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Landak · 04-14-2020, 01:17 AM - **3 Likes**

An Angel Moth in the garden, together with the Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 (# 172E / 272E )

**ehrwien** · 04-30-2020, 03:31 PM - **2 Likes**

From late last summer with the 18-135:

Bumblebee

Pink on Green

**ehrwien** · 05-01-2020, 09:00 AM - **1 Like**

brave Wood Pigeon, Sigma 100-300/4 and 1.4 APO TC, uncropped. Didn't mind that behemoth of a lens looking out the cellar window and following it, and focussing and shutter sounds also didn't scare it away.

Pigeon Portrait

eixel2631 · 05-18-2020, 01:16 AM - **2 Likes**

Replaced my K-x with a K-S2 back in March, and I've absolutely fallen in love with this little camera. Here are some shots with the SMC F 70-210.

eixel2631 · 06-01-2020, 02:55 PM

Went out and shot my mom's car yesterday! First time seeing her in months

SMC-F 35-70 on the K-S2

Vad · 06-08-2020, 11:37 AM - **2 Likes**

K-S2+2.8/10mm Samyang lens. -2EV, ISO 100 F8 0,17" Adobe Camera Raw

**Crooski** · 06-09-2020, 11:46 AM - **1 Like**

Lens DA 55-300mm PLM

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**ehrwien** · 06-12-2020, 12:47 PM - **1 Like**

16-85 @16mm f/8

Ruhrgebiet Squares

**ehrwien** · 07-12-2020, 06:58 AM - **1 Like**

Some flowers with the DFA 100 WR. The process of producing those pictures was not that easy. At first, I loved the bright yellow colours I saw with my eyes. I already thought it could be challenging because of that. So I took some pictures, looked at the camera display and they were the dullest and flattest yellow I had ever seen, not in the slightest comparable with what my eyes saw. I tried other exposures with negative exposure compensation, but the yellows still did not look great. Later at home I looked at the camera settings, and screen brightness was turned all the way up... that was the culprit! The ooc jpgs looked great, but I wanted to process the pictures with DxO to get the most out of them. So I loaded up DxO, but what was that? The yellows were dull again! It took some massive slider movement in the vibrance & saturation department to match what the "bright" jpg setting of the K-S2 produced. And even then, most of the time i underexpose my shots with the K-S2 to preserve the highlights, and pull the exposure up in post. But when I did this with these pictures, the yellows became dull again...
After a few hours of fiddling with a few flower pictures, I hope I have not overdone it with the saturation in the end

Yellow Flower #3

Some kind of Inula?

(Buff- or White-)Tailed Bumblebee

Sneezeweed

**Crooski** · 07-12-2020, 10:12 AM - **3 Likes**

Ship on the bollard
Lens DA 55-300 PLM

**ehrwien** · 07-12-2020, 01:40 PM - **2 Likes**

First two with HD DA 70 Limited, third with HD DA 40 Limited

Cloudscape over Lake

Juvenile Canada Goose

Ball (?) Dahliae (?)

**Crooski** · 07-13-2020, 09:31 AM - **4 Likes**

No respect for the scarecrow

john5100 · 07-13-2020, 02:22 PM - **3 Likes**

KS-2 with DA 55-300mm WR Edited on my iPhone 8 Plus in Snapseed

by John Rudolph, on Flickr

**Des** · 07-13-2020, 03:41 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by ehrwien

Some flowers with the DFA 100 WR. The process of producing those pictures was not that easy.

You did a great job. They have come up really well. The brightness and saturation of individual colours can be adjusted with the HSL setting function in PL, although I confess that haven't always had great results doing it that way.

**arkansawyer** · 07-21-2020, 03:46 PM - **3 Likes**

At the end of May 2019, I purchased a new K-S2 kit with 18-135WR lens via closeout direct from Ricoh. This is my first (but won't be my last) Pentax. I bought it for the bargain price, yes, ($450 with the $400 lens included), but also because of AstroTracer (along with the O-GPS1 unit) for a trip out to Texas and because my old Canon xsi was getting a weak.

For me, I've looked at Pentax for a long time but was unable to afford entry into a new system - too many bills to pay. I have no regrets for this purchase, and have obtained a handful of vintage (both m42 and k-mount) lenses over the past year and really enjoy shooting with them. I look forward to more work along those lines. I find it amazing that I have a lens as old as I am on a relatively new camera and it still works great.

My first image, then, is taken with that combination.

The 2nd is why I bought the camera in the first place. This shot. Taken with the K-S2, Astrotracer on, with Rokinon lens.

That trip brought a lot more great opportunities to take photos, even though it was like 15 states in 13 days. These were taken with the K-S2 and the only Pentax lens I had at the time, the 18-135WR.

AND...

Now, with working from home all year, I've been working on projects around the house, building a patio and stuff. One thing I stumbled into was mushroom wood - that is, boards used in mushroom beds, and central PA produces most of the mushrooms consumed in the US. This is from reclaimed cypress wood, where the fungus has rotted away some layers of wood leaving some and knots left behind. I am working on facing the wooden posts and beams of the pergola to give them a rustic, aged look.

