Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gave the A* 400 f2.8 and 1.7x AF adapter a whirl one day last week,
shooting at the birds around my feeders. For random pot shots at birds, not
even trying to get close, I'm very impressed with the image quality. Can't
wait to do some serious birding
Lenses on *ist D
I gave the A* 400 f2.8 and 1.7x AF adapter a whirl one day last week,
shooting at the birds around my feeders. For random pot shots at birds,
not
even trying to get close, I'm very impressed with the image quality. Can't
wait to do some serious birding with it.
Some sample from
The bokeh can actually be weird, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Hard light
and lots of hard edges in the background usually make for a terrble bokeh
with that lens combo - thought he 2x makes for even a worse one. But you
can get a nice painterly effect going with it as well.
- MCC
At 12:56
At 08:52 AM 12/11/2003 -0500, Mark Roberts wrote:
What ISO setting?
I tried getting some hummingbirds last summer and found it maddening
because I only had ISO 100 film on hand. It would have been nice to just
instantly switch to ISO 800.
Those were all shot at ISO 200, with the AF360FGZ at -1.5
On 10/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
So where is middle earth?
Wellington, affectionately known as Wellywood. Peter Jackson's home
town. Capital of New Zealand. Home of the Embassy Theatre which is
where I'm going to see a certain movie early next year. We've reserved
the best seats
On 10/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
So where is middle earth?
Wellington, affectionately known as Wellywood. Peter Jackson's home
town. Capital of New Zealand. Home of the Embassy Theatre which is
where I'm going to see a certain movie early next year. We've reserved
the best seats
I guess it would have to be my Tele-Takumar 300/6.3... I have a shot of it
on my MZ-S from a couple of years ago...
Cesar
Panama City, Florida
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-- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:58 PM
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-- Okay, here's a poser for you
Doug,
You just cannot let her go can you?
Did you invite her?
Cesar
Panama City, Florida
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-- From: Doug Brewer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:10 PM
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-- At 03:44 PM 12/8/03, throwing caution to the wind, Mark
-- Roberts wrote:
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I gave the A* 400 f2.8 and 1.7x AF adapter a whirl one day last week,
shooting at the birds around my feeders. For random pot shots at birds, not
even trying to get close, I'm very impressed with the image quality. Can't
wait to do some serious birding with it.
Some sample from the half hour I
I only have the A* 200 F4. I shot a leaf footed bug on a house plant a few
weeks ago using my standard macro setup, and the results looked very
promising. But I just found that bug between the window panes - won't have
a chance to do any others for at least another 4 months, unless I can find
Wow!
Paul
From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mad Lenses on *ist D
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:01:05 -0500
I gave the A* 400 f2.8 and 1.7x AF adapter a whirl one day last week,
shooting at the birds around my feeders. For random pot
Wow! Your bird shots are amazing. You must have those puppies trained
vbg. I can't get them to sit still anywhere except right on the
feeder. Perhaps I'm just too slow. Great work. Keep shooting them.
Paul
On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 10:01 PM, Mark Cassino wrote:
I gave the A* 400 f2.8
I gave the A* 400 f2.8 and 1.7x AF adapter a whirl one day last week,
I continue to be amazed by just how well the 1.7x adapter performs,
especially with the longer telephoto lenses.
On 10 Dec 2003 at 22:31, John Francis wrote:
I gave the A* 400 f2.8 and 1.7x AF adapter a whirl one day last week,
I continue to be amazed by just how well the 1.7x adapter performs,
especially with the longer telephoto lenses.
Mark, I look forward to your shots come Spring.
What I
At 10:17 PM 12/10/2003 -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Wow! Your bird shots are amazing. You must have those puppies trained
vbg. I can't get them to sit still anywhere except right on the feeder.
Perhaps I'm just too slow. Great work. Keep shooting them.
Thanks, Paul - they are not quite trained,
At 02:45 PM 12/11/2003 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote:
What I like about the 1.7x AF on the long lenses is that the AF focus range
becomes constrained, seems to make AF a lot more fast and precise.
It really just provides the final snap to the focus, which I have to say I
need these days. I only
On 10 Dec 2003 at 23:46, Mark Cassino wrote:
I only wish the AF 1.7x worked with all of the AF sensors, and not
just the middle one.
Really? Being an infrequent AF user I wasn't aware of this fact, is that on the
*ist D body or all AF bodies?
