Managed to take my camera for a walk to the local park yesterday (31/12/2011 new year,s eve.) equipped with my 300mm OPTOMAX lens, which was from an ad on freecycle! so cost me just £7.00 for an adaptor from amazon. The morning started nice and bright, BUT not bright enough for such a long lens with subjects that wont stay still - aperture wide open shutter as slow as I dared and you guessed it crap photos, even using my venerable slik 88 tripod didn't help it was just to dull. I did manage a few reasonable shots later in the day when it cleared for about 20 Min's but the birds that I was after decided they had no option other than to hide in the bushes on the opposite bank well away from the strange man with a large black pointy thing stuck to his face standing behind a three legged stick!, well was I disheartened No!-- I just packed in, and went home.
Note. Anyone wanting to use old non auto lenses on a dslr adaptors are available to fit most of today's cameras i.e m42 or Pentax k - to Canon, Nikon, even the new Sony nex but your super doper fully auto camera becomes a dinosaur similar to the old zenith e - - FULLY MANUAL--.
that's all for now folks enjoy the pics - please leave comments (good or bad ) that's the way we learn
HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL ---- OLD GIT!
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| A pair of great crested grebe,s taken with my 300mm optomax lens |
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| A not so shy squirrel who is more interested in his lunch than running away from me |
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| Male pochard , a very shy fellow |
