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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-04-2015, 12:26 PM  
Just bought a K-3 whats wrong with it
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 18
Views: 3,038
You know Its really a very nice looking photo .
Forum: Winners' Showcase 10-05-2014, 07:40 PM  
September, 2014 Third Place: Red Dragonfly
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 37
Views: 3,619
My favorite
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 09-12-2014, 01:46 PM  
DNG file from k3 opens in cs2 after imported from lightroom2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 11
Views: 1,282
Thanks Steve Ledger the RAWTherapee is great .Thank you .
Forum: Lens Clubs 09-12-2014, 11:08 AM  
Sigma 70-200/2.8 lens club
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 82
Views: 18,394
Zman that was a great walk all that in one trip . I'm getting use to the weight . I don't care either your right its worth it . The Sigma 1.4 EX teleconverter looks like its working great . gryhnd and HAHA Great photos I have a 18 ft bass Ranger with a 150hp on back so I like the boat photos. How do you know how to set your shutter speed. Is there a rule to go by like for birds flying you have to have it set to a certain speed to keep it from blurring. and for moving cars, boats ect. Does the distance between the subject and the camera and the amount of zoom have any thing to do with it .
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 08-03-2014, 09:38 PM  
K-3 RAW processing
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 12
Views: 2,197
I have light room 2 and photo shop cs2 with window vista . I load the photos from the k3 into lightroom2 and for some reason once its downloaded into lightroom and it puts it in a folder you can use any program you want to open the file from that folder. I don't know what lightroom is doing to the photo files but its changing something in the file to make it so you can open it with the program you used with the k-7
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-12-2014, 07:26 AM  
DNG file from k3 opens in cs2 after imported from lightroom2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 11
Views: 1,282
Not a number , I know I should get up to date on everything . I don't know how a dng file is put together , or how it works, or why lightroom would change a new kind of dng file thats in my k3 back into the older type dng so lightroom can use it . Is there something in the new lightrooms that uses something thats in the new dng files to make thing better or are all the new lightrooms converting the new dng files back into the older types of dngs. If someone has a new lightroom would you try something for me and let me know this. If you have a k3 take a photo and import it into the new lightroom , and open the dng file in the place where lightroom saves it and look at the size of it and then look at the same photo and look at the size of the file on the card . And let me know if the card dng file is bigger and by how much. I'm wanting to know if the new lightrooms are using more of the dng file from the k3 dng file or is the new lightrooms taking thing out and making them 8 mb less like its doing on my old lightroom2. If on the new lightroom dng file it saves is less than the the cameras dng file then theres nothing in the new version of dng fils that lightroom is using. And its making the new dng just like the 9 year old dng file. There has to be a reason that pentax changed the insides of the dng file .Maybe the new lightrooms aren't taking advantage of whats in the new version of dng files . Maybe only the software that pentax gives you with the camera is using whats in the new version of dng file. and maybe you get a sharper and more colorful photo and be able to changes more thing in that software than you can from the ones thats deleting things and making it a smaller file . I can try this my self , I'm going to load a photo into the new software that came with my k3 camera and see if the dng file is the same on the card and it is once it opens in the pentax software . I'm also going to download the newest RAWTherapee and compare the file sizes there also . I know the questions I have ask are probably the stupidest questions anyone has ever seen but If anyone will know the answers people on the forum will know the answers . I don't know why I'm like the way I am but I just have to know the way thing work . I'm 55 and when I was a small child I would take apart anything that was electrical like remote control tv controller , my dad all most killed me over that one ,remote control cars ect. I took apart every toy I got just to see how it worked .I'm a dental lab tech so I make things like dentures, partials , crowns ,bridges anything to do with inside the mouth from raw materials and turn them into a useable appliance. A friend of mine that workes in computers told me I should look into computer programing if I wanted to know the answers to thinks I have ask him so I guess that my next thing on my list lol. Thanks for your help in advance Steve
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-12-2014, 04:49 AM  
DNG file from k3 opens in cs2 after imported from lightroom2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 11
Views: 1,282
Ok thanks DSims I'm going to look into that .
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-11-2014, 09:06 PM  
DNG file from k3 opens in cs2 after imported from lightroom2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 11
Views: 1,282
Dsims are you saying I can load windows 8 into my sony laptop that has windows vista 64 bit in it and I don't have to worry about the drivers and hardware working in windows 8 . How will I know once I do the upgrade that cs2 will load into the windows 8 .
