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Your opinions please....
This is what I am contemplating: http://tinyurl.com/3ytbvh It looks to me like an Ipod without the screen. It's much the same cost as other portable storage units at the cheap end of the scale, but if you have access to a screen of some sort, you can play back whatever is on the drive. If yo...
Posted by George Lazarette on 12/05/2007 - 11:00
Your opinions please....
I have a SmartDisk FlashTrax - ideal for the *ist D. Not for the K10D because a) I had to find an adaptor... b) it's only 20Gb and as mentioned above, transfer rate is s l o w and batteries die quickly.. I'm looking at laptop computers now... Ditto, ditto, ditto. Decided to get something...
Posted by old timer on 13/05/2007 - 16:26
Why do we put up with small viewfinders?
OK, the whole point of an SLR is to look at the actual image that the sensor will see through the lens. We compromise a bit on this by viewing with lens wide open for brightness, but most cameras have a dof preview, and basically WYSIWYG. So why since digital and aps-c size sensors have we put...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 13/05/2007 - 19:41
Why do we put up with small viewfinders?
Pentax viewfinders are probably the best currently available, especially the pentaprism ones. The answer as to why so many are small is probably that manufacturers try to minimise the size of the cameras. This is not helped by the smaller dimensions of the APS-C sensors. It is also true that ...
Posted by johnriley on 13/05/2007 - 19:52
Why do we put up with small viewfinders?
Back in the old days the bloke would look at the image on a ground glass screen, and it would be big enough to actually look at from a sensible distance. Ok, he had to have a cloth over him because it wasn't all that bright, but never mind. Presumably the image was upside down, as well, but that's...
Posted by ChrisA on 13/05/2007 - 20:11
Why do we put up with small viewfinders?
1. autofocus has reduced the need for a large image. This applies less to us as pentax users since we tend to use more older manual focus lenses. .... - how hard would it be to make a viewfinder with some magnification in it so that a aps-c camera gave a viewfinder image like an old film camer...
Posted by Dave_Evanson on 13/05/2007 - 20:52
Why do we put up with small viewfinders?
well theres always the Leica R9 with matching digital back, if you are made of money.
Posted by Mongoose on 13/05/2007 - 22:16
Why do we put up with small viewfinders?
How about one of these? but you can't judge focus on a little tft display. now if someone made one of those that was just optical and sold for £15 i'd go for it. even if the image was a bit dim. I've just thought of one possible advantage of small viewfinders - it should be easier to notice cam...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 13/05/2007 - 22:29
A brief guide to monitor calibration
Thanks Matt - I'll set the printer back to the default - thing is it doesn't seem to make any difference now that the monitor is correctly calibrated Lilly - It was the ColorVision Spyder 2 Suite Screen and Printer Calibration Software with USB Spyder (PC) and not the pro. Whilst I run 2 scree...
Posted by Rodger Fooks on 15/05/2007 - 20:10
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
Dan, Just install the Pro (demo) version then. And a few extra colour spaces appear in LE... No hacking required :P But, as I said, AdobeRGB will suit 99.9% of people, especially as you normally have to convert the resulting image back into something with a smaller gamut anyway (monitor or print...
Posted by MattMatic on 21/05/2007 - 11:46
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
why do you prefer silkypix? Just to start off... I'm using Windows XP with 2Gb of RAM on a Xeon quad processor :P C1 is about the same speed as SP. I also use them both on a Centrino Tosh laptop running XP with 1Gb RAM - and it's perfectly usable. I prefer Silkypix over Capture One LE for a numbe...
Posted by MattMatic on 21/05/2007 - 12:05
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
hmm, better noise reduction would tip it for me, since i do a lot of low light - i'll have another go at silkypix. my main objection in cap one is that the preview image is just a preview, and that theres no quick and easy way to view at 100% or indeed on non-aliasing reductions like 25% or 50% t...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 21/05/2007 - 12:15
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
my main objection in cap one is that the preview image is just a preview, and that theres no quick and easy way to view at 100% or indeed on non-aliasing reductions like 25% or 50% the preview doesnt tell you what magnification it is on. so you can never tell if the focus is really right... Zooming ...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 21/05/2007 - 15:15
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
Daniel, sounds like we are using different programs almost! on mine, there is no magnification readout as you describe (or at all) focus tool previews in its own window are quite slow to render, and re- render everytime you scroll(!!), but changing the magnification of the general preview wind...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 21/05/2007 - 16:15
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
I think you're right about it being a different program Tom! Does it look anything like this? Not sure what you mean about "...opening the focus window as opposed to just the tab, renders all the controls in the main window inoperable" :?: So you can open a focus window? Not ju...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 21/05/2007 - 17:52
channel clipping vs in camera clipping and white balance
So you can open a focus window? Not just the focus tab on the right hand side? yes, clicking on the window icon at the top left of the focus tab in my screenshot opens a focus window which is resizable so you can see more of the image at 100%+ to adjust focus. the sharpening controls remain active ...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 21/05/2007 - 19:35
are ISO settings a nonsense on digital?
individual photons have an energy, which corresponds to wavelength i think. certainly its difficult to observe wavelike behaviour in a single quanta, but I think the concept of a wavelength of an individual photon has some validity. if not then colour and wavelength must be built up through in...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 23/05/2007 - 16:01
are ISO settings a nonsense on digital?
Thomas, I have a feeling we discussed this before... (at least I have :P) From what I understand, Pentax opted for removing the pre-amp and associated electronics and went for the 22-bit ADC. It was one of the head guys in Japan that mentioned this - and they did it to gain a better image "qu...
Posted by MattMatic on 24/05/2007 - 15:44
are ISO settings a nonsense on digital?
so since the K10 already does all this wonderful stuff, is it much less noisy in low light than the older models? it doesnt seem to be ahaed of the field on shadow noise especially from the tests i've seen, but then tests are often badly performed... I still think its missing a trick to set i...
Posted by thomastherhymer on 25/05/2007 - 10:46
are ISO settings a nonsense on digital?
The *ist-D was excellent, and I pushed it to its limit and have consistently got quality results from it (several have asked if the prints were from medium format). The K10D is much better, a complete joy to use (fast, intuitive etc) and is only lacking one or two very minor things - it's nearly my ...
Posted by Prieni on 25/05/2007 - 12:11
