Originally posted by dwhopson jsherm...
Great pics, but I have two questions out of curiosity...
1. Are you using the standard focusing screen in your K100ds or a split image screen?
2. Are these images straight from the camera, or have they been "photo shop-ed" so-to-speak? (I'd assume untouched for the sake of the demo.)
The reason I ask is that I have a K100ds and several m42 Takumars and m42 SMC Takumars and they are quite difficult to focus. Also, I haven't had a lot of time to really get to play with my K100ds so I'm not totally sure what it's capable of "straight from the camera".
Thanks! dwh
1) Standard screen.
2) All of them have a one-click sharpening adjustment in picasa, and the last two
small ones have been enhanced - the purple-leafed one is "I Feel Lucky"
adjustment in picasa, which basically does a short contrast/color/sharp workflow
on the jpeg, and the small image of my boy in the leaves has a one-click
'contrast' adjustment in picasa. (All were jpegs.)
When you're using the K100D, do you use focus-confirmation, ie the green
hexagon and 'beep' indicator? That seems to work very well for me.. Also, when
shooting MF, here's what I basically do:
1) Turn focus ring very fast until subject starts to get very near to in-focus
2) Start turning more slowly until the 'focus lock' beep/indicator appears
3) Start turning VERY slowly until focus-confirmation (green hex) appears, snap
I often repeat 1/2/3 a couple times for each shot, and then pick the one that's
sharpest. Remember, you're not shooting film here, take as many shots as
needed and then select the keepers. With MF, I find that's more necessary
than AF, because most of my AF lenses are more accurate than me.
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