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Anstonian wrote:
Hi, Thanks for your responses.
Does this indicate that I should look towards a 35 mm lens, say Pentax 35mm f2.4 KAF instead, seeing as I am more of a landscape person?
Andrew

That's a great little lens for the money and as said gives the equivalent of a 50mm on full frame. That particular lens is incredibly light too. An alternative would be the Pentax HD DA 35mm f2.8 Macro Limited if you feel you might want to shoot macro images at 11 magnification, Its a great lens too for normal photography including landscapes.!

Comment by JAK posted on 50MM PRIME LENS OR NOT at 19/07/2019 - 22:58

Have you sorted out the TAv seting now. Maybe the lens aperture / shutter speed combination couldn't set correctly with the ISO range set.The bright room maybe wesn't bright enough!
1. The KP downloadable manual is here:
https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk/media/a42106d18d2382d496917086e83697df/KP-OPM-EN...

2. A new battery may need several cycles before it gives full capacity.

3. No idea!

4. Guess it is what it is. Would a K3 or K-1 be better? The KP is designed to be a camera with a small footprint so things will be cramped.

5. The K-3ii and K-1 have the GPS/astrotracer built in (but no onboard flash.)

Perhaps you bought the wrong camera for your needs? Did you compare the KP against other models?

Comment by JAK posted on Pentax KP ignores TAV setting at 18/07/2019 - 22:23

K10D wrote:
I much prefer these to the first versions Phil.

Good detail and colours.

Best regards

Same here.

Comment by JAK posted on American Metal at the seaside 2 at 18/07/2019 - 16:57

Number 6 is fine, whereas the HDR'd version (#1) is spoiled by the over processing. I feel that HDRing an image shouldn't be so obvious. Indeed apparently not really necessary.

Comment by JAK posted on American Metal at the seaside at 17/07/2019 - 20:08

Just to point out that the 'Program Line' settings relates to the Program mode (presumably that mode only.) Peter's description of the AV + Auto ISO relates to aperture priority (Av) mode. That's actually really useful thanks.

Comment by JAK posted on I learned something about my K-5 II camera today . . . at 16/07/2019 - 22:16

retsoor wrote:
Does 2nd curtain sync exist on K3II or does it depend on what flash you have?. Can anyone help?
Thanks

Looks like it, See page 91 of the camera manual. Shown there as trailing sync which I presume is the same thing.

Comment by JAK posted on 2nd curtain sync on K3II at 14/07/2019 - 20:27

Algernon wrote:
Hardly the same. It now works better with the K-1 in FF mode. Plus the hood is removable.

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What can it do the earlier one couldn't?

Comment by JAK posted on New HD 10-17mm at 10/07/2019 - 11:33

Was the KP left in auto mode? If so it will choose whatever settings it feels appropriate, no matter what you might alter!

Comment by JAK posted on Pentax KP ignores TAV setting at 07/07/2019 - 19:38

sebas77 wrote:
It's better to make a mistake at iso 100 than iso 200. If I have to recover two stops, wouldn't be the noise equivalent of iso 400 vs iso 800? I may be wrong on this, just intuition

I don't believe there is much difference in the dynamic range at 100 compared to 200 if this table from AP is to be believed.

https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/reviews/dslrs/pentax-k-1-review/8

It would suggest that the sensor's native ISO is closer to 200 with 100 being a software tweak.
Would you really notice that extra 0.2 EV in a real world photograph?

Comment by JAK posted on Forced to use tav for studio portrait at 07/07/2019 - 18:57

Get the exposure and lighting right and they'll be no need to recover anything!

Comment by JAK posted on Forced to use tav for studio portrait at 07/07/2019 - 15:28

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