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Pentax Colour
Have very recently been playing about with my colour setting on my k20 (as recently as yesterday actually). I have always had it set on Vivid, but have just changed it to Natural after doing a few experimental shots. I have also increaded the Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness(and fine sharpness) ...
Posted by petemasty on 14/10/2009 - 10:32
Pentax Colour
Totally agree with you, but why change system? Not taken as bait, just get annoyed at lack of focusing speed sometimes, especially with the DA* 60-250. That lens is very slow and missed too many shots, when I know from experience others are a lot faster. Happy overall with cost / performance ...
Posted by K10D on 14/10/2009 - 11:04
Pentax Colour
Not taken as bait, just get annoyed at lack of focusing speed sometimes, especially with the DA* 60-250. That lens is very slow and missed too many shots, when I know from experience others are a lot faster. Happy overall with cost / performance ratio 95% of the time, just want that little bit m...
Posted by Mike-P on 14/10/2009 - 19:27
Pentax Colour
A couple of questions there to answer. The subject matter was quite varied - lots of landscape, some natural history, some transport, some night shots. Some very fast action shots of birds in flight. I've always been a bit mystified by the complaints about focus speed because I find my Pentaxe...
Posted by johnriley on 14/10/2009 - 19:33
Pentax Colour
I've always been a bit mystified by the complaints about focus speed.... Depends what you're shooting and what you're comparing against. Example, Hollyoaks charity football match, got a few friends in the opposite team, want to get em some good action shots. Stood at the edge of the pitch, K-7 & ...
Posted by Unlocker on 15/10/2009 - 12:53
Pentax Colour
But don't you just love the output of the 60-250mm when it does get a focus lock ... simply superb imo. Absolutely not in question, you should have seen my cousins response when he saw the parrot shots I did with the PP K-7, his jaw just dropped!
Posted by Unlocker on 15/10/2009 - 13:18
Pentax Colour
I haven't used the 60-250mm so can't comment on its speed, but I have used the 55-300mm and you need to be careful where you place the focus point to get a reliable lock with fast subjects. After a bit of practice, I can now do this OK with flying birds, but if there's a problem then MF is the answe...
Posted by johnriley on 15/10/2009 - 14:23
Pentax Colour
I just can't be bothered to learn them for the few times I might need them when I know that this lens can focus much, much faster With respect, this isn't the fault of the kit you use and some effort is needed to achieve consistent results with these difficult subjects. I don't think buying a secon...
Posted by Unlocker on 15/10/2009 - 16:00
Pentax Colour
What I find the biggest shame is all the popular mags only seem to concentrate on Canon, Sony, and Nikon, and to a lesser degree, Olympus. Maybe John should should submit an article for publication in one of these mags to show amateurs who are getting into DSLRs for the first time that there is mor...
Posted by aminstar on 16/10/2009 - 08:00
Custom Colour Settings. what do you use?
Bare with me for a moment, George. If you shoot Raw only, and use the ETTR method, you base your exposures on the info the histogram is giving you. The graph on your display is a jpeg output and therefore influenced by every in camera setting you apply. So using sRGB gives a to smaller colour sp...
Posted by Malo1961 on 14/10/2009 - 20:11
Custom Colour Settings. what do you use?
Good of you to join in, Stefan. But the discussion between G. and me is about something else.Yes ...it involves colour space, but that's not the main issue. The point is: To get the camera to be as accurate possible in showing us a histogram which represents the true range of tonal values. The same...
Posted by Malo1961 on 15/10/2009 - 05:57
Custom Colour Settings. what do you use?
Good of you to join in, Stefan. But the discussion between G. and me is about something else.Yes ...it involves colour space, but that's not the main issue. The point is: To get the camera to be as accurate possible in showing us a histogram which represents the true range of tonal values. The same...
Posted by K10D on 15/10/2009 - 09:37
Custom Colour Settings. what do you use?
OK. I've done a bit more research. You were quite right, Martin, to say that Adobe embraces the whole sRGB gamut - in terms of the outer boundaries of the range. However, the number of colours is the same for both. They are necessarily more thinly spread with Adobe, so both colour spaces a...
Posted by George Lazarette on 15/10/2009 - 23:33
Custom Colour Settings. what do you use?
Thanks Martin! What an interesting revelation!. It never occurred to me that the histogram shown on the back of the camera would be affected by the settings when shooting in RAW mode. Obvious I guess, but just never thought of it. I always shoot for ETTR in RAW mode and use the luminance h...
Posted by rlebleu on 16/10/2009 - 16:24
K7 vs D300
I don't understand why such a fuss is made over AF speed by so many people. For fast moving subjects, fast AF is going to be a big plus. In everyday use by most of us, it makes no difference whatsoever beyond bragging rights. The SFX already focussed faster than I can manually, more than that ...
Posted by Mongoose on 14/10/2009 - 19:41
K7 vs D300
I don't understand why such a fuss is made over AF speed by so many people. For fast moving subjects, fast AF is going to be a big plus. In everyday use by most of us, it makes no difference whatsoever beyond bragging rights. The SFX already focussed faster than I can manually, more than that ...
Posted by Lance B on 15/10/2009 - 01:55
K7 vs D300
I don't understand why such a fuss is made over AF speed by so many people. For fast moving subjects, fast AF is going to be a big plus. In everyday use by most of us, it makes no difference whatsoever beyond bragging rights. The SFX already focussed faster than I can manually, more than that ...
Posted by K10D on 15/10/2009 - 10:59
K7 vs D300
If and when the AF finds it hard to focus, I just switch to manual...so AF in not a problem with me. I I could have the choice between the two I would thak the K7.
Posted by Elva on 15/10/2009 - 12:10
screen protection
Don't use one but I wish I did. Mine has come back from holiday with a war wound - a minor scratch on the screen. The girlfriend was wearing the camera as she mounted a horse :roll: and it banged into the pommel on the saddle. Only a minor impact and a simple plastic screen protector would have p...
Posted by WobblyGoblin on 14/10/2009 - 15:06
screen protection
Don't use one but I wish I did. Mine has come back from holiday with a war wound - a minor scratch on the screen. The girlfriend was wearing the camera as she mounted a horse :roll: and it banged into the pommel on the saddle. Only a minor impact and a simple plastic screen protector would have p...
Posted by hkwiles on 14/10/2009 - 15:16
