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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-11-2023, 11:56 AM
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Some old photos I took on Ektar 100 with Sportmatic and Tak 135mm
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-09-2009, 04:42 AM
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exceptional figures you've got over there, Frank...
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-09-2012, 01:47 AM
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Probably because he/she's so sweet.
Beautifully cached golden hour
And i't so true. The good side is that, when time allows, there's always this forum to help us preserve and share our precious images and moments.
I was going back though posts since 2009, and it's so much fun re-seeing those images that made me love these diminutive machines and the chemical process.
People use to ask me: "why do you spend all the money and time with film? Digital is fast and you instantly see the result. Often the images are clearer and can be zoomed in better."
Honestly, I don't really have an answer:
-perhaps it's the feeling I have when I use the film cameras.
-Or the fact that I know in the back of my mind, when I took a good picture.
-Can be also the statistical fact that one gets the same number of good images, independent of the total number of pictures taken.
-Or, maybe I just want to be different.
I just know this: Film makes me feel better.
Steve, thank you for taking time and sharing these with us.
I remember the remark of one photographer (whose name I unfortunately forgot): "What is a picture? It's our way to trap a moment in time so it doesn't become wasted".
Thanks,
Octav
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-13-2012, 12:07 PM
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Yesterday I was covering an event with my K20D & DA*50-135 and the K-5 with DA*16-50. Bare flashes and Flashwaves. Vivitars 285hv's.
My plan was to have the k-5 as main camera and the k20 for headshots. ISO used 320-500. This allowed me to keep a minimum of F4 and a shutter speed of 1/60.
Ambient lighting was with FL's on a pretty low level, the 285's managed to give me a good color balance.
I knew already that my 16-50 is not on the same level with the 50-135, but hoped that the K-5 will manage to even the odds a bit with the low light capability
However I had a huge surprise from the K20 and the 50-135. The quality of light overpowered the relative lower light capability of the k20. The sharpness was over the roof even @ ISO 800.
On contrast the K-5 was almost a deception. The pictures looked like P&S compared to the K20. Not enough detail; as if there was a lot of NR involved. Checked that, NR OFF.
OK, let's switch lenses. Now with the K-5 with the 50-135 should be a killer combo. Well, not quite. Still lame.
Luckily, most of the important shots required the longer focal, so the K20 got the 50-135 back. But the issue was bugging me on the back of my mind. WTH? I had awesome results on my K-5 before.
Today I started checking the K-5 autofocus. I downloaded charts, printed a few versions but I wasn't getting satisfied. In my experience a perfect adjustment made on close range & max aperture doesn't guarantee good results in real life situations. Anyway...
DA*50-135 required initially a -2.
Huge disappointment from my FA 77. +20 didn't seemed enough. At this point I started thinking I must be doing something wrong.
Anyway, the adjustments didn't seem to make enough difference. I was feeling beaten.
Looking in the menu I saw on the microadjustment "off" description it was mentioned "Lenses will focus according to factory default tolerances".
So, I turned it off.
I am now getting perfectly focused results with all my AF lenses. More important: Perfect real life results. Even the 16-50 shines.
I got back my shiny perfect sharp camera, but...
How can this be? Could it be that the correction is built in the lens? I cannot explain it in a different way.
Can anyone confirm this, please?
Octav
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-15-2011, 10:17 AM
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Well, didn't cross your mind she might have tried to cushion the impact with her foot?
Of course she wouldn't admit it, but I know I have this kind of reflexes.
Edit: maybe there's more you don't know. Maybe she reads this forum
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-13-2011, 01:51 PM
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Did you know that "Bokeh" is a Japanese word?
For those interested, I found this article about the topic.
Enjoy the reading.
Octav
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-28-2011, 11:37 PM
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Excuse me, but how is the AF adjusting going to help, since AF is fine and manual optical focusing is crooked?
He can ruin the AF too.
OP clearly said: "AF is fine, manual focusing is giving bad results". This means clearly enough that the optical path for the VF is different to the one on the IS (Imaging Sensor) and AF sensor.
Now, I have to come back to my original assumptions: The optical path is determined by the mirror for both VF and AF. So if it works for one (AF), should work for the other (VF), too.
But, the VF image is actually created on the matte screen, also known as focusing screen. The mirror is OK, only the FS (focusing screen) position can be the problem.
Octav
P.S.
To clarify:
OP, when you auto focus, does the image look clear in the viewfinder or not?
Then, when you use AF to take a picture, is the focus where it should be, or not?
Octav
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