When you search for things like K-5 (see screenshot) or k-r the search function doesn't find any hits.

Is there a workaround to this? Any help appreciated, ta.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/C1JUk.png[/IMG]

Hi,

I don't run windows but this website mentions 2 possible solutions:

link

ie you could try running PP10 as admin, or try running it in compatability mode.

Or you could install wow64 (see this Microsoft link) and run the software under wow64.

Hi Transit,

No, I don't think that it knows much in that way, although I may be wrong. It does however take stuff such as white balance from the RAW file if you tell it to (I think that's the default anyway).

You can match your camera fully by using an ICC profile and telling RT to use that, but the ICC profiles on the RT forum are for other makes. I think that I saw some post there which said that you wouldn't get any benefit doing that unless your monitor had been properly calibrated (eg with Spyder etc). I just use the RT default setting there, ie no specific ICC profile, and that works fine.

It's a very powerful piece of software but takes quite some time to get to grips with. I'm still a learner!

Hi Transit, I use RT with a k100d. Using RAW will allow you to make huge changes to your output image compared to in-camera jpeg, so I agree with what Mark says. The default profile is just where you start. If you tend to change certain things on lots of images (eg boost saturation by 5% etc etc) you can save the settings as a PP3 file and use those settings on other RAW files.

Don't forget that you can do things with RAW that you can't do if you only shoot jpegs. eg you can make big adjustments to the exposure, or you can alter the white balance settings. But of course, RAW eats up storage too.

If you look in the Play RAW section of the RT forum, then click on one of the latest voting posts, you will see that different users have taken the same RAW file, processed it and produced very different results. The images and PP3 files are in these posts so you can download them and try them if you want to. Using the History window in RT will allow you to go back/forward and compare the test PP3 with the default setting.

I was told that there was a drinking game based on murder/polis. If you were in the pub and Taggart was on the TV, every time someone said murrrderrr you would down a whisky and every time someone said polis you would down a pint. As you would imagine, that would be a quick way to get drunk

Yes, increase ISO for less light - that will let you use a higher shutter speed and will avoid camera shake.

This is a rough rule of thumb (I hope) and assumes that you are using the standard kit lens, ie a zoom lens of 18-55mm.

For photos with no moving subject, e.g. landscapes, you want the shutter speed to be 1/30th of a second or faster. So if the speed drops below that, increase the ISO (your camera may have an auto-ISO setting which tells the camera to increase ISO automatically).

For photos with moving subjects, e.g. kids running around, you would want something like 1/250th or faster.

If you are using a longer lens, you want faster speeds too. In that case, you can take the lens focal length as a guide. I've got a 70-300mm zoom, at its maximum zoom that would obviously be 300mm. So you would need a 1/300th second exposure. There's no 1/300th setting on cameras, so going to the next setting would be 1/500th.

Hope that helps.

oh, multiple replies all at the same time!

My post above was a profile for version 2.4

I can show you my defaults v2.4 profile but it's for a k100d so may not be what you're after.

I'm using RT but have a k100d. I found a profile for RT 2.4 that I tended to use as my default, but lately have started to use the beta version 3.0 which has new, different profile files ( with a .pp3 extension) so I'm feeling my way round that at the moment. There's no manual for 3.0 yet as they're still playing with the code, so newbies would be best to stick with 2.4

Some people have different profiles set up for low and high ISO. Here is one that was posted by DrSlony on the RT forum for high ISO shots (eg concerts):

[Version]
Version=231

[Exposure]
Auto=true
Clip=0.0050000000000000001
Compensation=0
Brightness=0.029999999999999999
Contrast=0
Black=0
HighlightCompr=80
ShadowCompr=50
Curve=1;0.02072538860103627;0.0051813471502590676;0.13471502590673576;0.10880829015544041;0.49222797927461137;0.51813471502590669;1;1;

[Channel Mixer]
Red=100;0;0;
Green=0;100;0;
Blue=0;0;100;

[Luminance Curve]
Brightness=0
Contrast=0
Black=0
HighlightCompr=60
ShadowCompr=0
Curve=1;0;0;1;1;

[Sharpening]
Enabled=false
Method=usm
Radius=1.3500000000000001
Amount=135
Threshold=800
OnlyEdges=true
EdgedetectionRadius=1.8999999999999999
EdgeTolerance=1800
HalocontrolEnabled=false
HalocontrolAmount=85
DeconvRadius=0.80000000000000004
DeconvAmount=75
DeconvDamping=20
DeconvIterations=15

[Color Boost]
ChannelA=5
ChannelB=5
AvoidColorClipping=true
SaturationLimiter=false
SaturationLimit=75

[White Balance]
Setting=Camera
Temperature=2715
Green=1.0469999999999999

[Color Shift]
ChannelA=0
ChannelB=0

[Luminance Denoising]
Enabled=false
Radius=0.90000000000000002
EdgeTolerance=10000

[Chrominance Denoising]
Enabled=true
EdgeSensitive=false
Radius=5
EdgeTolerance=1000

[Shadows & Highlights]
Enabled=true
Highlights=0
HighlightTonalWidth=80
Shadows=0
ShadowTonalWidth=72
LocalContrast=4
Radius=50

[Crop]
Enabled=true
X=0
Y=0
W=3888
H=2592
FixedRatio=true
Ratio=3:2
Orientation=Landscape
Guide=None

[Coarse Transformation]
Rotate=0
HorizontalFlip=false
VerticalFlip=false

[Rotation]
Degree=0
Fill=1

[Distortion]
Amount=0

[CACorrection]
Red=0
Blue=0

[Vignetting Correction]
Amount=33
Radius=50

[HLRecovery]
Enabled=true
Method=Color

[Resize]
Scale=1
Method=Bicubic

[Color Management]
InputProfile=(camera)
ApplyGammaBeforeInputProfile=false
WorkingProfile=sRGB
OutputProfile=No ICM: sRGB output

[IPTC]
Caption=;
CaptionWriter=;
Headline=;
Instructions=;
Keywords=
Category=;
SupplementalCategories=
Author=Maciek Dworak;
AuthorsPosition=Photographer;
Credit=;
Source=;
Copyright=Copyright Maciek Dworak - Panopixel - www.panopixel.org;
City=;
Province=;
Country=;
Title=;
DateCreated=;
TransReference=;

Hi smeggy,

I meant that it seemd big for a conversion program. Some of my linux systems were 50MB in total. I sometimes use puppy linux and it's currently 140MB for a whole operating system!

I haven't tried the Pentax lens, but I have the Tamron. It's nice enough, but I don't like the purple fringing that I get on some shots.