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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-02-2018, 04:25 PM
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testing fill flash in av. since my main camera has none, i normally would use manual exposure with a manual flash (k3ii). k10d+ da 21
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-31-2018, 07:38 PM
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K10D w/K30 2.8 & CPL
SOOC
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-05-2018, 01:05 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-25-2018, 06:59 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-24-2018, 08:36 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-23-2018, 02:31 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-21-2018, 10:55 AM
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Messing about on the water yesterday. Passing Brixham Breakwater in the first one:
 Rounding Brixham Breakwater by David Holland, on Flickr
And heading upstream past Dartmouth Castle in this one:
 Dartmouth Castle by David Holland, on Flickr
Amazing to think that the little stream called the Dart, that I can cross over on a couple of stepping stones on an afternoon walk, has become such a river in just the 40 miles or so that it takes to reach Dartmouth. Both with the 18-55mm WR.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-21-2018, 02:08 AM
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It was a baby grass snake - yoy can egt some idea of the size here
 gotta be worth two in the grass by Graham Hobbs, on Flickr
that I found making its way across our lawn. I picked it up to have a look at (and to show my kids there was nothing to fear and show them hoe to tell it apart from an adder). Then I replaced in on the lawn and lay down in front of it with the K-3 on the ground, trying to get a sharp shot when it stopped and raised its head to taste the air. The rest is in the picture :)
PS - my grandparents used to live just down the road in Harpenden, and I did my A Levels there - nice part of the world :)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-20-2018, 09:57 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-14-2018, 11:26 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-26-2013, 10:57 AM
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I got a K10D new from 'Jessops', Chelmsford, Essex ( England) in 2006 I had won £ 250-00 of Jessops vouchers ! I use it for my 'Work' Photography for local newspapers -- for my 'Personal Photography' I use my FILM cameras. I use many older 'Screw' lenses on the K10D and have done some A4 Ink-jet prints from it for my Club.
Floodlit Football, 135mm f2.5 SMC Takumar at f2.5
Billericay v Tonbridge by pentaxpete, on Flickr
135mm f2.5 SMC Takumar at f2.5, ISO 1000
French Horn by pentaxpete, on Flickr
50mm f4 SMC Macro-Takumar + extension tube, Tungsten lights.
Macro 7 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
24mm f2.8 SMC Pentax-A at full aperture, ISO 1000
African 07 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
18-55mm f3.5 SMC Pentax-DA kit lens
Burstead 05 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-11-2018, 01:31 AM
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The guy surfing in a hat gets my vote for sheer sartorial chutzpah.:)
That's a good question. I'll have to consult my hi-tec exposure reciprocity calculator.
(Quickly counts on fingers. . . )
Yep, the Sunny 16 that I personally use would max out at f/2.0 at 1/4000 at ISO 100 in direct sunlight. Beyond that, I would know that the brightest parts of any clouds in the shot would be blown. But if it was a shot where blowing out clouds wasn't an issue, then f/1.4 at 1/4000 would probably work fine. I suppose f/2.0 at 1/4000 might become an issue for the razor thin depth of field types, who want to shoot portraits in full daylight where only the tip of one eyelash is actually in focus. But that's not an approach that I can imagine myself ever using. The present day obsession with thin depth of field in portraits is mostly about showing off that you can afford to spend thousands on a full frame DSLR with a very fast lens.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-10-2018, 08:59 PM
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There were not many good waves at Soldiers Beach this morning so when a good one came, everyone wanted to be on it. K10D and Tamron AF 70-300mm F4-5.6 Tele-Macro 1:2 LD Di.
 _IGP1345 by Ray Allen, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 10:31 PM
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Well, the interval movies are, the normal videos aren't.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 09:21 PM
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The K1 II is not a 4K camera.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 07:34 AM
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Don't think of the DFA 28-105 as a typical 'kit lens'. It's not. Within it's range it is every bit as good as the DFA 24-70. It is however, a much slower lens and if you need the constant f/2.8 then of course the 28-105 is not the answer. But as far as build quality and optics the DFA 28-105 is NOT a 'kit lens'.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 04:55 AM
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Please don't convince me to buy anything! You are very convincing :)
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 02:43 AM
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One other point... I see that you're in the UK. Bear in mind that if you buy the camera and lens from a US dealer, if you need to send the camera in for warranty repair work, you'll have to send it to the USA. The items I bought from B&H were only available in the US, otherwise I'd have bought them locally. Yes, it's more expensive over here, but it's better to have the local warranty :)
SRS Microsystems has the K-1II + 28-105 for GBP £2099. By the time you've bought the camera and lens from the USA and paid shipping, import duty and VAT, I doubt you'll be paying much less than that anyway...
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 02:35 AM
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At B&H, the price is currently $2,296.95 for the K-1II + 28-105 lens. So, with this deal from Cameta, you're basically getting all of those extras free. The combined value of the *useful* items - the card, flash, battery and bag - is less than $100, in my view. So you're maybe $100 better off with the Cameta deal. I don't know what they're like to deal with - they could be great. I've had experience of buying from B&H, though, and they were very good. I wouldn't let $100 sway me...
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-08-2018, 01:24 AM
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The flash is a simple, manual model - i.e. not P-TTL - but useful enough if you're happy working with manual settings. The tripod, I'm afraid, looks almost useless for DSLR work. It's more suitable for light-weight cameras - compacts, that kind of thing. Very much a low-end consumer model.
The rest of the accessories range from very basic / ersatz to "throw away" (there's no way I'd clean my sensor or lenses with that kit). The battery will likely be a generic 3rd party model labelled as "high capacity" - not very good, but possibly a useful backup. The card, if in fact it's a genuine Transcend card, should be fine, but nothing special. The bag... meh, it'll hold your camera and lenses, I guess, but you could do better...
Basically, it looks like one of the typical deals where a seller provides the camera and pads out the deal with cheap accessories to make it look like great value for money :o
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-07-2018, 11:55 PM
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I'm probably going to get creamed for even thinking in these terms, but with so many vague conclusions I begin to wonder if allot of the objective thinking isn't rationally influenced under the color of subjectivism...
So much for vagaries.
As for my truth? I simply couldn't be happier with my mark ii, and that is a FACT.
Cheers
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-07-2018, 08:21 PM
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so people can get that dream shot while the cap still on. :D
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-05-2018, 09:32 AM
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with 100 macro, lots of fiddling to get those magenta tones to behave and I'm probably going to revisit this one
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-07-2018, 01:24 AM
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Story of my life. . .
Did you try a B&W version of that one, Paul? Looks like an ideal candidate.
Here's some campers at Foggintor with the Takumar 17mm fisheye. One of these days I'm going to figure out a way to photograph that place that really captures the feeling of it, but I've never got even close so far. I'm starting to think that the perfect shooting angle would probably involve abseiling halfway down a rock face.:eek:
 Campers at Foggintor by David Holland, on Flickr
Edit:
I wasn't happy with the original version, so I did a de-fished re-edit but the corners are a mess. As Christian says: a multi-shot panorama would have been a much better option.
 Foggintor Campers (re-edit) by David Holland, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-06-2018, 08:49 AM
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