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The lenses Live on
while the sony a7iii is the camera I always wished Pentax would make for the mirrorless market, and it breaks my heart to switch brands, I am happy to say a simple Fotodiox stretch adapter is allowing all my old pentax glass to live on for video and occasional photo uses... I am happy with the 85 ...
Posted by Don on 20/11/2018 - 18:50
The lenses Live on
I bought an adapter to use my PKA & DA lenses on my Canon M5 and they work really well. The only niggle I have (and if I were honest it doesn't just niggle me but drives me up the wall) is that the lenses are upside down for some reason. Bloody annoying it is. the fotodiox adapter I got has two n...
Posted by Don on 21/11/2018 - 13:43
Scanning negs and slides
The tubular ones are better. The un-branded one I have surprisingly has a flap at the back that allows a strip of 35mm negs to be put in and then clamped. The Pentax one only takes slides or negs between bits of card. I also have a Novoflex one which takes both. I only ever did one colour neg. ju...
Posted by Algernon on 05/12/2018 - 17:49
Scanning negs and slides
The tubular ones are better. The un-branded one I have surprisingly has a flap at the back that allows a strip of 35mm negs to be put in and then clamped. The Pentax one only takes slides or negs between bits of card. I also have a Novoflex one which takes both. I only ever did one colour neg. ju...
Posted by Kim C on 05/12/2018 - 18:52
Scanning negs and slides
How much editing scope do you get by scanning film with an FF? I would imagine it's nowhere near what you get with a RAW file directly from a digital camera. More or less exactly the same. ;) With the 645z you can take the pic either in RAW DNG or in Raw TIFF. With the K1, you can still take i...
Posted by Kim C on 09/12/2018 - 22:12
Scanning negs and slides
With the 645z you can take the pic either in RAW DNG or in Raw TIFF. That's a new one on me. I thought TIFF was another image format like JPEG, albeit with a lot more functionality.... 16 bit and layers ? Surely Raw is raw (PEF, DNG or other camera specific types), and is not by itself an image f...
Posted by Kim C on 09/12/2018 - 23:37
Club photographers
This sounds like torture. I'm not one for keeping quiet when something's in my mind and I think I would have said what I think if this chap had been in front of me. I think he would have left with no doubts that he wouldn't be coming back! Regards David
Posted by davidstorm on 07/12/2018 - 21:47
photo tours - your experiences please!
I went on a Light and Land trip to Northumberland in November and generally I enjoyed the trip. For much less money I could have booked into the hotel and explored myself but I know I wouldn’t without the incentive; that also applies to the pre-dawn starts. It was a largish group of twelve or fourte...
Posted by RobL on 19/12/2018 - 08:05
photo tours - your experiences please!
I went on a Light and Land trip to Northumberland in November and generally I enjoyed the trip. For much less money I could have booked into the hotel and explored myself but I know I wouldn’t without the incentive; that also applies to the pre-dawn starts. It was a largish group of twelve or fourte...
Posted by mattie on 19/12/2018 - 09:19
photo tours - your experiences please!
Last year a group of friends of mine (not including me) went on a tour in N. Ireland with John Miskelly. They all came back and spoke very positively about the experience. It was well organised, went to some amazing locations and he gave them all plenty of time. The group were all pretty experien...
Posted by swarf on 19/12/2018 - 09:42
Idea: Let someone else shoot for once!
Have you ever given your camera to someone with little to no experience of photography? How were the results? I thought it might be cool to let our family and friends shoot for once. They might come up with something special straight out of camera. Maybe you can use a little bit of tweaking and c...
Posted by HarisF1 on 25/12/2018 - 15:41
Catching FUNGUS in time !
From what I've experienced, fungal spores are everywhere and always present. They simply need the right conditions to bloom. As long as lenses are kept well ventilated and in a fairly dry environment they'll be fine. I myself have only ever had one lens 'contract' fungus. It was a SMC Takumar 13...
Posted by HarisF1 on 05/01/2019 - 00:09
What is the medium format 'compression'?
Here are three images. They've been snapped with three different lenses on three different cameras. One of them happens to be medium format. I tried to keep exposures in check but varying lighting conditions didn't help. I've cropped them so that the FoV is similar. The most notice...
Posted by HarisF1 on 06/01/2019 - 16:50
Total Lunar Eclipse (Reminder)
That's a great image Dan, sequences are often the best way to go and I really like the way you have presented it, standard full at upper left to fully eclipsed at lower right... easy on the eye. I will probably just try a few telephoto shots on a standard tripod... nothing too serious, just a bit...
Posted by mikeyscope on 20/01/2019 - 22:45
Total Lunar Eclipse (Reminder)
Well I got up at 5 am and watched it from a window. Then I went back to bed. The joys of retirement :lol:
Posted by Gwyn on 21/01/2019 - 09:05
Total Lunar Eclipse (Reminder)
Well I got up at 5 am and watched it from a window. Then I went back to bed. The joys of retirement :lol: Ha ha! Had a very cold but fun night; up on the South Downs at 3am and left around sunrise time Here is a cropped image;
Posted by alfpics on 21/01/2019 - 09:37
Total Lunar Eclipse (Reminder)
Well I got up at 5 am and watched it from a window. Then I went back to bed. The joys of retirement :lol: I too got up at 5am but was cloudy So went back to bed definitely the Joys of retirement
Posted by gtis on 21/01/2019 - 13:12
PS6 on win10 machine
Superb, thanks for checking and coming back to me
Posted by Chrism8 on 31/01/2019 - 16:20
How do you store yours?
I make use of an old Hi-Fi cabinet - room on top for odds & sods like battery chargers, filter cases, etc., and two shelves below for lenses. It's open front and back, so plenty of air circulation. The bottom still has about 50 my 'favourite' albums (remember them!) stored there. Phil
Posted by swarf on 01/02/2019 - 09:30
Pentax Ambassador Short Film
Hi all... I made a short film with the excellent Matty Graham (who shot and edited the whole thing) up in Northumberland a few weeks back for Pentax as part of the Ambassador role I do for them... we shot it in just under a day in Budle Bay in Northumberland in mid January, and Ricoh Imaging have ju...
Posted by thingsthatihaveseen on 08/02/2019 - 21:11
