White-breasted Nuthatch from 2005 (1 Viewer)

[MikeInPA]

Taken with a 6.1 Mp Nikon D70s with a Nikon 300m f/4 lens.

ISO400 1/500s f/8

 

[KC Foggin]

What took you so long to post this beautiful image of this beautiful Nuthatch

 

[MikeInPA]

What took you so long to post this beautiful image of this beautiful Nuthatch

It’s been a while I know. I posted it to show that you don’t need super duper cameras to take pretty good pictures. In those days the focussing didn’t have eye detection, there wasn’t any IS/VR/IBIS etc, ISO400 was about the maximum usable value. Still it’s possible without the new fangled gizmos. I do believe you still use an antique Nikon don’t you?🤣

 

[KC Foggin]

Yeah, it’s a bit on the old side but I still love it. I bought it new about 8 years ago but it had come out before that.

 

[Musoman]

Great pic Mike. Old gear works in the right hands.

11 Years ago i took this Heron with an old [ cough Pentax K200D ] and an astro telescope i adapted for a DSLR. No VC , No metering, No AF, and a Fixed aperture F7. You get no luxuries with telescopes as DSLR lenses

 

[MikeInPA]

Great pic Mike. Old gear works in the right hands.

11 Years ago i took this Heron with an old [ cough Pentax K200D ] and an astro telescope i adapted for a DSLR. No VC , No metering, No AF, and a Fixed aperture F7. You get no luxuries with telescopes as DSLR lenses

Yep, I know what you mean. When I look back at some old images on a much higher resolution monitor it’s never ceases to amaze me how well they look. I rarely went above ISO 400 but with todays noise reduction software it cleans them up like magic. 👍

 

[Musoman]

I hear ya. If you have anymore old snaps, post them here dude.
As for software/editing, i cant remeber which prog. i was using back then, but these days it's Adobe CS6 Extended, and a great prog. for cleaning up old snaps.

Here's a juvenile Great Crested Grebe. This was the next model of Pentax to the above Heron K200, a K-7 and 300mm lens with 1.5TC. Same year though, 2011. I had the luxury this time - AF, Metering, Aperture choice. It was still old gear, but no astro telescope anymore 😁

The sun changed the green water ( the green was the result of over hanging trees ) to a rich gold. Hence the strange hue

 

[MikeInPA]

I hear ya. If you have anymore old snaps, post them here dude.
As for software/editing, i cant remeber which prog. i was using back then, but these days it's Adobe CS6 Extended, and a great prog. for cleaning up old snaps.

Here's a juvenile Great Crested Grebe. This was the next model of Pentax to the above Heron K200, a K-7 and 300mm lens with 1.5TC. Same year though, 2011. I had the luxury this time - AF, Metering, Aperture choice. It was still old gear, but no astro telescope anymore 😁

The sun changed the green water ( the green was the result of over hanging trees ) to a rich gold. Hence the strange hue




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Very nice, the water is phenomenal. 👍👍👍

 

[KC Foggin]

You get no luxuries with telescopes as DSLR lenses

That's why I gave up on Digiscoping but it was good while it lasted

 

[Musoman]

Me too. It was the birds in flight i found the hardest with manual focusing. It was good fun trying to make adapters of varying usefulness, but eventually i went the way of AF, metering, and variable aperture.