K10D, 16-45mm @ 29mm, f/6.7, 1/250s, ISO100, Polariser. 04/03/08 16:36.

Dan

Wow! That's changed! On 21st February, they were advertising:

Body only: £621.05
Body + 18-55: £668.82
Body + 18-55 + 50-200: £716.61

I reckon either someone at Samsung got their sums very wrong, or Pentax have told them not to undercut them by so much.

Or they've realised they can actually make a profit on them by selling them at a 'proper' price.

Dan

I think I'd go for the bottom, or even at a 45 degree angle, so you get some directional light, and it would work equally as well whether you had the camera in landscape or portrait orientation.

By the way, I could be wrong, but reducing the flash power isn't going to make the reflections any less harsh, as you need to open up the aperture more, and you therefore let just as much light in. Only difference would be if the power was low enough to balance it with daylight, but then you might run into problems with ghost images if the shutter speed's too slow.

Dan

P.S. Nice detail on the first two, but the last one's a little soft.

Well SRS are having their Pentax day this saturday, so I'm going to have a play with the DA* 300mm f/4 SDM. Bit more than I should really be spending, but I've got a 1.7x AF converter that I could spare, and the Tamron would go, so they should cover more than half the cost of the Pentax.

True, but it's as much down to reactions as to amount of light, I figure the camera and lens combo might be quicker than me. I'd guess I might improve on my 5% success rate with these pics. Also, the Pentax should be considerably lighter, which would mean I took it out more. I think the Tamron is mostly lead, with some cast iron parts.

Dan

Went to one of the local parks yesterday and took quite a few pics of the ducks and geese on the lake there. Tried several times to get flapping ducks, only one sequence was sharp.




Squabbles tended to break out when there was food around (courtesy of families with bread, really should have taken some along myself), and I like this one for its energy. Photoshopped a twig out of the top right, although I really want to try this one again and get it better.




Both with the K10D and Tamron 300mm f.2.8 at either f/4.5 or 5.6. The second was at 1/500s which did a fair job of freezing the water droplets.

It's made me want an autofocus 300mm lens... now where could I get myself one of those...? That's definitely one I'm going to be playing with this saturday at SRS.

Dan

It will on this new version. But then 'old school' focusing won't work, so it'll only be for SDM capable cameras.

Dan

If you're refering to the original post about repair of the camera, there's nothing there to say they won't support their product, just that it would cost over £120 to do so. As George says, you're paying for human time and skill.

It would be nice to expect your camera to last as long as you want it to, but there will always be the small minority that have problems, unfortunately these days it's not economical to repair them. Instead you can spend the same money to get a much better featured product.

Perhaps Pentax are going to sell rebadged Samsung compacts in the future.

Dan

Iron Davy Kidd.

Arrr!!

I've just downloaded it to try again, I didn't like the UI either. But another thing I don't like is that it makes folders inside the active (image) folder, something the new version of Capture One (v.4) also does. Previous versions store them all in one folder out of the way, which I much prefer.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Amazing water droplet pics at 29/02/2008 - 18:25