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Comment by Anvh posted on Pros & cons of various types of remotes at 30/01/2009 - 23:19
Thank you all quite interesting to see what you all use and Matt has come up with some professionail sites.
Jalbum looks good but the size is far too limited I think. With Deviantart you can upload that amount for just one photo and upload as much as you like afterwards.
I've played a bit with simpleviewer before but I'm not someone from the coding though so didn't go so great.
Jalbum looks good but the size is far too limited I think. With Deviantart you can upload that amount for just one photo and upload as much as you like afterwards.
I've played a bit with simpleviewer before but I'm not someone from the coding though so didn't go so great.
Comment by Anvh posted on Wich hosting website? at 30/01/2009 - 22:55
Hi Amin,
Nope still haven't got it right, but you got it almost.
Using the K10D here so might be a bit different.
If you go to menu > Custom settings > go to tab AF (green colour here) you see the option > AF in remote controll if you enable that the camera first will focus if you press the button on your IR remote and then makes a photo.
Remotes that you need to plug in, into the camera like Cabled remote or RF remotes that option wouldn't work but since they have the same button on the remote as the one on the camera you can half press it and full press it.
The remotes you plug in, will also wake up you camera. Only the IR remotes won't do that.
This a RF remote that will work on the pentax link although the price
this one would do the same thing link btw it even looks the same
If you seriously want to use bulb a digital remote would be better, something like this link
You can program that to do all kind of things, you can program how long the bulb must take for examples, the amount of frames it must shoot, the interval beteween them etc.
Nope still haven't got it right, but you got it almost.
Using the K10D here so might be a bit different.
If you go to menu > Custom settings > go to tab AF (green colour here) you see the option > AF in remote controll if you enable that the camera first will focus if you press the button on your IR remote and then makes a photo.
Remotes that you need to plug in, into the camera like Cabled remote or RF remotes that option wouldn't work but since they have the same button on the remote as the one on the camera you can half press it and full press it.
The remotes you plug in, will also wake up you camera. Only the IR remotes won't do that.
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The Twin 1-R3 UT is a universal shutter release which simultaneously supports Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Samsung DSLR cameras which have a built in Infra Red receiver, giving wireless shutter release without the limitations of a traditional cable release.
It doesn't have a cable it seems and it use the IR of the camera so no wake up since the camera shuts its IR sensor down while going to standby.The Twin 1-R3 UT is a universal shutter release which simultaneously supports Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Samsung DSLR cameras which have a built in Infra Red receiver, giving wireless shutter release without the limitations of a traditional cable release.
This a RF remote that will work on the pentax link although the price
this one would do the same thing link btw it even looks the same
If you seriously want to use bulb a digital remote would be better, something like this link
You can program that to do all kind of things, you can program how long the bulb must take for examples, the amount of frames it must shoot, the interval beteween them etc.
Comment by Anvh posted on Pros & cons of various types of remotes at 30/01/2009 - 19:50
Thanks Gwyn, I've never heared of jalbum so need to take a look at that!
Comment by Anvh posted on Wich hosting website? at 30/01/2009 - 19:10
Just curious which image hosting webiste you use and why?
I myself use Deviantart, it's not really a hosting website but an art community but since they don't have an upload limit only a size limit of 30mb. You can pack a raw file in a zip for example upload it and use a low res jpg as an example image or you can just upload fullsize high quality jpgs and such since there also isn't resolution limit.
Forgot the best thing, it's free.
That are the best things since the community isn't that great I think, certainly not compared to here.
I myself use Deviantart, it's not really a hosting website but an art community but since they don't have an upload limit only a size limit of 30mb. You can pack a raw file in a zip for example upload it and use a low res jpg as an example image or you can just upload fullsize high quality jpgs and such since there also isn't resolution limit.
Forgot the best thing, it's free.
That are the best things since the community isn't that great I think, certainly not compared to here.
Comment by Anvh posted on Wich hosting website? at 30/01/2009 - 18:16
Dan means that his camera shuts down his buildin IR receiver so it doesn't matter what remote you use since it's in the camera.
You have also remotes that works on radio frequencies (RF) those have their oown receiver that plugs into the camera. Since those are connected to a socket on the camera, it will wake the camera up when it gets a contact. Dave and I posted such remote link.
They will work more reliable tehn a IR remote since you don't need to aim the remote so preciesly.
Autofocus is also an in camera feature when using a IR remote, you can set it on in the custom menu and if you press and hold the button it will focus and when it has focus it will immediately release the shutter.
Most remotes that you need to plug in into the camera has a button that you can pressing in half and it will focus just like the one on your camera.
