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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1971 |
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Nikon orange stripe 8/500 Yeah, I know, more birds
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Fred_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 12 January 2017 Country: Netherlands Location: Noord Holland Status: Offline Posts: 12482 |
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Fred_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 12 January 2017 Country: Netherlands Location: Noord Holland Status: Offline Posts: 12482 |
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I don't mind Mike |
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Basil ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 03 December 2009 Country: United States Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Posts: 2718 |
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Birds are good! |
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To see is to enjoy. To see beyond is to rejoice.
A77Mark II; A6600; A99; various film bodies and an ever-changing collection of lenses |
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Howard_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 March 2008 Country: United Kingdom Location: Oxford Status: Offline Posts: 4715 |
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I'm wowed with what you have achieved with the Vectis and the BIFs ... the manual focus mechanism seems
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1971 |
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Thank you, Howard. Please keep in mind that there are several failed attempts for every successful one. But it is like in the old days when capturing a BIF seemed like an accomplishment. The Vectis focus-by-wire is certainly a different experience but once you get used to it, it isn't bad at all. Also, the birds, mostly pelicans, fly up and down the creek and are somewhat predictable how far out they will be, so the focus can be set to a ball park distance ahead of time and adjusted quickly while tracking the bird. The rest is luck. |
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Howard_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 March 2008 Country: United Kingdom Location: Oxford Status: Offline Posts: 4715 |
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Yes, my train of thought ran out there, but you rescued and responded to it well, thanks. Part of the wow comes from the exotic (to me) nature of the pelicans. The tern or gull in the last photo is well caught and not beyond reach here in landlocked Oxford. I must get myself to a good expanse of water on a sunnier day. |
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angora ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 March 2014 Country: Netherlands Status: Offline Posts: 4870 |
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love these shots! and subjects. need donuts?!
![]() so tempted, but since Vectris / APS-C + A-mount do not match, I saved E 10. ![]() |
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1971 |
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It would be nice to have you here, Ine, and see what your artistic eye can do. Hopefully, that R 10 has grown to 11 by now so you can afford a better lens. Great care needs to be exercised when choosing a mirror lens; there's a lot of crap out there. Better not to buy on price but with patience, good lenses at good prices can be found. Wait, certainly that E 10 lens wasn't the Vectis 400! ? |
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1971 |
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I love the pelicans. Shem Creek is a nice inlet where the shrimp boats dock. The birds of many types love the shrimp boats and give them an escort back to dock. The shrimpers sort their catch and discard the unwanted sealife off the back of the boat to waiting pelicans, seagulls, and dolphins. I grew up in the north where there were very ordinary, small birds. Frogs and turtles, but no alligators or large birds or rookeries. All the wildlife in the Charleston area was exciting to me when we moved here. I'm not a birder, but find them much more enjoyable to photograph than flowers and less trouble than people. The rookery heated up early this year, so I have already missed some of the nest building. I hope to get back to the swamp this weekend and capture some mating behavior. Maybe some flowers too. There will be photographers there with bazooka-like lenses and I'll be the one with the funny lens. |
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Howard_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 March 2008 Country: United Kingdom Location: Oxford Status: Offline Posts: 4715 |
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![]() Canada Goose | Vectis 400 F8 Baby steps. This bird wasn't flying, and while I haven't absolutely got focus in the right spot, it does capture most of the bird well. The light on the water appeals to me too. I did try to catch a swan taking off but really failed. I won't embarass myself with the result here, but the next time I go out I'll take more time with me too. |
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1971 |
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Nice job with it, Howard. It looks sharp to me. The Vectis is a tad more forgiving than some other mirrors. With some, you're either in perfect focus or it's a throwaway. I think the rules of DoF are different with mirrors. Is this your first submission from the Vectis or did I not notice? |
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angora ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 March 2014 Country: Netherlands Status: Offline Posts: 4870 |
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hi Mike! good to 'see' you! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() over the moon to find a Minolta mirror lens, not very big or very impressive? disappointed to find -if I recall correctly- it was a VECTRIS 500/8. not familiar with the Vectris system, just enough to know it was not a match. and since I'm proud to be in control of my addictions, i.e. G.A.S. ![]() that was stupid, wasn't it? ![]() never expected those Vectrises to be that good! |
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Snegren ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 November 2011 Country: Netherlands Location: Zuid Holland Status: Offline Posts: 6048 |
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Hi Ine, the Vectis 400/8 Mirror (I have one) is totally useless unless you have a suitable adapter (I don't have one) as the lens focusses electronically. There may be a re-issue of an adaptor, nothing confirmed, so I recommend not to go there. The Minolta SR mount Mirror lenses are possibly more useful on FE-mount cameras as they are not designed to focus to infinity on A-mount cameras.
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