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel
Dave,
So where is middle earth?
Bruce
Monday, December 8, 2003, 10:48:31 PM, you wrote:
DM Cotty wrote:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
DM Ummm, I haven't. ;)
DM If I had one, I'd be very keen to use the 15mm. Then the
David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cotty wrote:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Ummm, I haven't. ;)
If I had one, I'd be very keen to use the 15mm.
Ah yes, I tried the *ist_D with my K15/3.5 at GFM in August. Nice combo!
Half way between Upper Earth and Lower Earth which, apparently, is New
Zealand.
Regards,
Bob...
--
Veritas vos Liberabit
From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So where is middle earth?
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Gotta be the A*135mm f/1.8 ? Anyone tried that?
Anyone using the brilliant A*85mm f/1.4?
Anyone tried the 600 f/4?
Anyone mad as a hatter out there?
Cheers,
Cotty
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At 02:57 PM 12/8/03, throwing caution to the wind, Cotty wrote:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Gotta be the A*135mm f/1.8 ? Anyone tried that?
Anyone using the brilliant A*85mm f/1.4?
Anyone tried the 600 f/4?
Anyone mad as a
I tried it with the A* 85 last week. It worked, and focussing was
easy. I´ll let you know, I´ll order it when the 16-45 comes.
They had the A* 135 there, but I didn´t dare to try. It could become a
habit
DagT
På 8. des. 2003 kl. 20.57 skrev Cotty:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D
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Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Mad Lenses on *ist D
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Gotta be the A*135mm f/1.8 ? Anyone tried that?
Anyone using the brilliant A*85mm f/1.4?
Anyone tried the 600 f/4
Doug Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 02:57 PM 12/8/03, throwing caution to the wind, Cotty wrote:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Gotta be the A*135mm f/1.8 ? Anyone tried that?
Anyone using the brilliant A*85mm f/1.4?
At 03:44 PM 12/8/03, throwing caution to the wind, Mark Roberts wrote:
At GFM, we'll be running the istd on a Tak 1000/8...
It's a portrait lens for shy people.
Last time Bill Fortney was at GFM, I pitched a new book idea to him--
Portraits From 500 Feet-- but he didn't bite.
There's always
On 8/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Gotta be the A*135mm f/1.8 ? Anyone tried that?
Anyone using the brilliant A*85mm f/1.4?
Anyone tried the 600 f/4?
Anyone mad as a hatter out there?
At
On 8/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
At GFM, we'll be running the istd on a Tak 1000/8...
It's a portrait lens for shy people.
Hang on - that's an effective focal length of 1500mm !
I know you can just about make out the high-rises of Charlotte from GFM.
You wanna check out the shirt size
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Well, I've got a 250-600 I'm going to use on it at some point.
I might even try it with the 2X-L, although I suspect that my
tripod will be the weakest link in the chain by that time.
I want to know if anyone has compared the A*200/4 Macro and
the FA*200/4 Macro lenses on the *ist D, that's madderer :-)
It turns out the A2X-L teleconverter fits and works well with the A*200/4
Macro. Add that to the cropping factor inherent in the *ist D and you have
a mad-macro combination!
I know a couple of us have tried the FA* 80-200/2.8. And 500mm mirror
lenses. I've used the FA 300/4.5, the A* 100 Macro, various Limited lenses,
a K 55/1.8 ... That latter is probably the maddest; one of the oldest SMC on
the newest body!
stan
on 12/08/03 1:57 PM, Cotty at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I shot the moon last night with the lens pictured
here: http://24.242.213.162/blackbox/python/500.jpg
hooked to my *ist-D via a adapter that converted it to M42, which had a
Pentax M42 to K mount adapter on it,
with was attached to a Tamron 2x teleconverter. Mad enough?
I know a couple of us have tried the FA* 80-200/2.8. And 500mm mirror
lenses. I've used the FA 300/4.5, the A* 100 Macro, various Limited lenses,
a K 55/1.8 ... That latter is probably the maddest; one of the oldest SMC on
the newest body!
I wouldn't call any of those earlier lenses
Cotty wrote:
Okay, here's a poser for you *ist D users. What's the maddest lens you've
had on your Pentax DSLR?
Ummm, I haven't. ;)
If I had one, I'd be very keen to use the 15mm. Then the 200mm f/2.8 (I
still remember using your 300mm f/2.8 on my K2).
Then the 100mm f/2.8 Macro. A
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