I'm with Giorgio - all very nice, but 1, 2 and 5 are exceptional. Well done!

Paul

Wow...

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Wonder what make of car is image number 9 (car number 64). Anyone know?

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Superb, even if not taken with Pentaxes.
I was wondering where to go for my next big photo trip...

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I've had Epson 1270 and 1290. Both gave long service but died of the dreaded pink stripes disease. I now have a Canon A3+ 9000 mkii. It's lovely quality and generally happy with the colours but the pukka canon ink is ruinously expensive (roughly £1 per millilitre or £1000 per litre!). The forums say that CISS systems and 9000's do not play nicely with each other (lots of good advice on nifty-stuff.com), so I plan to get a chip resetter and some quality inks to refill my cartridges using the syringe method, which apparently works well with these printers.

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Well done Simon. I'll keep an eye out for it. Always nice to get in print, especially front covers!

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Thanks for feedback guys. There's a definite conflict between settings for stills and settings for video. For stills you want best quality so ISO not more than 1600, at f2.8 you're looking at 4-10 sec depending on brightness, to get a histogram that's not totally biased to the left. For timelapse you want shortest shutter speed poss, so up the ISO, and/or push it in post, put up with the noise (you're going to downsize the pixel dimensions anyway) and get shortest shutter speed you can, to smooth out the movement. And resolve more detail in the auroral curtains. Decisions decisions...

The videos I really like are those ones where they've used a slow motion dolly, but no way I could afford one, or indeed get it within the luggage allowance.

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I went to photograph the Northern Lights in Feb, in the far north of Sweden. I went with the intention of shooting stills, but came back with so many stills that I thought I'd have a go at a timelapse video. So here it is -

https://vimeo.com/61566851

The trip also gave me a deep respect for the abilities of the K5, which handled the adverse conditions with contemptuous ease, only losing one bar on the battery meter and never missing a beat after multiple night sessions of 3 hours out on a frozen lake at -30.

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Sadly I can't watch this at the mo because Firefox and Flash Player are having a hissy fit again. I'll try again later.

I have experimented with timelapse, when photographing the aurora. The k5 has a specific "interval" setting which allows you to take a programmed number of exposures of a predefined length, a predefined interval apart. For aurora I thought that I would want to vary shutter speed as the brightness changed, and the changes were not predictable, so I shot manual exposures from 4-20 sec as the brightness changed and triggered a new exposure manually straight after finishing the last one, if that makes sense.

In retrospect my subject was moving too quickly for the shutter speed I was using, and I now have the choice of playing the frames quickly, in which case the aurora moves much more quickly than they actually did, or playing them more slowly, in which case the frame changes look a little jerky.

So - shutter speeds and frame rates will vary depending on your subject and how fast it moves.

Sunrise and sunset shots the brightness changes in a predictable way so you can use Bramping - never tried it. People who do a lot of timelapse also use slow motion dollies - these shots look fabulous but take lots of practice and specialised kit.

Hope this is helpful...good luck!

Paul

Very photogenic location and a really nice set of images. Well done. I like numbers 2 and 5 of the first set. Second set are excellent also, particularly the first two.

I must post some daylight images from my sweden trip!

Paul