joelbolden
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Attached my newly acquired DA AF 1.4x AW tele-converter to my K3iii and added the 55-300PLM and took it out for a walk. While the 1.4's main purpose is to add "legs" to my lenses, I was curious how it would act in a general purpose kind of way. Went down to my favorite creek trail and started shooting what I'd normally shoot if I was just using the 55-300PLM. First off was a Cloudless Sulfur butterfly feeding on Pannicled Asters. Then I almost stepped on a Northern Water Snake who was snoozing on the nice warm gravel trail. It woke up a trife shot tempered(can't blame it). I was between it and the creek so it kept crawling towards me and challenging me to get the hell out of it's way. I was down on my elbows and knees, and kept having to scootch back to keep it in focus. Almost ended up going off the bank when one of the interested bystanders mentioned it. I stood up and went to grab my film camera (Minolta a7) out of my bag and it took off like a shot, slithered down the bank and into the water and safety. That was fun. I did manage a shot of a jetliner leaving our local airport and some distant landscape stuff to check it's ability at full zoom. The shots came out nice and clear. I do believe this will spend a lot of time on the camera.
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