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ok BUTTON ON k10d
I think you can set the AF button on the back of the camera to do this.
Posted by pschlute on 07/08/2008 - 14:06
ok BUTTON ON k10d
Hmm the manual offers the choice of AF button causes AF to find focus Or press AF to stop half press of shutter release to cause AF to find focus. So that doesn't look probable. This is a nuisnace as I use this function a lot and have the habit of always recentering the focus point as I stop sho...
Posted by mikew on 07/08/2008 - 14:30
ok BUTTON ON k10d
You can make the AF button center the focus point. Look in the Custom menu. Have you got the latest firmware installed? I don't remember for this one, but some features were not present in the original firmware.
Posted by iceblinker on 07/08/2008 - 16:57
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
The Portaflash kit is basic, not incredibly well made, but serviceable. We use one at the camera club because it's realistic that members might buy such a kit. The results will be just as good as with anything else if used well and it does contain everything you need to start with. The price is very...
Posted by johnriley on 12/08/2008 - 00:00
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
yeah, you'll have to experiment. I'm big on using longer focal lengths, when you can. I get giddy when I can put at least ten feet between my subject and the backdrop, then back up with a 100mm lens to get ther shot. Not always doable. The zoom comment has to do with using variable aperture zoo...
Posted by Don on 12/08/2008 - 00:12
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
yeah, you'll have to experiment. I'm big on using longer focal lengths, when you can. I get giddy when I can put at least ten feet between my subject and the backdrop, then back up with a 100mm lens to get ther shot. Not always doable. The zoom comment has to do with using variable aperture zoo...
Posted by duroo72 on 12/08/2008 - 00:16
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
oops sorry, some housekeeping took down some stuff, forgot about that recent link...will repost with a link later today when I get back to my desktop computer.
Posted by Don on 12/08/2008 - 21:30
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
Hi George, Thankyou for your good advice , the stock lens sounds like it will give the best result for me the only thing is my first few girls arent exactly what you might call stunners so i might have to employ some soft focus or try my tamron lens! The pentax flashguns sound a better idea as...
Posted by duroo72 on 12/08/2008 - 21:33
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
I've seen professional models that weren't exactly stunners..... You just need to make these girls look and feel thier best. You don't need to maker her look like somebody else....just make her look prettier than she thinks she is. Make her look her best. The Pentax strobes can be made do nearl...
Posted by Don on 12/08/2008 - 22:12
Portrait and Glamour Shots.
Seeing as a pair of 540's will be approx £560 and there arent any of the 500s around second hand currently ive seen sigma flashgun from srs what do you think of them? ive read else where they can operated wirelessly. A pair will set me back over £200 plus tripods and diffusers , the 540's seem ...
Posted by duroo72 on 13/08/2008 - 01:11
timelapse
There are several devices which can be programmed to shoot between 1-399 or unlimited shots. They're not very expensive so may be worth a punt. :D interesting - so if i was to buy one of these and set it to take shots at regular intervals and had my k10 connected via the remote assistant and the s...
Posted by duroo72 on 14/08/2008 - 08:53
Multiplei Exposure
Its not only photoshop though! You need a very fast shooting rate, and to fire as many shots as possible, with a tripod, and without moving. Then it is only a matter of selecting the subject in each position and add it to the background of one of these in different layers. You will have to be ...
Posted by nathanever82 on 20/08/2008 - 07:26
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
Pretty open ended question that could fill several books, and probably has. Deciding on which The lens you want to use really requires you know what you want to achieve. Obviously for portrait work, if your going to be very close, a 16 mm lens is right out due to distortion. But if you're doing f...
Posted by amoringello on 22/08/2008 - 16:37
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
So im putting myself in the firing line again for asking a vague question but for the purposes of taking say indoor fast martial arts and general outdoor shots what would suit me best For whatever lighting is in your environment, you'll probably want your shutter speed to be about 1/250 or faster. F...
Posted by amoringello on 22/08/2008 - 19:08
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
I'd say for the money, go with the 360 or two. The numbers for the 540 sound good on paper but I really don't see that much difference in the amount of light that the 540 has to offer in real world shooting. (The 540 should be, what, one half a stop brighter than the 360? Not a whole lot on paper...
Posted by amoringello on 22/08/2008 - 20:27
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
i thought the strobe on the 540 enabled you to fire at around 2 fps Well, technically you can. In theory, the lower power you set the flash, the less reserve power it uses. Thus if you set the flash to one half power, you should be able to get two flashes in a row before a recycle is necessary. I...
Posted by amoringello on 22/08/2008 - 21:00
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
I posted about half a dozen images giving a somewhat broad range of lighting and settings. Hopefully they will give somewhat of a baseline to help visualize possible outcomes. Obviously you're milage will vary. Also these were back in my istD days. By the time I got the K10D I was roped into to...
Posted by amoringello on 23/08/2008 - 01:09
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
If your comfortable with the "limitations" of 50mm prime (as opposed to a zoom), you may find it liberating as far as shutter speed is concerned. But at f1.4, you are going to lose even more DOF, so it may not be all its cracked up to be. For subjects tat don't move too fast towards or away from me...
Posted by amoringello on 28/08/2008 - 17:59
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
If your comfortable with the "limitations" of 50mm prime (as opposed to a zoom), you may find it liberating as far as shutter speed is concerned. But at f1.4, you are going to lose even more DOF, so it may not be all its cracked up to be. For subjects tat don't move too fast towards or away from me...
Posted by duroo72 on 28/08/2008 - 19:09
Various Lenses & Their Uses.
If you shoot RAW you'll have a pretty good latitude for white balance correction within a RAW converter. If you only have JPEG, you can do a lot using curves in PhotoShop or similar (forget the name in Paint Shop pro), but if the colors are far out of whack you may start to lose more color depth th...
Posted by amoringello on 28/08/2008 - 19:46
