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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
06-25-2016, 11:16 AM
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One of my very first photos with brand new K-1 and rather old Pentax-F 50mm 1:1.7 .
By the way our little dog and me were laying on the sofa in our living room. Most of the light came from the tv screen.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
06-04-2016, 12:47 AM
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One of my first test photos with the new K-1. Sunset in north west Germany.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-29-2016, 12:47 PM
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Today I got my K-1 and it's outstanding!
The whole afternoon I tried all my different lenses and all work fine!
This picture is not ooc but developped in silkypix, reduced in size and a bit sharpened. The light conditions in our living room were very bad. I took my old SMC F 1:1.7, 50mm lens, adjusted ISO 1600 and f/1.1.7. The camera calculated 1/80s an -2.00eV. I am very satisfied with the result
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-05-2012, 11:55 PM
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You are absolutely right. For the use with the groundpod this button is useless. There is only the main button that makes sense. Unfortunately no other tethering features are inbuilt, but at least I needn't creep on the floor taking photos from this perspective :).
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-05-2012, 10:41 PM
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@ mysticcowboy
that's defintely true . Walking with the groundpod also catches the attention of other people. It is similar to a children's toy: like a wooden duck at a stick with some wheels to be pushed here and there :) . But as stated before it is fairly comfortable to take shots from the frogview.
Last time I visited Meyerwerft shipyard and took some photos from below.
You can see some more of them here:
Photos from Visitors' Center - Meyerwerft shipyard, Papenburg/Germany
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-04-2012, 12:45 AM
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This photo shows the ability of the Hero.
You can see the liveview as it is at the camera (it's me in our garden taking the photo of the camera + groundpod :) ).
The big button in the middle is the shutter release button, which works in the same way like the camera button. The three buttons below are:
1. a two second delay button
2. channel change button
3. adjustment of monitor brightness
All other adjustments have to be done at the camera itself. You see: tethering is limited
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-03-2012, 09:05 AM
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thanks for your positive feedbacks :)
Phottix Hero is a rather limited tethering device. You have either a wireless liveview or "look" through the camera viewer with the camera of the transmitter (cropped and lower picture quality). The receiver has a shutter release button for focussing and taking the photo. Other adjustments are not possible.
The combination of my "groundpod" with the Hero is quite handy. It at least better than the zigview which is fixed at the camera viewer. The biggest disadvantage are the costs of the Hero. I don't know where you can purchase it in Canada. Maybe you get some information on phottix.com or simply "google" it.
It's not yet decided whether I will produce more "groundpods". Just now I have two prototypes. Material costs and producing are higher than I expected. Of course it would depend on the demand.
Andreas
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-03-2012, 02:19 AM
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To be honest my monopod has been rarely used but now I constructed an adapter to change it into a groundpod. It is made by aluminium for the body and two wheels from abuilding material market that are fixed with two screws.
Taking photos from the ground perspective is fairly easy and comfortable with that modification.
If you like to see more example photos from and made with my "frog-pod" just have a look here:
monopod-modification
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-15-2010, 12:47 AM
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really convincing!
Can you give some more additional information such as exif-Data, lens, firmware?
Thanks
Andreas
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