Thanks Jack, I'll have to take the rig out again...and shoot like I mean it. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Handsome hawk, Bob! Would be difficult to miss that large limb from > shortening the focus even on "Spot" setting. > Dull lighting could, substantially, slow the shutter unless +ISO bumped. > Not that these were issues you weren't aware of. > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Sullivan" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:13:24 AM > Subject: Re: PESO: Hawk > > Dan, PJ, and Jeffery, > > Thanks for the comments. > I agree the 2nd one featuring the beak is better. > And I do like that old A300/4, even more without the 1.7x AF teleconverter. > (I'm waiting for the full frame Pentax and eyeing my old glass!) > I'd like the eye in better focus, but I'm holding an effective 510mm lens > out the car window and haven't turned the engine off. > > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 8:34 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Those are very nice captures. >> >> A lot of people seem to turn their noses up at the A*300mm f4.0 (and it's M >> doppelganger), the the only drawback I can find to that particular lens is >> it's admittedly long minimum focusing distance. >> >> It is after all 30 year old equipment, you might as well be using obsidian >> for your lens and hand coating silver nitrate on vellum. >> >> >> On 2/22/2015 9:20 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>> >>> Weather broke for a little bit, and he went out hunting. >>> So did we with the K-3, A300/4, and the old F1.7X auto focus tele >>> converter. The pair make a 510mm lens. (picked it up recently on >>> ebay) >>> >>> http://gallery.photo.net/photo/17972994-lg.jpg >>> >>> http://gallery.photo.net/photo/17972993-lg.jpg >>> >>> Comments appreciated. >>> >>> Regards, Bob S. >>> >> >> >> -- >> I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve >> immortality through not dying. >> -- Woody Allen >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
