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Comment by jemx99 posted on How useful is focus peaking for landscape photography? at 06/11/2013 - 21:29
Don't know if it's just me but I've never been convinced by my K30's focus peaking but the live view with the zoom feature is brilliant and very helpful with manual lens focusing!
Comment by jemx99 posted on How useful is focus peaking for landscape photography? at 06/11/2013 - 21:07
Done - quite happy to vote for such a great company!
Comment by jemx99 posted on Pixel Awards 2013 at 16/10/2013 - 15:32
Pentaxophile wrote:
The difference between the CCD sensors (and the old generation CMOS from Samsung) are NOT trivial though, at higher ISO. So CCD-nostalgics ought to pause before they throw the baby out with the bath water.
I always used to use 100 asa film - we don't always need high iso capability - my K30 does do low light very well but I'd love a K10 to go with it - maybe it's horses for courses?The difference between the CCD sensors (and the old generation CMOS from Samsung) are NOT trivial though, at higher ISO. So CCD-nostalgics ought to pause before they throw the baby out with the bath water.
McGregNi wrote:
That's why I thought it would be useful to break it down a bit technically
Honestly Nigel we don't always need to get technical - sometimes it's just something you feel - that's what separates us from robots That's why I thought it would be useful to break it down a bit technically
Comment by jemx99 posted on CCD vs CMOS at 06/10/2013 - 22:09
I don't update very often - infact my firmware is that old all of my shots are black and white!
Comment by jemx99 posted on K5II And IIs Firmware update 1.06 at 04/10/2013 - 21:25
McGregNi wrote:
Without the software used and methodologies explained it is impossible for any for us to assess if this is the case.
No need for this technical approach - what the guys are describing is more of a feeling - I love my K30 and the images taken by it but my K100d super images had that certain something that's hard to describe unless you have had ccd camera (even though the K100d was only 6mb) It's a bit like the K100d was closer to film and the K30 is more 'electric'!Simonmac wrote:
THank you! Even more unfair as I am comparing RAW conversions from the Kr to JPEG from the K100d Super. Even JPEG to JPEG comparison favours (in my eyes, and it is surely a matter of taste) the older model.
I don't understand your response here. What is unfair?. All I have suggested is that in my view it is important to ensure the images are processed with all variables equalised (as in my K5ii / s tests). How can Kr Raw conversions be an 'equalised' process to Jpegs from the K100d? THank you! Even more unfair as I am comparing RAW conversions from the Kr to JPEG from the K100d Super. Even JPEG to JPEG comparison favours (in my eyes, and it is surely a matter of taste) the older model.
Without the software used and methodologies explained it is impossible for any for us to assess if this is the case.
If that makes any sense!
Comment by jemx99 posted on CCD vs CMOS at 04/10/2013 - 21:19
I think there is a bit of 'Snob' value conected with the 'Entry Level' title in that some photographers would not buy one because they need the more 'professional' model because they would loose 'the' shot because they didn't have 'that' lever to pull! God forbid if someone saw them with a mere entry level camera.
There weren't many levers and switches on the first camera's/SLR's (my first was a Zenith B :shock.
I tend to set my camera up and don't make many big changes no matter what the subject is apart from f number shutter speed etc.
Truth is the K30 is a superb piece of kit that produces superb images and isn't that what the camera was made for?
Apologies for all of the ''s
There weren't many levers and switches on the first camera's/SLR's (my first was a Zenith B :shock.
I tend to set my camera up and don't make many big changes no matter what the subject is apart from f number shutter speed etc.
Truth is the K30 is a superb piece of kit that produces superb images and isn't that what the camera was made for?
Apologies for all of the ''s
Comment by jemx99 posted on K30 really 'entry level'? at 28/09/2013 - 19:53
I miss my K100D Super - was cracking camera that took some great shots!
Comment by jemx99 posted on Pentax 18-55 DA AL with K5 at 23/09/2013 - 23:11
Stunning shots - thanks for the link. I just wish there wasn't so much light polution etc where I live!
Comment by jemx99 posted on Great astro shots at 22/09/2013 - 11:42
Don't know if it's just me but I've never been convinced by my K30's focus peaking but the live view with the zoom feature is brilliant and very helpful with manual lens focusing!