Originally posted by goatsNdonkey Thanks! The K10D might not be the best camera for astronomical work, but that doesn't mean it's completely out of its reach.
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I love seeing the picture of the hop hornbeam tree. We used to have a lot of them along a woodland edge on our place, but don't see them so much since the pasture along there grew up in other shrubs and trees over the past 30 years.
I just love trees generally, they seem to be fundamental to my general sense of well being. I'm fortunately to live in a pretty rural area, plus have access to lots of trees and woodland locally and at National Trust sites.
Originally posted by paulh K10D can do black & white, too - F80-200:
Paul, how do you convert to b/w, was this done using the in camera setting, or in post processing? With film, due to the expense of b/w film and processing I've reverted to shooting colour negative film then desaturating afterwards. But I don't do it selectively for shots on the roll, I do it for all, so when I 'm shooting I'm envisioning everything as b/w shots. Just curious about your process with the K10D.
Originally posted by Dartmoor Dave Indubitably! Whenever I try other lenses and other sensors I always find myself circling back to where I started from. Nothing else captures the world the way I see it better than the K10D sensor and a Takumar (well, Kodachrome did, but that's not an option any more).
If you haven't yet discovered the Takumar Club here on Pentax Forums, I think you'll find that you fit right in.
Takumar club - Page 989 - PentaxForums.com Thanks Dave, yes funnily enough I came across the Takumar Club a few days ago and have started reading from the start, like I did with this K10D Club thread. I've very recently bought (but not yet received) a Super Tak 150/4 and a Super Tak 28/3.5 to add my current little set of a Super Tak 55/1.8, preset Tak 105/2.8 and preset Tak 135/3.5.
Do you have any SMC or S-M-C Taks with the extra lugs on the rear? If so do they mount ok on your K10D with adapter? A couple of years back I had an S-M-C 50/1.4 which I loved on film with my Spotmatic, but when I tried to use it with the M42 > PK adapter I had then (a cheap one with inner flange) it wouldn't fully screw in. I had the same issues with M42 adapters on my Contax and EOS film bodies, so eventually sold the S-M-C 50/1.4 and focused from them on on the Super Takumar and older. Though confusingly I have seen a Super Takumar with those extra metering lugs too... I now have an official Pentax M42 > PK adapter so was wondering if any future S-M-C or SMCs I might come across would be fully usable. I can't imagine that Pentax would have released the adapter if it wasn't fully compatible with their SMC Tak lenses, which were the current lenses at the time the K mount was introduced.
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Couple more with my K10D and preset aperture Asahi Takumar 135/3.5 lens... Shot RAW and simply exported to JPEG in LightRoom, no post processing.
Also today received the OME53 eyepiece plus a diagonal split prism focusing screen. Combined they make focusing with manual focus lenses significantly easier, and I'm pleased to find too that that the focus confirm hexagon in the VF seems to tally exactly with the spilt prism, so this is an additional aid I feel I can rely on. Think it's time to sell the (only two!) AF lenses I have and just focus (ha!) on Takumars (plus maybe my three Zeiss and one or two Soviets) in M42 mount and SMC, M and A in PK mount...