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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 07-21-2018, 03:25 PM  
DA 18-135 WR, Show us what it can do
Posted By Just1MoreDave
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That's what I thought at first - how to make each piece have exactly the right angle? It's easy. Clamp a new piece to the old one and saw through them both. The angles match well enough to glue as long as the saw cut is straight.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 07-20-2018, 08:09 PM  
DA 18-135 WR, Show us what it can do
Posted By Just1MoreDave
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IMGC2836 by Dave, on Flickr
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 03-14-2018, 08:17 PM  
DA 18-135 WR, Show us what it can do
Posted By Just1MoreDave
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Those interisland flights, wow. I can fly to Connecticut for what Hawaiian would charge to get to Kona.

I don't have too many more shots that are good enough to post, but here's a few.





Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 03-11-2018, 06:33 PM  
DA 18-135 WR, Show us what it can do
Posted By Just1MoreDave
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I used to see surfer shots from Mark Dimo on dpreview. He sometimes solved that long lens problem by swimming out there with a waterproof housing and used a DA 10-17 instead. :) Anyway, I guess if you follow my advice too closely, you'd miss out on birds too. Hawai'i has a lot of unusual birds.

I need to process some of my Pololu Valley shots (like the one with the dog as black and white, because the black sand beach makes them halfway there already.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 03-11-2018, 09:13 AM  
DA 18-135 WR, Show us what it can do
Posted By Just1MoreDave
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That large boat on the right needs a lot of work! But your photo shows how it was built. Look at the horizontal upper white planks and you can see how they were steam-bent around the vertical frames, causing a shadow line.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 03-06-2018, 01:34 PM  
DA 18-135 WR, Show us what it can do
Posted By Just1MoreDave
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I bought a used DA 18-135 last month, because I was going to Hawai'i and I thought it would be perfect. I also brought the DA 21 for something small, the DA* 55/1.4 for low light and the DA 50-200 WR because there was going to be a full moon and I might want something longer than 135. My opinion is that anything longer is not that useful in Hawai'i, because you end up shooting through a lot of haze, vog, ocean spray, etc. Plus you have to lug all your stuff in carryon bags, maybe changing planes a couple of times. Anyway, the DA 18-135 was great almost all the time, except for some zoom creep and it's not quite small enough at times. Here are some examples, with full size versions on flickr:

See what I mean about spray. The owner is trying to help the dog find the stick he just threw.
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We went to a luau and I half expected no decent photos. It was fun to see if I could adapt to low light, stage lighting, motion, focus, distance, heads in front of me and free drinks. Some shots didn't work but most were good.
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My favorite of the luau, handheld at 0.5 sec, 78mm:
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I wanted to take this shot when I read about it. It's the Halema‘uma‘u crater on the Kilauea volcano. In daytime, this is often a boring shot of steam and gases, because the actual lava is below the rim of the crater. The park is open all night, so you can stay late for shots of the lava glow reflection. This is roughly at sunset. It was raining off and on as it got darker, the lookout was crowded, and the steam and rain made each shot different. I think the DA 18-135 was ideal for all the variables. I could have switched to the DA* 55 here, but I wanted the zoom because I couldn't change my location.
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My wife and I were going to the beach, so I only had the 18-135, but the path went through an ancient settlement. This is a lava tube that was used for a dwelling.
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I read the whole thread before I bought the lens. When I was processing these shots, I thought they were oddly similar to Norm's posts: a dog with a stick, shallow water, landscape, now a canoe. Sort of Norm on the Big Island.
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Here's a link to the album with some other full-size shots: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmfr3BpA
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