Happy Birthday *istD
John K
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Some lovely detailed shots with rich, natural colours. There is something about the way CCD sensors render a scene. Pity they died out. Imagine what they'd be like now with ten years of development. Most of us don't bother about video (I think) and I bet they'd have found a way to improve high ISO performance.
That's the problem with the sensors today they are trying to do to much and that means it dose a crap job
That cc'd sensor even 13 years on out strips the new one for colour quality
If Pentax just concentrate on still with a sensor of that quality
Better focusing more pixels and the iOS of today they would blow the opposition out the water bigtime

So maybe that's what you like

Nice shots Gary.
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Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber
Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff
Algi


http://www.reddotforum.com/content/2015/02/the-great-debate-ccd-vs-cmos-part-1/
Also I don't think Live View works with CCD

Consider yourself lucky that you didn't move over to Leica for CCD

Some of them have corrosion problems ...
https://www.dpreview.com/news/4370451251/leica-announces-plans-for-peeling-ccds-...



Although Pentax users might enjoy that... something extra to moan about



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Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber
Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff
Algi
I probably will do a quick side by side test just to see what the same image looks like from both sensor types.
How many here are using calibrated colour space and what are your preferences?
How do you manage your colour space Algi.
Best regards
When something goes wrong in the circus, they send clowns into the arena to distract the audience.
Sadly my *Ds died when His Nibs left it loose on the back seat of the car and braked suddenly for a Yokel Yank driving a tractor who pulled out across the road without looking. Camera went flying and died


Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass
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How many here are using calibrated colour space and what are your preferences?
How do you manage your colour space Algi.
Best regards
Very briefly check that the camera menu item is set to sRGB (default) and that your editor is set not to change it on import and that any saved files are saved as sRGB.
The other alternative is to use AdobeRGB throughout, but Pentax save the files with a different prefix if you do.
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Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber
Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff
Algi
Best regards, John
AdobeRGB JPEG's are very useful commercially see...
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/photoshop-photography-plan--69-99-for-12m...
Also here's a comparison between the two....
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm
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Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber
Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff
Algi
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps12_colour/ps12_1.htm
This page checks your browser...
http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html
It's a bit out of date Firefox v3.6 ?
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Algi
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I'm well happy with the lens and will now try it on the K-1 and as for my *istD, it's a classic Pentax masterpiece.
Best regards
Best regards
When something goes wrong in the circus, they send clowns into the arena to distract the audience.