On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Walt Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Took Mr. Larry's K100Ds out with the Tokina SZ-X 28-200 f/3.5-5.3 for a > couple of hours today -- and, man, do I like that combination! I managed to > finally get some butterfly images this year. > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157627847489506/ > > I tell you, that lens is the best $20 I've ever spent. It's not pretty, and > there's no snap whatsoever in the aperture. But, fortunately, it's a > functional A lens, and I just love the images it produces. > > Any thoughts, comments and/or critiques are most welcome. > > (Thanks again, Larry! I hope I don't "lose" your camera!)
These are beautiful. You certainly have lots of different species of butterflies in your area! We don't have so many, but this weekend had the stragglers of the monarch migration coming through, so I got a few monarchs. I wish we had the diversity that your area does. Yours are well captured!! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.