I hope that clear things a bit up for you Amin
You have also remotes that works on radio frequencies (RF) those have their oown receiver that plugs into the camera. Since those are connected to a socket on the camera, it will wake the camera up when it gets a contact. Dave and I posted such remote link.
They will work more reliable tehn a IR remote since you don't need to aim the remote so preciesly.
Autofocus is also an in camera feature when using a IR remote, you can set it on in the custom menu and if you press and hold the button it will focus and when it has focus it will immediately release the shutter.
Most remotes that you need to plug in into the camera has a button that you can pressing in half and it will focus just like the one on your camera.
I hope that clear things a bit up for you Amin
Comment by Anvh posted on Pros & cons of various types of remotes at 30/01/2009 - 17:56
Daniel Bridge wrote:
You can use the multiple exposure feature to combine several exposures in-camera, so if your metered exposure was 2 seconds at f/8, you could do 8 exposures of quarter of a second each (at f/8 still) to get the required overall exposure.
However, when I tried this with my *istD, I found the resulting image noisy and with a magenta colour cast on one side. Exposure was good though, and it did the misty water thing on the rocks at Lizard Point. Might be worth a try.
I don't think the almost dappled effect in your shot is noise, it's the result of noise reduction. There would have been noise there, but in reducing it, the camera's given you the slightly 'lumpy' look. I doubt very much you'd notice it in a print. You can adjust the strength of the noise reduction in the K20D, but you can't switch it off altogether.
Dan
Oh so I did had it right. I thought it only worked with film, guess not. You can use the multiple exposure feature to combine several exposures in-camera, so if your metered exposure was 2 seconds at f/8, you could do 8 exposures of quarter of a second each (at f/8 still) to get the required overall exposure.
However, when I tried this with my *istD, I found the resulting image noisy and with a magenta colour cast on one side. Exposure was good though, and it did the misty water thing on the rocks at Lizard Point. Might be worth a try.
I don't think the almost dappled effect in your shot is noise, it's the result of noise reduction. There would have been noise there, but in reducing it, the camera's given you the slightly 'lumpy' look. I doubt very much you'd notice it in a print. You can adjust the strength of the noise reduction in the K20D, but you can't switch it off altogether.
Dan
Thanks Dan!
Although wouldn't it be better to make several shots and combine them on your computer? that way you can do a tiny bit of noise redution on every shot and then with averaging you take away more noise and with the final image you can do noise reduction again, if you still have noise you did something very wrong I think.
Good call on the JPEG artefact, didn't thought about that one.
Comment by Anvh posted on Is there something wrong with my pentax k20d at 30/01/2009 - 17:37
shim wrote:
Looks good Stefan.
Thank you someone else one this forum showed me the link but I don't know who anymore Looks good Stefan.
They also make something like the product Dave has linked link but it cost £12 inc postage to UK instead of £16.
Comment by Anvh posted on Pros & cons of various types of remotes at 30/01/2009 - 16:02
hmmm I think I might have be wrong with using multiple exposure to brigthen a shot... was thinking with film that you shoot multiple photos on one and the same film. sorry about that.
Although Susan you use the long exposure to get that mist effect of the water right?
Well you can create that effect by using multiple shots but the exposure should be right with every shot. So one shot with iso 100 for 30seconds should get the same result as 2 shots of 15seconds with iso 200 if I'm correct.
You simple layer the photos and devide 100 by the number of shots you use and make that number the value of the opacity for each photo.
You can get very creative with it, HDR photos is an example of cementing and those ghost photos.
Sorrry that i created the inlusion you can brigthen up a shot by using multiple photos
edit: Some more information...
since you shoot with an higher iso you woul say that the noise would be more, that's true for one shot but if you make a photo out of multiple shots you average the noise out.
here is a good read about it ambridgeincolour
Although Susan you use the long exposure to get that mist effect of the water right?
Well you can create that effect by using multiple shots but the exposure should be right with every shot. So one shot with iso 100 for 30seconds should get the same result as 2 shots of 15seconds with iso 200 if I'm correct.
You simple layer the photos and devide 100 by the number of shots you use and make that number the value of the opacity for each photo.
You can get very creative with it, HDR photos is an example of cementing and those ghost photos.
Sorrry that i created the inlusion you can brigthen up a shot by using multiple photos
edit: Some more information...
since you shoot with an higher iso you woul say that the noise would be more, that's true for one shot but if you make a photo out of multiple shots you average the noise out.
here is a good read about it ambridgeincolour
Comment by Anvh posted on Is there something wrong with my pentax k20d at 30/01/2009 - 15:34
You can of course also look some further because I don't have one of those but it does do look good for that money. I've my eyes on the digital remote but I've no idea how good and sturdy it is or else I would have ordered one.
How are you doing with photography, do you like everything you bought so far? you trully have an awesome kit now