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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-08-2021, 09:51 PM
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It came down to wanting to give more eye relief for the bigger OVF, and I think most of us who already have the K-3 iii will tell you that those few mm saved by having a fixed screen are worth it for having the best experience when using the OVF. The camera is a joy to use…a feeling that has only become more cemented after five days moving around Badlands National Park with it. (I also have my 645D, but it basically gets lugged out for sunrises and sunsets. It gets parked on a tripod while I run around shooting changing light with the K-3 iii since ramping up the ISO for handheld shots is fine with it.)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-02-2021, 07:48 PM
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Ellie from 3 Legged Thing is what I got. I got the one that is compatible with the Peak Design Capture clip, since I like to use the clip when out with the 645D on a Peak Design Slide strap and the K-3 iii riding in the Capture.
You can adjust the alignment of everything on Ellie so that the battery door opens properly and you can pull out the plugs on the left side of the body to access ports without needing to remove the bracket.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-03-2021, 09:00 AM
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After fixing my K-50's aperture block failure by transplanting a white solenoid from a K-r, I sent it off to Spencer's for a 590nm conversion. Took it out for a quick walk to campus yesterday just to test it out. Took a variety of shots, but this one seems to be the one that's drawing the most attention, and it happens to have been captured with a beautiful Auto Takumar 35mm f/2.3 that I recently picked up on eBay. I suspect the aperture was f/8 or f/5.6, but I don't have any notes.
Postprocessing was done in Lightroom Classic. I use a custom K-50 profile with a Temp –100 adjustment in the DNG Profile Editor so that I can set a proper white balance, and on top of that I've built several creative profiles that applies different LUTs. (This allows me to avoid going to Photoshop to do things like channel swapping.) The LUT I applied to this photo swaps the red and blue channels and and sets the green channel to 50% red, 0% green, 50% blue. In my limited experiments, I find that this is a nice way to get a "natural" blue sky while still getting some interesting false color effects on foliage. (I love the teal skies of a straight red/blue channel swap, too, but this is a nice thing to have in the arsenal.)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-06-2021, 10:46 AM
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I don’t know that you’d have enough information to match what you get by actually collecting the infrared signal.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
03-24-2022, 06:05 PM
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Try shooting soccer at night at 25,600. LR doesn’t do well on that noise reduction. Topaz makes it like you reduced noise with 800 as your start.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
03-08-2022, 08:54 AM
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I took some PS shots while tethered after upgrading to 1.41 and am unfortunately getting three frames in the transmitted PS files still. DCU refuses to open the files, and RawTherapee tells me that there's three frames. LrC I guess just processes one frame with these defective files, which is better than nothing, it seems.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
03-09-2022, 05:40 PM
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1000% worth it for both Sharpen and DeNoise.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-27-2021, 05:30 AM
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My travel kit is the Sigma 10–20mm f/3.5, 20–40mm Ltd, and 55–300PLM. I don’t miss not having 41–54 covered. The gap from 15mm to 20mm in your case certainly wouldn’t bother me…back up a bit at 20mm or crop in a bit with the 15mm Ltd. I love the 20–40 Ltd, but I have no experience with the 16–85.
I’d actually take a look at your focal length data and see if you have a lot in the 60–85 range from your 60–250. If you do, then that would make me lean toward the 16–85, since you could still get those shots without changing lenses.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
12-18-2021, 03:01 PM
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It would work fine for this sort of thing. It transmits much, much faster with the K-3 iii than it did on the K-70. If you saw a half dozen things you wanted to transfer, you could have them on your phone within a minute or two and get them posted quickly.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
06-23-2021, 12:39 PM
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My K-50 lives again! I bought a K-r from the Marketplace here in order to convert my DA*300mm to screwdrive. Had high hopes that I could get a white solenoid out of the pop-up flash in the K-r, but either a previous owner had beaten me to appropriating that solenoid or the camera is one of the transitional bodies that used the green solenoid in the flash. There was a white solenoid down in the body, and it has now been transplanted into my K-50. Since the K-r basically exists for dealing with SDM failure as far as I'm concerned, I just put the failed green solenoid from the K-50 into the K-r.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
11-07-2021, 06:42 PM
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Rather than the overpriced CineStill heating device, get an inexpensive immersion circulator designed for cooking sous vide. I have had one for a while that I use for cooking, and now I use it for a water bath for C-41 chemistry. I’ve also used it to keep B&W chemistry at 68ºF now that my house is running a bit below that temp.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
10-09-2021, 05:17 PM
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AF.C works great on my Tamron 70–200 f/2.8, both with and without the HD DA 1.4x TC.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
10-04-2021, 05:18 PM
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They made a huge deal out of this in all the materials they released leading up to the release of the camera.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
10-03-2021, 11:54 AM
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What about using one at the Edmonton Public Library? They seem to have maker spaces that you can use there. Thingiverse has a few options, but this is the one that I used.
