George,

You have a bunch of the limited lenses. Which do you prefer - black or aluminium? I tend towards the silver, as it stands out - "I'm different, therefore I'm special."

Not that I have any

Oops - took too long to reply.

So, aluminium it is for me, too.

Someday.......

Don,

The porch light's always on for you.

In case anyone is wondering, I would pick these guys' brains 'til they "can't stands n'more!" Between them, they have the whole spectrum of professional photography covered - hardware, software and peopleware.

'sides, they're fun!

Thanks Don,

Time to fire up the old Sekonics, eh?

Good to know I didn't miss something obvious, and was actually on the right track.

How're things with you folks? Are you going to come see me on those crazy bikes?

Hi Everyone.

I have a collection of Takumar Screw Mount primes and the appropriate adapter to mount them on my K110D.

The shots are all sharp as a tack, but no matter how I set up the camera, the light metering, AV, TV, M etc. the shots are all WAY underexposed. I have Aperture Ring Enabled in the menu (works great with FA and F lenses as well as an 80-200 K Mount Zoom).

I've resorted to going fully Manual and using trial and error. The Takumars are set to Manual so I physically control the aperture. Then I set the shutter speed on the camera as if in TV mode.

I gotta be missing something, or are these fast old lenses just shooting through too much light?

I thought I'd read the maunual on this, but it's rather sketchy in this area.

So, of course, here I am at the doorstep - again.......

Cheers!

And the bottles have SMC coating - no skunking in the sun with these tall boys!

Thanks George,


I seem to remember seeing TIFF8 and TIFF16 as options somewhere.

Something else to play with.

Seems as if everything is better than default JPEG?

Right now, I'm experimenting with AutoFocussing options, Metering options and possibly linking the two so as to meter only where I've autofocused.

Boy, I'm sure glad I started with the "simple" DLSR

Many Many thanks, John!

Hi Folks!

I've been playing with a K110D refurb Chris and Nikki so kindly sent me from SRS - can't thank them enough for their patience and care.

I've been paying much more attention now, to the data attached to the shots, and can't figure something out.

So - here comes today's dumb question:

I take a variety of shots. They all say 3008 x 2000 Dimension (I assume this equals 6.1 megapixels) The shots are JPEG. (Haven't played with RAW yet).

But the amount of memory these shots take on my computer varies from less than 1 MB to over 2.5 MB.

Often the shots are very similar.

Any simple answer?

Love the new format - congrats!

Great capture,.

I can almost hear the little guy in the middle mewing.

Martin,

Welcome to the best forum in the world!

(But you already knew that didn't you?)