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Urgent (well for me is it) - photographying a very black dog Sunday
Some negative EV compensation may be needed if the dog fills most of the frame or metering area. Just take a test shot and see what's required. Indoors, personally, I would try an f2.8 or faster lens by a window with available daylight rather than using flash or other lights. You could get your f...
Posted by iceblinker on 27/02/2009 - 22:45
Urgent (well for me is it) - photographying a very black dog Sunday
What sort of dog is it? f2.8 is great for light, but very difficult to get the DOF needed to keep a long nose in focus... if that is what you want. Out of focus nose may be acceptable. It is really a matter of taste. If you have enough available light, that tends to look better. But if you h...
Posted by amoringello on 27/02/2009 - 23:04
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
Sometimes the Sigma 135-400 comes up on E-bay - think there's one there at the moment. It has the benefits of an aperture ring and the 'A' setting - meaning that you can use it with any of the K mount Pentax bodies, film or digital. It's a bit lighter :) than the 150-500 which replaced it. Took t...
Posted by Steve Chasey on 28/02/2009 - 20:32
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
Hi All Thanks for taking the time out to give me feed back. I know looking at other posts this seams a popular topic. I would like some information of the Sigma HSM system in conjunction with the K20D, in that dose it work with the K20D and more importantly what benefits dose it give over a ...
Posted by AndrzejT on 28/02/2009 - 23:27
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
Hi All Thanks for taking the time out to give me feed back. I know looking at other posts this seams a popular topic. I would like some information of the Sigma HSM system in conjunction with the K20D, in that dose it work with the K20D and more importantly what benefits dose it give over a ...
Posted by aminstar on 01/03/2009 - 08:27
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
Hi Steve and Mike According to the Sigma site the “DG (DG Lens) these are large-aperture lenses with wide angles and short minimum focusing distances. With an abundance of peripheral illumination, they are ideal lenses for Digital SLR Cameras whilst retaining suitability for traditional 35mm SLRs...
Posted by AndrzejT on 03/03/2009 - 20:53
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
Hi Steve and Mike I take it that both of your, are not seeing a noticeable softening at the longer focal lengths? With the 135-400 lens or do you have to come short of the 400mm mark to keep everything sharp? As with most zooms of this type you have to make sure you do not shoot wide open at th...
Posted by Mike-P on 03/03/2009 - 21:30
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
I've not found the lens in AF to be noisy - certainly it doesn't "grind away". As Mike says, best results at F8 and above. With a digi, you can up the ISO at a spin of of a wheel, so unless the light is very bad, you should be able to keep a stop or 2 away from being fully wide open. I took 2 v...
Posted by Steve Chasey on 04/03/2009 - 08:46
Telephoto Zoom lenses and Pentax K20D
I've not found the lens in AF to be noisy - certainly it doesn't "grind away". As Mike says, best results at F8 and above. With a digi, you can up the ISO at a spin of of a wheel, so unless the light is very bad, you should be able to keep a stop or 2 away from being fully wide open. I took 2 v...
Posted by AndrzejT on 05/03/2009 - 01:30
High ISO settings
Just an idea and I've no idea if it work so I ask you wise guys here :wink:. Could you just use an a little bit of flash to get down the iso but without that the photo feels unnatural. The subject would be a bit brighter compared to the background but that would be quite a good thing because you wa...
Posted by Anvh on 28/02/2009 - 23:07
High ISO settings
I wouldn't dream of wandering around with the camera.:shock: I did a wedding a few years back where the photographer was wandering all over the place, and in the middle of doing the vows with the couple, I was suddenly aware that he was at ground level, near my feet, getting a vertical shot of the...
Posted by alfpics on 03/03/2009 - 22:32
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
The lack of a hot shoe and the inclusion of a "macro" button makes me think this is more likely to be a bridge camera than an interchangeable lens one. Still, PMA this week so all should be revealed soon enough... hotshoe irrelevent if it has both p-ttl wireless and manual flash control, or a pc so...
Posted by Don on 01/03/2009 - 15:25
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
Now is a lot more interesting. K-Mount? That's more like it! Please, please, please let it be a K-mount! It can't be, it's too shallow: "The use of an EVF has allowed Samsung engineers to significantly reduce the size and weight of the new camera system by decreasing the distance between the l...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 02/03/2009 - 14:10
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
[quote:3496ace15f="Mike-P"]Now is a lot more interesting. K-Mount? That's more like it! Please, please, please let it be a K-mount! It can't be, it's too shallow: "The use of an EVF has allowed Samsung engineers to significantly reduce the size and weight of the new camera system by decreasing...
Posted by Anvh on 02/03/2009 - 15:05
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
Can you imagine the confusion that would cause? Would we have NXDA lenses that would suit the reduced mount-to-sensor distance, but be useless* on K*D cameras? I would strongly suspect (and hope) that it's a new mount. Dan * I realise these lenses would actually turn into pseudo-macro lenses...
Posted by Anvh on 02/03/2009 - 18:07
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
Well yes I see the confusing but if you name the Lenses differently I don't see the problem. Have you noticed how many questions there are on here about which lenses working with which cameras? Introducing another type with the same mount, that didn't work at all with the current range, would be lu...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 02/03/2009 - 23:28
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
Don't be sorry Dan, i'm quite a dreamer and don't think very practical sometimes. When looking back at it it isnt so good so you're right. About FA lens on such a micro camera though, why wouldn't it work? Of course the distance is wrong but it's okay to place a lens further away with extension ...
Posted by Anvh on 03/03/2009 - 02:04
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
About FA lens on such a micro camera though, why wouldn't it work? Of course the distance is wrong but it's okay to place a lens further away with extension tubes so I don't see why it wouldn't work the other way around. If the focus travel was long enough, I suppose it might work, but you would lo...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 03/03/2009 - 12:27
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
About FA lens on such a micro camera though, why wouldn't it work? Of course the distance is wrong but it's okay to place a lens further away with extension tubes so I don't see why it wouldn't work the other way around. If the focus travel was long enough, I suppose it might work, but you would lo...
Posted by RichardDay on 03/03/2009 - 16:04
New Pentax "bridge" (Micro APS-C) leak?
The pentax camera looks very similar to the Samsung NX camera though - what if they are from the same joint project? If the close focus of 1cm is proper close focus and not just at the wide angle setting, then I could use a camera like this. I always found the Fuji S602 Pro, then the S7000, ve...
Posted by johnriley on 03/03/2009 - 16:21
