- agreed, the lens gets out of the way when shooting eagles on a nearby treetop as opposed to mountains 10km away - I hand-hold the lens. Which got a lot easier with the K-5 because I don’t mind shooting at ISO3200 so I can have a fast shutter speed even when it’s not very bright. Except for when you’re sitting there aimed, waiting for the eagle to fly away, your arms get tired fast. - “trashy”
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:33 AM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nice, the results seem to be consistent with those from my considerably > more beat up Vivitar TX mount 400mm f5.6. Since the cosmetics are > identical, except for the addition of a TX mount ring, I expect that they > are identical optical formulas late 70's early 80's Tokina products. > > The results are much better, maybe better isn't the best word, lets say, > sharper and with higher contrast, (though the contrast may be the result of > atmospheric effects), on closer subjects, as if it were optimized for focus > distances of about 100-200 yards as opposed to infinity. > > I read your description and thought I'd mention that there doesn't seem > to have been a dedicated tripod mount for this particular lens. I don't > know if was because it was thought to be small and light enough to be used > primarily hand held or if for the same reason it was thought that > photographers could simply hang it off the end of a camera mounted on a > tripod. When I got mine it came with a third party, (third, third party? > fourth party? whatever), tripod ring that didn't really fit the lens, the > previous owner had built up the lens barrel between the focus ring and > aperture ring with some kind of shiny metal tape. It interfered with the > aperture ring, I removed it a while ago and haven't missed it. the lens > doesn't weight any more than a Pentax A* 300 f4.0 and I just use the camera > tripod socket with either on my crappy travel tripod, (I've got to find a > word that begins with t that has the same relative meaning as "crappy" to > complete the alliteration). > > > >> “vintage-telephoto grainy dreaminess”: http://goo.gl/2wQbp >> > > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to > avoid a lengthily search. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
