K30 does Christmas

andrewk · 2012-12-07T00:15:39+0000

I bought a K30 earlier this week. The weather's been a bit iffy and I've had lots of 'chores' to do, so I haven't had much of a chance to give the K30 a whirl. We put a Christmas tree up this afternoon and, this evening after dark, I thought I might see what I could do with Live View and Focus Peaking, using a SMC-M 50mm f/1.7, at f/2.8. These were taken with closed curtains, using available light in the room. Apart from the lights on the tree, the only lighting was a fitting with a cluster of 3 x 11w low energy lamps in shades about 20ft away - so it was pretty dim. All the photos were taken hand-held. The first was taken at ISO 3200 and the others at ISO 6400. I used Live View and Focus Peaking (zoomed in). Focus Peaking definitely made focussing on what was intended a whole heap easier than I am used to. The photos are JPEGs pretty much straight out of the camera apart from a bit of cropping and resizing - i.e. only default in-camera noise reduction. I'm amazed at the K30's low noise at high ISO settings. I'm not convinced that I could have got anything usable (hand-held) with the K200D. I think I'm going to rather enjoy using the K30. Andrew

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Mannesty Mannesty

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Posted 07/12/2012 - 21:05 Link

Mission accomplished then. Enjoy your new camera.

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andrewk andrewk

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Posted 08/12/2012 - 10:30 Link

Only one part of the mission.

There's lots I have to discover about the K30 yet. I hadn't realised until I read Algi's post that you could select values of colour temperature. Must look at that .......

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Posted 08/12/2012 - 19:31 Link

What is Focus Peaking please? :

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Mannesty Mannesty

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Posted 08/12/2012 - 20:10 Link

K30 manual can be downloaded from here.

Page 109 explains Focus Peaking.

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Posted 08/12/2012 - 21:16 Link

AuraTodd wrote:
What is Focus Peaking please? :

Something the K-5II and K-5IIs are (for some mad, unknown reason) missing.

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andrewk andrewk

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Posted 09/12/2012 - 01:19 Link

AuraTodd wrote:
What is Focus Peaking please? :

It is an aid to focussing. It highlights edges in an image displayed in Live View that are in focus. It is particularly helpful for manual focus lenses.

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