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Good or bad lens ?
Here's a couple of examples of what this lens is capable of: This is with Extension Tubes: This is with the K-01 using focus peaking to assist: Regards David
Posted by davidstorm on 13/07/2014 - 21:42
Good or bad lens ?
The SMC-DA 50mm F1.8. The brand new digital configured lens, that will work on FF Are you sure about this? I thought the latest cheap plastic mount 50mm was APS-C only?. The manual focus 50mm's are quite very cool given they're quite heavy, solid and gives a real mechanical feedback experien...
Posted by richandfleur on 13/07/2014 - 23:20
I know, I'm stupid!
I paid more for mine at around £35 a 95 - 210 mm and it has done well. OK some draw backs with my K10D either wide open, or manual as the camera does not know setting of lens. But I go an added bonus found when I reverse the lens the zoom becomes focus and the focus becomes zoom so quite good fo...
Posted by ericmark on 26/07/2014 - 19:31
I know, I'm stupid!
To get serious. It really does,t matter how much a lens cost (or how little). Every lens will give you a picture. I have a lot of very old lenses, from early bellow and similar cameras. All bought on ebay. I modified the back to 42mm Pentax thread , or drilled a hole in to a 42mm camera cap...
Posted by Horst on 27/07/2014 - 11:20
Waterproof housings
Anyone got any experience with this? Despite living by the sea and lots of lovely rivers, I'm still not having any joy with the WG series (any of the 3 I've owned). I think it's a combination of tiny lens, too easily obscured by water droplets, dodgy low light ability (and DR) and completely rando...
Posted by Darkmunk on 26/07/2014 - 14:08
Waterproof housings
OK, thanks guys. Just been down to the river to give the WG a thorough test (I always assume it's me) the dynamic range (abysmal), inability to make it focus where you want, no raw, tiny lens area, all make it ridiculously difficult to use. It is definitely no better (possibly worse) than my iPhone...
Posted by Darkmunk on 26/07/2014 - 21:06
Settings help
just me perhaps but i would go full manual,low iso,set aperture for your desired depth of field, meter for the outside ,then using the preview facility with histogram adjust shutter so that the highlights are just about to clip this should then only require a shadows lift and a small drop in the hi...
Posted by redbusa99 on 28/07/2014 - 13:51
Settings help
Trying to imagine this from the inside. I think deep shadows would be normal and even desirable to emphasise in places. In a rush I would try HDR or double exposure route with very careful and subtle bringing-up of dark areas back home in post. The K5 would certainly be able to do this with just o...
Posted by Darkmunk on 16/09/2014 - 12:10
Pentax K3 Ambassadors
A LINK would be handy :wink: -- I think you may have to sign up for the Ricoh news letter. I've tried posting a link but it keeps going back to my email about the news letter
Posted by bforbes on 01/08/2014 - 20:23
Pentax K3 Ambassadors
Just joined the Forum. Thought it would be a good idea now I'm on the ambassador team. I shoot lesser known heritage and off limits locations dotted around the UK and Northern Europe. Really enjoying the K3 so far, big step up from the Canon 7D in terms of image quality and low light shooting. Th...
Posted by ForgottenHeritagePhotography on 15/08/2014 - 22:44
Super Moon
Remember you can focus using the digital zoom on live view with focus peaking. Whilst it's night here, the object you are photographing is fully daylight illuminated.
Posted by richandfleur on 06/08/2014 - 21:28
Super Moon
i found it too bright for the focus to lock on anything, af or live view so just set to infinity, f8 and adjusted shutter until i had a satisfactory exposure then tweaked focus minutely each shot until it came out ok. the moon position was slightly diferent this time to last month as i was later s...
Posted by redbusa99 on 12/08/2014 - 13:52
Super Moon
I have had no success in photographing the moon with my K3. Whatever settings I use, I get the red overexposure blinkies in live view - even if expose to the minimum and set the lowest ISO. There must be something that I am doing wrong. Any ideas please? What mode were you in? If you flick to ...
Posted by miles500 on 13/08/2014 - 00:04
travelling / backing up
Hi, Just last night I have been looking around for a wireless media reader. They are small devices that allow you to access data on SD cards or USB devices through your phone or tablet. they do not need internet to connect to your phone or tablet. If you have a phone with decent memory, you could...
Posted by giofi on 07/08/2014 - 16:43
travelling / backing up
Using Dropbox or other cloud storage relies on good reliable fast internet, and a stack of space in that cloud. Have you looked at small portable drives which just read the card? They generally are expensive (though why goodness only knows) but small and very portable. Do a search for image tank...
Posted by Gwyn on 07/08/2014 - 19:58
travelling / backing up
Although the original post was a bit dated, and the person is most likely already back from the vacation and all... The original post was missing the camera type. If it might be a camera such as one of the K3 variations; that camera body (and others) offer one the ability to mirror the memory car...
Posted by 50mpCMOS on 24/11/2014 - 20:11
travelling / backing up
Not sure if this is worthy of a topic start on this next one, but also remember this gravely critical point. If one still happens to have a mechanical platter hard disk on their computer; one should never use any memory card that goes anywhere near half the capacity of that mechanical hard drive. Th...
Posted by K10D on 24/11/2014 - 21:42
What to charge for music festival pics??
I'm an airline pilot by profession but a recent ankle problem has led me to consider photography as more than just a 33 year long hobby and might be a potential back-up plan if the pilot career ends up going down the drain. Our local successful pub runs an annual music festival with several band...
Posted by saxon on 08/08/2014 - 17:16
What to charge for music festival pics??
Landlords venue, landlords yearly music festival, 2000+ people attending and he lets you shoot to gain experience, exposure AND you get to show some of your landscape work on his wall (in his successful pub)... You even get a paid job from it photographing the bands next album cover and get to (hope...
Posted by Mike-P on 08/08/2014 - 21:20
What to charge for music festival pics??
Many thanks for all the advice and I have indeed gone back to him to ask his budget, how many images he wants, if he wants any prints done for the bar walls etc. It was a great opportunity and I loved it and am very pleased that he and the and are so pleased. I really do appreciate the advice. ...
Posted by saxon on 09/08/2014 - 12:47
