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John, excuse me if I didn't understand, but my point was, the RAW is the original, whatever jpg I made based on it it doesn't matter as quite possibly other people could have better artistics eye, PP skills, or just a concept what could have been made using this capture. What I possibly could do at the start was to add a brief of what this picture shows, what I've added after foxycce request.
Idea behind this was to have a fun trying to make some nice pic as far as possible out of (ideally not the best source), compare results and see what is possible (and briefly - how) to make, so everybody participating could possibly have chance to learn more.
Is this a bad idea?

Comment by piotro posted on Raw Challenge #1 at 13/04/2009 - 16:14

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It is a night shot taken between the buildings at some estate during a snowfall.
As to what software to use - it is up to you, use whatever you would preffer to use.

Comment by piotro posted on Raw Challenge #1 at 13/04/2009 - 14:56

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Seems the tweezers is what you need. Below link to the katzeye replacing manual with photos:
http://www.katzeyeoptics.com/files/install5.pdf
Or even an movie :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqZCjT-jr1s

Comment by piotro posted on K20D Focusing Screen at 12/04/2009 - 18:00

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Ah yes, I have something on mine focusing screen, but knowing what happened to few other people trying to blow it out I'm not even trying to do it, seems it is very easy to scratch it (focusing screen).

Comment by piotro posted on K20D Focusing Screen at 12/04/2009 - 17:04

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Hi All,

I hope you will like the idea to have that sort of fun.
Please download the RAW provided (see the link below), use your PP skills, imagination, artistic view and upload your modification of it (let's say downsized with longer dimension no longer than 800 pix). It would be also good if you could write briefly what have you done.
Point is to have a "difficult" photo to play with and (if you like idea of this challenge) we will be trying to have more and more challenging RAWs to play with.
Say, this challenge closes on 19th Apr, please upload your jpgs in here.
First RAW to download

Comment by piotro posted on Raw Challenge #1 at 11/04/2009 - 23:48

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Great, I like the idea and execution.
Interesting that the sky forms lines along diagonals (ish).

Comment by piotro posted on Skylines at 09/04/2009 - 16:21

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Gwyn wrote:
No it just says it improves the accuracy of the SR function. I've just updated mine, painless as ever to do. Now to find something to test the new improves SR on
Most important is that the camera still works with new firmware

Comment by piotro posted on Firmware update for K20D 1.03 at 09/04/2009 - 12:31

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User on other forum says the 1.02 version was there for a short time, quickly replaced by 1.03 .

Comment by piotro posted on Firmware update for K20D 1.03 at 09/04/2009 - 12:07

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Greytop wrote:
Stefan, as far as I can tell when shooting RAW it makes no difference.
Well, some tests seems to show that it actually modifies RAW data. Others tends to think it is actually the RAW converter doing something extra when D-range metadata is found in exif.

Some links:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=27181182

There are few other interesting discussions on pentaxforums.com regarding this subject.
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-dslr-discussion/42318-d-range-technica...

Comment by piotro posted on ISO setting on K20D at 06/04/2009 - 16:13

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