Prieni,

almost works - I created a 'trash' album and put some photos in it, but when you access the photos via the album you can only remove them from the album. You have to select the original from the folder to delete from disk....


I suppose I could initially star mark the rubbish photos and delete them before star marking the good ones for each new folder...

thanks,

Robin

After reading this thread, I decided to try out Picasa and I am very impressed - particularly with the ease of making basic manipulations and the fact that it leaves your original pictures alone.

One feature I miss from ZoomBrowser is the ability to set 3 star levels - I used to rate my images during a slide show as 1,2 or 3 stars - 1 star images were then deleted while 3 stars get printed. Has anyone got a technique for doing something similar with Picasa?

thanks,

Robin

If it is the focusing screen, the fact that everyone seems to get the same direction of lean would tend to indicate a systematic problem rather than a random (just not quite aligned) problem. For instance (and I've no evidence that this is true) - you could imagine that the act of tightening the catch that retains the screen might tend to push it off alignment to one side...

Robin

Since the other thread on this subject seems to have degenerated into noise, I'll post here...

If I look at my real world photos where there is some sort of vertical/horizontal reference to check against, they all lean a bit some down to the left, more down to the right. The amount isn't much (<1 degree either way).

I took some test photo's -

Aligning on the viewfinder markings gives photos that are down on the right.
Aligning instead on the top/bottom of the viewfinder itself seems to give level images.

This would make me think that the focussing screen (which has the viewfinder markings on, doesn't it?) is mis-aligned very slightly.

Having done all this, I'm now going to leave the focussing screen well alone and rotate any images which are clearly not level when viewed with the mk1 eyeball.

Robin

Well, still unsure on the choice of lens (thanks for the thoughts folks!), but I'm definitely going to try out the trick with putting ISO on the e-dials to see the ISO in the viewfinder.

Cheers!

Robin

Thanks for the ideas - sorry for confusing people by saying I was looking for something wider - I meant aperture, not focal length. I think 18mm or thereabouts is ok.

I've now been back and looked over a selection of shots I've taken with the 18-55 to see what focal length I actually used. Enough are below 35mm that I don't think the FA 35/2 is going to be much use for me, and probably the 28mm wide end of the 28-75/2.8 would be restrictive. I might look at the 3rd party zooms in the 18-50/2.8 region next.

With regard to upping the ISO, I did a series of test shots the other week and felt that somewhere between ISO 400 & ISO 800 the grain goes from reasonable to problematic - I haven't yet tried any post-processing to reduce the grain on high ISO images to see how much that helps. I currently have my ISO set to auto 100-500 (might increase that to 640 at the top end).

One tweak that I wish pentax would do in a firmware update is to make the ISO value show at all times in the viewfinder in all modes (perhaps it could change back to shots left if under 20 left?).

Nothing's simple - but if it was simple, it wouldn't be *fun*...

Robin

I'm starting to think I need to get a lens with wider aperture for low-light shots on my k10d (only had it 3 weeks and already I'm almost buying more lenses :shock

Currently I have the 18-55/3.5-5.6 that came with the K10d and also a range of lenses I had with my old MZ10 :

FA 80-320/4.5-5.6 - not bad at f8
FA 28-80/3.5-5.6 - sadly not as good as the 28-70/4 that died of fungus
A 50/1.7

Obviously the 50/1.7 can take some great shots, but I find it's too long in a lot of indoor situations, and I can't say I like doing manual focus on an AF camera - I think it's the fact that you have no real indication of *how far* out of focus you are as you do with a split prism.

So... I was thinking to begin with about the FA 35/2 lens - ~50mm equivalent on the k10d, still available in a few places, gets some good reviews.

Then I came across good reviews of the Tamron 28-75/2.8 [insert random alphabet spaghetti] - at a roughly similar price. I like the idea of going a bit wider to 28mm and of course having f/2.8 all the way up to 75mm - this would look to be a pretty good everyday lens. On the other hand I'm not gaining much aperature at the wide end over the 18-55.

Anyone got any advice on choosing between these two, or other options that I should be considering?

thanks

Robin

(yes, I'd like the 31/1.8 Limited, but I can't justify the expense...)

Mine just turned up, a couple of test shots on P-TTL to prove that it works looked fine, now it's back in the box until xmas...

Robin

[edit] Interestingly, I signed up to be emailed by amazon when it came back into stock about a month ago - did I get an e-mail from them? Nope... I just happened to notice the bookmark the other day and thought 'I'll just check...'. Moral is don't trust amazon back-in-stock e-mail notifications [/edit]

Back in stock at amazon.co.uk - there were 2 left, I've got one coming, that leaves one...

Robin

That might be my Christmas present sorted if any more show up in stock . I presume that since the internals are identical to the Pentax unit it shouldn't have any of the compatibility worries of the 3rd party flashes...

Robin