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Pentax-Specific Landscape Shooters Checklist
I'm all for expansions, but as I said at the start, I deliberately made the checklist prescriptive and single focussed, ie just for landscapes on a tripod with remote control. This specifically is to help me quickly get the camera ready before setting out, but I thought it might be helpful to ot...
Posted by McGregNi on 29/07/2013 - 21:59
Pentax-Specific Landscape Shooters Checklist
I've never felt more dumb than when I've just got my shot all framed up, camera set, turned it on and there's the dreaded 'No Card in Camera' message...no card anywhere near in fact :oops: Must have forgotten the checklist that day :wink: Personally, I think such a checklist and the suggestion t...
Posted by McGregNi on 30/07/2013 - 14:59
Pentax-Specific Landscape Shooters Checklist
of course, all this gubbins is also why when I go somewhere where I will be really upset if I come back with no shots, I pick up my "emergency" camera bag. It contains a K1000, SMC-A 50mm f/1.7 and 2 rolls of film.
Posted by Mongoose on 30/07/2013 - 17:18
Pentax-Specific Landscape Shooters Checklist
You've got a point there Mongoose. Sometimes I give camera club talks exploring the menus of digital cameras, most of which are completely unknown and untried by the majority of the audience. A few years back in Aberystwyth I was eating my pie and chips lunch and a couple at another table were op...
Posted by johnriley on 30/07/2013 - 17:37
Pentax-Specific Landscape Shooters Checklist
:shock::shock:What's all this nonsense about a 'checklist'? REALLY! Learn how to use and operate the camera you have! I can just see now landscape photographers arriving at the scene of a beautiful setting sun, setting up the tripod, attaching the camera, rummaging through the camera bag for t...
Posted by michaelblue on 30/07/2013 - 20:22
Pentax-Specific Landscape Shooters Checklist
Do you really expect a Camera manual to tell people how to take pictures ? :) It's their to explain to who operate the camera Well maybe they should ? Perhaps it the fact that they offer their instruction in such isolation that a lot don't really enjoy using them. Our Pentax manuals are not too bad...
Posted by McGregNi on 30/07/2013 - 21:46
Best looking Dslr on the planet ?
I think in this modern age of financial hardship within the manufacturing industry, we will never see cameras build in the same way as we did 40-50 years ago. But as Fuji, Olympus and Pentax to a certain extant with the Q and MX-1 have proved, you can build a camera with the style and build of th...
Posted by MattyH on 28/07/2013 - 10:04
Best looking Dslr on the planet ?
Unfortunately, the camera would have to be fatter to allow for the lens to film plane distance to be correct, then the added LCD on the back! Perhaps with a new lens design, or a 4/3rds sensor!
Posted by beakynet on 30/07/2013 - 13:57
Best looking Dslr on the planet ?
I for one cannot see any reason why Pentax should be unable to make something like this Apart from the film plane issue... Anyone who's taken apart a dSLR will see just how much stuff there is between the sensor and LCD and the depth that's required. You've got the massive thickness of the sensor...
Posted by MattMatic on 30/07/2013 - 14:23
Remote control of newer Pentax DSLRs?
Roscoe, You can't focus, zoom in or change important in camera parameters with a shutter release or cable release!
Posted by 1stEverPentax on 31/07/2013 - 17:58
Remote control of newer Pentax DSLRs?
Roscoe, You can't focus, zoom in or change important in camera parameters with a shutter release or cable release! Well obviously you would have previously focused & zoomed to the required focal length,then fitted the eye piece blanking cap before executing the shutter release. The whole idea ...
Posted by Roscoe on 18/08/2013 - 16:37
Remote control of newer Pentax DSLRs?
Roscoe, You can't focus, zoom in or change important in camera parameters with a shutter release or cable release! With the Remote Control F (or other compatible device), on the K7 at least, I can set a menu item to activate AF on first press of the remote button, then fire on second press - or, ...
Posted by McGregNi on 18/08/2013 - 19:27
Remote control of newer Pentax DSLRs?
You can't focus, zoom in or change important in camera parameters with a shutter release or cable release! The IR remote release for the Pentax zoom90-WR film compact (and several others) allowed you to control the zoom remotely. With an FA PZ lens it would be possible to control the zoom from the c...
Posted by johnha on 19/08/2013 - 02:01
K-5 mki mkii shutter button issues
One of my mki k-5 developed a fault with the shutterbutton in that the half press wouldnt focus until eventually it gave up altogether. I had this repaired under warrsnty, now the same issue is happening with my mkii. Is this a common issue or have I just been unlucky??..
Posted by cabstar on 04/08/2013 - 02:07
K-5 mki mkii shutter button issues
I have not had any issues with mine Gary. Does the camera still focus when you use AF button? A long shot, but it could be a firmware bug issue? without teaching you to suck eggs, have you tried a camera reset to factory default settings? You are the first person I have heard raise this issue.
Posted by Fletcher8 on 04/08/2013 - 07:33
K10 and K200d: Same sensors?
I've just been looking back over some K200d photos I took when it was new and I knew even less about photography. Yep they have a "look" to them that I've never quite got with the K5. Just whether it's something wrong with me or my monitor but there's "character" in a similar way to what I like abou...
Posted by Jetsam1 on 07/08/2013 - 11:31
K10 and K200d: Same sensors?
My K200d has quite a bit of sentimental value attached to it as I got it not long long before my Father died in 2009 (It was my first SLR or 'real' camera) and we had some photography walks (I still have and use his Spotmatic F). I'd like to largely retire it really. I'd either like to get something...
Posted by Jetsam1 on 17/08/2013 - 18:29
K5 soft focus, poor colour contrast and detail
I was saving some photos from a recent holiday in Sussex and noticed the ones taken with my old K10D & 50-200mm were sharper and more detailed than those with the K5 & 16-45 which seem to be soft-focus most of the time. I tried to do a better comparison around the garden at home this evening by usin...
Posted by Fuzzfeast on 06/08/2013 - 20:25
K5 soft focus, poor colour contrast and detail
Other than making sure you've checked the AF calibration for your lenses ( custom menu #26 ) I've no idea. I upgraded from a K10D and K20D to two K-5s and was more than happy with the improved IQ :)
Posted by Smeggypants on 06/08/2013 - 20:40
K5 soft focus, poor colour contrast and detail
Please post some shots to illustrate the problem, complete with exif data.
Posted by JohnX on 06/08/2013 - 20:40
