Thanks everyone, frank: the birds were chained to a sitting pole. I only had to sit on the ground, wait and shoot. The 55-300 isn,t perfect the corners are not the best at any aperture and you really need to set the camera to MTF program line. Wide open the 55-300 is nothing special at the mtf apertures it's amazingly good. Combined with high iso and good SR it's a steal for the money.
About hot pixels. Yes lightroom removes them but not all from long exposures. I disabled long exposure noise reduction which results in a second exposure with the shutter closed. Toine On Monday, 11 July 2011, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 10, 2011, at 14:54, Toine wrote: > >> I finally got myself a K5. The first one had some serious dust inside >> the sensor (one black spot, different from the dust chain seen in >> first batches). My local pusher promply swapped the cam and made me >> happy. What a beast the K5. A few captures from last week: >> >> Stars: >> http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/#id=album-126&num=content-4602 >> >> Moonlight >> http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/#id=album-126&num=content-4605 >> >> DA12 24 30s without in camera noise reduction. The second has some hot >> pixels. I need to figure out how to substract a dark frame manually >> > > If you process RAW files with Adobe Lightroom or their ACR software (like, if > you use Photoshop) those hot pixels get removed automatically. How's that > for incentive? > > Beautiful shots. I like the first one the best. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
