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pinhead faces wont stay at 40% magn
can you explain what you mean by this joe, (quote) I guess I will have to crop that person out cos it will make an unsightly picture having the portrait subject in focus and the person next to her out of focus. Hopefully I can learn not to be reliant on spot metering when two people are in the f...
Posted by Anvh on 31/12/2008 - 00:19
pinhead faces wont stay at 40% magn
the metering mode was on spot mode which I think accounts for the pinhead image faces produced on the LCD spot metering will not affect the size of the image in any way. more likely the reason is because you were using your lens at the 28mm setting. The camera setting was F6 @1/6sec with an iso 4...
Posted by fatspider on 31/12/2008 - 00:31
pinhead faces wont stay at 40% magn
The spot meter is used when the photographer wants to get exactly what he or she is looking for. With all other metering systems, when photographing a complex (more than one tone) subject, one can never be sure of the exact outcome. Other metering systems lend themselves to subjects that are of aver...
Posted by JoeHarryJames on 31/12/2008 - 18:33
pinhead faces wont stay at 40% magn
Anvh and impotent spider thank you for your advice & thoughts, I would like to send this outof focus picture but I have never sent a photo to a forum. Could either of your explain how I get my photo(s) to this particular forum never mind getting it to this pentax website. jhj
Posted by JoeHarryJames on 31/12/2008 - 18:58
pinhead faces wont stay at 40% magn
http://picasaweb.google.com/joehellojoe2253/136_1108?feat=directlink This is the link to the picasso website where I have uploaded 3 photos. One of the photos is from the balcony looking down onto the ground floor and the other two are images of my daughter and her friend. The girls in each photo...
Posted by JoeHarryJames on 11/01/2009 - 02:42
pinhead faces wont stay at 40% magn
There are three possible causes of blurriness: 1) Camera shake. 2) Subject movement. 3) Out of focus. Here are ways to identify each. 1) Everything in the frame is out of focus and the blurriness has direction to - all in the same direction. Check out the highlights on the left girl's headban...
Posted by MattMatic on 12/01/2009 - 12:21
PK/A adaptall
SRS had a couple a short while back. Kris.
Posted by womble on 17/01/2009 - 12:20
PK/A adaptall
SRS had a couple a short while back. Kris. I bought that :)
Posted by Mike-P on 17/01/2009 - 14:51
Help Required?
When shooting indoors, even with flash, you should be using ISO800 or more ;) That will increase the flash gun's effective range and ability (that's why the shots were underexposed - you were asking too much of the relatively small flash gun. You'll need a flashgun the size of a large brick to shoo...
Posted by MattMatic on 05/01/2009 - 13:26
K10D Grip
When you have two batteries the K10D/K20D will pick one battery to use (depending on the setting in the menu). Once that one battery is dead the camera will show "flat battery". You then know that battery has died and needs recharging ;) Turning off the camera and back on again should get the ca...
Posted by MattMatic on 07/01/2009 - 13:51
K10D Grip
Turning off the camera and back on again should get the camera onto the good battery. Tried that a few times and it just died on me each time.
Posted by Mike-P on 07/01/2009 - 17:50
SanDisk 4MB SDHC Memoiry Card in K110D
Well, Terry, Dave and all, I've updated the old camera to Ver 1.02 and it didn't even hurt (once I figured out how to do it:D) And it doesn't appear that I've lost any of my settings or even "Debug Enabled" focus settings! :P:P:P This being an old model, do you think there will be any further ...
Posted by Mac on 09/01/2009 - 22:01
SanDisk 4MB SDHC Memoiry Card in K110D
Just to wrap this up. I've got the 4GB SDHC card back and it work's a treat since the firmware upgrade. I estimate my camera can take about 1280 JPEGS now. (Counter only goes to 999). Better start shooting RAW! If anyone else is sitting at old releases.... Hey, if Mac can do it........ Tha...
Posted by Mac on 10/01/2009 - 15:19
Softness Issue
Impossible to test for this photo now of course, but given that the depth of field at 12mm is enormous at any aperture you could happily follow hefty's advice and use f5.6 for maximum sharpness and maximum shutter speed. I had nasty soft images from my beloved 50-135mm lens at an American footbal...
Posted by womble on 14/01/2009 - 01:32
Softness Issue
It's worth also noting these points: * My K20D was back focussing. Most lenses needed +2 adjustment, and some slightly different tweaks. The 12-24 was the most difficult to test and align, but it was still out. Might be an idea to check both near and far focus on a scene... * SR can introduce a ...
Posted by MattMatic on 14/01/2009 - 09:55
Softness Issue
I have been automatically going for a small aperture when shooting any landscape or anything thats not 'flat' or where I am trying to isolate a subject with a narrow DoF. I understand hyperfocal distance and so can relate to what you say about wide angles and DoF. At 12mm f5.6 HD is at about 1.3m o...
Posted by SteveT on 14/01/2009 - 14:11
Softness Issue
Looks like a focus problem possibly with a bit of camera shake. The rocks are almost there. The sand is getting soft, but sand will never look sharp at that distance. The trees are way out of focus. Until you sort it out shoot jpegs or jpegs+raw and just look at the jpegs for now, don't do any pr...
Posted by shim on 14/01/2009 - 14:51
Softness Issue
Shim I will try and give that a go. Thanks Hefty I know the trouble with digital is, everyone thinks they can sell stock images and I am as guilty as anyone. The dissapointment is more about the image quality itself and being lost as to why it is so, and not about whether it is accepted or not. ...
Posted by SteveT on 14/01/2009 - 15:16
Softness Issue
You can get a lens test at http://focustestchart.com free and i found my lens was front focusing...This caused the detail at infinity to be out, even at small apertures do some tests mine needed -8 and is fine now Note if you use SR there is a delay for it to stabilise, so I don't normally hav...
Posted by shim on 14/01/2009 - 16:15
Softness Issue
I think the focus error (if it is that) will be more than a few mm. Also the focus chart would only test the focus at a very short distance. With a Nikon D2X that I used to use, the focus was out which equated to 5% error. Up close it was fine, but distance caused problems as did longer focal lengt...
Posted by LifeSpy on 14/01/2009 - 16:54
