paulkienitz

I wouldn't want to move the framing to cut off the top right, so much as just use a bit wider lens, then maybe crop vertically if there's nothing good added at the top or bottom.

Supertelephotos are a special case where in-lens stabilization is much more appropriate and necessary than it is for normal sized lenses.  Ideally you have in-lens and in-body stabilization ...

I don't think I buy this.  Their lens selection is not that different from their competitors in broad strokes, and doesn't have much dependency on stabilization any more than comparably priced ...

I've been wanting to try stacking software, and see if it can pull out some milky way here in my suburban/exurban zone where the light pollution is significant but not all that bad, sort of ...

And yet, for someone trying to choose between Pentax and another camera system, AF may indeed be the single most important difference.

That's still just the bright core part of the galaxy... if there were no light pollution at all we'd be able to see something several times that size.

Even when a bird is standing still with nothing around it, it can take several tries to nail the focus accurately! When it's such a small part of the frame, you have to control both the focus and ...

That does tend to bite people like me... when I bought into Pentax I was thinking of myself as mainly a landscape guy.  It was in the first few years of having the K10D that I discovered a new ...

I've been tempted by the idea of buying a Ritchey-Chretien... maybe after I reach retirement age.

And that's really just a proof of concept.  If I got an O-GPS1 and some stacking software, I could probably produce a far better image.

That's a short exposure with no stacking.  I used the Q, so I could get the most out of the lens without the sensor pitch being a factor.  Aiming was not easy, nor was focusing. Also looked at ...

This sums up the situation exactly.

The point is, does that picture fall into the category of shots that a camera with better AF will get but a camera with worse AF fails to get? It's not at all clear that it does, because you can't ...

Only time I ever got a hummy picture approaching that good was by setting up a focus trap next to a feeder.

Except the first one, that might have significant forward motion.

I do sometimes shoot BIFs, and I will say that each upgrade has substantially helped in that area.  With film it was pointless to even try, with the K10D it was very frustrating, and the first ...

Thanks.  The location was on the Mendocino coast.  We saw both sea and river otters!

Right, no astrotracer and cheap lenses.  The first was from the wide end of a standard zoom, and the other two were from a DA 50/1.8.  The hardest part was focusing.  (I tried to get Andromeda in ...

Andromeda and a satellite

I dunno, I never liked how the K10D rendered the greens from foliage, and whenever my gf used sunblock it made her face turn purple.