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Comment by RichardDay posted on Noise Ninja at 19/04/2010 - 12:28
I've used my FA 50 macro and the FA*300 f4.5 for more shots though, as I favour macro and telephoto primes, otherwise I much prefer quality zooms.
Comment by RichardDay posted on Fast normal lens question at 18/04/2010 - 11:46
The coloured cameras look as though they should have Fisher Price, written across the front, instead of Pentax. I quite like the yellow one, though.
I wonder if they do a nice beige one, for John.
Comment by RichardDay posted on Dr Who - I think Pentax has started a trend... at 18/04/2010 - 10:52
Hello , thanks for the replies, I have actually just bought a sigma 10-20 F3.5 HSM and the auto focus doesn't seem to work.Hence my question. (I thought I'd better check before I complained). Apparantly old Pentax dslr's including the k100 and k110 doesn't support HSM which sounds a bit close to the K10. Maybe I need to update the firmware, something I don't know anything about?
cheers
Chris
Comment by RichardDay posted on Pentax K10D and Sigma HSM Lense compatibility at 17/04/2010 - 14:41
Comment by RichardDay posted on Pentax K10D and Sigma HSM Lense compatibility at 17/04/2010 - 10:13
Well Iceland dumps on us again, booked a week's holiday expecting some nice dry clear weather and what do we get? a grey soup overhead, mother nature once again conspires against me. Please I just want a little bit of sun for my poor old K200D, she hasn't seen any since last year.
Suppose we are lucky - got intercepted at check in and turn back - could have been camped in some airport lounge at Bangkok or Dubai rather than squatting on friends.
Really do want to get out - sorry Clarky - but been out this way for 5 weeks and dragging it out to over 6 weeks is getting to be a very big downer.
Steve
As you are stuck in Sydney, have you tried to meet up with Lance Blackburn and family? He's a great guy and a Pentaxian through and through. We have a permanent invite with them when we eventually go down under.
Why not send him a PM and meet for a beer at least? I know you will get on famously as he has quite an LBA collection (he actually coined that phrase originally).
Comment by RichardDay posted on Ash Cloud and Holiday at 17/04/2010 - 09:40
Which lens? The EXIF says 370mm.
Comment by RichardDay posted on Mallard in flight at 15/04/2010 - 17:27
There's also Asahi Photo - around the same price.
http://www.asahiphoto.co.uk/
Comment by RichardDay posted on Lens cleaning people at 14/04/2010 - 18:55
You should have stripped the EXIF!
Comment by RichardDay posted on K7, K10 or istD? at 14/04/2010 - 18:50
Comment by RichardDay posted on Adobe Photoshop CS5, PS CS5 Extended released at 12/04/2010 - 14:32
Since then I've re-visited many of the other NR programs and RC's to see if the results I obtained with LR3b2 can be equalled or even bettered. So far it's been fairly clear that LR3b2 is a class leading solution, but I have found that if I develop in Silkypix Pro with no noise reduction, but max application of "False colour control", then use the default settings in Noiseware Pro, I usually get a result that equals LRv3b2 with maybe slightly less colour smearing and artifacts on very noisy high ISO shots.
The fact that I'm playing around with a two stage process rather than just opting for LR3, is that I prefer many of the other features in Silkypix (i.e. automatic selective CA correction, very effective shadow/highlight correction, lens distortion correction and perspective control, being just a few). In addition I rarely use anything above ISO 400 so my current NR requirement is low, but maybe it will increase as I experiment more with NR and have the ability to push for the higher ISO's. Another reason is that I dislike the user interface in LR but one can get used to anything!
Ideally, I'm looking forward to ISL (Silkypixs' developers) taking much more notice of user input put to them by John Nevill, the very active UK distributor so that the Japanese guys can swallow their loss of face hangups and the next release of SP Pro will be a giant step forward!