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Infra Red Landscape
Actually, I remembered as I walked down the road, the Corn was 3 years ago, this year it's Rape. Not so photogenic. :( So I wandered into my local park, and had a mooch about. Best of a bad bunch below: What I did try when converting my RAWs (in Pentax Photo Lab) was fiddling with the ...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 30/05/2006 - 17:10
Infra Red Landscape
What intrigues me about the 'colour' ones are the funny shapes around the centre and top of the image. Not sure what caused these. Reflection of lens from back of filter? That's what it looks like to me - I've seen something similar myself when shooting IR with a Cokin filter. Where in the holder...
Posted by niblue on 30/05/2006 - 17:24
Infra Red Landscape
Hi Niblue, Yes, Cokin filter, in the first, non-polariser, slot. I'll have to remember to shade it better in future. I was keeping the direct sunlight off, but obviously there was enough ambient light, bearing in mind the long exposure, for this to show. Perhaps I'll have to get some black v...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 30/05/2006 - 17:44
Infra Red Landscape
I finally got round to taking a few pics using my IR filter this morning.
Posted by niblue on 22/06/2006 - 11:31
[b]Pentax IstDL2[/b]
I hate to say this, but if you're a C**** user and you want a camera specifically for IR photography, C**** make special "Astro" versions of some of their DSLRs which have a different filter over the sensor without the usual IR cut-off. These sell for about the same price as the normal ver...
Posted by stevo on 10/06/2006 - 15:21
[b]Pentax IstDL2[/b]
Canon are generally very IR-unfriendly cameras. They use quite severe IR filtering, and even used IR film counters in some film models. The real solution is to have the IR filter removed and a piece of plain glass inserted to replace it. Then the CCD itself is very IR sensitive. I understand some...
Posted by johnriley on 10/06/2006 - 15:43
[b]Pentax IstDL2[/b]
The real solution is to have the IR filter removed and a piece of plain glass inserted to replace it. Which is exactly what the copier company have done with their Astro models.
Posted by stevo on 10/06/2006 - 18:49
Going Digital
Thanks for that tip, other tips are most welcome. Now that i've gone digital would it be better for me to take black & white pics on my MZ6 as i can only convert to black & white from colour with the filter on the ist DL2.
Posted by Ratcatcher on 25/08/2006 - 17:43
Landscapes!
once you get upto speed on lens choice, tripod, composition, then learn the raw stuff (jpeg will do while learning), get the hang of using the cameras exposure meter, and start shopping for a neutral grad filter, a circular polarizer, and a blue/yello vari-color polarizer.
Posted by Don on 23/08/2006 - 14:42
Hover Fly
I couldn't find any hover flies but found this beauty clinging to the wall of my room. Picture is contrived, not accidental, but the model seemed very compliant. To give it some scale, the lens is a 12-24mm DA with a 77mm filter. *istD, Vivitar Series 1 70-200 Macro, AF500FTZ + Stofen, f8, ...
Posted by Mannesty on 31/08/2006 - 21:47
K10D news
From the EC-photo forum (thanks to a Dutch Pentax fan!) 1. 关于22-bit ADC The K10D incorporates a high-performance A/D converter, which faithfully converts the analog data collected by the CCD image sensor into digital data. With the highest resolving power (22 bits, or 4.2 million ...
Posted by Gwyn on 11/09/2006 - 13:30
IT'S HERE!!!!!!
Lucky I copied it first then. Here is the now missing 'press release' embedded photo's are missing. PENTAX ANNOUNCES K10D DIGITAL SLR WITH TEN MEGAPIXELS, SHAKE REDUCTION AND WEATHER-RESISTANT BODY GOLDEN, CO. (September 13, 2006)…PENTAX Imaging Company announced today the PENTAX K10D digit...
Posted by Mannesty on 12/09/2006 - 20:50
K10D is Official on Pentax Canada
If you are on a budget, and new to photography, buy the kit lens. But also try to get an SMC Pentax-A 1:1.7 50mm. On Ebay they go for less than £30.00. If you can spend a bit more, buy the -F or -FA version to give you auto-focus. This lens is great for portraits on DSLRs. If you find it to...
Posted by George Lazarette on 20/10/2006 - 08:10
Infrared guidance please.
Hello all. My *istDL passed the "Remote Test" with flying colours, so I acquired a Hoya R72 IR filter. GREAT!!! Now I have some pictures all red (with spectacular clarity). Now what do I do in postprocessing with PS? Delete the other two channels? Desaturate? Make it monochrome...
Posted by kcmadr on 08/10/2006 - 04:44
k100d questions
a subscription to "outdoor Photographer" a tripod a high quality wide to moderate zoom (pentax 16-45 or 12-24) a high quality telephoto zoom (50-200mm and a 400mm telephoto prime) a teleconverter and set of extension tubes. polarizer filter, nd grads (x2 and x4) blue and yellow varico...
Posted by Don on 08/10/2006 - 14:41
k100d questions
I did it. I bought the camera. I LIKE!!!! I have ordered the big telephoto lens. It is going to take a little practice to learn how to use it but I can't wait. I took it to the bowling alley and got some shots of my husband bowling. I think I can do better when I get a different (telephoto) l...
Posted by erinjojo on 09/10/2006 - 03:09
Do I need a wide angle lens
Hi... Steve? I have found the kit lens adequate for landscape photography. The only improvement I made was to get the 16-45mm DA lens. :lol: If you're happy with the quality, rather save your money, take more photos and stitch them together. Landscape doesn't move around between shots, so gettin...
Posted by kcmadr on 26/10/2006 - 22:06
Skylight / UV Filter lens protection
Hello I've just fitted a Jessops Skylight 1A filter mainly for lens protection. It has quite a pronounced tint to it, and thus cuts the light down by a third to half a stop. Worse still though, is that it noticably dims the viewfinder image which as we know, is one of the best things about Pentax...
Posted by dangie on 30/10/2006 - 10:13
Skylight / UV Filter lens protection
This has been covered extensively on other threads... will dig out the thread when I can. I've been using Hoya Pro 1 slim UV0 filters. No discernable difference to the image at all. But they're not cheap... ...and can actually harm the lens. I've dropped two lenses with these filters on and th...
Posted by MattMatic on 30/10/2006 - 11:27
Skylight / UV Filter lens protection
A while back I paid a small fortune for actual Prentax UV(0) and Ghostless filters. They did not seem to detract from the image or brightness, but as George often says, they must. A filter is a piece of glass with two surfaces. No matter how well made and coated, there must be loss. I was living ...
Posted by Anonymous on 30/10/2006 - 11:47
