Dang! I'm going down for a week in a fortnight

I used to do film 20 years ago and the expense of it forced you to get pretty darned good at exposure and composition. I don't miss it at all, digital is more immediate, cheaper, and you can share images on websites too. I can even print stuff easier as well. I do though miss the wider FoV. I looked through my old Nikon a few days ago and the K-7's view seems very small.

difficult to really compare because of the focus point. I prefer ths one on the right though. Does the K10D do any automatic in-camera thingies (ie like CA reduction) that it doesn't do for the Planar?

I tried that, but threw it out because of that stone in the bottom left which annoyed me "sitting in space". But, coming back to it, it looks good. Really I should just have had more of the right hand side in it, been lower and about 50 cm further forward - but I'll get to that when I go back in the summer

Hm, I actually took the bigger version off and replaced it with a smaller one - the other one looked toooooo big for here. And also I keep having stupid run-ins with a particular moderator on another pentax forum and I didn't want to push things here with a huge image. I tried editing it but my editing time has run out - you can click through to the larger version on Flickr though.

Totally agree on what you're saying, that's one of the annoyances I have with it - it needs more on the right and less on the left for me. And the camera needs to be lower. And I need something more interesting in the foreground. And... =)

Hello,

I took this and it's ok I suppose, but for the purposes of this thread I really wanted to pick your collective brains about stream/waterfall photography (I hope that this is the right place for that?). Specifically, what sort of exposure times are we looking at for that silky, delicate flowing water look without burning out the highlights (I guess it'd depend on the stream, its flow), and also are there any tricks to be aware of. For example it struck me that using a polariser next time might be a good thing. Anyone have any experience with this sort of stuff they care to share?






Thanks!

If I were still using film I'd use exactly the same process but wouldn't experiment as much

I don't take shots by accident or just come across them - I'm far too rubbish for that. I have to plan what I do.

I take specific ideas/locations, visit them once before, take a few testshots from various angles and with various lenses, look at them at home and then go back when I've worked out what I consider the ideal composition.

When I'm back, I bracket the hell out of the shot and take duplicates, to make sure focus is on and I've got the right light.

If the conditions arn't right for the final shot I stow it away in my memory and set it against a list of specific light and weather conditions to come back to.

Fyi, stacked cokin ND filters are a particular problem for Pentax cameras - Pentax lets in more IR than most systems. By the time you've stacked several, your image becomes magenta. Cokin filters in their own (ie just 1), seem fine.

Agree with John. I've done the Cokin filter system and although it's fine for first filter explorations, I'm personally now in the process of replacing it with dedicated filters.

One set of very large filters with step downs for your smaller lens filter diameters are a reasonable compromise cost-wise.