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Comment by Anvh posted on Ned Bunnell and the W90 at 21/04/2010 - 18:51
Some here including me shoot in raw and try to make a shot with the best possible exposure instead of having the best possible image straight out of the camera.
In my opinion both are equally skilled but one group take PP as serious step into their photography while others try to reduce the amount of PP and the only difference between the two is the way they expose a photo.
I can even say that people who try to have the best photo straight out of their camera are the lazy ones because they don't go through the effort of maxing out the possibilities of their digital camera
We are going quite of topic about this matter because I don't believe this has anything to do with being artistic, that's purely an aspect of the photographer and we shouldn't blame our tools for not being able to be creative/artistic
yes Like this I believe, Japanese sounds the most like Italian I've been told
Comment by Anvh posted on DA70mm@f/2.4 on istD at 21/04/2010 - 15:38
I'll sell you my SMC-A 50mm f1.7 for £200!
Just see that the Nikon 50 f/1.8 goes for £109 so does that price sound as a good offer for a DA 50 f/1.7 WR :
I know that quite a lot Canon and Nikon users buy such lenses for beside a telezoom and a kitlens so it's strange that Pentax does not have anything to offer at that range.
As for the other lenses are these prices better?
24/2.8 WR or 28/2.8 WR £209
35/2 WR £179
50/1.7 WR £109
85/2 WR £229
135/2.8 WR £279
200/4 WR £299
Just making them up of course.
The point is don't you think there would be a market for cheap primes?
I would love to see the current camera models coupled with a 18-55, 50 or 35 coupled as kit lens.
And personally I think they should make them WR to give it the edge over the competition.
Comment by Anvh posted on 50mm f/1.4 discontinued? at 21/04/2010 - 15:17
rather quicker than trying to find an automatic way to do it....
When you've EV compensation set on the front e-dial in Av mode you can lock your exposure and turn that E-dial to change your shutter-speed and the back E-dial to change aperture (together with the shutter-speed because the camera maintains exposure) and in that mode bracketing does not change the aperture although I was hoping I could find a way in M mode to do that.
Comment by Anvh posted on K10D Bracketing in manual at 21/04/2010 - 14:23
I set to M and then flick through 7-11 exposures from almost black to almost white.
Even if it was on a tripod, touching it that way can make your camera move as well.
I've just tried this on the K20, which I'd imagine is similar, set to normal/under/over 1 stop on 3 exposures. The results are 250 @ f2.4/350 @ f2.8/180 @ f2.
This make me think that maybe the camera utilises some sort of hybrid P mode?
Comment by Anvh posted on K10D Bracketing in manual at 21/04/2010 - 14:11
It does not have much to do with making artistic photos, although a certain lens or indeed photoshop can help you get the result you envisioned like HG said so well and I think there is the line of the misuse.
We don't have any right to complain about the lens quality or that of the cameras, when we look back a century ago and what kind of photos they make it becomes only more clear that the photographer (model) is the key in making a good photo.
Maybe something like a DA 24/2.8 or 28/2.8, a 35/2, 50/1.7, 135/2.8 and 200/4 with a new price around the £200 to £300... they could ask £50 more if they include weather sealing
Don't you think this might work or has the world move to zooms now?
Comment by Anvh posted on 50mm f/1.4 discontinued? at 21/04/2010 - 12:34
The difference between your first image, the rose, and a heavily tweaked photo Stefan is that the rose is an image. It's what you saw hidden in the original that you wanted to produce and display.
It's not trying to hide bad technique or poor lens/camera quality, which the other is.
Saying that Photoshop kills good photography is saying that good art can only be done with certain tools. So much for creativity and free spirit...
Photoshop makes people lazier. Like painters now not having to make their own paints.
Also developing of the photo has always been the part of photography just as much as taking the actual good photo, only because you've greater control and more tools with digital medium all of an sudden people using them are lazy?
but John you've the bracket option in manual though, I thought you could control it with Tv shift but that isn't true.
Comment by Anvh posted on K10D Bracketing in manual at 21/04/2010 - 11:57


It's a great little go-anywhere camera. The digital microscope looks fantastic too! But when you click on the shots for the larger image, the IQ is not quite what I'd hope for.
This might be due to Ned compressing the jpegs for uploading, so I'll look out for a full test.
I've the idea the two camera's would be quite equal.