Sad to report that the Tony Sweet talk was sold out by the time I got back. So I stayed around for "Bird Photography" It reminded me of the first day of an Intro to Photo class. Sort of an overview of avian photography.
The big excitement was the wind. A front was blowing in from the west. Real hard. The talk was held in a tent. It didn't collapse, but sure was jumping and dancing around. Some of the staff stood on its skirts, and that helped some. But a couple of gusts set the aluminum frame a rattling. There were several photo vendors, in addition to the Zeiss guy, and everyone was packing up after the "Birds" talk. Time to go. All in all, it was a pleasant way to spend the day, and I discovered another really nice park in suburban DC . Boris- I was using the Tair 135mm I got from you. You can find them- the top two photos at <<http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/>> The "Fungus Ridden Westar" is the lens Scott was using. Wonder how a good copy of the lens works. Cheers Mike Beacom (Beaker is a nickname) On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: > Howdy. > > Mike B. (Beaker) made the trek to my hotel Sunday morning and we > ventured to the Meadowlark Nature Photography Expo, which was only > about > 4 miles away. Therein we found a Zeiss booth. The rep had one PK > mount > lens on hand - the 35/2. Very nice. It's quite similar in appearance > to the Voigtlander that was discussed on list recently. In other > words, > very nice. > http://www.meadowlarkphotoexpo.org/index.html > > I hadn't planned on doing any shooting while in the DC area, so I only > brought along the 750z. Mike had the foresight to bring two cameras > along, so I shot a few frames with his K100D and an Isco-Gottingen > 50/2.8. This thing is tiny. Even smaller than the Pentax 40mm > lenses. > I uploaded two photos here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/sdloveless/PDMLPESO/ > photo#5165495070951019666 > http://picasaweb.google.com/sdloveless/PDMLPESO/ > photo#5165495122490627234 > > Mike dropped me off just after noon, but said he was going back to the > expo. Tony Sweet was speaking Sunday afternoon. Perhaps Mike can > fill > us in on the rest of the day. > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
