant solution; re-use a k mount from an old or damaged lens, remove canon mount, make an aluminum or stainless steel ring the diameter of the canon mount screw the k mount to the ring and then the ring to the lens et voila! Mind you there are no aperture control i just use a card board with a hole the size of the f-stop i want and place it on the filter holder. Not so elegant solution but it works !
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Thank you ToddK ! The shot was taken a few minutes after sunrise on a very cold day .... it's the only way to get a clean image because once the sun starts to heat the fields, atmospheric aberration start to soften parts of your images ...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-13-2019, 11:59 PM
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Thanks! ...and yes manual focus! I must admit 90% of my lenses are manual focus! Including the tamron 300/2.8 and some smc , tair , even a M45 500/F4.5 from pentax! It demands a lot of breading control and a lot of practice! The canon 500/4 had the motor taken (faulty) and turned into manual focus, the aperture is 'hacked' by using different cardboard sizes with a hole the size of the aperture i need and placed on the 'gel holder' part of the filter.
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Thanks lesmore49! Yes it is a nice pose! But there's an explanation to it! Mr Fox just sniffed the only photographer in the field! Unfortunately the wind was in my back, even if i was on a ditch with my feet in water and completely hidden by the vegetation he still picked my scent !!! (i don't use deodorant or wash my cloth with scented detergent, but i did had a nice mug of coffee in the morning... and that was enough for him to pick my scent on that cold morning)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-13-2019, 02:25 PM
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--Fox on a field-- Taken on a winter morning.
Material used = canon EF 500mm F4 on a K3 (focus manual and aperture @f4)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-08-2018, 11:34 AM
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hi vyoufinder, to take the tankumar apart its fairly simple, in the first page of the post you have an exploded view of the lens. You just have to start from the bootom up i think if its the problem lies in part nb17 the three screws are broken and need replacement. Do you have the K mount or M42 version?
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
06-15-2017, 10:09 AM
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No there is no clone or heal tool in rawtherapee. The best way is either to use Darktable or in rawtherapee click on the "palette" to send it to the external editor and heal in there (ie gimp is excellent for this).
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-23-2017, 04:41 AM
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Thanks for your rapid response. The lens has no issues, because i am thinking of selling it i just wanted a pro to give me a certificate that all is ok with the lens. Its a big lens an its getting a bit heavy for me so i'm thinking of selling this one to get a 300mm 2.8.
Once again thanks!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-22-2017, 01:20 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-12-2016, 12:44 AM
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Thank you for your comments!
@takis63 ... yeah i love stargazing too! I also do a bit of deep sky and stacking wich can be very time consuming but the results are just amazing!
@Belnam .... it took me 5 years to track and photograph my first fox.... patient and perseverance pays! to be elusive is first nature to a fox (even the farmers and hunters havent seen one in years around here, whe can see the signs they leave behind but
seeing them in the flesh is another matter)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-10-2016, 08:04 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-10-2016, 07:52 AM
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My pleasure to share this with all you nature lovers! And once again thank you all for the comments !
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-10-2016, 12:27 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-10-2016, 12:11 AM
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and another... (clicking with parsimony was essential! Not to give away your presence, allows the fox to behave naturally !
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-10-2016, 12:05 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-10-2016, 12:01 AM
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Thank you for your comments! Much appreciated!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-09-2016, 11:31 AM
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First shot of a fox doing what they do best!!!
I've being waiting for years to get a chance to photograph a fox in action. Yesterday was the day. In France fox hunting is legal and very much present every hunting season, so approaching one (fox) is very difficult because they are so suspicious of humans (can’t blame them...). This one approached me to a mere 10m of me. The sun on my back the wind in my face and the help of camouflaging using the vegetation was just the perfect set up for this photo session! I hope you enjoy this photos as much as i did taking them! Cheers!
Renard en "mulotage"
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-01-2016, 12:10 AM
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ok after a closer inspection ... the panasonic logo on the camera seems to be on the top back side of the camera the only model with interchangeable lens with that feature in that date range is the GF1 with an Lumix G 20mm 1.7 II ASPH .
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-30-2016, 12:57 AM
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Ola dianadebraga! Para mim é possivel que seja a Q10 .( or as adam says a lumix by the pixelized "L" on the camera, but if she is holding the camera with the right hand assuming that she's holding it by the grip then the "L" becomes a "SR" pixelized and compressed by the jpg algorithm....
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Forum: Photographic Technique
03-27-2016, 09:29 AM
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Excellent site, indispensable resources for birding! ( specially that it tells you that you should not only multiply the focal length but also the aperture by the crop factor of the sensor)! Thanks!bertwert!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-17-2016, 02:35 AM
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BEAUTY!!! TOP marks! congrats for the excellent picture!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-11-2016, 01:31 AM
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HI nice picture. Careful with the highlights, it looks to me, that you lowered a bit too much the highlights transforming the whites into greys. You should always keep the whites white, i can see that the sky was over exposed. Don't be afraid to keep the sky partially white while trying to recover a bit of detail in the clouds, but don’t over do it or you end up with a grey dominant picture. The shadows are well recovered. Use an off camera flash next time as a fill flash to expose the picture correctly.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-09-2016, 09:07 AM
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Nice Picture! The movement in the tips of the eagle wings is just perfect, it introduces movement in an otherwise "static " cliché. The focus is spot on! (congrats!) I would remove the negative space above the eagle (center-right) as it is moving towards the left. Shooting at 160 iso was a good choice, you could have stayed at f4 as the DA*300 outshines at this aperture, if you wanted a faster shutter speed. Cranking the iso up is never a good idea even in post because you tend too loose a lot of detail in the overall image (introducing luminosity and colour noise). Gimp has different tools to deal with noise reduction, ian's fast denoise in the GMIC section allows you to de-noise the luminosity layer and more important the colour de-noise with edge preservation. You should also take a look at Darktable witch is a very effective raw converter.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-29-2016, 01:38 AM
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Nice!!! @450 you must have been so close to him that you could hear the wings cutting through the wind !!!wwooossshhhhh..... (Personally i would raise the colour's a bit more. the yellows and brown's look a bit dull to me..)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-09-2016, 01:45 AM
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Nice series! N°1 is N°1! trying to get a photo of them facing you is really tricky, as when they take off they always fly away from you, on the opposite direction! Another tip i can give you is not to wash your clothes in normal detergent but to use a bio or non-uv phosphate free detergent (they use UV reflective substances to make whites "more white", or you will be a glowing blue mass against a dark background) , as i said they can see in the UV spectre as most of birds of prey and some wildlife!
PS: i think in the US you can get this kind of products in hunting stores.
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