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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-28-2009, 10:44 AM
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Yeah I found a depth of field calculator online and noticed that the DOF didn't change to much between diffrent apertures when the subject was that close.
No problem annoy me as much as you want :D Then maybe I can take some nice macro photos in the future. Thanks for the tips and that macro of yours was very nice.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-27-2009, 08:13 AM
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I'm using manual with green button set to set shutter speed with fixed aperture. And since I didn't got a clue to what shutter speed to use when using flash and the camera says underexposed. I just pressed the green button to get a shutter speed the camera thought was good.
But now thanks to your nice posts I have something to start with :)
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-26-2009, 02:01 PM
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Care to explain the 1/180s ISO400? I used 1/45 since the camera want's that when using flash. 1/180 @ f/11 and you only get the flash light in the photo? and then up to ISO400 to not get it underexposed?
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-26-2009, 09:32 AM
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Unfortunately I don't own a tripod yet, but I'm planning of buying one in the near future. But since I got my little visitor at my disposal I wanted to try a few macro shots on him.
I understand how the camera work with the diaphragm blades, but as you point out I was a little confused what to call it in text :). Thanks for clearing that up for me!
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-25-2009, 02:09 PM
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I bought a SDHC Sandisk eXtreme III 8GB - 20MB/s for my new K20D. I don't know anything about brands or what speed you need to use the K20D full out, but if you plan on taking jpeg+raw photos like I usually do you get 210 photos. And when I'm out taking photos and trying out diffrent settings I always go over 105 photos equal to a 4GB. So I really don't want to go under 8GB. And yes you can buy more then 1 memory but I don't like to change memory card while out taking pictures, if I really don't need to. But it all depends on how trigger happy you are ;)
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-25-2009, 01:04 PM
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I was reading a thread on the pentax forum when suddenly I got a little friend on my computer screen:
100% crop
And since I hate spiders I had to defend myself using my quite new K20D. I hunted my new little friend down onto the computer desk and it landed on a piece of paper where the photo was taken. Since the light was very bad I had to use the flash and I then tried to relocate my friend to a more well lighted place. He didn't like my idea at all and jumped down on the floor where I ran back and forth a while taking photos untill he escaped under my couch :). I then went back to the computer and downloaded the pictures.
Then I noticed that my photos wasn't in the condition I would have wanted them to be. As you can see on the photo one of the right legs and the "head" of the spider got nice details but the rest is not in focus. I took the photo using my K20D with Pentax SMC DA 35/2.8 Limited Macro. The camera was on f/2,8 1/45s ISO 100 using flash.
Should I have used a bigger aperture to get longer depth of field to get a more detailed photo or how would you do it? When I saw the photos I wanted to try some more setting on my little friend, but he still haven't crawled out from under the couch ;)
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