That really is pushing the limits, but still a very cool photo.
> On Jun 19, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > Just for interest, a heavily cropped shot of a Saddlebilled Stork with > Impalas on the W bank of Sable Dam, Kruger Park, about 300m distant. Adult > Saddlebilled Storks are about 1.5m tall with a wingspan of 2.5m. This is > probably a bit beyond the useful limit of a Sigma 170-500 DG on a K5. A D-FA > 150-450 with a 1.4x TC (630mm) or an FA 600 would do better but such beasts > are way beyond my budget. I think that there are supposed to be some relatively inexpensive 1000mm manual focus reflector lenses. I wonder if enough of your photography is such that you could set one of those up on a tripod. It looks like that in a lot of your photos the animals aren’t moving around all that much, even if they are at a great distance. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/51258634663/ > > 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. > -- 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.
