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Photography at a Boxing Match
Taking my K20 to a local charity fight night...need some advice Plan to use my 77mm wide in TAV mode. As regards focus, should I go manual or AF-C? Also have a manual pentax 55mm/1.8 if shorter with manual focus is the way to go? Have a sigma EF-530 flash if required If the AF-C can not han...
Posted by Frogfish on 06/05/2011 - 10:54
Macro Extension Tubes - A newbie to macro!
I don't want to hijack your post but I have a 2x KAX macro teleplus MC7 for sale. Essentially a teleconverter that also allows the attached lens to focus to 1:1 for macro. It would be ideal with your 50mm prime - making it into a 100mm macro lens8). I does mean that you'll loose 2 stops but it will ...
Posted by Donut on 20/11/2009 - 22:18
Macro Extension Tubes - A newbie to macro!
Message to self ... read the threads first before buying ... I see bugger all because my lenses do not have Aperture ring ... daft bugger I am :roll: Actually the 18-55 can focus quite close to 1:2,9 good enough for most flowers at least. A 50mm lens isn't so expensive though, neither is a 28mm ...
Posted by Anvh on 13/05/2010 - 14:52
Film digitiser.
Have any of you used one of those cheap usb powered neg/slide scanners that are widely available, now?. Actually, It is not a true scanner, I think it is just a vertically mounted 5mp fixed focus digital camera that 'photographs' your filmstrip and the software reverses the negative image into a pos...
Posted by mowog on 20/11/2009 - 00:49
Film digitiser.
Haha nice one :lol: Poor old Andy! (He's the guy you erased :P) The photo is of my sister-in-law, and my mate Andy, in the back of a jeep in Thailand about 15 years ago.
Posted by thoughton on 20/11/2009 - 10:30
Film digitiser.
FWIW, I've just acquired a small, and cheap, 5"x4" light box via eBay. The idea was to use it to put negatives / slides on and use an SLR to photograph them. So far I've just tried a few handheld close up shots of some old negatives. The results look very promising for the set up if a tripod or othe...
Posted by Sdeve on 10/12/2013 - 10:24
Yippee... My first PPG
Thanks Terry, back to the drawing board then.
Posted by Still27 on 15/06/2011 - 19:44
Landscape Filters
So the circularity is in the shape of the filter? I read it as 'circular polariser', i.e. producing circularly polarised light. That can be achieved with quarter wave plates etc but it seemed not to fill the requirement of eliminating one particular plane of polarisation. The terminology seems to b...
Posted by Oggy on 30/11/2009 - 20:05
Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
So, here is the lighting set up for the shot. A 4 bulb Kino Light, lit from below with a white shoot through diffusor. An Opalight shooting down at around 60 degrees and around 1 meter above and 2 meters back from the model. Two bare bulb heads, one on either side of the model at around 100...
Posted by benjikan on 03/12/2009 - 22:55
The Follow Up to the K7
:PWe have the 'Megapixel race' We have the "High ISO race' What I would really like the next big technological advancement to be is a 'Dynamic Range race.' If Pentax could concentrate on that one instead of following the herd, it could make things very interesting! I couldn't agree more and it...
Posted by gartmore on 24/11/2009 - 08:48
The Follow Up to the K7
azile5 something in this thread must have triggered your rather explosive response/post. Your list of lenses looks pretty impressive to me. Body wise the K10D capable though it is isn't really in the K20D / K-7 league from a performance perspective. So what is the issue? Of course the Eos 5d mk2 ...
Posted by Greytop on 24/11/2009 - 19:16
The Follow Up to the K7
Probably something to do with not realising the focus point was not set to the centre. G
Posted by George Lazarette on 24/11/2009 - 19:48
The Follow Up to the K7
Square format SLRs look very odd. There are two examples that spring to mind, from Zeiss Ikon and Rollei respectively, both using the square format 126 cartridge. I have a suspicion that the majority of buyers would reject the new shape, just like they did the first time. We live in a widescre...
Posted by johnriley on 24/11/2009 - 23:52
The Follow Up to the K7
I am sorry to say this, but I have decided to give up on Pentax. I have had Pentax cameras since the ME Super came out. I have several bodies :- ME Super, MX, SFX, MZ3, MZS, iSTD and K10. Also several Lenses :- FA* 24mm f/2, 50mm f/1.2, FA* 85mm f/1.4, FA* 200mm f/2.8 ED, FA* 28-70mm f/2.8 AL, FA* 8...
Posted by Lance B on 26/11/2009 - 01:22
The Follow Up to the K7
We are just getting too picky aren't we. Noise, what noise. My K10 has hardly ever seen it. I am no professional, but know quality when i see it. A new model in my opinion should maybe work a bit on HDR, a pixel or 2 extra, and for me, most importantly focus capability and speed.
Posted by mattox on 02/12/2009 - 18:17
The Follow Up to the K7
I just disagree that the Pentax premium JPEG from the K20D is poor. It isn't. When you look at A3 competition or exhibition prints from various marques frankly there isn't a problem with any of them, whether shot in JPEG or RAW. Obviously less noise would always be nice, just like more pixels ...
Posted by Smeggypants on 04/12/2009 - 03:15
The Follow Up to the K7
I am sorry to say this, but I have decided to give up on Pentax. I have had Pentax cameras since the ME Super came out. I have several bodies :- ME Super, MX, SFX, MZ3, MZS, iSTD and K10. Also several Lenses :- FA* 24mm f/2, 50mm f/1.2, FA* 85mm f/1.4, FA* 200mm f/2.8 ED, FA* 28-70mm f/2.8 AL, FA* 8...
Posted by azile5 on 12/12/2009 - 16:25
The Follow Up to the K7
quote MATTOX - (good evening, sir!) - "We are just getting too picky aren't we. Noise, what noise. My K10 has hardly ever seen it. I am no professional, but know quality when i see it. A new model in my opinion should maybe work a bit on HDR, a pixel or 2 extra, and for me, most importantly focus ca...
Posted by patrick on 14/12/2009 - 22:10
K-7 and grip or DA* 55mm f1.4 ?
Someone asked if the K-7 was worth the upgrade from the K10D, instead of the K20D. Because I cannot find a buyer for the K10D, I now have all three bodies. I will definitely keep the K20D and grip as a second camera, but now that I have had the K-7 and grip for a while, I am beginning to really ...
Posted by Monobod on 01/12/2009 - 14:02
How did he do that?
Okay Don, will try it out then, the trick must be to be quick then :) Prieni, interesting idea will try that out as well. occam's razor which is easier... skylight filter, vasiline cotton swabs or: compose, lock focus and exposure pivot the camera to point lens at your mouth breath, pivot b...
Posted by Don on 26/11/2009 - 21:23
