29 August 2008

Lotus Macros

Recently I took my son to a nearby park and managed to shoot these images of the lotus plant using the K20D mated to the DFA 100mm f/2.8 Macro.





The 100mm macro is one that I feel many should consider as a versatile walkaround lens. It serves well enough as a fast telephoto and the ability to get up close and photograph objects at up to life-size magnification is pretty useful. It's like having two different lenses rolled into one.



The DFA 100mm is a pretty light and compact lens but the nice feature it has over previous Pentax macro lenses is the Quick Shift that allows manual override once the camera's AF has locked focus. This is a good feature as the point of focus may not always be on any of the 11 AF focus points when composing, and there is also no need to switch completely to manual focus on the camera body.



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