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Oof, @cpk. That’s rough. And it also tells me I need to keep putting the red rubber top onto my Jobo tank when loading film, since I can totally see myself doing something like removing the light-tight lid because I’ve got to remove something before pouring in the chemistry.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
10-03-2021, 11:33 AM
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I scanned a whole bunch of my first foray into film using my K-3 iii last night. I 3D printed negative holders for 35mm and 120 film, cut out spots for them in a sheet of foam board, and then used gaffer tape to attach the foam board to my light board. Now that the K-3 iii can tether to a computer, this was super duper simple and I think I got to the point where I was scanning a 36-exposure roll of 35mm in under 5 minutes. A roll of 120 shot in the 645 takes literally 2 minutes. The thing I forgot to do when scanning last night was to use PixelShift, which Stephen Obermeier had literally just suggested the other day on Facebook. Doh! I suspect that I will eventually want to take multiple shots of each 645 negative and stitch or else use the 645D to shoot my 645 negatives, since 40MP is better than 26MP for 120 film. Lots of evidence says that the resolution on the K-3 iii is right at the sweet spot for 35mm.
I am not going to wade into the holy war over stop bath vs tap water. I read up on things and chose which one I would do.
I selected HC-110 for my developer and got a bunch of pipettes on Amazon to use for measuring it out into a beaker. Using it basically as one-shot in dilution B, but I did have two rolls of 35mm and a roll of 120 all to do last weekend, so I did do them all with one batch of dilution B without incident. (Had to do three runs as the 35mm were Foma 200 and Foma 400 and my tank isn’t big enough to put in 120 and 35mm at the same time.) FYI, the data sheets for Foma 200/Arista EDU 200 say “NR” for HC-110, but I went by the massive dev chart and had no issues.
For storing mixed up chemicals (Ilford Rapid Fixer for my B&W, but I also have a Rollei C-41 kit and will wind up with an E-6 kit before long, too…immersion circulator for sous vide cooking makes the temperature-fussy color processes easy-peasy), I bought empty wine bladders (like those that box wine come in). Super easy to evacuate all the air from them and seal them up. My used fixer is being stored in a hydrogen peroxide bottle since it’s super cheap and safe to just dump down the drain and leave you with a good bottle for not much money.
We have really hard water here, so for chemical mixing I’m starting with distilled water and then will fill those jugs with deionized water from a lab where I work. Rinsing I just use tap water, but then I do finish in a bath with photo flo. Decided against a squeegee based on what I read, but I do use clean hands without rough spots and run the film between my fingers before hanging to dry. This has done well with preventing streaking so far.
Only disaster I’ve run into was my first roll of 120…I took it out of the insert, was trying to snug it up a little bit since that’s what I’d seen online, and I dropped it on the floor and it partially unspooled. Figured the whole roll was toast, but 10 of the 15 frames were fine!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
09-28-2021, 08:01 PM
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Version 2.6 that was just released supports the K-3 iii.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
09-28-2021, 03:54 PM
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As @Adam says, it’s software you’re meant to purchase and then you get the update. Good luck finding a retailer outside Japan with it for sale, however.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
09-27-2021, 06:07 PM
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The menu system is significantly improved, you mean.
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Forum: General Talk
09-27-2021, 06:11 PM
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Got called by my Moderna trial site on Saturday morning. They had booster appointments for phase 3 participants all week this week, so going in Thursday morning to get a booster. Have to forego the planned flu jab at work on Wednesday, but can easily get that at a pharmacy after whatever window the trial wants passes before I can get another vaccine.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-21-2021, 06:42 AM
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If you think a K-1 iii will cost less than US$2999, you’re dreaming.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
09-22-2021, 02:03 PM
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When I'm shooting action, my smart function is typically set to control drive mode with the three options I have on it being single, medium, and high. Makes it very easy to switch based on what I'm needing to do. (I also have a smart function "bin" allocated to changing between AF.S and two different AF.C configurations, so I jump between that smart function and the drive mode one pretty adeptly to adjust what I need.)
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Forum: General Talk
09-22-2021, 06:52 AM
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You seem to not understand how science works. Science constantly takes the best information available and draws conclusions. When more information becomes available or circumstances change, those conclusions get updated. Science is always the best we know now and prepared to change in the face of additional evidence.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
05-09-2021, 12:42 PM
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I ran into a similar thing when I first got the camera. Reset was the only thing I found that got around it. I did have it happen one other time, but instead of a reset, I adjusted the sensitivity of the eye sensor that turns off the back display. That seems to have solved it; my hypothesis being that when nit was acting up, I was casting a really strong shadow that was triggering back display to turn off.
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Forum: General Talk
09-02-2021, 06:22 PM
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There will be a Moderna booster. As a phase 3 trial participant, I was informed earlier this week that we would be getting boosters along with the general public. Not sure how they’re going to handle the timing, given that those who got the vaccine last summer are way beyond 8 months, and those of us who were unblinded in early 2021 will hit 8 months mostly in October.
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