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Comment by Anvh posted on Confession time at 28/08/2010 - 13:09
ChrisA wrote:
The thing is, if I get up at 5.30am to go to an airshow, wait 5 hours for the display to start, have to fight off all the eejits encroaching on my spot, and ultimately have to spend three hours getting home again, it's not a pleasure for me to lose most of my beautifully composed and perfectly timed works of art because the ****ers aren't in bl**dy focus.
Having spent the price of a not brilliant but still functional second hand car on the kit, I'm afraid I'm not especially happy when it, rather than I, is the limit on what I can achieve.
But still you go every time so there must be something besides the good photos you make that attracts you Anvh wrote:
@Chris you got it
Please don't assume that because I can see where you're coming from, I agree, because I don't @Chris you got it
The thing is, if I get up at 5.30am to go to an airshow, wait 5 hours for the display to start, have to fight off all the eejits encroaching on my spot, and ultimately have to spend three hours getting home again, it's not a pleasure for me to lose most of my beautifully composed and perfectly timed works of art because the ****ers aren't in bl**dy focus.
Having spent the price of a not brilliant but still functional second hand car on the kit, I'm afraid I'm not especially happy when it, rather than I, is the limit on what I can achieve.
All I said was that that feeling will never change no matter what camera you use and that was the point I'm trying to make. ^^;
Comment by Anvh posted on Confession time at 28/08/2010 - 13:04
About lenses, what about the Sigma 8-16 or is that to wide?
Comment by Anvh posted on Sigma 10-20mm Lens for Pentax K20D at 28/08/2010 - 12:59
Thank you Oggy, I really appreciate it.
Don't forgot though that this a typical dyslectic mistake so for some (like me) it's quite hard to keep them apart when you aren't careful.
Don't forgot though that this a typical dyslectic mistake so for some (like me) it's quite hard to keep them apart when you aren't careful.
Comment by Anvh posted on Sigma 10-20mm Lens for Pentax K20D at 28/08/2010 - 12:58
ElRazur wrote:
What about the built in "diffuser"? You know that plastic thing that goes over the flash (and also the white paper)
By the way, how do I adjust the strength or power of the flash? What mode is best to shoot in on the Kx etc.
That diffuser is when you use it for wide angle lenses, the diffuser most mean here are omni-bounces but I already have said quite some negatives about that in another thread so won't repeat here.What about the built in "diffuser"? You know that plastic thing that goes over the flash (and also the white paper)
By the way, how do I adjust the strength or power of the flash? What mode is best to shoot in on the Kx etc.
Like Tim already suggest bounce the flash off from something indoors, just leave the flash in P-TTL and point it at the ceiling for example, that gives a far more natural light. If you bounce it like that you can use that white card thing, it's called a catch light, simply it catch some of the flash light and you can see that back in the eyes of your subject so they have a little twinkle in their eyes.
As for shooting modes, for the flash use P-TTL for now and set the camera in M mode.
With the camera you can than control 3 things, ISO, Shutter speed and diaphragm.
- ISO, is a globe control so it influence the flash and the ambient light, the higher you set it the less the flash needs to work or the further it can reach and the more bright the ambient light becomes.
- diaphragm, Also controls both lighting in the same manner.
- Shutterspeed, does nothing for the flash because the flash duration is 1/10000th of a second but the longer you the shutter time the more ambient light there will be in your photo so with that you can balance things. If you want a bright subject but a dark background, you light the subject up with the flash and use a very short shutterspeed so that no ambient light from the back ground comes on the sensor.
Normally the flash can only go down to 1/180 of a second to sync with the camera but the AF360FGZ has High Speed Sync (HSS) that allows you to use faster shutter speeds but it comes with the penalty that the flash power is lower, the flash strobes so the flash duration is not 1/10000th but just as fast as your shutterspeed so you can't freeze water-drops with it for example.
Did I miss anything???
If you have older lenses without an auto aperture, you can't use the P-TTL but you can use the Auto mode in those situation and it works the same way.
