Thanks Ken. The fine focus adjustment of my 60-250 is dead nuts, and it seems to be the same with the converter attached. I’m going to test, but informal tests suggest it’s right there. Here, the bird is in focus:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17722413 The branch in the ULH corner is not: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17722414 I do wish I had gone to ISO 800 when I got some better light. Next time. Paul On Mar 30, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice pose and great specimen. > > The bird seems slightly OOF given that the branch to the ULH corner seems > more in focus. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - Sparrow > > > A house sparrow at the Johnson Nature Center in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. K-3, > DA* 60-250, 1.4X converter, f7.1, 1/5000th, ISO 1600, 350mm combined focal > length. Cropped to about 50% of frame. I had been shooting in some dark > trees, thus the high ISO. Very pleased with the converter performance. Shot > quite a few pics. The vast majority were sharp. Didn’t get a lot of good > looks, but that was more the fault of me and the birds. You can go back into > this folder to see a few others if you wish. Crops vary from about 30% of > frame to about 50%. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17722136&size=lg > > 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.
