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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
01-16-2024, 05:41 PM
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I hope there are people here who are still knowledgeable on film SLR's, because I have many questions about them!
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-13-2024, 07:01 AM
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Pentax K-5 IIs
Pentax smc P-F 35-105mm f/4-5.6
1/125s f/7.1 at 35.0mm ISO 100
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-09-2024, 10:42 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-07-2024, 05:31 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-04-2024, 12:53 PM
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Merry-go-round :)
Centrifugal by xs4all
Voigtländer Color Skopar F3.5 20mm @ K-5 IIs, ISO 80, f/22, 15s
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
01-11-2024, 12:25 PM
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Right. So I am doing my usual walk in the woods this morning, accompanied by the KP with the DA*16-50 SMC and the K3III with the 55-300 PLM, when it starts to rain. No surprise, this is Oregon, and no big deal, this is Pentax.
Then the screen on the back of the K-3III fails. No amount of pressing buttons, turning the camera off and on, swearing out loud, invoking various saints of art and photography, or even pulling the battery for a moment and then restarting does anything. I can't view photos, use the menus, nothing. Chimping is now officially over. And it's no more than a light drizzle. Even Canon would survive this! I head back home, in a somewhat foul mood, planning on drying the whole thing out while I fix breakfast, and hoping the problem is not terminal.
As I get nearer the house I glance down -- the K-3III is hanging around my neck now, screen side up, pretty damp -- and I suddenly notice a tiny drop of water, much smaller than a grain of white rice, on the edge of the eye detection window that senses when you're looking through the optical viewfinder. Without thinking too much about it, I use my (now very cold, it's 34 degrees this morning) fingertip to flick the droplet off the screen. I push the blue playback button. A photo appears! I hit 'info' and a grid of life choices emerges. The rear screen works again.
Who knew such a tiny bit of water on that little window would shut down the screen? I don't think it leaked at all -- it just changed the amount of light that got into the eye detection window.
So here's a photo I got -- with absolutely no chimping.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-14-2023, 06:26 PM
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So I put on an initial bid on a lens, thinking, someone's going to bid on this of course, and I won't be buying it... but to my surprise no one else bid, and my bid won.
So now there is an Auto Sears (Rikenon) MC 50mm f/1.7 coming my way....
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-20-2023, 07:05 AM
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So I've got the Auto Sears (Rikenon) 50mm f/1.7 and I thought I'd do a bokeh comparison beetween it and the Pentax 50mm f/1.7. I chose the SMC-F over the SMC-M just because it was the first one I picked up :) I don't expect there to be that much of a difference anyway.
FIrst test... bokeh bubbles on the Christmas tree. I think you can really tell the field curvature in the shape of the bubbles - the Pentax design being the most flat one. But this probably explains why the two Rikenons (the Sears again is a rebadged Rikenon) have more of a 3D look, as the more field curvature the better the 3D look, usually.
Every single shot in this post is wide open.
Auto Sears MC 50 1.7
Pentax SMC-F 50 1.7
Rikenon XR 50 1.4
Now a closeup with the tree further back in the bokeh background.
Auto Sears 50 1.7
SMC-F 50 1.7
Rikenon XR 50 1.4
On the next test I used AF with the F 50 1.7 and it missed focus pretty badly. So it's just the Auto Sears and the Rikenon.
Auto Sears 50 1.7
Rikenon XR 50 1.4
Finally, a shot where the tree is in focus.
First, the Auto Sears 50 1.7. It did the best job of the thtree. I could have exposed a bit better but this lens was underexposing a little bit anyways (I was using Av) Again, everything is wide open.
Next was the F 50 1.7... and it missed focus again pretty badly. I think it needs a lot of adjustment with the K-S2.
The Rikenon XR 50 1.4, which I thought was going to be even worse... is actually not bad, except it can't handle points of light at all.
The lights, which can be seen almost perfectly with just a little halo on the 50 1.7 are nothing but white blown out circles with the Rikeonn 50 1.4.
I'll try to do a better comparison - with a tripod and consistent exposure values instead of relying on Av, but I didn't have a lot of time before taking my son to practice last night. I'll see if I include the Rikenon P 50 1.4 (which fixes everything that was wrong with the XR version), and the the SMC K 50 1.2 .
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-14-2023, 08:31 AM
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Central Bank, Jefferson City, MO. I believe this is their main HQ.
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Forum: General Photography
11-29-2023, 08:59 AM
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Speaking of specific scenarios - DA 55-300 makes my DA 50/1.8 and Tamron 90/2.8 Macro somehow redundant. But it's neither f/1.8 nor macro-enabled ;-)
Anyhow, very inspiring thread. Thank you!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-07-2023, 09:06 AM
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Got the Rikenon XR 28 2.8 on the K200D to take some SOOC Jpegs.
What I really like about this 28, oddly enough, is the bokeh.
But the colors and rendering also aren't half bad. Just quite different from what you would get from an SMC Pentax lens.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-08-2022, 07:20 AM
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DA 50-135 on the KP
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-16-2023, 10:50 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-08-2023, 05:52 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-28-2023, 01:49 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-05-2023, 10:23 AM
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Thank you!
Today I took the lens on a walk in the city:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-22-2023, 05:05 AM
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Bavarian Alps
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-05-2023, 04:31 PM
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From Facebook:
To love the feral soul is to love without condition
I do love them
Newest member: Shakira
K5 + DA L 50-200
105mm f/4.5 1/80 ISO100
 Feral Love - Shakira by MarcOS, on Flickr
Oldest member: Agnes
K5 + DA L 50-200
200mm f/5.6 1/100 ISO200
 Feral Love - Agnes by MarcOS, on Flickr
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