I cropped the first one using flickr's basic editing tools as I was too lazy to reupload it.

Good idea, that curve at the top is rather distracting.

Thanks, took me a while to get that one right. I have a landscape version and it really doesn't work at all.

I hadn't thought about the lines at all though

As the title says. I took these a couple of weeks ago.

Really need a macro lens of my own. My OH has a Tamron 90mm but it is her favourite lens. I had to make to with her Tamron 70-300 and my Pentax 16-50.

C&C Welcome.

Drop:


K10D + DA* 16-50

Pink Flower Chain:


K10D + DA* 16-50
I like how this one turned out. Fairly heavy crop though.

Yellow Lilly:


K10D + Tamron 70-300
I find it is very difficult to now blow yellow highlights out. It is also hard to pick up the detail.

Lazy Snail:


K10D + DA* 16-50
It was hot and fairly dry so it is understanding why it wasn't moving

It was a colour management issue. I have now fixed it and it is all fine. Lightroom was actually the program that was using the wrong profile. I have fixed it and everything is fine and dandy. That photo is actually correct, lightroom was just displaying it completely differently because of a bad calibration icc file.

I am really annoyed that when I edit something in Lightroom it looks fantastic. As soon as I export it it looses so much colour and saturation. Purples become blue, deep pinks become washed out. I really don't know why it is changing so much. Just loom at the iris below:




It is supposed to be purple not blueish.

PS. My screen is calibrated to Gamma 2.2, 6500K.

The K10D always shows you the number of shots you could take uncompressed on the card, about 120 shots on a 2GB Extreme III. However, you can get 180 PEF files on there, it just keeps on shooting after 120 have been reached where the card would be full with DNGs.

Especially if you don't have much hard disk space. I wish it would shoot compressed DNG files.

Then again Lightroom can compress DNG files on import but ti can take ages.

Limited primes will be much better than Star zooms. Limited Primes and Star primes are much closer, generally the Star primes are long where as the Limited primes are wider.

I love my 16-50, it is very very sharp at 50mm across the whole frame. Softer at 16mm and has some focus curvature (soft corners) but that is normal for a zoom of its kind.

I can post some 100% crops later that show some of the amazing detail it picks up.

DA* 16-50 F2.8
DA* 30 Fx.x or DA Ltd 35 F2.8
DA* 50 F1.4
DA* 50-135 F2.8
DA* 200 F2.8
DA* 300 F4

Ok so that is six lenses...

Or

DA 12-24 F4
FA Ltd 31 F1.8
DA* 50-135 F2.8
DA* 300 F4

It really is so hard to choose. Especially with lenses like the Llds.