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When the lens model doesn't show up in the Exif
I think the lens is very important. The lens is an integral part of constructing an image. For instance, if you are trying to get a dreamy look with limited depth of field and smooth out of focus areas you will not achieve this with the 18-55 kit lens, but you will with a Pentax-M 50mm F1.4 set wi...
Posted by davidstorm on 27/01/2017 - 23:14
When the lens model doesn't show up in the Exif
Cheers John, I thought it was a prime :roll: example of the ridiculousness of the previous statement. To get back to your original point, it's not something that I ever came across before, having read your very interesting piece on it, I think that maybe because of the age of the lenses I was usin...
Posted by derek897 on 27/01/2017 - 23:51
Good bye
I am leaving this forum as from today. Why? Because until now the plus membership renewing was automatic and the premium for the Plus membership was automatically deducted from my account. However this time I received some email which required me to fill out all sorts of forms to do this with...
Posted by Horst on 20/01/2017 - 04:20
Wildlife photographer of the year peoples choice
Am I reading this correctly? The exposure time was 1/15 and it is pin sharp with no motion blur. Or was the bird stuffed and mounted, snapped and then added to a background in Photoshop. Still, it's a good image even if it's stuffed life not wild life! Them Canon users op to their tricks again :...
Posted by RobL on 06/02/2017 - 19:35
Wildlife photographer of the year peoples choice
If you can capture the blurred tail, then you'd also capture the movement of the wings to get to location they are in. The more I look at this, the more I see a nicely time exposure with some post processing applied to create the light streaking effect of the tail. I don't know what the rule...
Posted by richandfleur on 08/02/2017 - 09:37
Wildlife photographer of the year peoples choice
Interesting comments on this photo. I think it's fantastic. And I think the photographer deserves an awful lot of praise for getting it. I do have a few doubts though. I can see how something similar to this could be set up and taken with a single exposure. What I don't understand is how the blurri...
Posted by Blythman on 08/02/2017 - 12:36
My comments have several times disappeared from members' gallery photos.
I'm referring to comments on other members' photos in the gallery. I would say this has happened about four times, and each time I had not checked to see if my just-typed comment "took", that is, showed as the last comment in the column. Perhaps I never entered the comment correctly in the first pla...
Posted by hocusfocus on 24/01/2017 - 19:41
I have been asked if I offer prints.......
John's advice is right. Also don't sell yourself too cheap, to the cost of the print add your time in arranging it plus of course a value you put on the image. If this is a direction you see progressing then ultimately your costs will include that of your equipment and its eventual replacement, plus...
Posted by RobL on 01/02/2017 - 08:22
NEC Camera Show
K3ii in srs £699. With full warranty and back up. Not really worth the risk for £24 saving on eBay.
Posted by derek897 on 11/02/2017 - 14:22
Photography Portfolio - Self-hosted or Flikr/WordPress/etc.?
on that note...your website is down :wink: Lol, well spotted, it's a good job I'm not a professional photographer, as a professional you should update your site regularly, then you would spot things like this sooner! On another serious note though because of this, BACKUP & SECURITY!! Website...
Posted by Unlocker on 15/02/2017 - 11:44
catch in focus
having trouble getting this to work with a reversing ring, which is anodised black, the shutter releases when out of focus. do i need to scrape the coating off the ring to short certain contacts out to get it to work? it works fine with the lens attached (M 28mm f3.5) but this has a chrome mating fa...
Posted by redbusa99 on 05/03/2017 - 00:44
catch in focus
answered my own question and just purchased a genuine Pentax one in chrome, this will short out all contacts as the lens mount does.
Posted by redbusa99 on 05/03/2017 - 08:26
catch in focus
No, you shouldn't have to do that. CIF won't work if you have focusing set to the back button only, the camera has to set to focus with half press of the shutter button.
Posted by McBrian on 05/03/2017 - 08:28
catch in focus
answered my own question and just purchased a genuine Pentax one in chrome, this will short out all contacts as the lens mount does. I didn't know that :-)
Posted by McBrian on 05/03/2017 - 08:29
catch in focus
Stupid moment Why would you want to short out contacts it's electrical you short out any power circuit it wil cause damage
Posted by stu62 on 05/03/2017 - 09:15
catch in focus
Why would you want to short out contacts it's electrical you short out any power circuit it wil cause damage With a manual lens such as an M series for example that has no contact,s it would short out contacts on the camera body, that in turn would tell the camera that a manual lens is fitted. I th...
Posted by screwdriver222 on 05/03/2017 - 09:43
catch in focus
Stupid moment Why would you want to short out contacts it's electrical you short out any power circuit it wil cause damage By "short out" we mean that bare metal (not a lens connector) touches the cameras connectors. We don't mean sparks, smell of burning, "OMG what have I done" moments :D
Posted by pschlute on 05/03/2017 - 10:07
catch in focus
Stupid moment Why would you want to short out contacts it's electrical you short out any power circuit it wil cause damage The aperture contacts on a lens/mount are not 'power circuits' they are low voltage data connectors which are read by whether or not they are earthed. This is very common in...
Posted by petrochemist on 05/03/2017 - 11:12
catch in focus
thanks people, i did have shutter release set to AF as i use CIF quite a bit with macro but it still kept firing even when out of focus. it took a while for my old brain to twig the coating on the ring could be the problem:(
Posted by redbusa99 on 06/03/2017 - 08:10
SOOC
I think that there is a sect that preach SOOC as a purist way of approaching photography. Of course, we do our best to get everything right, even when shooting RAW. Composition, exposure, focus and so on. It's an old argument, but the SOOC JPEG club seem to ignore the processing performed by t...
Posted by Simonmac on 10/03/2017 - 12:01
