Great shots.

RG.

Follow up. The following website is a list of Photo Equipment stores and buyers comments put out by Photo.net.

http://photo.net/neighbor/subcategory-index?id=2

Two very interesting reports written in 2003 & 2006 at the following sites.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,107855-page,1/article

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/nyregion/11cameras.html?pagewanted=all


I do business with the following on the net and have always been happy with their service.

Adorama.
B&H.
Cameta Camera.
Henry's. (Canada)
J&R.
Pro Digital. (Canada)

RG.

Be very careful buying any photo equipment from New York based stores located on Broadway. Many are just store fronts and they move around a lot.
Many of the staff are rude and out to get you, lots of low balling and off shore stuff.

There are a few exceptions, a couple noted on this thread.

RG.

Great subjects.

Images are a little soft. You might want to try jacking up settings. Saturation 1. Sharpness 2 and Contrast 1.
These settings work best for me, I don't do too much post adjustments with the exception of maybe a little more sharpness.

Some people like softer images, a bit like film. Others like sharp crisp images.
Too much sharpness on portraits can lead to disaster. Some like images well saturated with vivid colors. Others like colors muted a little. Whatever floats your boat.

You can try taking RAW, however with the K10 I don't see much difference between JPEG & Raw. In fact I like the JPEGS better.

Bottom line. Practice, practice practice. My take on it is. No 1. A great eye.
No 2. A good lens. No 3. Just about any camera.

Have fun.

RG.

Hefty1.

We have tons of old automobiles out west. I live in the country about 68 miles from the coast and we normally have big show once a year (not this year) approx 400 cars. This year has just been shows linked up with other events.

California has incredible shows. Ownership is real big there because of the nice weather, due to that the cars are mostly kept over the years rust free.

RG.

Thanks for comments, here is another oldie. RG.

I forgot I took these.

They had several old cars at an Oregon Covered Bridge Festival. I only took half dozen cars, as they were all much the same models.

K10 with Sigma EX 17-35mm. I love this lens.

RG.

Mattmatic.

Thanks for the info.

I probably will not be taking any set poses, it will all be on the fly. So I assume it will be faster to use just Auto ISO and AV.

There will be too many different scenes to use "non intuitive" method, although this sounds like a great way to go. I will have to try this.

I guess if worse comes to worse I will fall back on natural light, no flash.

It's kind of odd really, over the years I have concentrated on natural light images almost 100%. In fact I have only used flash once in the last 4 years and that was with my KM 7D and have never used any other additional lighting.

Some of the so called bridge camera's do a much better job in low light with no flash. In fact there is a great article (Not regarding flash) about an award winning pro using Olympus C8080, C5060 and C5050 Point & Shoots. <http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6468-7844>

I guess it's not about the camera, lens, or flash. Just about talent.

Thanks again, RG.

Help please.

I believe I have stated before on the forum my lack of flash knowledge. Just never liked to use flash. Now I find I have to.

Recently purchased a Pentax AF540FGZ on Ebay, it came with a Gary Fong Diffuser. It appears to work just fine in the house, with and without the GF attached.

Problem I am having is in a medium size steel building with ceiling height of around 15-18 feet and fluorescent lights placed in no particular order.

I was using a Sigma APO 70-300mm Lens. With the GF attached it was hopeless, images way too dark. Tried without GF and still too dark. Moving around the building didn't change things too much. I ended up forgetting the damn flash and got real good images. The flash was set to PTTL Auto.

At the end of this month they are having a City Halloween Party in this building for a bunch of little rugrats and I have to take pictures of them stuffing their little mugs with candy. I would like to get all the lurid details of the feeding frenzy.

I know I am going to have to use flash at times, as some area's in this building will be set up to scare the little buggers out of their wits.
I also want to be far enough away so as I get a more natural shot.

Any suggestions, or flash lessons would be very welcome.

The odd thing is I have used flash once before in this same building, crowded with people, with a Minolta 360 Flash on a 7D and Sigma APO 70-300mm with no problems.

Thanks for your help. RG.

Great Shots.

RG.