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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-09-2023, 06:27 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-16-2022, 11:15 AM
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Thank you, everyone. I will try P mode and see how that works out.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-15-2022, 03:37 AM
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[Thread title should read K-70, not K-20]
I've been into photography for nearly 40 years, and still consider myself to be not much more than a novice. I started out in 1984 with a Pentax ME Super, then augmented that with a used Pentax MX, and had those cameras for a long time, and sold them to finance the purchase of my first digital camera, the Olympus Camedia 2040 Zoom. In 2004, I bought the Pentax *ist-D, and used that camera until last summer, then had it professionally cleaned and inspected, and gave it to my daughter when I bought my new Pentax K-70 .I am using it with the Pentax 18-55mm F1.3 lens that came with it, as well as an older Sigma 18-200 F-3.5 lens.
Much of the photography I do is of cars, mostly at Cruise Nights, as we call them here in eastern Ontario, Canada, known elsewhere as Cars & Coffee. I also take pictures of old and interesting cars wherever I see them. I have an archive of car pictures that currently numbers about 1500.
The problem I am having is that, too often, when shooting in full-auto mode, with ISO set at 100 with the Sigma lens, some pictures are coming out overexposed, almost washed out, as if the camera chose too slow a shutter speed, or too big an aperture.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this the camera not functioning properly, or am I doing something wrong?
The accompanying photo was taken at my local Cruise Night last Wednesday evening at 5:39 with the sun obscured by a passing cloud. It was taken at 26mm focal length, f/8, 1/125-sec shutter speed, ISO 100 in Auto shooting mode. Note how the building in the background blends into the sky.
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Forum: General Photography
03-30-2022, 03:08 PM
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I agree with UMC. My first camera was a Pentax ME Super, and I chose it, first because it was attractive; it looked like a real professional camera, and I felt like a professional just holding it. I found it easy to learn how to use, and it was lightweight. Most of all, It was affordable; approximately $170 Cdn in September, 1984, more than a week's take-home pay for a 21-year-old kid who was washing cars for $4.00 an hour at the time. A close friend was into photography, and was using a Minolta XG-M, which was too rich for my blood. Confession: the first camera I ever really wanted, when I was a teenager, was a Canon AE-1; talk about dreaming in Technicolor!
I used the ME Super for many years, and enjoyed it, and augmented it with a used Pentax MX with a 1.7 lens. I eventually sold both to finance the purchase of my first digital camera, an Olympus Camedia something-or-other, which I didn't have for very long, because in 2004, I saw the Pentax *ist-D, and fell in love! I bought one and used and loved it for many years. When my daughter last year expressed an interest in getting a real camera and learning photography, my wife suggested I give her the *ist-D and get a new camera. Now I am the proud owner of a Pentax G-70. I guess I've just come to be a Pentax guy. My best friend's late mother, also a photography buff, left me her camera bag and its contents in her will, so I also have a fully functional mid-'70s vintage Pentax K1000. I also have a few antique bellows-style cameras, and a Brownie-Hawkeye box-style camera with a big, bowl-shaped flash, on a shelf in my living room, and sharing shelf space with them is a Pentax Auto 110 mini SLR.
Now, to answer the question at hand, I would definitely stick with a Pentax camera, but I might be tempted to upgrade to a K-3 III. Shoot on, my friends!
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
09-16-2021, 06:17 PM
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Hello from Ontario, Canada!
I just recently bought a K-70, and I'm just beginning to learn the art of photography with a DSLR. It's a beautiful, clear night with a 3/4 moon, and I can't find the right exposure to shoot the moon using my Sigma 18-200mm F-3.5-8.3 zoom lens.
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