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m42geo
I love #6. China needs more great photographers such as you.

Comment by m42geo posted on Shanghai Street - New Year's Eve '11-12 at 06/01/2012 - 14:41

m42geo
ChrisR wrote:
Great shots, just compared them with some watch shots I took with the K5 & Pentax 100mm Macro lens.If they were being judged, the report would read. Yours, first class shots.
Thanks,

What kind of lighting did you use? Watch photography is one of the hardest thing to do. I had to take around 6-7 different shot for each watch and each watch normally take me around 1 - 1.5 hours to shoot since it is extrmely hard to get the angle right and lighting is extramly diffcult as well since the watch is so small and with with the lights I got it is not easy to control lighting.

Comment by m42geo posted on Watch shots with DFA 100mm at 06/01/2012 - 11:05

m42geo
snappychappy wrote:
Very well lit, softbox?
Yes softbox from the top and the product itself is in a product ligtbox picked up from ebay.

Comment by m42geo posted on Watch shots with DFA 100mm at 06/01/2012 - 10:58

m42geo
Just want to share with you guys a few shots that I done just over a year ago for a vintage watch dealer with the DFA 100mm on K20d

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GEO_ROLEX (1) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_ROLEX (9) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Vacheron (2) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Vacheron (11) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Vacheron ( by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Vacheron (10) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Tiffany (1) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Tiffany (7) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Tiffany (11) by geovienso, on Flickr

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GEO_Dunhill (3) by geovienso, on Flickr

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i see by geovienso, on Flickr

Comment by m42geo posted on Watch shots with DFA 100mm at 06/01/2012 - 00:31

m42geo
Very good price whoever got this. Nice

Comment by m42geo posted on FS Sigma 10-20 f 4-5.6 EX DC at 05/01/2012 - 15:14

m42geo
get the 2.8 if you can. you need the extra stop to produce sharp images at such focal length

Comment by m42geo posted on Long Lenses - again! Sigma 300mm v DA*300mm at 05/01/2012 - 13:39

m42geo
Dave-L wrote:
One thing that has puzzled me about the photozone resolution tests is what effect will they have on less than 100% photos, if say resized to 50% or less. That, I suspect, is what happens when we print at least 99% of photos, for most of us.

You spend so much money on a 16mp camera and lenses to expect a small 12x8 print? Yes most of the time we don;t even print out our pictures but the point of these reviews are to assume that you want to produce picture that are good enough for art gallery prints.

At the end of the day, the 18-135mm lens is not aimed for the professional market. It is for you have carry only one lens to cover your holiday snaps.

For me even when I go travel I do carry most of my lenses with me, The only lens I always leave at home is the DFA 100mm macro which I have the 50-135 to cover.

I normally mount my sigma 18-50 2.8 to walk around but it is not the best lens and if possible I switch to the FA31mm or the sigma 50mm 1.4 to shoot.

If you want good images you can not be lazy, you just have to change lenses when needed. If the 18-135mm is very good then who is going to buy the prime lenses?

Comment by m42geo posted on 18-135 has been slaughtered by Photozone at 05/01/2012 - 13:31

m42geo
Found a funny review for the Kr by digirev TV. Looks like this have only done the Kr and the Q review.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalRevCom#p/search/0/XrN7xiHGg80

Comment by m42geo posted on Silly but funny KR review on youtube at 05/01/2012 - 12:40

m42geo
Nice, I like the first one more. The second one is a bit over done to me.

Comment by m42geo posted on Warning - HDR horrors at 04/01/2012 - 21:17

m42geo
Now I discover that the K5 suffer from front or back focusing depending on the distance of the subject. e.g front focus if focus on close objects and back focus when focus on object far away say more than 8 meters. I can not use the fine focus adjustment function to sort this out.

Comment by m42geo posted on First day with K5 shooting at 04/01/2012 - 13:33

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