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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-17-2022, 02:41 AM
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Thanks for the tip - I actually already own one, picked up very cheaply from a charity shop 'junk box', where they put everything they wot not what it was !
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-13-2021, 06:22 AM
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Don't overthink it, just use the APS-C lenses and enjoy the results.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-09-2021, 07:29 PM
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I have the 28-105 on my K-1 and I have both the 16-85 and 18-135 for my K-3iii and K-5. Optically, I think the 16-85 and 28-105 are comparable—both are very sharp. The benefit as mentioned earlier is a wider field of view with the 16-85 on a crop sensor compared to the 28-105 on the K-1.
Note that the 16-85 does use larger filters than the 28-105 and 18-135. When I fly somewhere on vacation, I take the 18-135 to decrease the weight and size of my camera kit. When I’m driving somewhere, I usually use the 16-85 because I think it is a little sharper.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-21-2018, 06:35 PM
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It's because the details about the new sensor fell into the same black hole that early on enveloped the entire KP. Mostly, the camera's unique abilities remain an official state secret, even among Pentaxians.
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Forum: General Photography
07-26-2019, 12:49 PM
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The internet makes it easy to learn things. It also makes it easy to find contradictory information. Photographers can get great results using AWB, a gray card, or other techniques.
My preference is to always use raw format (DNG) and AWB. Raw saves all the color information and allows liberal white balance adjustment if needed; jpg format does not.
When I import photos into Lightroom for processing, the white balance setting defaults to what the camera detected. That's correct in most cases. If I don't like what the camera detected, though, I can ask Lightroom to try its own version of autodetect, or use the color picker, or manually adjust the slider.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-29-2018, 03:41 AM
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The tape gasket I used isn't sticky on either side. I just used enough layers to make up the slight change in lens diameter at the attachment point, and the "gasket" just slides onto the lense prior to attaching the collar. In fact, the duct tape is nearly superfluous, as the collar works fine without it: I just wanted a bit of padding in there so I could really crank that sucker down. Thanks for all the positive comments, and the other cool ideas! Now, isn't this more fun than if Pentax just supplied the 200 2.8 with a collar in the first place?
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Hey, PancakeFlipper, I'm a Mainer, too! (I knew there had to be more Mainer Pentaxians.)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-01-2018, 07:13 PM
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I've been using the DA*300 for the last 3yrs. I loved this lens so much that I dedicated a camera body to that lens. That body just got reassigned to a new lens. I got the 150-450 last week and have been using it quite a bit. I spent a week birding from sun up to sun down and put a lot of frames through it. I prefer to shoot handheld, and find it just as easy to do with this lens at 450mm as it is with the DA*300. It took me about a day to get fully used to the weight difference between this lens and the DA*300, but I can hold it pretty steady now. After using the 150-450 all day, I put it next to another K3 with the DA*300 and couldn't believe how small the DA*300 looked. :lol:
Manual focus has a really long throw compared to the DA*300, but I have gotten used to it.
Using a monopod, I put the 1.4 HD TC on it for a focal length of 630mm. You really need a lot of light to do that.
The one thing that bothers me though is all of the AF buttons on the lens. I don't see the point in so many of them. I prefer to use manual focus, and I only use AF to bring the focus in close to the bird, then use Manual focus the rest of the way. The way that you hold the lens to work the focus ring combined with the weight of the lens causes me to accidentally press the AF buttons on the lens while I am Manually focusing and then lens instantly locks onto a random tree branch. This was a slight annoyance at first, but then I set it to disable AF when pressed and have been using it that way since. When shooting handheld, I also move the tripod foot to the top of the lens to allow more room for my hand underneath the lens.
I am curious as to how others have gotten around accidentally pressing the buttons.
I've considered making a neoprene sleeve to go around the lens where the AF buttons are, similar to a lenscoat. Then slide a stiff piece of cardboard inbetween the neoprene and the lens to block the AF buttons on the bottom. Anybody have a lenscoat and can give some info on how it covers the AF buttons?
Overall, I really like this lens. Now, I need to figure out what to do with my DA*300.
Here's one of the first pics I took with the 150-450 the day I got it.
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