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-11-2014, 07:56 PM  
Just bought a K-3 whats wrong with it
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 18
Views: 3,038
before you send it back why don't you do the update first to see what happens and let everyone know how that goes. the software just might be bad in the camera . and try some different lens . try a manual lens. I just got a k3 the other day and my battery to 8 hours or more to charge it the first time . you may have took the battery out of the charger before the green light went off.For me it seemed like it took for ever for it to charge the first time and the green light to go off . I keep watching for it to go off so I could try out my new camera , I almost took it off the charger after 8 hours but I waited . put the battery back on the charger and see how long it takes for the green light to go off .
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-11-2014, 07:05 PM  
DNG file from k3 opens in cs2 after imported from lightroom2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 11
Views: 1,282
Dsims is there a way I can open the dng file and delete the full-rez embedded jpeg. And if thats the only thing that makes it so cs2 won't open it why is it there in the first place. I'm shooting the file in raw or dng format. and not dng jpeg combination . just dng. Isn't that what the converting programs do is change a dng file into a jpeg format. The lightroom program is changing the dng file from the k3 in some way that lr2 and cs2 can oped it . I was just wondering what was being changed . My cs2 uses adobe 8.3 converter to open dng and it would open the dng file on my k10d . but 8.3 wont open the k3's dng file in windows vista 62 bit . nor will Adobe 8.4 converter download into window's visia 64 bit the download said it needed to be window's 7 So I think whats happening is lightroom2 has the new 8.4 downloaded and is using it to open the new k3's dng file . And that the new 8.4 is taking something out to allow lr2 and cs2 to open it . I haven't been using lightroom 2 but now I am and I'm liking it a lot and know I now I can use the dng file that lightroom2 stores in cs2 .
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-11-2014, 04:49 PM  
DNG file from k3 opens in cs2 after imported from lightroom2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 11
Views: 1,282
I have a question .If I try to open a DNG file from my k3 in cs2 it won't open it and it gives me a cannot complete because its not the right kind of document . But when I open lr2 and I import the dng files and open the dng files that were saved from lr2 in cs2 they will open . whats going on . why can I open the dng files once lr2 imports and put in the lr2 folder it made in my picture folder . but I can't open the dng file from the card or a folder I send the dng's to. What is lr2 adding in the dng file that lets cs2 open it from the folder it puts it in my picture folder in the computer. Sorry What is lr2 taking away from the file the file from the camera card is 39.06 and the file from the folder lr2 made is 31.8. on the same picture or dng file .
Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest 05-11-2014, 12:25 PM  
Landscape Fall in Kentucky
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 5
Views: 834
Thank you Jimmy
Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest 05-11-2014, 11:46 AM  
Nature Forster's Tern Gets Wet
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 3
Views: 842
snooked thats a great shot perfect timing .
Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest 05-11-2014, 11:16 AM  
Landscape Fall in Kentucky
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 5
Views: 834
ceciproam , The pentax M 2.0 is probably one of the sharpest lens I have . All my other lens are kind of soft so I set my camera sharpness up a little for the other lens and I should change my camera setting when I use this lens . I had just received this lens when I took the picture and I didn't realize it was so sharp of a lens . I am new to photography ceciproam is there a way to change the sharpness after the photo is taken on the computer so I can dull it down a little . I just looked at my camera setting and the sharpness is set to one mark to the positive side of center. None of my other lens I have makes photos look like this lens does .
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-09-2014, 02:33 PM  
Best editing software for a beginner
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 42
Views: 5,340
Thanks pjm1 . I wasn't sure how far lightroom has come since lr2 it sounds like they added a lot and thats all newtothis needs . I though lightroom was for adjusting light and photo shop was for adjusting and changing the things in a photo but I guess lightroom does both for a lot less money.
