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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 2 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
You got fast moves. Is this part of the new MF body or despite it?
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 2 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
I'm a huge fan of M120 and consider it the best tele lens in M series. Sharp, compact and lovely rendering.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 3 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
Yeah, good light helps a lot with long and slow lenses. Handheld with 300mm I go 1/250 or faster to keep results sharp.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 3 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
And since I'm already here and Pepperberry is gonna ask any second now, Pentax 50/f1.2 has been a blast :D

As typical for me I find it difficult to stop down and tend to shoot more wide open than absolutely necessary. I know it not pin sharp in focus like big modern beasts, but I do enjoy that soft rendering. Wide open there's similar soft glow as can be found in the rendering from the soft lenses Gary collects. Something uique I haven't seen in my other vintage fifties. If you go pixelpeeping, it may be distracting, but in right viewing size give nice feel to the shot. Stop down a little and it's gone, so something easy to play with.

So far my feeling is that this lens is at its best on wider apertures and with close targets, so it can boast its excellent bokeh. From the landscapes focused to infinity I have taken, so far I'm left with the feeling that 50/1.7 would do it better. Yet I can't find anything wrong in them, so can't explain where the feeling comes.

Month has been going great so far thought I haven't have very much time to put into photography. Fun to have a new lens to shoot and test. This lens is a keeper and will keep it even when I have acquired DFA*50/1.4.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 3 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
Had to find and istall PixelShift2DNG program to make todays shot. The name is pretty selfexplaining, but I still had a hard time to remember its name :lol:
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 4 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
Okei, my problem is solved. I wrote to support last night and this morning they provided me with download link to old ZPS18. So now I got it back on the computer and running as it used to be. Talk about customer support. Programs been unsupported since 2016 and I paid something like 50€ for it ten years ago when it came on the market. I really couldn't have been offended with polite decline saying sorry, but it's not available anymore.

Also the new ZPS X is set on my computer, so will keep it and see how it works when free trial is over. Might give it a try as RAW editor during trial just to see how much Zoner has improved, but I expect to C1 still have edge over it in colours and sharpness of jpg's.

But as a viewer and organizer it is really good and has integrated surface to Zonerama cloud surface to store shots. So far Zonerama has been free and unlimited photo platform. Not as easy as Flickr to get BBCode to post shots into PF, but can be done if you know what to do.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 4 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
You never know until you try. My first SIC was with M*300. Just saying... :cool:
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 4 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
So new hard drive on my laptop and fresh start with windows on the side. The latter is not so fun. All programs and you customizations gone. Reinstall everything and set them the way they were. Except I think I lost my Zoner Photo Studio 18 with permanent licence I've been hanging on to for 10 years, as I don't have copy of setup file and it's not available in their support page anymore. I liked to use it as organizer and viewer thought I had moved the photo editing to Capture 1 a long time a go. I think I can get used to C1 import tool and the way it likes to store files. Just need to learn new habits.

But what to do with viewer. I'd like something fast and flexible where it's easy to go thru photo archives. The windows standard is not acceptable and I really don't want to pay monthly fee for Zoner Photo Studio X as I have no need for it's editing features. Any suggestions? What programs you use to view your jpg's?

EDIT: It looks like ZPS X might work as a viewer for free. All might not be lost after all. I guess I try how that goes.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 5 Days Ago  
Poll: Does (lens) size matter? Best of Pentax Forums Newsletter March 13 Poll
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 52
Views: 2,166
I go for both thought I don't have any of the ltd's. My small and light lenses are mostly M series primes. I love my DFA*85, but it is huge, so for travel I pick a set from my vintage lens collection.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 5 Days Ago  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
Good for you.

I have purposefully avoided any career advancements as my current position allows decent pay with freedom of remote work at flexible working times. I couldn't run my life in any job that require me to be in an office at a certain time of a day. Instead of work life balance I try to steer to life as much as possible :D
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-09-2024, 09:02 AM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
My one rule is never try unless you can buy. It will only lead to mental or financial trouble :lol:
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-28-2024, 09:12 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
I'm gonna wrap up the month today. 28 days is enough of 24mm for me. More than enough to be honest. I have been bored with the lens for the last week or so. I just find it hard to be versatile and creative with such wide FOV. Cropping for panorama helps a lot. Otherwise there's typically just too much empty space to be interesting. Occasionally it's the right tool, but if I have to go with just one lens I prefer something longer. Missed one day due to lack of motivation. I thought it would've been later, but it was already 10th day. Glad I managed to push thru to here.

