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10-14-2019, 11:38 AM - 5 Likes   #2806
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How's the "new" kit lens working out for you, goats? I find it very nice for "out & about town" shots like that one.


Saturday, I took several pictures with the lens shooting with my K-R's AV mode. When I first thought of trying aperture priority, I wondered how the heck I was going to select an aperture setting????? My other six AF lenses all have aperture rings on them--ha, ha. But all I had to do was rotate the little wheel on the upper backside of the camera. I decided to use f/8 for nearly all of those shots, since it is one to two stops down from wide open, depending on what focal length is used. I also tried to go no wider than 24mm or no longer than 45mm for most of the shots. Nearly all of the shots, including the "Meat Stix" one posted here recently, turned out pretty well.

Here are some of the others I shot that day. Except for the first one, I believe I have already posted each of these in other threads:









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A plane departing DFW Airport heads into the evening clouds. DA18-55 on K10D:
Nice picture Paul !!
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Nice picture Paul !!
Thanks, Jorge
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Thanks, Jorge
You're welcome !!

10-17-2019, 10:46 AM - 9 Likes   #2810
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winter sunrise

K5 + DA 18-55 WR F8 48mm 400 iso
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Taken at Founders Plaza observation area, DFW Airport. DA18-55 on K10D:
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Rays

Near Batz-sur-Mer (Fr)
photo from 2016
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Just a corner

DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR on K-5

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18-55mm DA-L on *ist DL, 850nm infrared

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Looking upward - DA18-55 on K10D:
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This afternoon photos, very poor light, wet gray weather, nevertheless I tried to practice
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Hello

This afternoon photos, very poor light, wet gray weather, nevertheless I tried to practice
Pentax K70 18-55 WR kit lens


Very nice - particularly the yellow one.
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Very nice - particularly the yellow one.
Thank you Uncle Vanya
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K70 + 18-55 WR kit lens (cross posted)


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Hello

This afternoon photos, very poor light, wet gray weather, nevertheless I tried to practice
Pentax K70 18-55 WR kit lens


Great shots! We've had lots of rain here lately, but I haven't been out shooting in it! I should give it a go: results like that yours certainly worth the wet weather!
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Great shots! We've had lots of rain here lately, but I haven't been out shooting in it! I should give it a go: results like that yours certainly worth the wet weather!
Thank you very much Thagomizer, it's very nice of you !

To be more precise it was just after the rain. The only lens I could obviously carry out was the WR kit zoom at that moment. To be honest, when I firstly bought my K5 in 2010, it was with the sigma 17-70 f2.8 - 4, I didn't want to hear anything about the standard zoom, which was not of great reputation.
Some years later, I felt the need to equip a tool following the essence of Pentax, Weather Resistance, cheap, strong. I found a used (but mint) 18-55 on the internet, for 60 €. I could compare it with the Tamron 17-50 F2.8 (RIP), it was not so bad in fact, just a little softer in the corners but better than what I thought ...
For everyday use, much more convenient, and full compatibility with the camera.

For the little anecdote, years ago, I had kept it under extremely hard conditions (a lot lower than - 10°C, with the K5, in some frozen forests)
I made the mistake of exhaling on it (as I usually do to clean the lens) but it freezed instantly (see below), I kept a blurry on the lens for all the morning, and no consequence at all after that (I kept the whole set in a plastic bag to slowly reach the temperature when inside a house).

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This is a zoom I can't do without today
Pentax is the best gear brand in these difficult conditions when we can take a lot of unique photographies
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