Thanks frank! Needless to say, I'm delighted with this lens. It's doing 'just the right thing' so far. Made a few more photos with it today and it just freekin' sings.
Something about how a good, fast normal lens is really all you should need ... ! G On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Lovely! > > And my goodness isn't that the butteriest bokeh? Nicest I've seen in a long > time. > > Nicely composed, too. Overall a real winner! > > cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > Sent: March 22, 2012 3/22/12 > To: "PAW Picture-A-Week project" <[email protected]>, SeePhoto Talk > <[email protected]>, BAPhotoShooters BAPA > <[email protected]>, PDML List <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO 2012 - 043 - GDG > > Managed to get out for a little shooting this evening in Japan Town. I > stopped at Roy's Station and had my cuppa espresso. There were three young > women at the table near me chatting with this gal and her Sulphur Crested > Cockatoo. As I went to go for a walk, she spied my camera and exclaimed, > "Ooh, an M9! I just got myself an M8!" so I stopped and we talked for a bit. > Her name is Tomiko, she's a regular in the Japan Town neighborhood (I've seen > her before). > > The cockatoo is Wendy, she is a Rescue bird. She's about sixteen years old > and was maltreated for a long time. A local vet nursed her back to health but > couldn't keep her. Tomiko has experience with a few Rescue birds (she has > four at present) so she took Wendy in. Wendy's still a little skittish but > her health and her disposition are coming around. > > Of course, I asked to take a picture and Tomiko was obliging: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/7005060071/lightbox/ > or > http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/7005060071/ > > That was the third exposure ... Wendy wasn't. She kept turning her head at > the moment I released the shutter. You can see she's turned her head away > from Tomiko and out of the plane of best focus. Oh well. I like the photo > anyway. :-) > > Great time out on this one. This new lens (a Nokton 50mm f/1.5) is truly > terrific. It needs a focusing tab, I'll fit one soon. > > enjoy > Godfrey > - > flickr.com stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/ > > -- > 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. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
