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Shooting video on K-x
I always find focus a bit tricky, then I do through the lens too! Funny, I seemed to be better at it with my old film camera 20 years ago.... You weren't any better at it, but standards weren't as strict as they are now. If you look back even at classic gallery-worthy photos and practically all jour...
Posted by rparmar on 05/07/2010 - 15:36
Shooting video on K-x
I always find focus a bit tricky, then I do through the lens too! Funny, I seemed to be better at it with my old film camera 20 years ago.... You weren't any better at it, but standards weren't as strict as they are now. If you look back even at classic gallery-worthy photos and practically all jour...
Posted by George Lazarette on 05/07/2010 - 22:40
Shooting video on K-x
I suspect that Beaky's eyesight was better twenty years ago. Well I know it is true for me! Only slightly! My close focus has always been very good, over the last three years I have noticed that I can't quite focus on things as close as I used to be able to - I can now manage about 6inches, 20 year...
Posted by beakynet on 06/07/2010 - 16:56
Shooting video on K-x
Latest update. Still having problems. I took some video clips of my daughter horse riding. Found it very difficult to focus. She was riding towards me - walking pace. With the shallow depth of field she quickly went out of focus. The worse thing was the camera shake at 200mm it was terrible! ...
Posted by CheekyChappy on 03/08/2010 - 21:56
Shooting video on K-x
I can well imagine it's virtually impossible to keep a moving subject in focus and steady at 200mm hand held! Bad enough with a regular video camera. Good manual focusing practice though :lol:
Posted by Pentaxophile on 03/08/2010 - 22:33
Sensor cleaning... not
I wish I knew where all this dust is coming from! I change lenses 99.9% of the time indoors, and I try to be as carefully about it as I can. From going through the pictures with the Clone/Heal tool in LR, I am positive that the dirt noticeably increases through the day as I'm walking about outdoors ...
Posted by flossie on 05/07/2010 - 18:53
Sensor cleaning... not
Surely the silent AF is down to the lens and can you not use the select focus points on the KX you can on the K20 and the K7. As I do not own a KX I can't really comment but it does seem you are blaming the camera body for somthing that may well be nothing to do with it.
Posted by Thordell on 05/07/2010 - 19:48
Sensor cleaning... not
Surely the silent AF is down to the lens and can you not use the select focus points on the KX you can on the K20 and the K7. As I do not own a KX I can't really comment but it does seem you are blaming the camera body for somthing that may well be nothing to do with it. Yes the silent AF is down to...
Posted by flossie on 05/07/2010 - 19:58
Sensor cleaning... not
I'd practice trying to change face down, flossie. This could make quite a difference. I don't find it too difficult - though always change lenses on as flat a surface as possible with the new lens aligned as well as possible. You can easily select focus points on the K20D, though it doesn't highl...
Posted by Dr. Mhuni on 05/07/2010 - 20:07
Do you like Pentax colour?
As Matt says you can spend your life trying to master Colour management and never quite get there. I initially experimented with Argb but decided it was a waste of effort as all my prints need to be Srgb and monitor viewing is Srgb - I retain all RAW files though in case this changes one day !! ...
Posted by simonkit on 09/07/2010 - 12:18
k100d
my son tryed to up date the firmwire with low batterys and the camera crashed and will not power up now, any idears how it can be fixed or does it need to go back to pentax advice please
Posted by reso on 08/07/2010 - 12:17
k100d
Hmmmm, it can be brought back from the grave, but he'll need to sell a leg or arm. Its called "bricking".
Posted by dougf8 on 08/07/2010 - 12:26
Faulty?
Perfectly normal, its the shake reduction mechanism I believe. It's actually the whole sensor (and as Hefty says, what it sits in/on). I took the lens off my K10D once, locked the mirror up, turned the camera from landscape to portrait and back again, and watched the sensor as it gently flopped f...
Posted by ChrisA on 13/07/2010 - 18:09
I thought my K7 was broken. Nope.
So the other day, I found out that my K7 was stuck on center-spot metering. Stuck, I tell you. I could change the switch to evaluative, the little symbol on the lcd would confirm that I had changed metering modes, yet the camera would still meter as if it were in spot metering! I find this out last ...
Posted by Dubious Drewski on 10/07/2010 - 23:34
K-x focusing screen dimension?
I really would not advise doing this. I tried a professionally cut-down screen in my K-m and went back to a standard one shortly after. The problem for me was that the 3rd party screen was too dark, and the split prism was both massive and not quite accurate enough. Obviously the prism was sized for...
Posted by Dangermouse on 11/07/2010 - 11:19
K-x focusing screen dimension?
matt thank you for your explanation, but the ME super is broken so it wont do anything to return it back. And the Katz Eye screen are prohibitively expensive for me too :cry: i think im going to have a go in cutting it, still dont know the dimension though
Posted by ReklawyksEkul on 13/07/2010 - 07:35
K-x focusing screen dimension?
I resized an MG screen for my k100D. Wasn't too dark. split ring useful. No damage to screen in process. Even the waiting world :) have fun Pete
Posted by Transit on 13/07/2010 - 09:23
Exposure problem
Thanks. Have found that it works only when set to manual focus, otherwise if just purrs. Am away from UK, did you mean reset to initial settings? If not, where do I find 'factory rest', please?
Posted by karlh on 11/07/2010 - 18:18
Exposure problem
When you say it only works in manual focus, does it mean its the AF continually hunting and not the shutter purring? Could be dirty contacts on lens etc (which lens are you using?)
Posted by alfpics on 11/07/2010 - 22:43
Exposure problem
alfpics:have cleaned the conacts, still the same. Could this have happened when I changed the lens from 18-55 to 50-200 and back again? I don't hear the familiar click when the lens is docked home. They both work OK in manual focus and in AF.C, although only one frame is taken. In either mode it do...
Posted by karlh on 12/07/2010 - 04:13
