Re: OT; I'm Tired
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 08:19:28PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > Many of the older Canon/Nikon shooters in the nature photography group I'm > involved with have switched to Four Thirds (micro four thirds?) mirrorless > systems. > > A 150-400 lens in that system apparently has an 35mm equivalent of 300-800mm > ... and costs slightly less than Canon/Nikon big glass. If you're shopping with an unlimited budget, Olympus have recently come out with a 150-400/f4.5 (with a built-in 1.25x teleconverter) for a mere $7500... (It's also compatible with the Olympus 2x teleconverter, for extreme zoom; using both the built-in and the 2x TCx gives you up to 1000 mm actual focal length - a FOV equivalent to a 2000mm lens on a 35mm body). If you're a little more cost-conscious, you might consider a 100-400 There are a couple of options there - both Panasonic and Olympus have one (although the Olympus one is reportedly a re-badged Sigma). The panasonic gets several good reports, and comes in at around $1800. I've currently only got the Olympus 40-150/2.8 If I get the 2x teleconverter that will give me an 80-300/f5.6, which is comparable to what my FA* 250-600 got me back when I was shooting film. If I want anything more than this the first thing I'd look at is the 300mm/f4 -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO x2: A couple more landscapes
Both very lovely ann On 3/12/2022 4:47 AM, David Mann wrote: I've been going through some more 6x7 scans... Milford Sound at Dusk: http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1056/#peso A River in Fiordland: http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1163/#peso (The equipment specified for this one is a guess) Cheers, Dave -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- ann sanfedele photography https://annsan.smugmug.com https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT; I'm Tired
FWIW, when a used Pentax FA-600/4 showed up at KEH, it only cost me slightly more than I paid for my Jeep, and thanks to the Covid stimulus checks I was able to pay it off in 2 years (instead of 3 like I expected). On 3/11/2022 11:41 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: The Sony RX10 IV is listed as 2.41 lbs. A Pentax K1 DSLR body is 1.5 lbs, and a Pentax 600mm lens for it is 22lbs, never mind that the weight of your wallet is lightened by about $13,000 to acquire them. Unless you carry that sum in silver dollars, they don't balance out. ;) I'm not a wildlife shooter, thankfully. My Leica CL with a typical lens on it (21 to 50 mm on APS-C format covers medium wide to medium tele, and all are similar size) weighs in at about 1.6 lbs ready to go. Same for a Polaroid SX-70, or any of my typical 35mm film cameras... G On Mar 11, 2022, at 8:22 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I think I read that it’s half the weight of a Sony APS-C DSLR with a medium zoom. Paul On Mar 11, 2022, at 10:38 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: I cant even lift my K-5 with the short lens on it. NOt that I could ever get this . but I'm curious how much it weighs.. couldnt find where it told us that on the link ann On 3/11/2022 9:41 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Several of our camera club members, older like ourselves, have gone with similar set up but Panosonic's, images are good Dave On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:07 AM Paul Stenquist wrote: I never thought I’d say it, but at 74, I’m worn out. I don’t know how much longer I can keep carrying big glass and a full frame camera on a walk through the woods. Yes, my k-3 is lighter, but it’s still a lot of camera with a lens that’s long enough to shoot wildlife. Here’s the camera I want: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=sony%20rx10=0=yes=ma -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT; I'm Tired
Many of the older Canon/Nikon shooters in the nature photography group I'm involved with have switched to Four Thirds (micro four thirds?) mirrorless systems. A 150-400 lens in that system apparently has an 35mm equivalent of 300-800mm ... and costs slightly less than Canon/Nikon big glass. Others (younger, more fit?) have been switching to Canon's full-frame (?) mirrorless system. I don't think Canon has yet come out with big glass for the EOS R or RF, but one OLD guy I know (our age) is using the EF 800mm f/5.6 on an R body using an adapter. On 3/11/2022 9:07 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I never thought I’d say it, but at 74, I’m worn out. I don’t know how much longer I can keep carrying big glass and a full frame camera on a walk through the woods. Yes, my k-3 is lighter, but it’s still a lot of camera with a lens that’s long enough to shoot wildlife. Here’s the camera I want: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=sony%20rx10=0=yes=ma -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Like a turd in an elevator
I’m only 30 seconds in to the video and he describes Tony Northrup's video on ISO like a turd in an elevator, it’s wrong on so many levels. If it continues like this, it’ll be gold! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRsWomRzVQ It sounds like Tony Northrup is today’s Kennyboy. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Tree In Corn Stubble Field
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 5:25 PM ann sanfedele wrote: > Lovely shot , Mark -- it looks like an etching or fine serograph.. > > THe original post didn't come into my mailbox .. btw - > Tree to big to fit in.:-) Dave > > ann > > On 3/11/2022 2:22 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 11.03.22 um 18:27 schrieb Mark C: > >> I spent some time last Monday tooling around the countryside during a > >> light snow, looking for some wintry shots. One of the better ones: > >> > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcassino/51930956109/in/dateposted/ > >> > >> Taken with an Mz-S, Tamron 28-75 f2.8, and Untrafine Extreme 400 film. > > > > Nothing like a beautiful witer scene in B/W. > > > > Thanks for showing. > > > > Ralf > > > > -- > > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT; I'm Tired
