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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-19-2010, 05:00 AM
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The best way to solve this problem is to assign autofocus to the AF button. That way you can choose if you want the camera to focus or not during a burst.
I did this on my D700 and my K7's.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-28-2010, 07:15 PM
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Wish they would do the same for the lenses. 1 year is pretty stingy for glass. I would love to have 3 to 5 on those.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-24-2010, 09:39 AM
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I had one for my D700 and I fixed it at home. Sigma uses metal shims under the rear metal mount. I just unscrewed the rear mount and took both shims out, that was too much, so I put one back in and presto, perfect focus on the D700 with no correction.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-18-2010, 07:27 PM
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Bad is relitive. Bad compared to a D700, well most camera's are. Bad compared to other aps-c cameras, well jpegs out of the camera, not as good, raw, much closer.
Personally there a few things I prefer about the K7 to other camera's at high iso. Noise is NOT the only factor in high iso performance.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-01-2010, 05:05 PM
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I think the VF can be fixed. The Viewfinder on the Oly E3 is pretty big because it's magnification is 1.15. It's really pretty good considering the size of the sensor.
I realize that I may be in the minority, but I actually prefer more DOF, so 1.5x-2x crop cameras are fine for me.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-01-2010, 12:09 PM
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This is the biggest failure of 1.5x so far. No wide angle fast lenses. If Pentax could make a 18 1.4 and a 24 1.4 to go with the 55 1.4 they have, it would be magical.
I think it was Olympus's biggest mistake with 4/3rds. If they would have made a line of small f1.4 primes I think 4/3rds would have been taken more seriously by pro's.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-30-2010, 06:49 AM
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I want the flagship with different color bodies like the kx...
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-30-2010, 06:46 AM
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One major problem with digital is the amount of color information that it picks up, so even a tungsten light in an adjacent room to your studio can cause color problems. I use to own S3 and S5's, so I know that they can suffer from the same problems.
If your shooting raw and using LR, Aperture, C1, etc then you can make your own profiles and get any type skin tones you want (and skin tones are a VERY subjective thing). If your shooting jpeg then the Fuji's have an advantage with very good color/skin tones right in the camera and the Nikon's can have an advantage if you load your own custom tone curve.
Having said that I don't seem to have any trouble with the K7's.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-30-2010, 06:37 AM
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I couldn't agree more.
In fact I herniated my L5 disk several years ago, so yeah a bag with 2 gripped D700's, 16-35vr, 24-70afs, 70-200, 50 1.4, SB-900, and Canon HV-20 camcorder does get to me at the end of the day.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-30-2010, 06:34 AM
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I'm not sure why your trying to attack what I said because I never said any of the things above.
You should carefully re-read what I said.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-29-2010, 12:46 PM
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I shoot in churches all the time (services, plays, special services, all similar conditions to weddings) and I shoot in nightclubs (similar to a reception). The K7 works just as good as my D700 did without killing my shoulders and lower back. Infact I'm now using a FA24 F2 and a DA55 F1.4 with two bodies, and it still handles better then my D700 and 24-70 AFS.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-28-2010, 08:04 PM
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I'm all for cropped sensor cameras. I think the KX has proven that you can get fantastic ISO/Resolution performance in an APS-C sensor.
I have owned both FF and Cropped and I can tell you that my shoulders and lower back thank me for my current cropped sensor kit.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-28-2007, 11:05 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-28-2007, 11:03 AM
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I think NC-17 is a stretch. I would call them pg-13. Besides any of the lighting, I don't see sexy. It looks like you guys were having fun which is good, my photo shoots tend to be a blast for me, the staff and the models....lol.
I think one thing that really might help, is to not post as many shots. Narrow them down to 2 or 3 at the most in one outfit. Less is better. I find that I sometimes use 1 shot out of 600 or so for my own portfolio. While I may give the model 8 to 10. I use to think that made you a bad photographer until I saw a video of one of the "masters". He must have put 10 to 12 rolls of film in his 35mm (I'm assuming they were 36exp each). I think there were 3 or so of the shot published.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-27-2007, 02:54 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-27-2007, 02:46 PM
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i just noticed, i'm fixing it now. Thanks.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-27-2007, 02:39 PM
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I shot the beautiful Stephanie yesterday. She was great to work with, especially since she had never modeled before. We were after, a sort of, "something classy something trashy" theme for the shoot!
All the photos were shot with the K10D, 16-45mm, and the 540fgz. The black and whites were shot into a 42" silver umbrella, full manual flash (1/2 power most of the time), and the flash was triggered with a pocket wizard.
All the shots were done in .dng except one of the black and whites. So I processed the jpeg the best I could, taking care since the file doesn't have quite as much latitude and it looks great. Printed at 12"x18" you can't see and difference between it and the shots in raw.
Here are the shots!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-25-2007, 06:08 PM
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To be honest with me, the K10D is good enough for me to make a living off of. I'm really not interested in more, more, more.
I want a bigger viewfinder, fine tune the af, fine tune the sr, and improve build quality.
The K10D already kills the MZ-S, I just sold mine.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-25-2007, 06:00 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-24-2007, 04:36 PM
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I checked out your site. What a great site! Man I wish I could do website work like that. I just get so frustrated with all the coding and stuff.
I was looking at your car photos, I'm a huge car guy myself. I noticed one thing that a pro magazine photographer noticed in my photos a while ago. He called it the 3 wheel look. He said that when he started shooting for magazines, they would reject almost any photo from a low angle that didn't show all 4 wheels defined. I started doing it and I notice that nonphotographers seem to pick the photos with all 4 wheels showing. Here's a couple of examples. The first two were taken with Nikons :(, the last one was taken with my trusty istd. In the last one I put a little led flash light on the ground to define the under side of the car some and while you can't clearly see the rear wheel, the magazine that I shot it for liked it because the light kept it from looking like a 3 wheel car.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-24-2007, 04:50 AM
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Thanks very much!
I think the reason I've never had trouble getting good flash photos is that I came from the days of vivitar 285's and manual film camera's. Flash is really easy though. I always want the camera/flash to do as little work/metering as possible. So I set the ISO (usually 200/400ish) Manual mode on the body. Just start with a 5.6 - 1/30th combo and start shooting. When I am shooting flash, the ONLY thing I let the camera do is adjust the flash power. That's how I've always done it.
Check out Strobist. That blog is filled with tons of information about manual flash techniques, but I think it helps learn ttl flash better, once you understand light a little better.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-23-2007, 04:51 PM
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Haha. The best part is that they really seem to love the camera!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-23-2007, 04:49 PM
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Some are bounced some are direct. The ceiling is some white and some black, so when I'm in an area where it's black (like behind the bar) I switch to direct.
When I'm bouncing I use the built in bounce card, otherwise nothing at all.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-23-2007, 04:47 PM
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I'll make it easy for you. ISO200, F5.6, and I drag the shutter between 1/15th and 2 seconds. Gotta love that SR!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-23-2007, 12:25 PM
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I shoot RAW, make adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw for CS2, output a 16bit tiff to a folder that is processed. Then I batch process them in CS2. The batch is color tweak, and adjustment layer for contrast, a skin smoothing layer, and a resize save to web. For the 62 photos that I processed on Friday from Thursday nights shoot, it took my home computer about an hour to run the batch.
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