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Forum: Pentax KP
01-24-2022, 11:37 AM
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I have a KP and a K70 I like both. I normally shoot with 2 lenses so I keep an ultrawide mounted to one and either a 16-85mm Pentax or 18-300 Sigma on the other to avoid changing lenses and missing a shot or getting dust on my sensor.
Since they take the same battery I can swap em out if one goes dead.
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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
04-16-2018, 06:56 PM
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Thanks all for your comments. Part of the problem I was almost always looking thru the optical viewfinder at some small birds I was taking photos of during a continuous shooting burst. Trying to catch one in flight required all my attn to be on the birds.
I was not paying any attn to the LCD which does briefly show the message says "no card in camera" then disappears.
I thought about leaving memory card door open, but was concerned I might break the open door, stuffing this camera in a bag the next day not noticing the open door.
So since I have more than one card I'll adopt a policy of always swapping a card out for another card.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
06-22-2017, 12:14 PM
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I'm new to astrophotography and need some help with creating a procedure list. Here's what I got so far.
K3II Astro Photography Setup Cheat Sheet.
Type of Astrophoto is:
A night Sky Photograph of Milky Way with some foreground features such Rocky crags.
No trails just static image with lots of crisp stars and galactic arm structure showing.
I want as little noise as is reasonably possible.
Assumes 14mm Rokiton/Samyang 2.8 lens (Aperture Ring must be set to A or it throws an error.)
1: Turn on Camera. (Since no astrophoto settings can be saved) All settings and calibration and lens focal length input, must be repeated every time the Camera powers up.
2: On Camera prompt to enter Focal Length. (The proper focal lenth of 14MM is not an available menu choice, so choose 15MM)
3: Hit Gps button and wait for satalite to have green bars.
4: Turn on Astro tracer found in Menu 2 via GPS
5: Do a precise calibration
6: Mount Camera to tripod.
5: Set ISO to around 1600
6: Make sure long exposure noise reduction is on.
7: Set file format to raw
8: Manual focus setting is grayed out in the menu so must be selected by physical camera lever.
9: Make sure long exposure noise reduction is on.
10: Twist lens focus ring as far as it will go towards infinity symbol.
11: Set exposure auto timer to 20 seconds.
12: Set self timer to 12 sec to avoid camera shake by shutter button depresion (I don't have a remote).
From what I've read it seems like this list must be close to a usable procedure.
Am I wrong about inability to save settings relevent to this type of astrophotography. ?
Did I leave out something?
Anybody care to help make this list better?
Thanks
For any help.
Frank
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