Click on http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk/en/operating-manuals-download.html

Select Digital SLR, then Pentax K-5, then the first one in the list of PDF files.

Cheers.
Philip

Could this be irony - the hunter is the one being shot?

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Philip

SRS are first rate.

I have bought lots of things from them, both new and used, from the shop, by mail order, and from eBay. The people there are a pleasure to deal with. I have also traded in some equipment for part-exchange deals and they have always valued them fairly.

Cheers.
Philip

Phil,
The landscape is dominated by the over-exposed sky. Perhaps darkening it and cropping 2:1 to remove much of it might help:




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Philip

I wish you had just written, "I used to have a K-5; should I now go for a K-5iis or K-3?".

Instead you have made me curious about what happened to the K-5!

Cheers.
Philip

Putting aside the 2D/3D issue, it seems highly doubtful to me that anyone would know whether a photograph is accurate compared with what they saw at the time it was captured, because firstly our memories are not that good, and secondly everything we see as an image on the retina is affected by emotional factors when perceived by the brain. Whether they are being made or being viewed, photographic images are not only the result of the science and technology of their production but also a creation of the imagination. In agreement with Ansel Adams, there should be no rules about what the photographer does during image capture and image processing, in attempting to achieve the vision of his/her imagination.

Cheers.
Philip

Nigel, you seem to be unable to see the wood for the trees.

No-one could dispute that point in principle (but I would prefer to replace "file" with "data").

All I am trying to get over to you is that the JPEG file recorded on the SD-Card immediately after image capture is what most people would regard as the "Out-of-Camera JPEG". I think that is the image file that Stu62 regards as his photograph, and I think that is the image file required for the competition at John's Club.

Some photographers, me included, see nothing wrong with further processing that JPEG file, either in the camera or, more usually, on a computer, to create a different (hopefully better) version of the photograph as a new file.

I think it is that further processing that Stu62 disagrees with, and that new file is one that would not be welcomed as an entry in John's competition.

Cheers.
Philip

Nigel, it was I who posted the Ansel Adams quote plus comment, from which I am sure you will realise that I think of photography as involving the practitioner in both image capture and image processing. But I really don't care how, and to what extent, people do those two things - if the product impresses me, that's all that matters to me.

No it isn't, Nigel.

The raw data that the camera has captured for the image is processed, edited, adjusted, manipulated ... whatever you call it, by the cameras tiny computer according to pre-set default adjustments as programmed into it, to produce the JPEG file that is recorded on the camera's SD-Card.

I don't see that John or myself are
I am surmising that the competition to which John refers simply involves presenting that recorded JPEG from the SD-Card, which I assume would mean sending that unaltered JPEG straight to a printer or projector.

Cheers.
Philip

It cannot be easy John, because there are always people who seem to delight in putting obstacles in the way of any suggestion. However, it seems pretty obvious to me, and not an unreasonable idea for an interesting challenge.

Presumably, your club competition would require an image that is entered to have been taken using any of the shooting parameters available in the camera, recorded in JPEG format on the camera's memory card at the time the shot was made and, after that recording, in no way subsequently adjusted, either in-camera or in an external computer.

Cheers.
Philip

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Ansel Adams

From what I have read about how he worked, I would guess that Ansel Adams would have meant this to apply to both the image capture and image processing stages involved in creating a photograph.

Cheers.
Philip