For top quality portraits all you need is a single manual flashgun
(on camera) and a home-made black foamy thing....

http://neilvn.com/tangents/bounce-flash-photography-short-lighting/

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A Ford Escort used to be the Industry Standard

K5 firmware updated.
Camera now making pointless random posts to PU..... all on it's own!

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Perhaps Pentax Canada were too busy distributing the TC's
They started before everyone else at least 4 days ago

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Why don't the 'Fashion Police' bother people on
that side

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Hopefully it was caused by the filter.

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Could it be moire? The bokeh off the DA*300mm is usually excellent
I've never seen anything like that from a K-5 Mk1. This shots from a K-3.
1/800th I seem to remember is around the limit for the filter.

Click through for the 1123w shot.

The rest of the shot is excellent.
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Not really the correct place to discuss it, but all AF systems are designed to stop focusing when the image is good enough. The dearer cameras such as the top Canons actually specify a figure which is higher than is used on the cheaper Canons. They can't set the requirement too high because most lenses wide open would never reach it, especially f/1.4's where the image is not very strong and f/6.3 lenses where light becomes a problem. 36 lp/mm is the value often used on lower range cameras.

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I would expect that they all work at the wi-fi speed unless directly connected.
Naturally the card will be made for a certain maximum speed and won't go faster even if the router will.


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Irrespective of what make of camera they only focus very roughly and inconsistently at the low light levels. The author of the lens test program MTF_mapper recommends EV7 as the lowest LV for lens test purposes because of focus problems and he uses a Nikon.

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