As it happened, the Ringed dove recently posted, was 40-45 ft away. J Sent from my iPhone
> On May 20, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > I measured with the lens focus. it’s 45 feet to the feeders. I can get > closer, but then I’m off the deck. I sometimes shoot from about 30 feet. The > handheld stuff is from about 12 feet, sitting on a bench near the feeders. >> On May 20, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I stay about 30-35 ft from our feeders. How far were you. Paul? >> >> J >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 11:26:03 AM >> Subject: A K-1 Experiment >> >> Not exactly earth-shattering, but fun and pleasing. Given the ease of manual >> focus with the K-1 (thanks mainly to the focus-assist blinky, my eyes ain’t >> what they used to be), I wanted to try the 150-450 with the old A2X-S >> converter. The first pic is cropped to about 60% of frame, the second to >> about 40%. Both are ISO 3200, f11, 1/400th off the tripod of course. F11 is >> wide open with this rig, given the loss of stops with the converter. The >> camera reports it as 5.6, not recognizing the converter, but the exposure is >> accurate. I find the booked pleasing and don’t see any fringing. Will >> continue to play with this. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18235006&size=lg >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18235007&size=lg >> -- >> 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.

