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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-10-2023, 12:37 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-25-2023, 10:27 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-01-2019, 01:08 AM
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For sure. Just don’t stumble around blindly and step too close to one and make it feel threatened.
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10-31-2019, 05:27 PM
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And when you are way out in the middle of nowhere, getting to medical attention is likely impossible.
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10-31-2019, 04:08 PM
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I don't have a problem with them, just the venom that they use to kill their prey.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-31-2019, 02:05 AM
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Thanks Mark.
It was very hot that day, about 100f, but I did manage to get out of the air conditioned comfort of the car, and then get on my knees on the hot desert sand to compose the shot.
All the while keeping vigilant for snakes and scorpions.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-29-2019, 07:03 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-25-2019, 08:28 AM
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So I think I figured out the mystery of the t-shirt.
I too had entered a photo in the Pentax Photo Gallery contest, but had forgotten it, as I was suddenly unable to log in, somehow my user name and password had become invalid.
So there you have it.
Anyone who has a Pentax Photo Gallery can enter one of their contests (limited to residents of North America), the current contest is astrophotography.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-20-2019, 04:02 PM
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I think I figured it out, details coming soon . . . . . . .
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-19-2019, 03:09 PM
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I am so excited about this I am posting it everywhere.
Has anyone else got one sent to them?
This t-shirt showed up in my mailbox today. No note inside the envelope, and I had no idea it was coming. I don't mean to be unappreciative, because it is cool they elected to send one out to me, even in my size, but I really want the hotshoe cover.
Pentax K-1, Pentax A28mm f2.8.
 Pentax 100 Years Of History by Racer, on Flickr
 Pentax 100 Years Of History by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-17-2019, 03:26 PM
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Another shot from the A28 f2.8 comparison with the Sigma Mini WIde 28mm f2.8, sans a shot from the Sigma.
 1966 Dodge A100 by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-07-2019, 06:34 PM
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Two questions Ed.
What is it?
Where is it?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-06-2019, 06:46 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-15-2019, 06:19 PM
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They’re fully grown, the midgets of construction equipment.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-10-2019, 04:05 PM
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Well the colors look a bit more saturated, but as I mentioned, the atmospheric conditions were different on the morning I shot the scene with the A lens.
So, I am going to take another swing at comparisons, shooting comparison images at the same time, on the same day. Hopefully that will make the comparison more objective.
Stay tuned . . . . .
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-09-2019, 05:26 PM
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I recently picked up an A28mm f2.8 to see if there is much difference from my Sigma 28mm f2.8 Mini Wide. All three shots made with the K-1, ISO 3200, f5.6, but the Sigma shots were 1/10 second, the A28 at 1/30 second, and at about the same time of day (actually night, or early morning), but different days. I suppose the best comparison method would involve shooting all the images at the same time of day, on the same day, rather than spread out over a couple of months. The first two were shot last May, a week apart, with the Sigma, the third one (with the A28) was shot yesterday. All three shot hand held.
I also tried to shoot from the same spot, but again, having done the shots at different times, it is impossible to get each shot framed the same. Also, I was in my pickup for the two with the Sigma, at a much higher position than the shot with the A28, shot from my Subaru Legacy wagon, quite a bit closer to the ground.
I tried to keep the post processing the same, following my usual mild adjustments in Photoshop. There was some fog in the shot with the A28, and it can be seen reflecting the high pressure sodium lighting. That may have skewed the colors a bit, I think.
I'll have to go back and shoot it again, both lenses at the same time.
Anyway, here they are.
 777-9X Static Test Tool by Racer, on Flickr
 777-9X Static Test by Racer, on Flickr
 777-9X Static Test by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-06-2019, 06:12 AM
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I am envious. What a great opportunity to get a ride in one of those.
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03-18-2019, 05:01 AM
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01-06-2019, 08:51 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-15-2018, 06:15 PM
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32 miles from my place, yesterday morning just before walking into the spar shop to start my day at work.
 Raindrops by Racer, on Flickr
Raindrops on the windshield of my car, at the parking lot at work, just before going in for the day. There is a mid 1960's VW Beetle, white with primer gray fenders in front of me.
Pentax K5IIs, Sigma 28mm f2.8 mini Wide.
Cross posted.
Everywhere.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-08-2018, 02:00 PM
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An A6 Intruder and an EA6B near NAS Whidbey and Oak Harbor, Washington on Whidbey Island. K5IIs, Sigma 28mm f2.8 Miniwide.
 NAS Whidbey Intruders by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-20-2018, 05:31 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-18-2018, 06:26 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-17-2018, 02:22 AM
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There is an engine there.
Promise.
 Older Kenworth by Racer, on Flickr
K5IIs, Sigma 28mm Mini Wide.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-16-2018, 07:36 PM
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A Dodge pickup, on a Chevy Blazer chassis.
In front of the Olympic Theater in Arlington, Washington.
 Dodge by Racer, on Flickr
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