I generally rely on the K5's high ISO capability for many situations, but high ISO doesn't help much in extreme backlit situations, which are common when shooting birds against the sky. My Xtender looks like the Better Beamer version, but I believe it was marketed by Kalt. I've had ti for ten years or more. It gives one reach up to 100 feet or so, even outdoors, with the AF 540 in high speed synch mode. A real plus for bird shooting. Paul On Dec 10, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Kevin Thornsberry wrote:
> Since getting my K-5, my 540 hasn't been out of the camera bag. The higher > iso performance generally has me covered. > > Still, I'm intrigued about the Xtender you used for fill flash in wildlife > photograghy. Is this the Better Beamer Xtender and if so are you using the > FX-5 which is advertised for the 500FTZ? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul > Stenquist > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:21 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: A couple of A 400/5.6 birdies > > Grace and I went to the Johnson nature center today. I shot a few birds > while she fed apples to the deer. Cold, but fun. I used the A 400/5.6 with > the 540 flash and Xtender. The 400 always leaves a bit of fringing in the > background branches. Could clean it up in PS, but I didn't bother this time. > Maybe later. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14780264&size=lg (a little pecker) > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14780263&size=lg (a chickadee I > lielieve. This one's a hair soft, but I like the composition.) > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14780352&size=lg (Don't know what > this guy might be. And I haven't looked in my book.) > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14780353&size=lg (Another one > unknown to me. Some kind of sparrow or just an itty-bitty chickadee?) > > Paul > -- > 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. -- 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.
