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What lenses would be best for portrait work
It's very important to set the dioptre adjustment on the camera eye piece using the correct technique. Point the camera at a smooth surface or the sky, don'y focus, but adjust the slider until the etched lines in the viewfinder are sharpest. Your eye is then at rest focusing on the camera screen ...
Posted by johnriley on 24/10/2009 - 17:13
What lenses would be best for portrait work
Not sure if yours is a af or mf version this photo was taken with the mf 50mm 1.7 just wonderd how it compared with your lens. Ian That is indeed very, very sharp and looks fantastic. Have a look at the links I added to a further up the thread post. They are compressed, so don't give a true repres...
Posted by philstaff on 24/10/2009 - 17:15
What lenses would be best for portrait work
It's very important to set the dioptre adjustment on the camera eye piece using the correct technique. Point the camera at a smooth surface or the sky, don'y focus, but adjust the slider until the etched lines in the viewfinder are sharpest. Your eye is then at rest focusing on the camera screen ...
Posted by johnnyboy114 on 25/10/2009 - 09:00
What lenses would be best for portrait work
Not sure if yours is a af or mf version this photo was taken with the mf 50mm 1.7 just wonderd how it compared with your lens. Ian That is indeed very, very sharp and looks fantastic. Have a look at the links I added to a further up the thread post. They are compressed, so don't give a true repres...
Posted by johnnyboy114 on 25/10/2009 - 09:02
DA15 f/4 review
Lance and I have decided to buy up all of Australia's supply of Pentax gear and then sell it back to you guys at more reasonable prices. :wink: Thats just the kind of people we are I guess. :lol:
Posted by Clarky on 21/10/2009 - 00:16
DA15 f/4 review
Great shots Lance, I had some pics I was going to post but your flower shots have put mine to shame :? The second shot looks almost 3D like. Its one of those lenses you can just stick in your pocket and away you go. I took some shots with mine yesterday, wide open, they are still in the came...
Posted by Clarky on 28/10/2009 - 08:13
DA15 f/4 review
Great shots Lance, I had some pics I was going to post but your flower shots have put mine to shame :? The second shot looks almost 3D like. Thyank you very much, Clarky. Its one of those lenses you can just stick in your pocket and away you go. Better still, put it on your camera and it works m...
Posted by Lance B on 28/10/2009 - 22:29
macro lens
No, should be fine. I got my Samsung 12-24 from them for £200 a few months back. If it's in stock grab it quick at that price. Just wish I had the spare cash at the moment, but I'd like to live....
Posted by MarkD on 19/10/2009 - 21:33
macro lens
Lens ordered, but their website is painfully bad. Had to log on at least fifteen times, got so fed up with the customer survey pop-up that I agreed to do it. Question 1 was "you are currently shopping - do you intend to continue?", and when I answered yes, it said I didn't need to take the survey. B...
Posted by Oggy on 20/10/2009 - 23:03
Zenitar (alternatively?) 16mm for Pentax DLSR
Hi everyone, has anyone used the Zenitar-K 16mm on a Pentax DSLR? Results? I came across this on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lens-Zenitar-K-Fish-Eye-New-Pentax-K-bayonet-16mm_W0QQitemZ390040122642QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CamerasPhoto_CameraAccessories_CameraLensesFilters_JN?hash=item5ad033f512 ...
Posted by Me on 19/10/2009 - 23:43
Zenitar (alternatively?) 16mm for Pentax DLSR
The Zenitar is one of my favourites, easily outperforming (in terms of sharpness at least) the DA 10-17 and F 17-28 Fisheye zooms at 17mm :) It used to offer terrific value-for-money (I bought mine from Russia for £60), but current prices are a little less favourable :cry: The lack of automati...
Posted by Reuben0 on 20/10/2009 - 14:38
Lens advice Above 135mm...
What about a Sigma 180mm f3.5 macro ? You'd have a cracking macro lense for bugs then too. I guess you'd need to check it has a focus limit switch to stop it hunting too much if you intend on using it for concert work.
Posted by RR on 21/10/2009 - 21:08
Ultra fast 50.
Whenever I see a 50 f1.2 lens on ebay, I watch it. Not because I want to buy one, but just to see what it fetches. I am constantly amazed at the prices they go for. £300+ is not unusual. They are certainly beautiful. Big, sexy front element and that, but what use are they?. The depth of focus at f1...
Posted by mowog on 21/10/2009 - 22:56
Ultra fast 50.
Andrew That's just the point of such f/1.2, you need to play with the out of focus blur to create an image so they become very dreamy. Sharpness or details hardly play a point. #3 is quite a normal shot and would hardly raise any attention. You probably can also not appreciate this men's art ...
Posted by Anvh on 09/11/2009 - 13:51
Ultra fast 50.
OK it official I'm a Luddite. you all see art I see blurred image. If I wanted to paint I'd buy an easel. I suspect getting that blurred/dreamy effect would be pretty easy with any half decent zoom and decent photo-editing software. Lets see anyone turn those f1.2 shots into sharp, te...
Posted by Lance B on 15/11/2009 - 01:58
Ultra fast 50.
I still need to find a program that can decently simulate lens bokeh, they simply can and will probably never will since they can't see depth and therefore can not create a good true to life bokeh. Pleasant though bokeh often is in a photographic image, one thing it definitely isn't, is true to li...
Posted by ChrisA on 15/11/2009 - 09:38
Ultra fast 50.
Chris with "true to life" I mean Like a lens would do in real life. What a program basicly do is shake the pixels together and make an average, it isn't that simple but that is basicly it. So if something is close it will just have as much blur then something that would be far away. It of cours...
Posted by Anvh on 15/11/2009 - 09:50
Ultra fast 50.
That depends on the type of photo again since you need to place the DOF so that it wouldn't capture anything so to say. If the DOF goes out of focus infront and rear of the subject then you've a problem. The second photo Lance posted on page 2 is such an example. Just show me what you can do wi...
Posted by ChrisA on 15/11/2009 - 10:44
Sigma 28-200mm
Hi guys and gals. I've got an old sigma aspherical 28-200mm lens that i purchased a good tens years ago as an all rounder for my old pentax mz. At the time i was very happy with this lens and have some great shots on the old fuji velvia to prove it. However, now that i pull this old heavy beast out ...
Posted by mattox on 24/10/2009 - 11:28
Sigma 28-200mm
I have a similar lens (Sigma Aspherical IF 28-200mm) and have done quite a few shots with it on film and digital SLR bodies. My lens has the magic ability to not focus correctly on my K10D body particularly over 80mm focal length. I am running firmware/software version 1.30 on my K10D and all my p...
Posted by SteveBath on 24/10/2009 - 17:53