Comment by Anvh posted on Pump me full of flash photogrpahy! at 28/08/2010 - 12:52
Super, I was worried about nothing
Comment by Anvh posted on Which one would you choose? at 28/08/2010 - 12:32
Indeed didn't thought about being used as such
I already find the EVIL good enough it's just that they lag and that's something I can't appreciate
I already find the EVIL good enough it's just that they lag and that's something I can't appreciate
Comment by Anvh posted on new display type developed at 28/08/2010 - 12:30
Shaky wrote:
I mean how do you share things like photos and videos across the OS?Anvh wrote:
[quote:3496ace15f="flossie"]How do you deal with the differences in file systems, Windows use NTfS and Apple HFS so it would be hard to share the same information across systems or not?
I don't know about Apple but in Linux there is a utility called Samba that allows you to set up network shares, permissions, etc. I would have thought there is something similar under OSX.[quote:3496ace15f="flossie"]How do you deal with the differences in file systems, Windows use NTfS and Apple HFS so it would be hard to share the same information across systems or not?
I would like to have an drive all the OS can have excess to so they can open files there.
Most support FAT I think but that has a file limit of 4GB and that's not larger enough sometimes
I wonder if you know a way around it?
Comment by Anvh posted on Which one would you choose? at 27/08/2010 - 19:28
timbo wrote:
Is digressing a Dutch national pastime
it was Smeggypants that started about the Showarma Shop Is digressing a Dutch national pastime
But indeed it's fun to idle chat
timbo wrote:
I have looked at all the lenses, and according to Photozone none of them really have the wide-open performance I seem to get with my Tamron, so I would not be gaining much by buying them as I would have to stop down, and I would be spending quite a bit of money.
Lenses aren't just about preformance, there is also the pleasure of using them.I have looked at all the lenses, and according to Photozone none of them really have the wide-open performance I seem to get with my Tamron, so I would not be gaining much by buying them as I would have to stop down, and I would be spending quite a bit of money.
Truly if you don't mind manual focus try the manual lenses I named.
Like said most shop won't have them but you might find them in another mount so that you can feel how the lenses are.
Here is a review about the Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 28 mm f/2.0 link
Comment by Anvh posted on What should I get - fast and wide at 27/08/2010 - 19:22
Mike-P wrote:
Not at all Stefan ... it's just that half your posts seem to come over as if you are just being argumentative for the sake of it. You may not want faster autofocus but after reading this and other forums it would seem you are in the minority.
But then being a Pentax owner you are probably used to that
Not at all either Mike, I just feel that I need to explain myself because of some imperatives.Not at all Stefan ... it's just that half your posts seem to come over as if you are just being argumentative for the sake of it. You may not want faster autofocus but after reading this and other forums it would seem you are in the minority.
But then being a Pentax owner you are probably used to that
And we Dutch like to argue no defensive about that
Mike-P wrote:
Smart-ass Anvh wrote:
It's great we have things like AF these days but does it make the act of making a photo more pleasurable?
If it means the difference between getting the photo and a load of OOF blur ... yes. It's great we have things like AF these days but does it make the act of making a photo more pleasurable?
Off course it's great that the AF enables you that but won't it be more satisfying if you can do that without the AF helping you?
That's what I'm talking about.
davidtrout wrote:
Stefan wrote: Isn't the way of creating/making a photograph not just as important as the result?
Tell that one to a professional photo journalist with an impatient picture editor breathing down his neck.
David
maybe not then but still the professional photo journalist probably has chosenStefan wrote: Isn't the way of creating/making a photograph not just as important as the result?
Tell that one to a professional photo journalist with an impatient picture editor breathing down his neck.
David
his profession because he like taking photos so it would be less fulfilling for him if he leaves the camera in green mode and just press the shutter button.
@Chris you got it
Comment by Anvh posted on Confession time at 27/08/2010 - 18:59
How about a whip round? Someone help me stump up for a couple of weeks rental for a D300S and a good consumer zoom that covers the 50-300 range, and I'll hang out at the airfield for a couple of days and do a proper comparison.
I believe the AF of the Olympus are very fast, at least that was what an old Olympus user told (forgot who it was) on this forum
Also the smaller frame makes the lenses even longer and the optimized mount allows for very fast lenses.