A little shakey - was settling down with a book & an 8% beer when I spotted this bee coming in -
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K-5 & Super Takumar m42 50mm f4 Macro - definitely feels sharper than the K-7. Seems fiddlier getting the m42/k adapter on this than the K-7 - I actually did the lens-drop dance when the lens plopped out of the camera - luckily it only fell 30-40cm onto wood.
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@phigmov How do you find manual focusing with the OVF on your K5? I'm liking a lot that camera and samples I'm seeing from it, including yours, and it became really affordable, Most of my images are manually focused, Minolta and M42 glass, but on mirrorless - I fear that without magnification in the EVF my hit rate would drop severely.
I wasn't aware Kingfishers would go after small rodents. Nice catch.
Lot of neighbourhood cats so the mouse could have been playing dead or scavenged although I did see the bird shake it around a fair bit. Kingfishers seem to be reasonably fearsome. I once came home from work, found one in the house staring outside a window while the cat snoozed in a corner - I suspect the cat caught it, bought it in alive and then didn't appreciate the bird could hold its own in a fight and left it alone. Luckily I was able to wrap it in a towel and release it outside without too much fuss.
K-5 & SMC 50mm f1.7 - performs much better on the K-5 than old K-7
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