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My BIG new lens

My Sigma 170-500mm lens arrived this week, together with a new Lacie Rugged hard drive. The lens is awesome! For some time, I've wanted to get some pictures of the big flocks of Oyster catchers and Dunlin on beach and rocks in front of our house-and now have the tool for the job! I just need some sunny days off, or lighter evenings and mornings! Many thanks to Duncan and his team at Calumet, Liverpool for all their help with my cameras and lenses

Pictures using the 105mm

 

My 105mmVR is the beast!

I've been trying to get my new Nikkor 105mm macro working in my Subal housing. Subal type 3 housings and ports have an 85mm internal diameter, which is just too tight to get the fat  bodied 105mm into. When I tried to get the lens into the housing, it caught on the MF/AF and VR buttons, and tended to offset the lens to one side. This in turn caused sealing problems with the port. So-I put a post out onto Wetpixel (www.wetpixel.com) and had some great responses. Ryan Cannon from Reef Photo and Video (www.reefphoto.com) very kindly got in touch and suggested that I bore the extension out to 88mm. So I took it down to Alan Dick engineering in Heysham (http://www.alandickengineering.co.uk/) who did a fantasic job while I waited. It now fits just and so-although you still have to be very careful not to catch the MF gear in the housing when putting the lens in. I have copied Alex Mustard with this, and use a £1 coin to lift the gear away from the lens body while I am getting it in.

Pictures from marine mammal medic course

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