It would have been better if the subject (the cyclist) was coming in to the picture, not going out! Cropping off the right hand side and making the photo square would achieve that.

Sorry, not voting.

John K

What happens if you load to image into another program? The image you have uploaded is modified from that produced by the K5 so it may be something to do with that.

I copied your image into Elements 11 and its automatic colour correction removed most of the pink cast, then a further tweak with colour variations cleared it completely.

Suggest you try reprocessing the image in camera to a small jpeg and see how that looks.


John K

It doesn't necessarily require an ND filter, a lower ASA setting would surely do the job?

It's lost its silhouetted DSLR.

Thanks for the third place; with so many excellent entries it came as a pleasant surprise. Congrats to GlynM and mudge in particular and to everyone else, it was great to see so many entries this time. Also a very well done to michael, the judge - it must have been very difficult to choose!

John K

I see. Thanks.

John K

I've already got its bigger brother, the 400mm which I have to say performs better (in my opinion) than the Pentax K 300mm!

John K

Sorry to be a little off topic but what do you mean by 'The K-01 had a rather useful fault which gave pseudo-A mode on M lenses.'

Is it something which could be exploited on all K-01's or was it just yours?

Thanks,

John K

Irfanview makes a good and simple job of resizing jpegs and even offers a lossless crop option.

John K

GPS should be in the camera - they can be found in cameras much smaller than a DSLR so it cannot be difficult to implement. It's worth remembering that the existing Pentax gps doubles up as an astrotracer so flash isn't much use for celestial bodies! The K-3 is purported to have a USB3 port in the body, which is where it needs to be, so that looks to be addressed from now on. The rest don't seem to be essential features to take still photographs with so a video adapter add on for these that want it might be a sensible bolt on solution which wouldn't hinder a stills only person.

John K