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Comment by piotro posted on K5d or D300s at 19/02/2012 - 12:39
Piotro, it was cloudy when I took the photo.
For comparison, some of my similar picture (taken with Pentax).
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Comment by piotro posted on K5d or D300s at 19/02/2012 - 12:28
Nsantos if you want camera that responds quickly then still D300 is better choice, especially with a choice of fast focusing lenses (don't forget Pentax SDM is just slow) to compliment better tracking AF in Nikon.
Comment by piotro posted on K5d or D300s at 19/02/2012 - 12:14
I knew someone who worked for Jessops (London), I heard interesting stories about managers filling shops with part time students and cheap workforce without any photo knowledge, etc. She left Jessops to work for Nikon and work as such "representative", I remember her saying "now I will have to convince shop staff that Nikon does good compacts - it will be tough ".
Pentax hasn't got that (apart of some guys sometimes visiting Pro dealers - like SRS - although to be honest the one I spoke to at SRS some time ago, Steve I think, didn't help me, he was only promising, so not a good experience for me anyway), so not a surprise Pentax brand has no real force in these big shops.
This is not to say there are no knowledgeable staff at Jessops, you can still find them there.
Comment by piotro posted on Jessops bad attitude at 03/02/2012 - 22:42
Comment by piotro posted on Landscape photographer of the year at 22/01/2012 - 22:49
There are (at least for me) other conclusions to make from that, and these are nothing unexpected, unfortunately.
Comment by piotro posted on Landscape photographer of the year at 21/01/2012 - 18:47
Just my personal opinion, somehow I liked only small part of pictures.
It is not my intention to say anything like "it is impossible to take a good pic with Pentax", etc, but I think there are some conclusions that can be made by looking at hardware used (not that these are any big surprise anyway). I didn't count, but it will be a good estimate if I say that around half of presented pictures was taken with Canon 5D (mostly mk2, couple mk1), good number of pictures taken with other full frame Canonos (1DS), Nikons 3D etc, couple D700, one Sony A900. I my memory servers, two times Fuji S3.
Visible number of pics taken with Nikon D300 and some with D200, couple of pics taken with variety of amateur class C/N DSLRs.
Some 3-4 Panasonic Lumix cameras.
2 pictures taken with Pentax, one with 67II (and Fuji Velvia) and one with K-x.
Sigma 10-20mm seems to be quite popular.
Comment by piotro posted on Landscape photographer of the year at 21/01/2012 - 17:30
I'm intrigued how little feedback from the import agents we get here in the UK on anything Pentax put out. A nice little blog on their site explaining what's new and what's coming would be nice for us and I guess the retailers like SRS.
I personally would like to see more detailed list of changes, as many other people researching blindly every time what has changed - as seen on forums, it is just a bad way Pentax treats their (still) loyal customers IMHO.
The same applies for their "hidden" updates to firmware, that changingminor version number under the same major firmware version on Pentax webpage...
Comment by piotro posted on K-5 firmware update at 12/01/2012 - 17:15
Comment by piotro posted on Pondlife Set-up & macro at 09/01/2012 - 20:11
Comment by piotro posted on Through the window at 07/01/2012 - 22:45












If this isn't a heavy crop (I doubt it), then worth also to check if you don't have problems with hardware, or maybe your pp workflow needs some improvement.