Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-21-2012, 07:09 PM
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Oh dear! Just heard from the head JAFA and plane wont be coming here after all!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-19-2012, 01:20 AM
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... I have just learned the de Havilland Mosquito will be at the Ashburton aviation museum around about 11-13 January!;)
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-12-2012, 11:55 AM
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Bugger! I have been wondering why it is becoming so hard to focus my camera then my optician tells me I have cataracts developing! Most of my lenses are MF too!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-08-2012, 03:36 PM
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Page 151 in the manual
"Continuous Shooting
Pictures can be taken continuously while the shutter release button is kept pressed"
{LATER} Well that didnt take long, when all else fails RTFM! On a different page is says continous shooting is not available in the green square setting. (but it does not say that on the continous shooting page) {/later}
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-08-2012, 03:19 PM
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I tried continuous mode with my K5 but when I go to the menu there is no option for it?
I suppose I have something set that precludes continous mode? I have gone back to default setting and still no joy!:confused:
Any clues please before I go to a wider audience?
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-07-2012, 01:10 PM
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The ring would have to be matched to the one I have for perfect alignment.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
12-07-2012, 12:38 PM
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Hey! Maybe I could buy that and made a stereo photo snaiper rig!!:D
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
11-14-2012, 08:10 PM
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Grerat start Pete!
I have a Sigma 400mm 5.6 on my camera and was out standing quitely by the fence waiting for those little finches to stop flittering about. Two little waxeyes landed on the fence about 6' away, way inside minimum focus distance and I swear the little shits were laughing at me! Nice little critters too they were!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
11-14-2012, 01:33 PM
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Ahem, about that Tair, how is the ring modification coming along?
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
11-06-2012, 01:49 PM
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Did you have the Tair in full combat configuration?
Thats a very nice radiator mascot!:lol: Can we see the rest of your car?
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
11-04-2012, 12:53 AM
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
11-03-2012, 10:46 PM
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The ring thingy is something I do when converting an M42 to Pentax K.
No locking pin on M42 mount.
Not all lenses have enough meat around the mount to provide a place to drill to accept the K mount locking pin, some are awkward and have a tapered bit right there but the Tair is much easier in that a simple ring can be fixed around the base of the lens to increase the diameter.
Once you have a place for the locking pin to engage it is an easy matter to firmly screw the M42/K adapter onto the lense and leave it there. No more sticking big, hairy, sticky finger into the camera to disengage the adapter as the adapter is now a (semi) permanent fixture on the lens.
I am confident we will be seeing a series of pictures detailing the procedure..:)
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
11-03-2012, 07:11 PM
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-31-2012, 07:53 PM
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So it arrived? We require full detailed account of the project with photos at every stage!:)
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-31-2012, 03:42 PM
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Transit, check your snail mail!:D
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-30-2012, 12:06 PM
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As 500mm mirror lenses go that Tokina is quite un-stubby.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-29-2012, 12:41 AM
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Ross, it is not a big diameter so I assume f1:8. I think it would be quite usable and worth a few dollars.
However, you are only 50 miles from me so if you want to mess with mirror lenses I have a selection you could borrow. 500mm Sigma f1:4 (huge), 600mm Sigma f1:8 and 1000mm Sigma f13:5. (I note to my horror that I actually have two of the 500mm f1:4 and the 600mm f1:8!) One of the 500mm has a matched 2X teleconverter (but I am not sure it is really any good, maybe it has been messed with in an earlier life).
None of them seem to give startling image quality and of course there is the issue of the donut boket but they are a way to get right "out there" with a lens that is still light enough to carry around.
Let me know... John
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-23-2012, 12:08 PM
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Yes, very nice indeed, I will have to take mine out today and see what I can capture, not there is very much in the way of birdlife here in Ashburton, sparrows and ducks mostly. Magpies are either at the top of tall trees or diving to attack and the very pretty little finches living in the trees next door are very shy.
John
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-17-2012, 12:38 PM
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Pete, I found the Tair lens a bit 'kack-handed' to hold and focus without the trigger mechanism and off course the stop down thing is a bit awkward too! It really is much easier with the trigger mechanism fitted, IMHO.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-14-2012, 12:29 PM
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IMGP1045 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr
This was taken using my first photo sniper rig, a *ist and Sigma F400 f1:5.6.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-14-2012, 11:52 AM
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Well yeah, I would think twice about using it in places like Afghanistan or the US but I have never had any problems around NZ. I have an even more gun-resembling rig that is on a wooden stock and that hasnt given me any problems either.
The FS stock is a bit short but if you really wanted to it would be easy enough to extend it a bit or wrap some padding around the butt end. Presumably either Russians are much smaller than us (unlikely) or they tend to be wearing padded jackets!
I have tried three of the photo sniper type rigs. The first one I bent up from aluminium strip and had a front handle that controlled the focus, the second one is on the wooden stock from a .22 rifle and the third is the genuine FotoSnaiper. They all have the same issue and that is focusing as all the long lenses I have are manual focus and the Pentax auto focus adapter is, I find, just a little less than useless.
Here is the one on a wooden stock Rig by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr
Photo not taken on a Pentax!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
10-14-2012, 02:25 AM
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All these pictures of the FotoSnaiper I thought I would show that It is really easy to convert your FS to Pentax and you dont even have to alter one or the other! IMGP0903 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr IMGP0904 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr IMGP0905 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr
Of course you need an M42 adapter for the lens!
The cable is just a single wire as the metal frame makes the return path for the shutter circuit. I used a mini stereo plug and connected the wire to the 'tip part of the plug to operate the shutter, if you want the 'half press' you would connect another wire to the 'ring' part of the plug but you would have to get a bit creative to add another contact to the FotoSnaiper (hmmmm... I will have to think about that!).
The round bit of wood (slice of a dowel) has a metalic contact which is contacted when the trigger is pulled, it is necessary to recess this a little so that the trigger makes almost full travel before closing the circuit as you cant really have a 'hair trigger' shutter release if you want to use the trigger to shut down the lens.
John
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
09-09-2012, 10:57 PM
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It is? I thought it was just to fill the relevant field in the exif data... anyway it does not seem to want to write anything in. Obviously I need to take another look at the book.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
09-09-2012, 08:47 PM
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I have a friend with a Ferrari and another who always drives Skodas (which is hardly suprising as he lives in Prague!). Frankly, if you offered me a choice of a new Ferrari or a new Skoda I would choose the Ferrari everytime, but only because I could sell it to buy a nice Skoda and go on holiday around the world, business class, with the change.:lol:
Now I have a few Sigma lenses myself and I found out today that one of them is not much good on my new K-5. It is a 1000mm f1:13.5 mirror lens which can be quite fun trying to catch wild life but the K-5 will not focus capture even in strong light..:( Also, the K-5 will not let me select 1000mm as a focal length for the file info.
It is a rather windy day here in sunny Ashburton or I would take my Sigma 500mm f1:4 and give it a try at focus capture.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
09-08-2012, 12:18 AM
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...this time from our front verandah when we lived at Owhiro Bay..
(This is a bit of an experiment as I am still finding my way around the forum)
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