KentG

Let nature take its course. Just supplies more potential awardees for the Darwin Awards. Trying to use laws will have the effect of making it worse not better.

Actually a  check of the optical construction will show that the DA 300/4 is not really close in construction to either the manual A*/M* 300/4 or the F/FA 300/4.5. So whoever said they were based ...

Actually I sold one to a nature center that they put on one of their yearly brochures. And this was back in the film days. Like everything else it just depends on the photo. Kent Gittings

Correct. The perception of speed in the photos has to match that of the event. Having done motorsports for 40+ years I have to say that only a rank amateur would shoot at a speed faster than about ...

I am not even sure they can even see color. In my area rather than being able to see the color of the nuts in their soft coverings they keep trying to eat the green ones until they turn black and ...

For the big companies its not GOING mirror-less as much as ADDING mirror-less. They are still not sure how things may pan out in the long term but at least want a foot in both camps so they can ...

What you really want is the old Sigma 100-300/4 EX DG IF. However at F4 some think its heavy (if all you have ever used is cheap 70-300 zooms you will think so), but it is no heavier than the ...

Ditto on the monopod, although I have a few from my motorsports shooting days. I like putting a Swiss Arca type plate holder on both my monopods and my Opteka gimbal mount/tripod so I can attach ...

Mike the dark one is looks like the black Flower Wasp. Definitely one of the flower wasps. I see them all the time in my area (Mid-Atlantic). Most wasps are looking for nectar this time of year, ...

That's the issue exactly. Why would they make a lens with competition from the old film models at a fraction of the price used that they would have to charge for a new one.

They no longer have any of the production lines for those old lenses. Regardless of the design it would cost close to as much as new lenses to set them up again. Pretty sure Ricoh does not want to ...

My feeling exactly. This thread was as much a whine about no Pentax version of the new lens than anything. If I had wanted it to be only about 3rd party lenses I would have put it there ...

Actually a number of people have rated the 3rd generation Tamron 17-35/2.8-4  as better than the Canon 17-40 because it has better edge sharpness compared to the Canon. While the 2nd gen I have is ...

I see Tamron has brought out a new version of their former full frame WA zoom. Of course only in Nikon and Canon (Sony later I bet). Glad I never sold my old Tamron SP AF 17-35/2.8-4 Di LD ...

I have the older Tamron SP AF 17-35/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical (IF) from a good number of years back in KAF and its a decent performer on the K-1. Can be found for a lot less on the used market.

Unless they are saving some for spare parts for the K-1 they are likely destroyed because they have proprietary elements on them.

Sort of what I do in macro-photography with my Vivitar S1 105/2.5 Macro except I don't touch the focus ring once I have the shot composed. I just slowly move in until the shutter trips in CIF. Kent ...

I agree. For astrophotography: 1. Nothing in the shot can contain the Earth. 2. Nightscapes don't really qualify as astrophotography. They are sort of a third category. Shoot something that is in ...

Yeah but being prepared is the best. A bottle of insect repellent doesn't take up that much space. When you think of the things you can get from mosquitos even in this country like the Zika virus, ...

I am also a member of the no filter/lens cap crowd. However I do have access to some filters to protect from the elements if needed, and they have been needed a time or two.