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-09-2014, 12:47 PM  
How do you save a k-3's dng to Jpegs
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 8
Views: 1,340
Thanks you good people on this forum, I am learning so much. I'm going to give faststone a try . I swear with this new k3 I really don't need to do sh-t any more to photos like I did with my old k10d . The exposure and every thing is just so good . I like to put it in TAv mode and with the k10d the iso range was very limited ,photos over 200iso started to get noise. but this k3 is crazy clear even at high iso's that it picks . I have never had a camera this good before . I got a package deal with a grip and 32g 10 sd card , and a 5omm 1.8 for 1,295.00 so I just decided to get it ,I'm so glad I did . I payed 800.00 I think it was for the k10d back in 2006 ,and I can't believe for a few hundred dollars more in 2014 how much better the camera's are today . But one thing about the K10d it really makes you work for a good photo in the 100 and 200 iso range .I have learned a lot about photography because of that camera .I'm sure I'm going to have a bunch of other stupid questions coming up but I know I can get answers from you good people anytime . It's like I have a Pentax family .I really like this forum . Thanks again for your help Steve.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-08-2014, 06:04 PM  
Best editing software for a beginner
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 42
Views: 5,340
New to this . I'm new to this also and I just started using lightroom 2 today because my photoshopcs2 won't open the k3 raw file . there is a lot more sliders in lightroom 2 than in cs2 to adjust the color ,lightness and darkness contrast and all that . So by you saying editing do you mean things like that . or editing things like removing spots from scanned photos or repairing old photos by using a brush to cover up wrinkles in skin or adding back grounds or framing photos . I think you need photo shop to do that . I have a older cs2 that worked with my k10d raw file so it was easy for me because I has enough slides to adjust exposure, saturation ,sharpness, temp.tent ect and after I finished doing that I saved it as jpeg and use the brush and all the other cool stuff in photoshop that I don't think you can do in lightroom . I'm learning you really need both because there's things you need from both .but for every day adjusting of color and exposure and saturation plus all the other things something like cs6 can do I would spend my money on cs6 or higher . That,s what I want to do as soon as I get some money . I think photo shop made a big change in cs6 to make photo editing better and easier. That way you have the best of both worlds and you can always add lightroom later on when you start getting the hang of stuff. I'm saying this from a beginner view with very little need to do simple thing light exposure control . One more thing I just received the k3 . and used the cd that came with it and used the noise filtering controls and it really got rid of noise .With the k3 I don't think I'm going to be editing anything but noise and thats just because I was playing around with photo I took inside with very little light and not using a flash so I could test out the software.Out side photos are 10 x better than my old k10d . What a difference 7 years makes in a camera . If you get the k3 you won't need to edit anything . I know this is off your subject but I set the k3's mode to TAv and I set my shutter speed to where I need it to be and I set my aperture to what I want and I let the camera set the iso . On my old K10d I was very limited to nothing over 400 iso so I did a lot of exposure editing just to make it bright enough to keep. but with the k3 it is nice and sharp and clear and perfect exposure and great color even at high iso . So I think editing is going to be few and far between. Its that big of a difference .I'm just so amazed every time I look at the screen of the photo I just took .Its like I turned into a pro over night lol . not hardly but 100x better photos than before. The camera is so good its going to take me a while to get use to it processing photo thats so good I don't need to edit them . I think this is a good price http://www.thesoftwaretechstore.com/adobe-photoshop-cs6-windows-download.htm...a_7c65158237dd this is a pretty good cs6 video that shows what you can do . I don't know if lightroom can do things like this or not .














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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-08-2014, 05:01 PM  
DIGITAL CAMERA UTILITY 5: Lenteur abominable
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 25
Views: 11,133
Mikesul I forgot I have light room 2 installed in my computer I never use it because I could not figure out how to save and convert to jpegs but I loaded some photos in it and it opened them I watched a few videos and can now save the raw to jegs in lightroom 2 Why won't the new cd I got with the k3 camera open in windows vista 64 bit .

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lare when you find out will you message me with the answer I have window vista 64 bit and it opens for 1 second then closes .I see a red box with some words but it closes to fast to read it It works fine in vista 32 bit computer.
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-08-2014, 04:51 AM  
How do you save a k-3's dng to Jpegs
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 8
Views: 1,340
Hi all I just received my K3 and here are a few things I'm finding out. I was having trouble opening a raw file or dng file . I have window vista 64bit and the new cd program that comes with the camera won't open in vista 64 bit. even tho it has a 64 option Also the adobe dng converter 8.3 won't show the raw files from the camera ,and you have to have windows 7 before you can open adobe 8.4 . I did find out that with Vista if you have lightroom 2 it will open the raw files and I found this video on how to save the raw file after you do your adjusting to jpegs . this video is for lightroom 4 but it might be the same in lightroom 2 . I'm going to give it a try today .














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I also found out that from the good people here that you need photo shop cs6 before you can open the raw files in it. because it will let you load the adobe 8.4 in to it . I have cs2 and it won't open in it . So I guess the best thing to do is upgrade to windows 7 or higher to be able to use the cd that comes with the camera or have windows vista 32 bit . That's all I know right now but if I found out anything else I'll let you know or maybe people that know what there doing will post something on this thread . Can anyone help me figure out why the new cd won't open in vista 64 bit I also found this video and its in lightroom 3














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I just saved the dng from the k3 using lightroom2 and changed it into a jpegs and it worked great . And it was pretty easy after I watched the videos . Now I can use jpegs in cs2 .
