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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-04-2017, 08:48 AM
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My wife and I are watching the Ken Burns series on Vietnam and we're discussing a nature tour we saw advertised, and we're thinking "but we've never done a trip that big before, it's so far away, it's so expensive, we wouldn't know where to start identifying the birds there..." But Cuom nguyen is weakening our defences!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-03-2017, 09:31 AM
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A Nashville Warbler from a few weeks ago
 IMGP9743 by Steve, on Flickr
and a humble female House Sparrow
 IMGP9756 by Steve, on Flickr
K-3, DA* 300mm and 1.4x Pentax HD TC
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-08-2016, 03:32 PM
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Britain has about 600 species compared with less than 1000 across the whole of North America. Not bad for an impoverished avifauna. What I find interesting is the confusion in naming differences between UK and North America. Britain's sparrows, blackbirds, orioles, buntings and warblers are generally in different families to the birds with the same family name over here.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-17-2015, 11:19 AM
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Thanks for the advice, though I'm happy to use centre point focusing for most of the time. I do take my photography to extremes - telephoto, macro, and not much in between!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-17-2015, 08:14 AM
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Thanks - I was also wondering about the K-SII as I would make good use of the articulated LCD screen for macro, but the K-3 might be a good option.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-17-2015, 05:01 AM
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I have a tracking/focusing problem for birds in flight and distant, small targets with my DA* 300mm with or without the 1.4x teleconverter. I was wondering whether an upgrade from my Pentax K-r would help but from what I'm reading here that might not do much good.
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