Personally I've found a big part of JPG shooting is dialling in the settings (WB/colour profile/exposure/metering/iso) beforehand to taste and then the hope is they are good to go... however without the immediate visual feedback of an EVF (like with the fuji) it can be sometimes tricky to guess it perfect when you're snapping away at fast critters in bright sunshine without much idea of how the images are panning out!

If you have any tips on pentax JPG shooting/editing and how you get such wonderful looking images I'd appreciate it greatly. Also I noticed some great images you've taken with the DA 18-250mm (which I'd overlooked until now). I have a few primes (both manual and AF) and some old zooms but was really struck by the quality of the images from that zoom lens and the K5 iis. Couldn't actually believe such a versatile (non pro) focal range could produce such fantastic images, looks like a real gem of a lens!


Anyway, apologies for rambling on, Jim

Thanks for the quick reply, I've also dabbled with fuji in the past year or so but am drawn again to the 16mp pentax's (have owned K-01, K30, K50, KP) for the optimal image quality vs file size.

I also have a K1 but wanted something for wildlife (APS-C for the crop factor) which I could potentially shoot in RAW without too large a file footprint as the K1 produces quite sizable raw files. Fuji is great for JPG's but I prefer working with DNG over the fuji raws which I haven't got the software for currently.


Another major goal is to get the most out of as small a file as possible (JPG) with minimal editing and minimal image degradation. So it sounds I've found the right person as you clearly manage to successfully edit JPGs in a very pleasing way... to be honest I assumed they were RAW edits.


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Thank you, Jim

All of my photos are jpg's, but not SOOC - I do some processing on pretty much every shot I post. I've found that from the K-50, the K-5IIs, the K-S1, and the K-3 are all quite capable of producing good jpg's from the camera, plus now I've branched into Fuji and Olympus also.

I'm glad you've enjoyed my work and have taken some inspiration from them,

Dave