Originally posted by Hypocorism Yuk! Things just don't seem to be adding up here. You are exposing what the so-called reviewers have blissfully ignored.
1. The K-5 obviously screwed up big time on the first, and the 2 dark result speaks of that. A broke DFS here maybe?
2. On the second it seems to have coughed out another mess, would that be DFS blending misalignment that caused the double vision?
Yes, please carry on with your interesting tests to eliminate any possible PEBKAC. Will be nice to see if the all singing and dancing new model actually can do it
reliably and repeatably.
Btw; has anyone given K-5 in-cam HDR a decent road test yet? Samples of one or two that I've seen to date don't really qualify.
Even seem sparse on Flickr so far too.
Pentax K-5 HDR - Flickr: Search
..and Long Exposure only picks up 2 as of 2010-11-12 AESDT.
Pentax K-5 Long exposure - Flickr: Search
.R.
Don't please jump in here and attach blame to the camera! I am likely screwing up.
So please cool it. This is experimental stuff as far as I am concerned, and I don't see many people trying hour plus exposures with their cameras so I can compare results and techniques. The manual is petty vague on this so I am flying by the seat of the pants somewhat.
Judging by the result of the first non DFS I took I think this camera will be a superb tool for astro photographers, so much so that I am about to invest in an equatorial mount to set the camera on for astro photography.
I will post the crap results and any success I have here I am not a fanboy who will ignore the screw-ups either by myself or the camera. I rushed the last shot just to get something from the nights endeavor, I may have missed focused and the battery did run out so don't judge too harshly please. I do not wish to start another false rumor about Pentax cameras.
So ride along with me as I learn about long exposure photography, and as I discover the way the K5 handles this side of the art. However please don't jump to conclusions based on anything I post here until I and others have had a chance to do more than a couple of exposures.
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Originally posted by Nass Unlucky - quite a useful thing to do is to take a high ISO shot before the sequence/exposure just to doublecheck focus.
I did that on the first try Ash, but was rushing on the second and just winged it. I learn by my mistakes so I need to slow down.