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K50 pictures completely dark
One option on the aperture motor is to fire off lots of shots in high speed burst mode. I've heard of some success with this waking it back up. It's a temporary fix, if it's early days. If it's more serious, like it's failed outright, then this wont change a thing. As above though, not sayin...
Posted by PeterKR on 19/03/2025 - 22:20
b&h take on K-3ii
Hi Jules The AF on the D750 works in the dark but hunts for a split second where as on the k-5 I always found it lock on straight away with no hunting. I bought the D750 because the low light AF is so poor on the D600 and is supposed to be an improvement and it is, but not in Pentax league yet......
Posted by jules on 29/07/2015 - 22:58
b&h take on K-3ii
I am predominantly a wildlife and mainly bird photographer. I love my K3 and the image quality is exceptional. But as I have said time and time again and I've never seen it disputed by a serious Pentax wildlife shooter it cannot compete with the opposition for speed of focusing and tracking with it'...
Posted by dcweather on 04/08/2015 - 00:51
b&h take on K-3ii
I am predominantly a wildlife and mainly bird photographer. I love my K3 and the image quality is exceptional. But as I have said time and time again and I've never seen it disputed by a serious Pentax wildlife shooter it cannot compete with the opposition for speed of focusing and tracking with it'...
Posted by jules on 04/08/2015 - 10:53
b&h take on K-3ii
Mike, at the risk of getting banned, have you tried a 7D MkII yet? I'd be interested in a noise comparison to the K3, although A lot of people have a hang up about the amount of noise in the K3 files, compared to anything else (APSC, except maybe the Samsung NX1) with 20+ Mp they are by far the bes...
Posted by dcweather on 06/08/2015 - 00:38
b&h take on K-3ii
There was a forum where Canikon togs were complaining about how poor their cameras were at tracking birds and some suggestions of better techniques. I thought I'd bookmarked it, but can't find it at present. If AF is a problem just use MF :shock: Practise on a few sparrows like this man has with ...
Posted by Algernon on 06/08/2015 - 10:37
Moving from K5 to K3
I've owned a K5 now for just over 3 years. Overall very pleased with the camera though it could on occasion focus a little faster. Just a few days ago I bought a K3 with 2000 shutter actuations. I haven't had the chance to use it in anger yet but one thing struck me about it immediately, the K5 feel...
Posted by Harry1969 on 19/07/2015 - 23:13
Moving from K5 to K3
Under the settings C3 try setting number 15 to 2 ... this will let the shutter release work even if the subject is not in focus ( still not sure its as fast as the K5 though) Martin
Posted by truckerathome on 20/07/2015 - 08:37
Moving from K5 to K3
None of those JPEG processing functions slow down the cameras capture rate .....after the buffer is full there will be a delay, but this will only be after a good number of burst Images. The only delay with lens corrections etc is in the display of the processed result on the LCD ...it does not rest...
Posted by Harry1969 on 21/07/2015 - 15:37
Moving from K5 to K3
I had a K20 for a number of years without any problem eventually I persuaded her indoors that I need to upgrade hence the K3. I have noticed that it is very slow writing the images to the memory card. I started to get an error when viewing the images back " images to large to be displayed" this o...
Posted by Starwars50 on 21/07/2015 - 15:50
Moving from K5 to K3
SDXC is a size barrier removed NOT a speed classification. SDXC UH1 gives much faster write speeds. Pentax doesn't support SDXC II yet I think. Example card at 80 mb/s read 60 mb/s write Many quote the read rate. I think the K3 can cope with up to 80 mb/s compared to 30 mb/s for the old SD standa...
Posted by wvbarnes on 21/07/2015 - 16:42
Battery replacements: D-Li90 recommendations
I've always bought cheap no-name back-up batteries off Ebay and they've all, without exception, worked well on all brands of camera. They last just as long as the originals, in fact, I alternate between them and never know which I'm using at the time.
Posted by bwlchmawr on 18/08/2015 - 06:40
Battery replacements: D-Li90 recommendations
I've always bought cheap no-name back-up batteries off Ebay and they've all, without exception, worked well on all brands of camera. They last just as long as the originals, in fact, I alternate between them and never know which I'm using at the time. Me to, I've 3 original Pentax ones and 5 from va...
Posted by Chrism8 on 18/08/2015 - 07:04
Battery replacements: D-Li90 recommendations
I've always bought cheap no-name back-up batteries off Ebay and they've all, without exception, worked well on all brands of camera. They last just as long as the originals, in fact, I alternate between them and never know which I'm using at the time. Same here. :)
Posted by Smeggypants on 18/08/2015 - 14:27
Battery replacements: D-Li90 recommendations
I've always bought cheap no-name back-up batteries off Ebay and they've all, without exception, worked well on all brands of camera. They last just as long as the originals, in fact, I alternate between them and never know which I'm using at the time. Same here. :) That's been my experience, too. I'...
Posted by Aero on 18/08/2015 - 14:38
Battery replacements: D-Li90 recommendations
[quote:3496ace15f="bwlchmawr"]I've always bought cheap no-name back-up batteries off Ebay and they've all, without exception, worked well on all brands of camera. They last just as long as the originals, in fact, I alternate between them and never know which I'm using at the time. Same here. :) That...
Posted by StephenHampshire on 18/08/2015 - 16:31
Battery replacements: D-Li90 recommendations
I've always bought cheap no-name back-up batteries off Ebay and they've all, without exception, worked well on all brands of camera. They last just as long as the originals, in fact, I alternate between them and never know which I'm using at the time. Same for me on my K10, Q and K5. Saved a fortune...
Posted by doingthebobs on 18/08/2015 - 23:43
K-3 Livewiev question
Is it normal that in livewiev the camera constantly opens and closes the aperture on lens? If I point it at dark and then lighter scene I can hear aperture closing and opening. If I have it pointed at half dark and half light scene it can be happen quite quickly few times. It happens in all modes. I...
Posted by gfurm on 20/07/2015 - 18:44
K-3 Livewiev question
Mode doesn't matter and lens doesn't matter. Only fully manual lens with no A setting doesn't do that. And I can't remember K-5 doing that. It's not a massive issue for me as I rarely use LV anyway. I just noticed that today playing with my Tamron 70-200 trying manual focus in LV with peaking. It...
Posted by gfurm on 20/07/2015 - 19:56
Full frame or not ???
Nigel, perhaps this might be something left over from the early days of FF DSLRs? If an APS-C field of view was cropped from the image back then, the few pixels remaining would have limited the scope for making a large print, so it was better to use a longer focal length lens to fill the field of vi...
Posted by MrB on 07/08/2015 - 13:51
