[quote:3496ace15f="KZ]Ok, I have seen the expert reviews, but experts are experts and they have a rather unique, sometimes not so practical approach. I would prefer to read the hands-on experience of shooters of this forum... Anybody?[/quote]It's not this forum but another Pentax forum where some have a K-X, I hope you can read it link
They have some excellent photos on the site btw.

I'm not such a breast man, that must be it

I believe things are changing a bit currently with those thin models you're afraid you puff them over when you breath, they have become a bit fatter or not?

Indeed.
You really need to get off that island some time and go to the French for example for some catwalk shows.

Prieni that you agree with that, I thought Germany was also quite open with nudity?

Phil, if you need to ask that question then nothing is calibrated.
The company providing your computer and the rest simply don't do that.

Calibration you need to do on your own, you will need some tools like the one in my link.
It can calibrate your monitor and your printer but if you stick to the orginal inkt and paper then the standard profiles of the company of the printer are mostly good. You still need to calibrate your monitor though, look for a pantone huey, they aren't that expensive.

I hope you don't mind if I place your photo to this page, you would get more comments then.




I would say the photo is a bit dark but it can easily be the screen here.
Some head room would also be better for the photo, if you had taken one step better it would have been better I believe.
Maybe also some fill light to get rid of the shadow on her neck.

Some more experienced here can probably give you some far better advise, I only played with portrait a couple of times.

It looks a bit to saturated to my taste, why not do a mono with some toning?

Cloning out the tree would help, it's a simple matter doing that.

In my link they said the 720P is memory hungry.
What if you use 1536 x 1024, they said the files is less large and therefore better for slower cards.... strangely enough the resolution is more the 720P though

At home you can probably quite effectively make it in to 1080 HD size by upscaling it, have never tried that though.

Hello Derek, welcome to the forum.

I'll go straight to the question so sorry for the not so long reply

(I)+(II)
Here you've a time line link
ps. they need to update it though, the K20D is now stopped and the K200D was stopped when the KM came.

(III)
For student you might be better off with a bit more advance camera, I think the basic entry models would limit them.
The K20D can be get for new still and at a fair price and it's and advance camera model. Penta prism, two e-dials and it should offer anything needed probably for the whole course.

(IV)
Here of course, in the classified adverts.
SRS microsystems also have sometimes second-hand models or else e-bay

32GB even.

Strange the 8GB card is the problem though, class 10 should be fast enough, I believe class 6 is the minimum speed for video use.

Like said the 4GB limit is the FAT32 format limit.
Hopefully exFAT will be the standard soon for removable data, it has a file size limit of 64 ZB so that should solve the problem for a while

Still it doesn't explain the problem though...

ps. seems the speed is the problem link

Chris you're right about that.

It's not doable to make a portrait wide open with that lens.

In a way you might be better of with for example the DA*50-135 for portrait, a lot better even since you don't need to switch lens for the different shots.