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Recommend me software for my new K20d
I too use Lightroom which I like a great deal, and sometimes CS3 (mainly for the BW conversions and the shadow-hightlight adjustment, and a bit of cloning). It is especially good for adding metadata to your images, auto-renaming batches of files (either on download or after), sorting, tagging etc. ...
Posted by womble on 30/10/2008 - 23:32
Recommend me software for my new K20d
Are you able to mess about with curves on Elements 7.0? From what I remember using Elements a few years back this was the most effective way of rescuing burnt out skies. I have a trial of this at the moment. Thanks, James
Posted by jkharmer on 08/02/2009 - 21:18
Cash Backs
Hi guys,I was wondering if you could help me? Im thinking of buying the K20 with 16 - 45 lens, would this count as a kit lens entitling me to a £100 pound cash back or would I only be entitled to £25 cashback for the lens?.Also when I actually buy this combination would it come in 1 box only or sepe...
Posted by yoda on 03/11/2008 - 20:54
Magic Latern Guide - Pentax K20D Book
Thanks John and Hyram for your replies. The discussions about the D-Range and the Catch-in Focus mode functionality made me wonder if there was a book covering these K20D and Pentax specific features in more detail than the manual does. I'm comfortable with the "standard" options of a camera, having...
Posted by hoshisato on 01/11/2008 - 19:17
K20D vertical banding
On the weekend I finally found time to take a stroll in the autumn landscape. At the shore I took this photo (with the Sigma 105 macro, EXIF intact): 8 seconds later I took a second shot with same settings: Back home I started converting the day's bounty with SilkyPix. One step of the ro...
Posted by Prieni on 01/11/2008 - 13:52
K20D vertical banding
Going back to the OP - Silkypix has a control for banding noise reduction. It's termed "Geometric NR" ;) I've seen a LOT worse on other cameras :shock: Matt
Posted by MattMatic on 02/11/2008 - 17:05
K20D vertical banding
Hopefully I'm clearer now, it's so hard to explain somthing in a language not your own. Stefan. Stefan, tell me about it :) I did understand what you meant from your earlier post. To get consistent banding over the whole image, though, the amplifier of one (or more) lanes has to receive an interfe...
Posted by Prieni on 03/11/2008 - 07:40
K20D vertical banding
Okay then it's all good Prieni :) but still you need to look at the lanes those are the source of the problem directly or indirectly, atleast without them you wouldn't have had it. Since I don't have Silkypix, I've tried some stuff with Photoshop on your crop and Filter>Noise>Madian seems to do ...
Posted by Anvh on 03/11/2008 - 15:27
K20D vertical banding
Hi I'm a newbie here, both to Pentax and these forums. Didn't want to start a new thread, but I've recently noticed the same banding on my K20D. Does anyone know any more about this, I read somewhere (can't remember where now of course!) that a camera sent back to Pentax for this problem was cleane...
Posted by DaveW on 05/12/2008 - 20:26
K20D vertical banding
My Samsung GX-20 has this fault too. I bought my GX-20 back in May. In one of my early sessions with this camera I spotted a few images with the vertical banding, only about 3 images in a batch on one day. I thought it might be an issue with the memory card, so I used a new Sandisk 8GB and observ...
Posted by mera on 08/01/2009 - 00:01
K20D vertical banding
There's lots about this problem on the web. To be honest I don't want to play the "send it back for a corporate speak reply" game. Maybe it will tell them there's a problem, but I'll have a guess that Pentax know that already, they just don't want to admit it and open the floodgates to giving out ne...
Posted by DaveW on 09/01/2009 - 18:37
K20D vertical banding
Steve, I don't contest that. In fact the first post of this thread does show an example where I could see it at 100%. Not only does the banding occurr irregular (so far we weren't able to tie certain settings or conditions to it) it also does occurr with varying intensity... Prieni I've see...
Posted by DaveW on 18/01/2009 - 13:49
K20D vertical banding
I don't think you can disable noise reduction on a K20D/GX-20. Dark frame subtraction is always employed in longer exposures. Note High Noise reduction was off in all tests. I also did not see any evidence that SR on/off impacts the results. I hope these tests don't worry the paranoid, I am sure ...
Posted by mera on 22/01/2009 - 03:09
K20D vertical banding
I dropped my camera off at Jessops to be sent back to Pentax today. I also gave them a CD of images that show the banding. Hopefully with people actually sending the camera in Pentax will realise that it's a genuine problem with some cameras and expedite a fix (ideally in firmware if possible so tha...
Posted by Cuchulainn on 26/01/2009 - 14:38
K20D vertical banding
Thanks for the update Pothers. Sounds as if they have found what the problem is, and have a fix. If it's a hardware fault then I'll send mine back as well. Keep us posted. Dave
Posted by DaveW on 27/01/2009 - 20:18
K20D vertical banding
Got my camera back today.:lol::lol: Very impressed with the service. My only complaint is they haven't said what they did. I might give them a call tomorrow. When I turned it on it was the same as getting a new camera, ie it asked to set language, time & date etc. Hopefully if the whether is ok ...
Posted by Pothers on 29/01/2009 - 23:28
K20D vertical banding
Got my camera back today.:lol::lol: Very impressed with the service. My only complaint is they haven't said what they did. I might give them a call tomorrow. When I turned it on it was the same as getting a new camera, ie it asked to set language, time & date etc. Hopefully if the whether is ok ...
Posted by DaveW on 30/01/2009 - 11:16
K20D vertical banding
How long was that, less than two weeks? That was pretty quick! Good luck with it. I hope they've cured it. 1 day shy of 2 weeks, including postage. Very quick in my opinion. I just went out into my back garden and took a quick 14 shots so I can have a look and see if there is any sign of the band...
Posted by Pothers on 30/01/2009 - 15:41
K20D vertical banding
Sent mine back to Park Cameras for return to Pentax today. Like others I've included a CD of banded photos. Park were very pleasant and helpful. Let's hope Pentax can fix it. I'll put an update here when I know more. Dave
Posted by DaveW on 02/02/2009 - 16:07
K20D vertical banding
Hi, I thought I would paste a few more thoughts and images from my testing of the vertical banding issue I mentioned a few weeks ago. Most of these comments are based on the cold long exposure tests I did with my Samsung GX-20. I noticed three different types of fault, although I suspect they all...
Posted by mera on 09/02/2009 - 00:51
