Chris,

You only have to do it once

Wireless is awesome with the K10D and *ist-D.

(Assuming you don't change the channel on the camera, of course :roll
Matt

Whoops! I had always thought the non Super was TTL only.
(Perhaps it used to be... and they've updated it)

With wireless K10D flash control you don't really need swivel It's MUCH more flexible than that.
Personally, I'd stick with the Pentax AF360 (but I would say that as I have the 360 and the 540 ).

The other option was to get the Samsung equivalent to the AF360...

Matt

It's only the Super that's compatible... and the AF360 is available at around (or cheaper) than £145 anyway.

Maybe someone has first hand experience of the Sigmas??
Matt

Lilly,
If you shoot RAW, it doens't matter what colour space you have the camera set to - the destination colour space is decided in the RAW conversion package (FWIW, the camera colour space is only used for the embedded JPG preview in the case of RAW).

Yes, you need to convert to sRGB before using Save for Web.

Whatever colour space you shoot in, Photoshop can do the mapping between one space and the next.
(However, be aware of what I said about Epson printer drivers in particular...)

Matt

John is right, 9300K is waaay too high. 6500k is much more realistic. However, your monitor should also be set to 6500K via its front panel settings

Regarding Epson printers... they have non-standard profiles For a printer there should be a profile for every paper type, and Epson bundle it all into one profile - and it's only their printer driver that can access the various profiles

So, that being the case, you have two options... and I'll suggest one of them

* Tell Photoshop to use the profile "AdobeRGB" when printing, and get it to adjust the profile. This means that if you shoot sRGB, Photoshop will do the colour transformation into the AdobeRGB space before sending it to the printer driver

* Use "Relative Colormetric" and check "Black Point Compression". (You could use "Perceptual" as the intent, but you may get a slight colour shift, so Relative Colormetric is more suitable for portraiture and weddings etc)

* In the printer driver, there should be a setting for "AdobeRGB" in the choice of settings (the other choices will be ICM etc). It's often buried away in a combo box.

* Be sure to select the correct paper type (as suggested in the paper pack) in the printer driver.

(Yes, I know that there's the possibility of two colour space transformations with this setup, but you really should be processing in AdobeRGB anyway )


The thing to remember is not that everything should have the same profile - but that it should have the profile applicable to the device. Photoshop and/or the printer driver does the mathematics to transform from one colour space to another (that's what the "Intent" is about - it's how you map from one to another).

I could bore you for hours on colour management... but I hope that'll get you started

Matt

You shouldn't load a standard profile into the monitor

The Adobe and sRGB profiles are "perfect" profiles for reference (for mapping between colourspaces).

FWIW, your monitor is definitely wider than sRGB, but almost certainly not up to Adobe RGB. The video driver profiles should be the ones created by a Spyder/Huey etc.

NOTE: Colour management is tricky

Matt

Perhaps you have dust inside the pentamirror...

The K10D (*ist-D, *ist-Ds) have pentaprisms which you can't get dust inside. I've had no issues with these three - each of them also has a removable focus screen.

Matt

It's in CS - "Photo Filter" (near the bottom on the layer adjustment flyout of the layers palette)
Matt

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please - not another FF vs APS-C discussion
Matt

George,
Glad you've had a good response

Might be what's confusing you: when you send a PM it remains in the "Outbox" until the recipient has read the PM

Matt