i am moving in the opposite direction (perhaps because i am rather youngish at 59?). i've just sold my k3ii + sigma 150-500 (combined, 2.7kg) and got myself a nikon d500 + nikkor 200-500/5.6 (3.2 kg). i hope i survive. in case i don't, i do have the k5iis and the HD 55-300 as a backup :)
~subash On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:45:47 +0100 Henk Terhell <henk.terh...@gmail.com> wrote: > (resent, cropped to < 10 kb) > My rather lightweight walk-around gear now (I'm 78 y) is just the > K-70 with the 55-300 PLM and that is OK for most of the animals I see. > No need to crawl in on the ground for flowers or mushrooms and I can > focus on anything from a meter distance.. > Though I'm not a keen bird photographer, here is an example of 3 > successive pics with this gear which I took yesterday of two greylag > geese flying pretty neat together. The pics are cropped of course and > reprocessed to one jpeg. > https://flic.kr/p/2n83PDT > > Henk -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.