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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-27-2014, 06:05 AM
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Hi guys, how are you all doing? Lots of great images and news (only went back 10 pages but Travis` departure is quite a shock)
It has been a while since I`ve last posted here due to moving to a new house. Also my K5 died after my wife dropped it from the couch.
A few weeks ago I allready picked up a K-3 but somehow it took me until last week to go out and shoot some birds.
The tracking and focussing have indeed great improvements over the K-5 and the 24Mp AA-filterless images are a pleasure to work with (allthough quite large).
Most of the work is done and the smoke is finally settling down so I expect some more spare time for shooting from now on.
Free lunch
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-14-2014, 04:05 AM
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Nice shot, Schj. There is a bunch of them here too but they live in a pretty unaccesseble spot, also along a small river.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-06-2014, 03:10 PM
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Thanks, Travis. Your hummers are a pleasure to the eye, great work as usual.
Thank you, Derek.
Your red-winged Blackbirds are also beauties.
Thanks, Cold Iron :)
Thank you too, Greg and no thanks. Allways enjoying your images, they are worth the likes.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-04-2014, 11:51 AM
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Great work as usual, guys. Sorry for being a little absent, things are a little hectic atm.
Finally sorted and developed the Black Tern-session of last weekend, I went back sunday and took a fellow pentaxian with me. He was really kind and let me test his K-3.
The last 2 are with the borrowed K-3 and I have to admit...24MP and 8fps is nice to have :)
Aerial acrobat
Fast food
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-31-2014, 10:35 AM
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Did some recon today and found an interesting site with black Terns. The light was kinda harsh but I`m gonna give it another try early tomorrow morning.
But I managed to capture this (with is a very difficult test for the K5 with siggy 100-300 F4 and TC, these birds are fast):
Black Tern |
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-24-2014, 03:34 PM
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Pff, some terribly awesome shots on the last few pages. I`ve been enjoying them all, great work guys!
Got some first timers (for me that is) this week on a boattrip in a national park (wetland area) close to my house:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-05-2014, 10:50 AM
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Thanks, Travis. Yeah, that wa smy impression too. Most kids got a little cautious after a few hard (and wet) turns.
I would consider myself very fortunate if I could call those species "Nothing special"... Born in the wrong part of the globe, I guess :)
Thank you too, Weevil. It was actually a relief to use the sigma without TC again. AF is definitely a lot more snappy and decisive.
Impressive shots, your IQ is inducing a little feeling of LBA. :)
Very nice, Ken. Great detail and beautiful pose and background.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-04-2014, 03:01 PM
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Something else for a change:
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05-03-2014, 01:12 AM
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Looks like you had a good morning, Derek. Allthough you scared the s..t out of that last duck in your first post :)
Yeah, just listened to a few audiofiles and they have a very distinct call indeed. And allthough it`s a very colorfull bird it`s hard to spot up in the trees, the white speckels make a perfect camouflage (just as the busy bokeh)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-02-2014, 02:54 PM
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Beautiful shot, Andrew. That Darter? is a nice bonus.
ChatMechant: I`ve tried that once, I know how hard it is to get these guys. Nicely done!
Thanks Swip, I`m quite content myself :)
Thanks for the compliment and the like, Gary. Some beautifull work form yourself there too.
And offcourse thanks Travis, Norm, crewl1, fotogaffer and Frogfish for the likes :)
iitoo: amazing bird and great capture. I only learned about Barbets untill last year in South-Africa.
They are quite unmistakeble, aren`t they?
Here`s the (not so good) image of the only one I captured, a Crested Barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii):
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-01-2014, 02:03 AM
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Truely amazing work on these last pages, excellent work everybody!
I`ve been busy lately (am I not allways, lol?) but I managed to get out a couple of times. I`ve found a couple of great crested grebes nesting near a marina, the nice thing was they were used to human activity and I had acces to a little canoeing jetty. They are still breeding but I presume that will be finished soon.
Here`s mommy turning the eggs:
 No movement yet?
And here`s daddy (or visa versa, can`t tell the difference) hunting right in front and real close to me:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-06-2014, 03:12 PM
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That would be little old me and yes, it`s a stellar piece of glass :)
Travis, Driline, Reptilezz and Don: great work!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-05-2014, 11:42 PM
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Nice shots and good info, I guess there must be a learingcurve?
Nice image, and FWIW I agree with Steve.
Funny capture, it allmost looks like a barfight :)
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04-05-2014, 01:46 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-03-2014, 01:14 PM
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Nice shots! By the sound of it, it seems real close to a road, correct?
I might as well post my humble shot of the day cause I`m waiting for Travis to drop his bombshell...
First ducklings:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-02-2014, 11:32 PM
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wtlwdwgn, Don and Travis: thanks for the likes :)
It`s a Great crested Grebe (click), one of my favorite aquatic birds.
Nice vulture-shots, Travis and Greyser :cool:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-02-2014, 12:37 PM
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This guy was a poser :)
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04-02-2014, 05:00 AM
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Thanks, Frogfish.
I guess she`s happy having a break from time to time :hmm: ;) :D
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-02-2014, 01:11 AM
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Oke, just checking :)
This sounds indeed as a serious case of front focus. Hope this will get solved soon.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-01-2014, 10:13 AM
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Thank you too, Freespirit :)
Did you test on a chart allready? Because I wouldn`t rely on your posted shot because that in that particulair example could be very well a case of missfocussing as the box is very close and in front of the bird.
Nice captures, Derek.
Why, don`t you know your DA*300 is WR (actually AW)? ;)
My entry for today:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-31-2014, 11:49 PM
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Ah, didn`t see that one...teleparadise indeed! Too bad I just spend my entire savings on the new house :(
Thanks, Don :)
Now you shots (superb, I might add) are the first fieldsamples I see of the new TC, and from what I can see the IQ is really great. How does the IQ hold up when pixelpeeping?
Stunning images!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-31-2014, 11:48 AM
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Drool...I think you mean the 300 F2.8 and the 600mm F4?
Hi guys, how are you all doing?
Man, I`ve been so busy (bought a house and got married) but since a week or 2 I`ve been sneaking outdoor to shoot spring :D
Got some catching up to do with you guys but here are some of the last 1,5 week.
The godwits have returned:
Spot the oddball:
Classic pose:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-28-2014, 12:02 PM
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Many thanks for your detailed explanation and info, Norm :)
You got me confused, I allways thought that PPI/DPI is a value only used for printing images?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-27-2014, 03:18 PM
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Great set, Norm. The 3th one (Cardinal, I believe?) is stunning.
What do you think about the CA/PF of the A-400 and the K3? I remember when the K5 came out people were complaining that some lenses all of a sudden produced colorshifts whereas there was none before. I believe this had to do something with the increased resolution, do you experienced something like that?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-27-2014, 02:29 PM
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My sigma 100-300 F4 with sigma EX DG 1.4x TC does a pretty decent job but it`s allready a stellar lens with matching TC. This combo is probably one of the exceptions.
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