Hi,

Reasonably sure this is a no - well haven't found how to if yes, but on photography course tonight, learnt that on some digital cameras you can stop up and down by part of an f no. I.e. Instead of f4 or f5.6, you can get somewhere in between.

Is this possible on the K-m?

Is it possible on any Pentax?

Cheers.



Lynton

I'll happily take a punt for £120 paypal gift or chq including delivery to Norfolk.

ha ha......... yeah good point.......... get it now.......

Maybe i can make a £1 or £2 but i wont tell them my batteries were recharged from a coal power station..

alfiemooon - thanks for taking the time to comment, and to be honest, knock and criticise as much as you feel the need to (the only way i will get better!!!)

I must be being thick tonight though, as just don't get your comment "I would repost the first photo with a watermark,if I were you,you may find it on Billboards in a few years,he say,not wishing to get political"

???

Lynton

yeah ok got it - cheers!!!!

darkmunk -

where?

how?

Yeah i know being a A1 grade fcukwit.........but........

Evening all,

Well, just started a year long adult education course on Digital Photography to help improve my skills - went to first week, but missed second week due to being on holiday, however thanks to interweb technologies and Steve Job's am able to pick up emails whilst away..........

Course tutor, sent me my "homework" - or assignment as I prefer to call it.... ........

"available light"

Basically, could take anything I wanted to do so, using just the available light..... (well that was my interpretation.........)

So here's what I came up with (all taken on the "M" setting.... I know all about these f no's, shutter speeds and all that malarky now.........)... oh yeah and need to convey what I was trying to capture as well..........

Feel free for C&C..........(all taken on Pentax K-m with 18-55 Kit Lens)

1) Reading by Matchlight.......

[IMG]http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n237/lyntonsmith/sharonbookwithmatchforphotocourse80.jpg[/IMG]

f5.6, 0.7secs, 48mm ISO400

Trying to capture someone so desperate to read a book (great storyline) in a powercut forced to read by matchlight....... (was a good wine that night!)


2) Moody Coniston

Up in the lakes for a day and drove past Coniston water.........

[IMG]http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n237/lyntonsmith/conistonwaterforphotocourse800.jpg[/IMG]

f22, 1/4 sec, 18mm ISO100

Wanted to try to get a really sharp image and also to darken the sky up as much as possible. Stacked Kood ND4, ND2 and ND4 grad filters to darken as much as possible - but also let the light through the clouds in the top middle.

Guess trying to capture some kind of moodiness of Coniston water, and the eerieness of it - with Campbell / Bluebird etc........


3) Light Trails.

On A14 on the way home (having just had a chat with an officer of Cambridge Constabulary in an unmarked Mondeo.... )

Shame wasn't a more exciting road, but my first attempt at this...

[IMG]http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n237/lyntonsmith/lighttrailsrecroppedforPhotocourse8.jpg[/IMG]

f8, 30s, 28mm, ISO 100, ND4 filter.

All I was trying to think of here, was to tkae this, as the only available light (to the drivers) was their headlights............


Thanks for looking, any C&C/suggestions welcomed............



P.S. - if anyone can tell me how through photoshop (elements or CS3) how to print multiple images onto one page - it would be greatly appreciated.......

I am sure it is a relatively simple task, however, I am a bear of little brain................

unlikely to fall through, but if it does, I am very interested........

Not had a problem with my K-m (other than the ability to catch exactly what i wanted to!)

For info I use a set of Duracell rechargeables 2650mAh. About £10 from Currys

K10D mentions above why the problem occurred...... get the highest mAh rating you can to minimise the impact of this.

Ok, am a member of a few digital photography forums and there seems to be a lot of debate on full frame or crop and i want to make sure I fully understand.........

Have a penty K-m and believe the APS-C sensor has a crop factor of 1.4 - my understanding of that is that a full frame camera would capture 1.4 times the size of what this body does do - not too sure and not too worried as to the proportions of the FF shot compared to the cropped.

Then I read a 120-400 on a 1.4 is equivalent to a 180-560ish - but surely if I was to take a pic of say a car at 350 on a FF body and a cropped body the telephoto/magnification would be the same?...

Just less bits on the FF that would get cropped out in PS anyway? I.e. the subject I was interested in would be same size, same magnification.......