A Trip To The Bird Pond

Yesterday's dog walk included a trip past a nearby bird pond. It's a catch pond for run-off from a strip mall on a corner between 17th Street and Indian River Boulevard. And sufficiently away from traffic that it's attractive to wading birds.

Both Ellen and I had taken a pic or two with the lens I had on my camera at the time. It's kinda long, useful for macro sorts of pictures, but not particularly good for birds. A little later I put one of my old Pentax K-mount lenses on my digital and returned. A 135/3.5 that I bought used in, I think, the mid '90s for about thirty dollars. 

Using zone focus and stopping down seems to work well. I need to mod my lens adapter by drilling it and putting a small lever on it to work the "pre-set" for aperture. And to remember that this isn't film. I can set high sensitivity and still obtain good results. Same deal for how much "film" I have on a roll. I will run out of camera battery, at 5 shots per second, long before I run out of memory card.

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