07-13-2020, 02:22 PM - 3 Likes	#718
john5100 Veteran Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,725	KS-2 with DA 55-300mm WR Edited on my iPhone 8 Plus in Snapseed by John Rudolph, on Flickr by John Rudolph, on Flickr

07-21-2020, 03:46 PM - 3 Likes	#720
arkansawyer Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Halifax, PA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 53	A year with the K-S2 At the end of May 2019, I purchased a new K-S2 kit with 18-135WR lens via closeout direct from Ricoh. This is my first (but won't be my last) Pentax. I bought it for the bargain price, yes, ($450 with the $400 lens included), but also because of AstroTracer (along with the O-GPS1 unit) for a trip out to Texas and because my old Canon xsi was getting a weak. For me, I've looked at Pentax for a long time but was unable to afford entry into a new system - too many bills to pay. I have no regrets for this purchase, and have obtained a handful of vintage (both m42 and k-mount) lenses over the past year and really enjoy shooting with them. I look forward to more work along those lines. I find it amazing that I have a lens as old as I am on a relatively new camera and it still works great. My first image, then, is taken with that combination. The 2nd is why I bought the camera in the first place. This shot. Taken with the K-S2, Astrotracer on, with Rokinon lens. That trip brought a lot more great opportunities to take photos, even though it was like 15 states in 13 days. These were taken with the K-S2 and the only Pentax lens I had at the time, the 18-135WR. AND... Now, with working from home all year, I've been working on projects around the house, building a patio and stuff. One thing I stumbled into was mushroom wood - that is, boards used in mushroom beds, and central PA produces most of the mushrooms consumed in the US. This is from reclaimed cypress wood, where the fungus has rotted away some layers of wood leaving some and knots left behind. I am working on facing the wooden posts and beams of the pergola to give them a rustic, aged look.

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04-14-2020, 01:17 AM - 3 Likes	#706
Landak Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Photos: Gallery Posts: 27	An Angel Moth in the garden, together with the Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 (# 172E / 272E )

04-30-2020, 03:31 PM - 2 Likes	#707
ehrwien Site Supporter Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 2,782	From late last summer with the 18-135: Bumblebee Pink on Green

05-01-2020, 09:00 AM - 1 Like	#708
ehrwien Site Supporter Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 2,782	brave Wood Pigeon, Sigma 100-300/4 and 1.4 APO TC, uncropped. Didn't mind that behemoth of a lens looking out the cellar window and following it, and focussing and shutter sounds also didn't scare it away. Pigeon Portrait

05-18-2020, 01:16 AM - 2 Likes	#709
eixel2631 New Member Join Date: Feb 2020 Location: ATX/DFW Photos: Albums Posts: 12	Replaced my K-x with a K-S2 back in March, and I've absolutely fallen in love with this little camera. Here are some shots with the SMC F 70-210.

06-08-2020, 11:37 AM - 2 Likes	#711
Vad Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 35	K-S2+2.8/10mm Samyang lens. -2EV, ISO 100 F8 0,17" Adobe Camera Raw

06-12-2020, 12:47 PM - 1 Like	#713
ehrwien Site Supporter Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 2,782	16-85 @16mm f/8 Ruhrgebiet Squares

07-12-2020, 06:58 AM - 1 Like	#714
ehrwien Site Supporter Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 2,782	Some flowers with the DFA 100 WR. The process of producing those pictures was not that easy. At first, I loved the bright yellow colours I saw with my eyes. I already thought it could be challenging because of that. So I took some pictures, looked at the camera display and they were the dullest and flattest yellow I had ever seen, not in the slightest comparable with what my eyes saw. I tried other exposures with negative exposure compensation, but the yellows still did not look great. Later at home I looked at the camera settings, and screen brightness was turned all the way up... that was the culprit! The ooc jpgs looked great, but I wanted to process the pictures with DxO to get the most out of them. So I loaded up DxO, but what was that? The yellows were dull again! It took some massive slider movement in the vibrance & saturation department to match what the "bright" jpg setting of the K-S2 produced. And even then, most of the time i underexpose my shots with the K-S2 to preserve the highlights, and pull the exposure up in post. But when I did this with these pictures, the yellows became dull again... After a few hours of fiddling with a few flower pictures, I hope I have not overdone it with the saturation in the end Yellow Flower #3 Some kind of Inula? (Buff- or White-)Tailed Bumblebee Sneezeweed

07-12-2020, 01:40 PM - 2 Likes	#716
ehrwien Site Supporter Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 2,782	First two with HD DA 70 Limited, third with HD DA 40 Limited Cloudscape over Lake Juvenile Canada Goose Ball (?) Dahliae (?)

07-13-2020, 03:41 PM - 1 Like	#719
Des Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Victoria Australia Photos: Albums Posts: 6,423	Originally posted by ehrwien Some flowers with the DFA 100 WR. The process of producing those pictures was not that easy. You did a great job. They have come up really well. The brightness and saturation of individual colours can be adjusted with the HSL setting function in PL, although I confess that haven't always had great results doing it that way.