Thanks Andrew The K7 & lenses were on top form that evening!

Thanks for taking a look also Philip. Interestingly, your lower contrast one there is the only 'HDR' in the series . Its tone compressed in Photomatix Pro from 5 exposures, not a huge range, but I wanted an even flow of tone throughout and a deep blue sky, which is why I shot the brackets. It may or may not have needed that, but lets leave that one well alone! I agre a slight contrast boost would benefit it. Thanks again.

Thanks Stan, I am pleased to see a favourable response to one of the 14mm wide angle shots - have come to not expect that

I'm not seeing much purple myself, but I know this sort of thing varies between monitors - I can certainly knock it out I guess.

The views heard here are clearly a testimony to the very high technical & artistic standards of Pentax User photographers!

That first one is fabulous! Do you mind me asking, but what shutter speed is needed to freeze the wings ? I know there was flash as well, but its so crisp I'd have assumed it needed HSS at quite a fast speed?

Smeggy, do you feel like illustrating your train of thought there?

Maybe its just John letting the hobbyist inside peek out.

Out again on the hills near the Kenley airfield, this time focusing on the long distance across the valley. The 'Pit' (as named on the OS map) is a disused quarry which has revealed the 'white cliffs' feature - rather distinctive in this part the world. The contrasting bridges, one rather industrial and the other rather quaint, are on the line South of East Croydon towards Oxted & Uckfield.

All with the K7 and Pentax 'M' 75-150 f4.0, mostly at 140-150mm and shot at f8 or f11. There's a couple of wide angle shots at 14mm (my trademark 'vast empty spaces' :wink which give some sense of the wider place. The telephoto shots were taken from almost the same spots as the wide ones.


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Thanks for taking a look and any thoughts appreciated!

A quick look at the Apple Aperture Support page lists DNG as a supported file with the following note : 'DNG files must be generated by the Adobe DNG Converter with the “Convert to Linear Image” option turned off.'

I'd install a copy of the Adobe DNG Converter onto the computer and check for that option. It may all work seamlessly from there on. Here's a link to the page I checked ... link

The K50 is not listed for PEF support, but that's no issue at all really. I don't shoot PEF, DNG is better for both compatibility and future-proofing reasons I think.

Let us know how you get on with the DNG converter.

I'm not using the term loosely - I'm using it as the now common way to describe image adjustments that involve chopping, pasting, compositing and otherwise altering the content of an image to the extent that it is a distortion of reality. I include here the sort of extreme body and skin treatment used for fashion and advertising.

The other sort of PP, that I say we should all be using, is about allowing the camera sensor data to fully be displayed and reproduced in an optimised manner.

If I said a shot had been 'lightroomed' to death - now that would conjure up a rather different impression....

There are two ways for a catalogue programme to display image thumbnails for organising purposes - either disply the embedded JPEG in the RAW file (which you DNGs have as produced by the camera processor) or carry out 'on the fly' conversion of your imported files and generate a thumbnail from that. This behaviour would be controlled in the settings, so I think its a case of delving into the Aperture preferences or control panel and setting it up. I'd seek help if needed from an Aperture related forum.