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" <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> 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 <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> 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 > 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. -- 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.
