Ak77's Nano Journal

[AK77]

Added a 14'000k bulb today and the effect is MUCH better!!

The additional lighting meant I could up the shutter speed on my camera to 1/500th of a second and above, so motion blur is greatly reduced, despite the fact these little buggers never sit still!

I'd dropped some food in to lure the fish into position. The taste of food in the water was too much for the hermit to resist, who came tearing over from the other side of the tank, with a bumble bee snail in tow.

 

[natwood]

Wow those pictures are amazing! That's made me want my clownfish even more now! Haha. Couldn't get my liverock today after all. I'm going crazy here! Hopefully getting it tomorrow ^-^

 

[AK77]

Thanks Nat. There are some more in the Fish of the week thread that I didn't post in here if you like them. I only got about 10 decent shots out of 107 taken. They're photographed using an old manual focus lens, so I have to physically focus it, rather than let the camera do all the work. This makes them particularly awkward to photograph, as clowns are constantly on the move. Even if they're static, they constantly do their little wiggle, which is cute, just a PITA when you want to take a picture!

The lens also has a very shallow depth of field, so if I get the head in focus, if the body isn't at 90 degrees to the camera, it very rapidly goes out of focus. When the fish is in the right plane and in focus, then you can get some beautiful shots with an almost 3D feel to them.

Clownfish are extremely cute and probably the most popular marine fish kept in captivity. Have you seen the black and white ones too? I wish I had another tank, as I'd have them in there! I also love the maroon clowns but, my tank is too small for those. One day, one day.

That's a shame about not being able to get your rock today. You must be going stir crazy, looking at an empty tank. I know the feeling though as I had the exact same thing with the LR myself. I was waiting over two weeks to get it. I was messaging the seller on ebay and he was sending me messages. I just never got them because ebay never forwarded them to my email account.

I've also got some more ricordea coming, but like the last lot, I've had to put off their delivery until after the snow has cleared and the overnight temps pick up.

Patience young Padawan.... patience.

 

[seffieuk]

As always top notch photos, I can see what you mean about clarity - your clowns look amazing

Seffie x

 

[AK77]

Thanks Seffie! This morning they were both deep in the little cave and were peeping out at me. They looked really cute lol.

BTW, have you dug your camera out yet??

 

[seffieuk]

Ah ha, yes I have

Its a Pentax and says p30t on the body, there is a lense - about four inches long!! Says hanimex on the cover and thats all the info I know but no mould or anything

Seffie x

 

[AK77]

Ah splendid. Pentax are a good make. I have a few of their old SLR lenses myself.

If you take the lens cap off, you should see some writing around the ring as you look into the lens. That will tell you all you need to know about it. It'll be something like "Hanimex HMC 28-70mm 1:3.5-4.5 Macro Focusing Zoom 55mm"

Personally I'd auction off the camera and put it towards a DSLR

 

[aly_starh]

oh wow! lovely pictures AK

 

[parker313]

I love the hermit and snail picture, that's so cute. When I had my nano, I had a hermit that used to wear a bumblebee snail shell sometimes!

 

[AK77]

Thanks guys. Yeah the hermit/snail shot made me laugh. The crab just came tearing across from one side of the tank to the other to get to the food. The snail must of wondered what the hell was going on lol.

Fortunately all my hermits are too big for the bumble bee snails and they completely ignore them

 

[seffieuk]

Ah splendid. Pentax are a good make. I have a few of their old SLR lenses myself.

If you take the lens cap off, you should see some writing around the ring as you look into the lens. That will tell you all you need to know about it. It'll be something like "Hanimex HMC 28-70mm 1:3.5-4.5 Macro Focusing Zoom 55mm"

Personally I'd auction off the camera and put it towards a DSLR

ah right, it says - 70 -300 1.4.5.8 macro focusing zoom 55mm, it also has a flash thing with it and a nifty carrying bag

Is it actually worth anything then?

Seffie x

 

[AK77]

Hi Seffie,

There is still a market for SLR cameras. A few years back there was an mini exodus of professional and amateur photographers actually going back to film camera's over digital and the pureritans that never left it lol.

I've seen a Pentax P30T with a 28-80mm lens for £120 on Harpers Photographic website. You could probably get anywhere between £50-100 for the camera and probably £10-15 for the lens on eBay.

Did you not have any Pentax lenses for it?

*Edit

I've just seen the P30T bodies on ebay in mint condition for a Buy It Now price of £40 + postage.

 

[seffieuk]

Did you not have any Pentax lenses for it?

I don't know, its really 'him indoors' camera - I never got the hang of it and he never uses it anymore! I will ask him if there are anyother lenses kicking around. Good to know it is worth selling, thanks for that

Seffie x

yes, it also has a pentax A 1:4. 5.6 35:80

 

[AK77]

lol see my post above - I edited as you posted.

Probably worth about £40 for the body itself. If you have some Pentax lenses, they may very well be worth more than the camera body.

 

[seffieuk]

I was editing too

Seffie x