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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-13-2024, 07:47 PM
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The full-size images all seem terrible. Is there something wrong with your camera/focus, or is the DOF so shallow that almost nothing in the uncropped images is in focus?
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Forum: General Photography
04-12-2024, 04:13 PM
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The Brenizer method is something of a spacial case and application. In other situations, panoramas can vary what is in focus in a different way, and you can also control what is in focus by refocusing between individual shots.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-12-2024, 09:12 PM
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I personally would use one more for panoramic-style images, but many people also like the "effects" you get from it, as mentioned above.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-02-2024, 08:42 PM
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I generally use the SanDisk Extreme Pro cards. They have been very reliable, I use the extra speed for copying the images off the cards, it doesn't really speed up the camera at all.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-27-2024, 09:56 PM
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The camera/lens compatibility page here on PentaxForums only includes digital cameras, not film ones, which might be a nice addition.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-26-2024, 10:27 PM
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I tried it with a MZ-S, it does not stop down the DFA21. The PZ-1 has no additional capabilities to do that, any more than any other Pentax film camera...
...and with a PZ-1, I set the aperture to f22, and it doesn't affect the actual aperture on the lens when you shoot; it stays at wide open.
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Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras
03-21-2024, 09:01 PM
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If I'm understanding correctly, it is not the film MX he means, but the digital MX-1 camera.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-07-2024, 03:07 PM
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There are two Kodak-branded cameras that yield 72 images per rolls and a few Lomography cameras, probably a couple more. Not sure if any of those are warranteed, but I am not sure if the zone focus, manual winding Pentax will be either.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-08-2023, 08:10 PM
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If the mirror locks up inappropriately, I would return it on that basis alone. Then you don't have to deal with the weird shutter curtain, either
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-14-2024, 01:31 PM
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I personally shoot with the idea that I will not be cropping. If some cropping happens/is needed later, I deal with it then.
You can get frames that fit the entire "35 mm" frame these days. They are still less common than 5x7/8x10 ratio frames, though.
P.S. I am not an event photographer
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
02-12-2024, 11:07 PM
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Kodak doesn't outsource their film production. That would be the very last thing they would do before going out of business.
Regarding the chemicals, they have a new manufacturer in the US, recently switched from a Chinese company.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-14-2024, 01:39 PM
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Early on in the stories being published about the film camera project, they said there were aspects of a winding mechanism that the younger engineers did not understand, and were trying to simplify it. However, the older engineers said, "You have to do it this way, and here's why."
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-02-2024, 12:24 PM
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You can use it to shoot around corners
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-22-2023, 09:51 PM
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This is not the *most* incredible, but I got a genuine Pentax M42->K adapter for $6.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-26-2024, 07:23 PM
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SLRs shouldn't even be shaped like SLRs. The deviations from the traditional model were big improvements; the dual wheel controls for exposure, and adding a grip, even a small one, like on the Super Program make a significant difference.
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Forum: General Photography
01-20-2024, 06:24 PM
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That isn't necessarily true, that they are not genuine representations. In many cases post-processing is not used to heavily alter the photo from reality, but to make it represent the scene accurately given the limitations of the medium it is on, whether it is a digital monitor, or a darkroom print. If the scene has a wide dynamic range, your eye can adjust to each brightness as it looks at different parts of the scene, but those same area will not be properly exposed in a print (or negative/digital negative) if there is one exposure done and it is just printed straight from that without dodging and burning or doing something else to reduce the dynamic range.
In general, even a "straight photograph" is altering the reality of the scene for the same of making it into a photograph because it is mapping a three-dimension scene onto a two-dimensional image.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
01-03-2024, 11:05 PM
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It seemed pretty good in the "before" version. I would go for slightly less sharpening than you did, if that is possible with that software.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-14-2023, 11:09 PM
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The update from him is that it actually seems to work, but the one lens it didn't work with (and what he was inclined to use) was a Sigma lens. Pentax-branded lenses were fine. Not sure if there were any other cases where he had an issue.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
11-07-2023, 10:33 PM
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I use my 31mm a *lot*, though sometimes I use the 43 instead if I want slightly lighter camera to carry around.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-07-2023, 10:35 PM
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Just go with your K-3 II. It's not that big. If you want it a bit smaller, used a prime lens.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-02-2023, 11:05 PM
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I mean, I personally thought the K-1 was heavy, but I was coming from the lineage of Super Program -> *ist DS -> K20D -> K-5 -> K-3 II -- there was a reduction of weight with the K-5, but most of that sequence was jsut cameras getting heavier. And then this happened again with the K-1, including the increase for the larger format size..
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Forum: General Photography
10-05-2023, 04:36 PM
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Not exactly, as it is a totally different process for creating images.
Now, if you said the debate that started when photography appeared in the context of painting, then yes.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
09-24-2023, 03:38 PM
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The Super Program's Winder ME II is not super fast (2 fps), I guess it is faster than advancing it yourself, but you're not likely to blow through a whole roll because it's out-of-control or anything. It never seemed that useful to me, especially because it's kind of noisy. It also makes the camera a lot less compact, the smaller grip that comes with the Super Program seems very adequate. I guess a larger grip might be useful if you have large hands, or are using large lenses on the camera.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
09-23-2023, 09:22 PM
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I don't have that camera, but I assume that "sync" means it get the time from the phone when it is connected, but the camera continues to keep track of the time after that sync by itself.
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