A100 + Minolta lens' Still a Conteneder

I've been using the A100 for a year now and continue to be impressed. I went on a nature hike this morning and saw a vast range of animals (for Oklahoma). As always C&C welcomed.
I was surprised by the IQ on these.





Haven't identified this woodpecker yet, I think it is a Red Headed something.





I found the woodpecker because I was trying to track the beaver that did this to the tree. They are not common in my area and I was surprised to see the tree like this with fresh scat or poop around it.



Then to my amazement I found a porky pine by a tree and began to sneak in for better angles... after slowly doing this and getting some good shots, I found out it was dead. But, the effort was there lol and the pictures look like it is just lounging.





Then I saw something funny going on behind me. Love was in the air.





The nature walk was winding down, but not before I had some pretty ladies model for me.









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"We can do no great things, only small things with great love" Mother Theresa

Nice shots..
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Bill
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Thank you!

EvilOne said:

Nice shots..
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"We can do no great things, only small things with great love" Mother Theresa

A nice series. Wasn't there a song that had a line, "Why don't we do it in a tree?" Now I know where that came from
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Shawn

That was an action packed morning.

Nice variety of shots!

You certainly have a better winter down in Oklahoma than we have up North!

Keep on shooting. It makes me think of Spring.

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Rick

What a great (and lucky) walk! The bird is a red-bellied woodpecker.
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Karen Brittan, Minnesota, USA



'The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep
coming along and sticking things in it.' Berkely Breathed

Thanks, I take my kids with me and we do the picture then go home and identify thing, but this time I couldn't find the type of bird.

MsBritmor said:

What a great (and lucky) walk! The bird is a red-bellied woodpecker.
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Karen Brittan, Minnesota, USA



'The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep
coming along and sticking things in it.' Berkely Breathed

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"We can do no great things, only small things with great love" Mother Theresa

Very nice shots.

I too for some reason have been using the A100 a lot lately - perhaps it seems a more genteel camera than my A550.
Regards,
Renato

Thank you, I use it because it's all I have, currently saving up for the A77 kit and will hopefully have it by the end of Feb. I love the A100 and will continue to use it but the A77 should be a lot better for low light and I enjoy astrophotography as well so I'm pretty excited! Will continue to use the Minolta lens though.

Renato1 said:

Very nice shots.

I too for some reason have been using the A100 a lot lately - perhaps it seems a more genteel camera than my A550.
Regards,
Renato

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Cant argue the quality of these shots..
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For astrophotography one really needs the main sensor Live View for quick and easy focusing, which I do with my A550. It's much trickier with the A100. It should be a breeze on the A77.

Then again, one chap at my local astronomical society made do with a NEX camera, where he "washed" off the IR filter from the sensor. He took a series of photos, made a movie out of them, won an international astrphotography competition with it, was flown to the Canary Islands for the presentation and got to use the big telescope there for a night, and has pictures of himself with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at the dinner.

That's pretty good going for a NEX!
Cheers,
Renato

NEXt thing you know.....

A very impressive story - would have loved to be him, meeting those guys!

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Photorer said:

NEXt thing you know.....

A very impressive story - would have loved to be him, meeting those guys!

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Yes, I think that there would be several score thousand astrophotographers who would be green with envy, given the modest equipment he used.
Renato