Nice shot, John. Great spot for hime to land. I've been waiting for the weather here to warm up just slightly to get some bird activity going to shot with K10D. Today may be the day.
-Brendan --- John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings fellow PDMLer's, > I haven't posted in a while, but I have been reading > a few of the > posts every now and then. Just before Thanksgiving I > purchased a K > 500 f/4.5 from KEH to use for my bird photography. I > figured with all > the folks jumping on the K10D bandwagon that the > older pentax > lenses might get scarcer yet. And since I can't > afford the dream FA* > 600/4 yet that this may be the next best substitute. > I got a brief > chance last weekend to try it out and it is really > not bad at all > other than the manual focus required. But there is > no way effectively > to shoot with it hand held. I managed to get a > couple decent bird > shots, one of which was my first encounter with the > Golden Crowned > Kinglet. > By this time of the day the light was beginning to > dwindle so I felt > very fortunate to capture this little fellow: > http://ct.pbase.com/ > o6/87/63987/1/70993547.eNCzrQG2.GoldenCrownKinglet2.jpg > Taken with the *istDL. > > Thanks for looking and feedback if you are so > inclined, > JayT > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
