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20151228-0040-Edit
Time to give my wee Chrismas present to myself a bit more exercise with a walk down to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
I sold most of my Pentax equipment a couple of years ago to fund a move to compact system cameras. I only kept the K-7 and 3 DA Limited lenses (well, and my SMC Pentax-A 50mm f1.2 lens, which I regard as part of my camera collection as much as anything else!) But I have to say I regreted selling all that lovely Pentax glass, so over the last couple of years I've been slowly building up my kit again, included some lenses I've never owned before, including three classic 'F' series lenses (28mm f2.8, 50mm f1.7 and 100mm f2.8 macro).
And when I saw a really good deal on the Pentax K-3ii I couldn't resist! So today I took the K-3ii and all 3 F series lenses down to the Botanic Garden for some exercise.
Almost all these shots were taken with the 100mm macro lens, which is big (much bigger than the current Pentax D-FA macro lenses) but really lovely!
Most of these shots were taken wide open at f2.8 as the weak winter light was a bit dim, but fortunately I like the shallow depth-of-field thing, and the nice high ISO performance of the K-3ii came in handy too.
20151228-0040-Edit
Time to give my wee Chrismas present to myself a bit more exercise with a walk down to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
I sold most of my Pentax equipment a couple of years ago to fund a move to compact system cameras. I only kept the K-7 and 3 DA Limited lenses (well, and my SMC Pentax-A 50mm f1.2 lens, which I regard as part of my camera collection as much as anything else!) But I have to say I regreted selling all that lovely Pentax glass, so over the last couple of years I've been slowly building up my kit again, included some lenses I've never owned before, including three classic 'F' series lenses (28mm f2.8, 50mm f1.7 and 100mm f2.8 macro).
And when I saw a really good deal on the Pentax K-3ii I couldn't resist! So today I took the K-3ii and all 3 F series lenses down to the Botanic Garden for some exercise.
Almost all these shots were taken with the 100mm macro lens, which is big (much bigger than the current Pentax D-FA macro lenses) but really lovely!
Most of these shots were taken wide open at f2.8 as the weak winter light was a bit dim, but fortunately I like the shallow depth-of-field thing, and the nice high ISO performance of the K-3ii came in handy too.