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I bought a new-to-me lens that had been on my gear-wishlist for years: Pentax DA* 300mm F/4 blahblahblah. I've been ignoring my camera, and pretty much everything else related to this hobby for a long time, but my wife's birthday is coming up and she recently let slip that she'd like me to get a new camera for myself and let her have my K-5 (after I send it for servicing - it's a bit over 98 000 shutter actuations at this point and acts a little strange sometimes). Rather than do that, I took it as an excuse to spend some money and I bought a lightly-used K-70 for her, cleaned the bayonet mount on the K-5 with a little alcohol (it had been failing to recognize the lens attached) and then got this thing for myself. The lens arrived yesterday and I took it to work today - the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. There are worse places to wander around with bird-lens. As required by the laws of God and Man, one of the first pictures I took with this new toy was of one of our cats.  New 300mm Lens 04 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrThis was the kick I needed to get back into editing and uploading photos. Of course, all I did tonight was my favourites from today's walking around sessions, but it's a start.
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I'm doing my every-three-years first aid re-cert for work, and in the online component before Monday's class, some of the videos include some sensor dust that my photo-brain can't ignore or unsee.
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My Pentax K-5 started acting its age about 6 weeks ago. It was freezing up with the mirror up when I was out shooting with my newest lens, a 300mm F/4. I sent it to the nearest shop that handles Pentax, the next city over (about 1.5 hours away). The owner of the shop told me he'd have a look and see if it was possible to get parts to repair a camera that's more than 10 years old. I'm pretty disappointed in this shop. Despite being, apparently, quite familiar with Pentax - he told me he shoots a K-1 and has been shooting Pentax for a long time - he couldn't replicate my problem, and claimed my camera could not autofocus. I told him that's very much not the problem I'd been having, and that I had set up my camera so it did not try to autofocus on a half-press of the shutter button, I use the AF button only. He sent it on to someone at Pentax Australia who, and this is hearsay, said that it needed a new shutter and that Pentax doesn't make replacement shutters for the K-5 anymore. So I asked him to send it back. It autofocuses fine, and while I haven't really tested it again, it seems to be working. In the meantime, when it became clear that it was very unlikely I was going to get my K-5 back with some useful servicing, I bought a K-3 on eBay - it came from Japan, quickly and without any fuss. Only today have I gotten around to organising and uploading the first photos, uploaded without any edits except re-scaling to 2400px wide and JPEG conversion in ACDSee 2020. Obviously, the first thing I shot was my cats.  New-to-me K-3 01 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr New-to-me K-3 02 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrAnd the baby magpies in the tree out front.  New-to-me K-3 03 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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