yo-yo?

Pentax has sound reasoning to try to become a boutique brand.... within certain product lines.
I dare say some very high end stores would not be embarrassed to have q, k-01 and 645d on a shelf for the well heeled shopper that want expensive toys.... was worth a try. you can always lower the price on a product, but if you under price... well that you can't really recover from you just pull the product, re-label it and take the bad press....... ask sigma....

now that q is affordable, k-01 is a useful video tool with just a couple issues shy of being a serious contender.... I think it's cameras like the k-30 that will build the brand up.....

I've tried that with my go-pro...
still.. hate to say it, but the Sony sr 12 and a few new vg series take a decent still while recording video...

but the best technique I've found... mount your video cams onto your light stands below your lights... then use the footage as cutaway angles.. for multi-cam shooting .

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gimp is free, but if you want elements, go look at a graphics tablet and pen... wacom often bundles elements with thier tablets for little more than the cost of buying elements by itself... and once you edit with a pen, you'll never go back to a mouse.

I'd say it looks like a great camera. the x90 was a decent camera for the price, and the x5 looks to be improved all across the board.... bridge cameras are usually a fine alternative for people that need nice vacation shots in a portable package!

I saw an article that documented how a handful of pin codes account for 80% of all pincodes and that the rest are actually dates which means every four digit pin code starting with 19 (1900 to 19999) or 20 (20000 to 1012) is already half cracked...

so the real issue is not security it's the customer service nightmare of having morons lined up at the camera store because they locked themselves out of thier cameras...

take a tip from iphone and add the gps/find my camera service, sure.. but that adds to the cost...

how does one get multi colors off one gel?
simple.. in a multi light set up you have TWO ways to color your final image... colored gels and whitebalance.
this is where having some color theory knowlege comes in handy...

by using a strong orange gel on one light, and a blue color cast set in the white balance setting on the camera, all ungelled lights appear blue, while the areas lit with the orange gel can be made anywhere from orange to just a touch warmer than neutral.

k10, 16-45, manual settings 1/125 at f10 to kill ambient light in the hall way where this was shot.
the props are from an actual tv series shot here in winnipeg, called Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (find it on Space channel)... sorry about the logo stuff, this was an event for promotional purposes...


c&c welcome...

retina scanner in the eyepiece?

I'm tying a string to mine and it's the new yo-yo cam!