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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-25-2011, 03:53 PM
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That's one sharp lens with a sharp operator behind it!
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09-25-2011, 09:28 AM
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09-05-2011, 09:33 PM
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The DA* 16-50 is a great lens. The colour and depth are fantastic. Nice shot, (almost) neighbour!
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08-14-2011, 10:24 PM
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08-11-2011, 08:54 PM
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The ratio of "I always use them" to "I never use them" is about 1 to 1. At the moment I am in the "I don't even has one that fits" stage, and have been for about 20-25 years now. My front elements, even on the old 400 that has taken a real beating, show no scars, That said, there are places where I would buy them before using the lenses. Dolphin pools and orcas trained to splash the audience come to mind.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-31-2011, 08:35 AM
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With the range of the DA* 16-50/2.8, I often use it in manual focus anyway as I do with my DA 12-24/4. With wide angle lenses I often want the focus point to be in a specific place. It's easier just to focus the lens by hand than select the focus point to use.
Now if my 50-135 could only get its focusing to work, I would be a happy camper. It has been repaired twice under warranty by Pentax Canada, and its gone again. What one does with a 50-135 calls for auto focus a lot more often than the wide angles do. I'll keep the lens - there isn't much out there that compares optically, so I manually focus it. Optically, all three of my DA/DA* lenses are extremely good. Why couldn't the SDM on my 16-50 give up instead of the 50-135? it's just not fair! I use the 16-50 a lot more often than the 50-135.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-31-2011, 08:28 AM
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Yasik, that shot of your girl is stunning, absolutely stunning!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-15-2011, 08:21 AM
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I woke up to this this morning. Enough already. It's April 15th (my sympathy to those living in the U.S.A. who have left their tax returns to the last day) and we wake up to this. I'm supposed to be out taking pictures of migrating birds, not shoveling snow again.
Pentax K10, DA* 16-50/2.8, ISO 200, 16mm, 1/350 @ f/8
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-14-2011, 10:23 AM
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Welcome to the club! Myself, I have a "good" copy, and it is used for somewhere about 40% or more of my pictures. Frankly, if the SDM packs it in, I will have a superb quality manual focus lens.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-09-2011, 04:51 PM
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Great shot of a great subject. I love this lens also.
Another great shot of a great subject. Much more interesting than the "look at the camera and smile at Mommy/Daddy" shots we see so often.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-03-2011, 09:39 AM
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Put a notice in the wanted section on this forum. That's how I found mine.
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04-03-2011, 08:28 AM
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Mine cost me about $400 and I do not regret the expense in the slightest.
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04-02-2011, 09:02 AM
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In my Flickr gallery there is a set where I used the 50-135 with the Pentax AFA 1.7X rear converter. If you can find one you can get an 85 - 230 with great optical characteristics. All the images were taken during a walk last year when I went out deliberately to see how they went together.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-23-2011, 09:08 AM
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From that image, you are very close to mastering the lens. Thank you for posting it. It reminds me that if my SDM fails after its replacement, I will keep it as a manual focus extraordinary optic.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-27-2011, 04:40 PM
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It looks like your SDM is still working! Nice shot!
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01-17-2011, 10:25 AM
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I can feel the storm! Great work.
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01-16-2011, 11:07 AM
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Nice shot, Ex Finn. If the 60-250 had been available when I bought my 50-135 I would have had a very hard decision to make. Swapping out the field of view range for one stop - hard choice. As it is, I purchased a 1.7X AF converter, so I can turn my 50-135/2.8 into an 85-230/4.8 with limited AF capabilities. The optical results are really quite astonishing. I did a test walk with the combination, and the results are here on my Flickr site if you want to check them out. I was very pleased with the results from the combination.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-28-2010, 06:24 PM
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Nice and crisp. I particularly notice the lack of CA and PF with the lens.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-27-2010, 09:46 AM
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I own the 50-135, and it is superb, frankly. I have seen nothing but good things about the 60-250, though, and am a bit torn because of the range available with the 60-250 compared to the 50-135, but then I think about losing a stop of light, and using the K10d, keeping the ISO down is a good thing, and then ....
I guess I will just have to wind the lottery and buy them all! :eek:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-14-2010, 10:02 AM
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Although the occasion was bittersweet, the Celebration of Life for my brother who succumbed to cancer in May. Jack and Glenda split their time between Maui, Hawaii and Gabriola Island, British Columbia. I used my K10d and DA* 16-50/2.8 and no other combinations even though I carried four lenses with me, and also my AF 540 FGZ flash, that I did not use either.
Here is a link to a web site I made with 27 of my images. The entire set was taken with the K10d and minimum ISO that made sense. At least half my pictures from the weekend were taken at ISO 100, although I did go as high as ISO 800 at times. I think this shows just how versatile this lens is. Comments are welcome.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-04-2010, 08:44 PM
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We went for a drive along Hartley Lake/Sulphur Springs Road Saturday last. As I occasionally do, I stuck with one single lens for the whole day. The road mentioned is about 70 km (40 mi) of gravel, dirt and occasionally mud caused by the recent thunderstorms. I've not been one to avoid stressing lenses out by making them try things they are not meant to take on, such as taking pictures of tiny butterflies (about 3/4 inch/ 19mm long) with a lens that won't focus any closer than 1 meter (1.1 yards). Here is the full frame, and the 100% crop of the little critter. This also shows why the DA* 50-135 is a wonderful lens to use.
K10D, 135mm, ISO 100, 1/320 @ f/4. It was very cloudy at the time. A little later I will put a series from the drive on my Flickr site, and then post the link.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-04-2010, 08:06 AM
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08-03-2010, 08:48 AM
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Seeing that you are a resident of Edmonton, you can get all sorts of help at McBain Camera I use the one in Lethbridge, myself.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-15-2010, 09:18 AM
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Christopher - I hate you. I thought I had LBA under control until I saw this shot. :D
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-15-2010, 09:17 AM
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The Sparwood Knights of Columbus had a blast Friday night, June 11, 2010. We held an adult soap box derby as a fund raiser for a water spray park for the kids in our 4,000 population town. We've been holding soapbox derbies for 9-14 year olds for years. Saturday we went out and did a kids event with 74 cars.
The teams for the adult race had to raise a minimum of $500 in pledges to qualify to run. Ten teams showed up this year, the first, and as it turns out, by popular demand the First Annual! We raised over $7,000. As I am the council's computer geek, I only got to take action shots of the first starts, then went into geek mode scoring with the new program I wrote for the event.
The colourful gentleman on the left is Fire Captain Gene Olson. By my rough calculations he averaged some 27 mph over nine runs from the start line behind the "pushers". He does sort of overflow the car, does he not? The teams were required to use the standard Knights of Columbus soapbox car kit, designed for 9 to 14 year olds.
K10D, DA* 50-135 at 50mm, ISO 400, 1/250 @ f/6.7, added one stop in post processing with Lightroom 2.7 and cropped to 1902x1273.
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