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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-03-2017, 02:44 PM
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here is a couple of views of a Douglas squirrel.
the first is a k1- fa*300 -----uncropped. --near minimum focal distance.
Hand held --- 1/800 sec at f/5.6 ---- using ISO 12500
this one with a little less camera HP is taken with a K3 using a 60-250 at 250.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-06-2017, 07:26 PM
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the K-1's are easier to find than a Pentax-A 400- F.2.8 and cheaper too. I've actually been looking, though for a lighter lens for some of my work (trying to decide between the new DFA* --- to 450 zoom
or the classic FA 400 f/5.6 on which I wouldn't hestitate to use the older dedicated extenders --- the 1.4x-L or 2x-L
With the rising levels of useful ISO, the speed of the glass is less critical. and portability becomes easier.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-18-2017, 10:11 AM
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That's what the camera makers have been doing since they have hit the practical limits on increased pixel counts is making each generation
of sensors do better in low light. The rest of the settings were 1/100 at f/9. If I count right the ISO is 6 stops above Kodacolor 400. The approximate
exposure could have been replicated at 1/25 at f2.8. for exposure with kodacolor 400, but the cost would have been shake issues and depth of field.
The thing that makes this picture to me is the background----you usually find doves in places of really bad backgrounds--- parking lots, lawns etc. but here we have
the utter chaos of the background contrasting with the peaceful bird to make an interesting picture and without the high ISO you just can't get there.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-17-2017, 10:59 PM
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I accomplished this with the K-1 using Pentax-A 400mm f/2.8 and a Pentax 1.4L converter. it was late on a dark cloudy rainy day (today). Used 25600 ISO to close the deal.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-04-2016, 08:48 PM
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Some juveniles get their feather ruffled easily..... must have flunked out of grooming school to play on the beach...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-04-2016, 08:34 PM
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another BIF uncropped specimen. I"m vetry disappointed---- or am I setting expectations too high.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-04-2016, 08:14 PM
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IT seems like ther are some days that you just have the wrong lens on the camera. Often a 300 mm is a good bet if you are birding, but then this happens.
this is a full frame shot of an eagle with a 300mm f/4.5 lens on a K-3
---------- Post added 09-04-2016 at 08:31 PM ----------
IT seems like ther are some days that you just have the wrong lens on the camera. Often a 300 mm is a good bet if you are birding, but then this happens.
this is a full frame shot of an eagle with a 300mm f/4.5 lens on a K-3
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-17-2016, 08:38 PM
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here is a sequence--- not of the greatest quality as I was trying to use an improvised support with a fa600 plus a 1.4x extender.
but I was interested in the the way that this large bird commenced flying.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-02-2016, 10:30 PM
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we feed sunflower seeds and some smaller bird seek.
The steller jays are always there we have around half a dozen of them regularly...
what we haven't seen since spring are the camp robbers (gray jays).
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-01-2016, 08:29 PM
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Do you suppose there is a reason these birds are called "Grosbeaks". Don't think I'll win
any prize for a pretty picture here.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-31-2016, 10:52 AM
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here is another take of the day. A "Brush Rabbit" native to Western Oregon.---sylvilagus bachmani
fairly small -- around 12" long, little or no tail. Really likes to eat grass.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-31-2016, 10:25 AM
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Stellar's jay shows it all.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-23-2016, 09:11 AM
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My understanding of evolution suggests that nearly every feature of critters either serves or has served some purpose, and when looking as cosmetic appearance
it seems likely that coloring has to do with increasing reproductive opportunity or obtaining food, or avoiding being food.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-21-2016, 10:27 PM
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The camera guy (me) messed this one up big time. I was pursuing this bird in an overgrown parking lot by driving around and shootingout the window with a F*300 4.5 and a 1.4xconverter. This quail
isn't much on flyway away from you but they will run away from you. I circled around and got in front of him, but then I was suddenly too close. I really didn't have time to kick off the converter
when the bird turned and stared at me. I cut the birds feet and tail off, but nailed the head..... IT could be that I should try to salvage this by turning into just a head shot....
AFterall the point of the photo is the 'head shot'..... Note how fearsome this otherwise rather passive bird is when it looks directly at you. --- sort of explains its color scheme that
has no message at all when you look at the usual profile. Anyhow it's the straight in the face look that put this photo here, not my miserable technique.
same photo as above but I carried out my ruminations as aggressive cropping. Can you see the giant black mouth????
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-19-2016, 07:46 PM
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This California Quail was photographed out the car window with no special rest. equiipment was a K-3, F*300 f/4.5
at 1/800 sec f/10, ISO 6400 and the HD converter (1.4x) for effective 420mm focal length. the shot is uncropped
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-15-2016, 10:47 PM
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indeed the converter isn't FF which is a problem. it has everything to do with why I took my ancient Pentax - A 400 f-2.8, and equallly old pentax -L converters to alaska recently. I am most hopeful
that Pentax will soon bless us with an FF converter although manual focus isn't all bad in bird photography. I don't know how many times i've taken a picture of a fairly 'small in the frame' bird
and had the auto focus --focus perfecty on the background, and put the bird completely out of focus.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-15-2016, 08:26 PM
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my solution: a used pentax f* or FA 300 f 4.5 and the new pentax 1.4x converter.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-10-2016, 10:40 PM
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Here is a bath sequence all over a couple of minutes. we often leave a small bowl of water on the back deck for the critters, but here a Northern flicker decided it was a bird bath.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-08-2016, 06:50 AM
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thanks. I'm sort of a camera jockey. I go push the button and try to get my wife to tell me what's in the picture.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-07-2016, 10:16 PM
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I've named this Steller's jay "Scruffy", but don't know if this is what you mean by fainter barring.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-06-2016, 04:49 PM
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I'm satisfied it a juvenile all right. Have also suspected it was a female which is less blue. It's logical that they feather out with the 'flying machinery' -- wings and tail first. as they seem to have
blue bodies, but a black hood that goes well down as adults to my understanding the females are not as bright. Some you see are almost florescent.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-06-2016, 06:43 AM
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don't have any fingernails, but a photo of toenails I've got.
I don't think the feet arrived for the bird seed.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-05-2016, 08:55 PM
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you might have thought this stellar jay had a problem, but not really, just game time
Ah ha! sunny afternoon
17 seconds later: "I think I've been found out"
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-27-2016, 10:02 PM
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I guess you have a point there. I was a bit of a curmugeon about digital myself, and didn't buy the first couple of generations of digital. the unfortunate truth was how I was an early adopter
of a website --- it's now been about 20 years that I have had one------- and I found myself making lots of terrible scans of chemical photos, but I do have a nice Besler enlarger in my darkroom
along with a nice waterbox and temp control kit so I can process 11x14 color prints in trays floating in hot water. Somehow it saves a lot of time to directly create the JPG, as compared to stirring
chemistry just to print a photo so you can scan it into a jpg.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-26-2016, 04:42 PM
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I hadn't looked at one of their ads before, but why would they need a disclaimer before the K-1 existed as there was no FF that it would fit anyway.
I'm thinking that either they are worried about a Sigma syndrome appearing, or figure that half the users won't bother to override the auto lens selection
routine, and would be upset with the black line in the viewfinder.
I hope pentax has a plan to relabel/remodel their long primes for official FF use.
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