Eish! Alan C On 12-Mar-22 03:14 PM, Subash Jeyan wrote: i am moving in the opposite direction (perhaps because i am rather youngish at 59?). i've just sold my k3ii + sigma 150-500 (combined, 2.7kg) and got myself a nikon d500 + nikkor 200-500/5.6 (3.2 kg). i hope i survive. in case i don't, i do have the k5iis and the HD 55-300 as a backup :) ~subash On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:45:47 +0100 Henk Terhell wrote: (resent, cropped to < 10 kb) My rather lightweight walk-around gear now (I'm 78 y) is just the K-70 with the 55-300 PLM and that is OK for most of the animals I see. No need to crawl in on the ground for flowers or mushrooms and I can focus on anything from a meter distance.. Though I'm not a keen bird photographer, here is an example of 3 successive pics with this gear which I took yesterday of two greylag geese flying pretty neat together. The pics are cropped of course and reprocessed to one jpeg. https://flic.kr/p/2n83PDT Henk -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT; I'm Tired
i am moving in the opposite direction (perhaps because i am rather youngish at 59?). i've just sold my k3ii + sigma 150-500 (combined, 2.7kg) and got myself a nikon d500 + nikkor 200-500/5.6 (3.2 kg). i hope i survive. in case i don't, i do have the k5iis and the HD 55-300 as a backup :) ~subash On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:45:47 +0100 Henk Terhell wrote: > (resent, cropped to < 10 kb) > My rather lightweight walk-around gear now (I'm 78 y) is just the > K-70 with the 55-300 PLM and that is OK for most of the animals I see. > No need to crawl in on the ground for flowers or mushrooms and I can > focus on anything from a meter distance.. > Though I'm not a keen bird photographer, here is an example of 3 > successive pics with this gear which I took yesterday of two greylag > geese flying pretty neat together. The pics are cropped of course and > reprocessed to one jpeg. > https://flic.kr/p/2n83PDT > > Henk -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT; I'm Tired
Henk, I agree (also 78) but in my case a K5 & HD 55-300. BTW, great images. The K5 doesn't do that well. Alan C On 12-Mar-22 01:45 PM, Henk Terhell wrote: (resent, cropped to < 10 kb) My rather lightweight walk-around gear now (I'm 78 y) is just the K-70 with the 55-300 PLM and that is OK for most of the animals I see. No need to crawl in on the ground for flowers or mushrooms and I can focus on anything from a meter distance.. Though I'm not a keen bird photographer, here is an example of 3 successive pics with this gear which I took yesterday of two greylag geese flying pretty neat together. The pics are cropped of course and reprocessed to one jpeg. https://flic.kr/p/2n83PDT Henk -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: The vagaries of rainfall
Increase: Having to cut the grass more often & a weed population explosion! Generally the bush is getting denser. Mopane trees, in scrub form, are slowly taking over grasslands in Kruger - good for the prey, difficult for the predators & game-viewers. Occasional wildfires are a natural form of control. Statistics indicate that malaria may be on the march again - the vaccine has arrived just in time! Essentially, South Africa is a water deficient country so from a human perspective with an increasing population it should be beneficial in the long term. Decrease: great hardship all round. Alan C On 12-Mar-22 11:43 AM, mike wilson wrote: What are the long term implications of an increase/decrease in the average? You are in savannah country, I think? On 12 March 2022 at 05:46 Alan C wrote: The 65 year average seasonal rainfall for Phalaborwa is 540mm. Higher global temperatures allows the air to hold more water vapour and therefore the rainfall would be expected to increase. We had 730mm in 2019/20 & 947mm in 2020/21. This season seemed to be following the same trend with 627mm already recorded by the end of Jan. Now, Feb. is usually our wettest month & March quite wet too so it looked like we were heading for over 800mm again. Mother Nature obviously had other ideas. Only 14mm in Feb. & 2mm in March so far. Unseasonably hot & unpleasant too - mid 30's (C) virtually every day. The rainfall in the latter part of the season mostly emanates from cyclonic activity in the Mozambique channel between Madagascar & the continent. The people of Madagascar have already been battered by several but only only one had made landfall in Africa & then in the north of Mozambique & Mrralawi. This year all the others peeled of and went back into the Atlantic - what a waste - the ocean is full enough already! Perhaps we will still make 700mm? Alan C -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT; I'm Tired
(resent, cropped to < 10 kb) My rather lightweight walk-around gear now (I'm 78 y) is just the K-70 with the 55-300 PLM and that is OK for most of the animals I see. No need to crawl in on the ground for flowers or mushrooms and I can focus on anything from a meter distance.. Though I'm not a keen bird photographer, here is an example of 3 successive pics with this gear which I took yesterday of two greylag geese flying pretty neat together. The pics are cropped of course and reprocessed to one jpeg. https://flic.kr/p/2n83PDT Henk > >> -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO x2: A couple more landscapes
I've been going through some more 6x7 scans... Milford Sound at Dusk: http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1056/#peso A River in Fiordland: http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1163/#peso (The equipment specified for this one is a guess) Cheers, Dave -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
