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Forum: Pentax Film SLR Discussion
01-16-2021, 07:45 AM
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And manual light metering and exposure.
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Forum: General Talk
01-16-2021, 07:42 AM
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What do you do to "diffuse" [defuse] their flustration? :D
Seriously though, people get annoyed because spelling and grammatical errors impair comprehension of the text by potential readers.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-16-2021, 07:32 AM
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I would agree with Cattle Egret, which is a species present in the wild in Australia. Although it still has the orangish breeding plumes on its breast and head, it has lost the orange colour of its legs in high breeding condition.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
04-30-2020, 07:03 AM
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I remember reading some where on the forums that Pentax only made less than 15 copies of the A* 1200, hence the difficulty finding one for sale.
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Forum: General Photography
04-14-2020, 06:36 AM
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A hot, dry climate wouldn't encourage the growth of fungus. However, the humid tropics is a different matter. A friend from Sri Lanka kept his camera and lenses, when not in use, with a desiccant under a bell jar sealed with lanolin to prevent fungal growth on the lens coatings and corrosion in the camera.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-07-2020, 05:26 AM
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Based on plumage it's a Purple Finch. Range maps in authoritative field guides show that species is a year-round resident in your area. Cassin's Finch is rare there.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-20-2020, 05:06 AM
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The primaries on an Accipiter (Gos-, Cooper's, or Sharp-shinned hawk) only reach to the base of the tail when the wings are folded. In falcons (Peregrine, Merlin, Kestrel) they reach to the tip of the tail. On your local species of Buteo (Red-tail, Broad-winged, or Red-shouldered Hawks) the wing tips reach half-way down the tail. The pale bars on the are wider than the dark bars in Accipiter, unlike this bird, which has pale bars narrower than dark bars. This indicates a Merlin or Peregrine. Also, note the dark vertical bar extending downward from the anterior end of the eye. This indicates a falcon. The slate blue-grey back indicates it is an adult, but the dark brown streaking on the chest and belly exclude Accipiter (which would have rusty bars). That leaves male Merlin. Lest you think that telling those species apart is a labourious task, with practice one can do it in less time than it takes to read the first few words of this paragraph.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-18-2020, 06:31 AM
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Forum: General Photography
03-13-2020, 05:59 AM
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Viviparous?
A flash that reproduces by giving birth to live offspring? "Viviparous: Producing live offspring from within the body of the parent; zoogonous" (from A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Cambridge Univ. Press) (Damn you auto-correct!) :lol:
You could use it as breeding stock, sell the offspring and turn a profit in no time! However, it doesn't mention whether the flash is female or male.
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It's set up for taking selfies. :lol:
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-11-2020, 08:52 AM
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I remember reading that too, and thinking it was odd. I can't remember where I read it, though.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
03-03-2020, 01:19 PM
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Back in the days of film a photography student in Toronto used water from the city's inner harbour without any developer at all for developing prints and managed to develop images. Mind you, the paper had to sit in the developer a couple of days to develop an image, but it illustrates the principle that water chemistry has effects on developing film or prints, and it's not just the minerals in the water. There are PCBs, PDBMEs, dioxins, pesticides, chemicals used in manufacturing, and god knows what else in the water depending on where you live.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
03-03-2020, 12:58 PM
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Renting equipment is fine if you live in a country where Pentax equipment is available for rent. In Canada it's Canon, Nikon, or nothing.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-26-2020, 06:30 AM
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"The Great Patriotic War". Who has to play the bad guys?
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Forum: Repairs and Warranty Service
02-04-2020, 06:46 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-03-2020, 07:45 AM
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Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus.
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Forum: General Photography
02-03-2020, 07:30 AM
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I can only guess at the tens of thousands of dollars that the transportation must have cost to get there and back.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-30-2020, 08:01 AM
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Wood warbler is a vernacular name for the New World warbler family (Parulidae) as distinct from the somewhat unrelated original (Old World) warblers (now split into various families including: Sylviidae, Phylloscopidae, and Acrocephalidae).
Species and subspecies occur outside their ranges, albeit uncommonly, as vagrants via weather systems or faulty navigation. Hard-core birders live to find vagrants. Western Orange-crowned Warblers occasionally occur in the east. Field guides that cover western or all of North America illustrate the western subspecies. Sibley's eastern and western guides don't cover all the vagrants, perhaps more as away of selling additional books than making the books more compact. Another possibility for your bird is a female Yellow Warbler. I wish we could see more of the bird for other field marks because it's hard to tell whether the apparent dark line through the eye and broken eye ring is real (Orange-crowned) or exaggerated by lighting conditions (Yellow). Vireos have thicker bills with hooked tips. Yellow-throated Vireo also has a sharply demarcated white belly, whereas the bird in your photo has a yellow belly. The yellow "spectacles" on Yellow-throated Vireo contrast strongly with an olive-coloured crown and the dark eye-stripe doesn't extend posterior to the eye. Yellow-throated Vireoalso has a grey back and dark-grey wings with white wing bars (white on the tips of the greater and median upperwing wing coverts.
Yes, I'd be happy to give advice on Newfoundland.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-27-2020, 08:40 AM
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This is a wood warbler, probably the western subspecies of Orange-crowned Warbler.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-05-2019, 08:46 AM
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Do you mean Sternula albifrons (little tern) or a small tern? It looks an awful lot like a Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus).
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Forum: Pentax K-1
11-05-2019, 07:41 AM
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Forum: Pentax Film SLR Discussion
10-27-2019, 08:25 AM
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I've never seen the SV/H3v in person and I can't tell from the photos in the reviews section of PentaxForums, so I'm intrigued. It doesn't have the lever on the front of the body like later models.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
10-27-2019, 08:21 AM
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US Camera replied to my query after a few days. They pointed out that the cheapest shipping is not US$ 29.25, but rather US$ 14.95. They still didn't offer me any type of shipping cheaper than registered mail.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-24-2019, 06:01 AM
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Looks a bit like a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, but we can't see enough of the bird.
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