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-08-2014, 04:14 AM  
K3 and photoshop cs2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 10
Views: 1,328
I found this video about dng changing them into jepgs














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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-07-2014, 08:58 AM  
K3 and photoshop cs2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 10
Views: 1,328
I think your right arjay , I just need to keep up lol . Thanks Dan I'll just need to figure out how to change dng to jpegs or tifs in lightroom and once I do that I can use my cs2 .
Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II 05-07-2014, 12:08 AM  
how does the flash work with the iso in TAv mode
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 2
Views: 1,331
I set my speed to 125 , f4.0 it gave me 400 iso using the pop up flash in the first flash setting . I didn't use the flash in the second photo with the same settings and it gave me a 320 iso . and the photo was darker . why didn't the iso go to 400 or higher to keep exposure from being so much darker than with the flash on . to me the photo with flash looks right but with out it its darker. I wanted to see what it would take to get the same exposure as it did with the flash so I put it in Manual mode and left every thing the same except the iso I tried a shot at 400 but it was still dark but when it was at iso 800 it was the same exposure as it was with the flash .so there was a difference from 320 iso with out flash to 800 iso to make it the same as with the flash. Why doesn't the camera try to keep the same exposure as it did with the flask on . I was taking the photo standing up and looking down at a few things on the desk so I was about 3 feet way . How does the flash and the iso work together when the flash is in the first setting the setting that just said flash in TAv mode I have my iso range set to 100 to 52000
Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II 05-06-2014, 08:32 PM  
Firmware 1.03 out for K3
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 51
Views: 10,358
I'm getting ready to install Firmware 1.03 how do I format my sd card . I got a 32 g with my camera I took a few pictures and I deleted the file thats had the photos on it so it looks blank . How do I know if its formated or not. I found something about format on page 31 in the manual. It doesn't say anything about having to do this step when updating firmware . after I did the format in the camera I put the sd card in the computer and it now shows us as a external drive and is names k-3 so I guess I did it .
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-06-2014, 12:40 PM  
DIGITAL CAMERA UTILITY 5: Lenteur abominable
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 25
Views: 11,133
I just got a k3 and I have windows vista 64 bit and the new cd that came with the camera won't open . I took some photos in DNG and photo shop cs2 won't open the files . nether will adobe 8.3 dng .converter and 8.4 is for windows 7 and won't load in vista. Adam , the main man on this forum told me to get cs6 . Thats going to go over real good with my wife that took one look at my new camera as I was taking it out of the box and said you paid 1,200.00 for that and proceed to call me stupid lol. I'm afraid to look at the cs6 price . There are so many cs6 things out there I don't know which one I need . I just open cs2 and open Bridge and find my photos and change them like lighter and darker ect with the slide bars . And the only other thing I use cs2 for is to fix old pictures like get ride of red eye , get rid of spots mainly brush stuff . Is buying cs6 the only way to open dng files from my new k3 . Could someone tell me if the cs6 I need to get is this one with the fish face person on the cover Adobe Photoshop CS6 - ( v. 13 ) - license - 65158421AA04A00 - Application Suites - CDW.com. My wife is going to kill me if it is. Its over 600.00 dollars . And If I have to buy a new computer just to open a photo in raw format ,I might have to sell my new camera , I got the grip and every thing , 50mm 1.8 and a 32g card . I'm about to get sick.
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 05-06-2014, 11:57 AM  
K3 and photoshop cs2
Posted By pentaxk10duser
Replies: 10
Views: 1,328
Thanks Dan when I click on select folder in adobe 8.3 and then click on #1 which is select folder a select source folder pops up . when I see my DCIM file I click on that and then I see another file 100_0505 and when I click on that there's nothing in it . but I know there is because I can see it in cs2 but it just won't open it . Once I have selected the 100_0505 file I click on select at the bottom and it goes back to the first screen or main screen and it states that No images has be selected . How do I get the dng files to show up once I open the last file . And can you tell me why the new cd that came with the camera after I loaded it in the computer won't stay open . It opens for 1 second only . If I right click on the 100_0505 file and then click on explore I can see all the dng files . I just tried light room 2 and it opened the dng file's . can you convert dng files to jpeg in light room .
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