Lens itself is decent or good enough in viewing size, but I would like to add some pixie dust in it to get some wow factor. I would appreciate sharper, more 3D pop and smoother bokeh. Things that are hard to get in such a wide paggage. I don't know if it's even possible to get what I desire, as I'm not 100% sold on rendering of DFA21ltd either. Even if it were possible. I'm not certain I'd be willing to pay the price asked for a lens I would mount as a last resort.

I can sell this, if someone else wants to give it a go, but probably too lazy to actively sell it and will leave it on the shelf.

My favorites from the month:




...I thought there would be more, but in this date and time; That's all folks :o
Forum: General Photography 02-28-2024, 05:50 AM  
Would you reshoot the same subject with a new camera body?
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 25
Views: 753
Like Sandy I'd like to suggest slower shutter speeds. Set camera on tv mode and test out the slowest shutter speed where you can realiably produce sharp results and then stick to that in the museums so that you get the most out of available light. With DFA*50 something from 1/60 to 1/30 should work. With K1ii that should rule out the possibility of shutter shock.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 02-26-2024, 05:58 AM  
K1 with or without eyecup ?
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 16
Views: 764
I, too, use O-ME53 on my K1ii. I lift my glasses to the forehead or put then in the camera bag while shooting. With diopter adjust I see clear enough.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-25-2024, 01:34 PM  
Game Single in March 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 115
Views: 1,917
I got a new lens to play with so definitely in. K1ii & K50/1.2.

I'm traveling at the beginning, so not sure how it effects my posting. I try to take laptop with me, but I need to take a lot of other stuff too, so it's possible I can't fit it inside weight allowance. My laptop ain't travel friendly and has brick like 200W transformer.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 12:58 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
I've been waiting for this :D
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 12:12 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
congratulations. Looks sharp on your test shots. I believe in some sigma lenses the focus issue is hunting in low light. Better AF on K3III should help with that.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-21-2024, 09:02 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
Thanks. I try to occasionally shoot also stopped down :lol:
But bokeh and wider apertures is the main reason I bought this lens. My 50/1.7 lenses work just fine for stopped down work, say f2 and smaller.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 02-21-2024, 01:04 AM  
Poll: It's a total eclipse, but is it art? Best of Pentax Forums Feb. 21 poll
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 31
Views: 1,720
I don't really care about these celestial appearances, so I usually skip them even when they are visible in my region. Northern lights are pretty common here and they are nice to look at, but so far I haven't taken a single shot of them and I don't go out on purpose to look at them. Same goes for solar and moon eclipses.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-21-2024, 12:47 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
K50/1.2 arrived today and it will be my March SIC lens. Took some test shots wide open and quick analyse is that my M50/1.4 has just become useless. Happy with wide open sharpness and that bokeh is pure sweetness :D
I have postponed DFA*50 purchace due to need to upgrade windsurfing gear and this lens will make it a lot easier. Still think I will eventually get it, but I need plenty of sails before I get there.




Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-21-2024, 12:34 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
Good to hear. And I gladly watch an other month of fat fifty.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 02-20-2024, 10:54 AM  
Post your K-1 pictures!
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 37,969
Views: 3,726,458
Thank you. They are Finnhorses. The local breed.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 02-20-2024, 05:48 AM  
Post your K-1 pictures!
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 37,969
Views: 3,726,458
K1ii & DFA*85:







Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-15-2024, 07:47 AM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
Long waited monthly query :)

In a way month has gone better than expected. 24mm is way wider than my comfort zone. Normal and tele lenses are much more in my comfort zone. But I have managed pretty well and few shots that I consider well taken. Lens itself has been sharper than I remembered.

Little low on motivation this week, but I hope it will pass and back to a good shooting rhythm.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-01-2024, 12:10 PM  
Game Single in February 2024
Posted By iheiramo
Replies: 99
Views: 2,016
We'll be both going with A24 then. Nice.
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