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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 02-16-2024, 03:35 PM  
K-7 Not focusing anywhere!!
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 18
Views: 760
Also have you tried adjusting AF fine tuning (in menus)? Even though manual focusing this will adjust the in focus indication.
Forum: General Photography 01-11-2024, 02:15 AM  
Your Flickr 2023 year...
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 30
Views: 1,341
Well done!
I have spent nearly no time on Flickr over the last year (and not very much photography for that matter) so my stats look pretty poor. However I did click over 2 million total views!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:11 PM  
Greetings from Ohio
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 17
Views: 420
Welcome!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:11 PM  
Hallo from Germany
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 12
Views: 295
Welcome! Great lens - look forward to seeing some photos ;-)
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:10 PM  
Greetings from Lithuania
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 26
Views: 561
Welcome!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:09 PM  
hello from Japan
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 34
Views: 1,364
Welcome!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:08 PM  
Greetings
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 8
Views: 355
Welcome!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:07 PM  
Hello from Norfolk, England
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 12
Views: 422
Welcome!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:07 PM  
Hello from Greece.
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 10
Views: 328
Welcome!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:06 PM  
Hello from Australia
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 7
Views: 233
Welcome (from another New Zealander)!
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:06 PM  
hello pentaxer !!
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 15
Views: 347
Welcome - and nice photo! Love my K-1
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 11-14-2023, 03:05 PM  
Hello from South Wales
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 25
Views: 551
Welcome!
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 07-25-2023, 05:14 PM  
Dust Alert !
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 8
Views: 920
The K-1 does not have dust detection but in any case I have found the dust detection on my previous K-5 / K-x to be pretty useless (has to be really bad dust to even show up).

I have found the K-1 dust removal system to be pretty good in general and have only had to do a wet clean a couple of times (most of the time a blower does the trick). This is in stark contrast to me K-5 where I had to wet clean it every 6 months (assuming I wasn't being too fussy and would live with a small amount of dust).
That said several times I have had some dust appear on my K-1 sensor after using my DFA 28-105 (it tends to pump some air in / out of the camera unfortunately). Fortunately I mostly shoot with my primes.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 07-10-2023, 01:33 AM  
SMC Pentax-FA J 18-35mm F4-5.6 + K1
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 11
Views: 765
Mine is "usable" in the corners at f11, but not very sharp.
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 07-04-2023, 03:55 PM  
New Lens Problem
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 9
Views: 943
Hows the lens mount on the camera? Are there any loose screws or is not perfectly flush? Small mount variations (or sensor alignment for that matter) make a huge difference to focal plane for all lenses. Can you try your lens on another Pentax camera body?
Forum: Welcomes and Introductions 06-19-2023, 03:49 PM  
TL;DR: random old guy ordered a Pentax Monochrome
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 24
Views: 2,057
Welcome! Nice background. I'm sure you will enjoy the K-3 monochrome. I'm tempted myself as, while I still shoot quite a bit of colour, I enjoy shooting black and white and would like to shoot more.
Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals 03-21-2023, 02:02 PM  
Amazon killed Dpreview
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 386
Views: 20,232
Well despite a number of gloomy Pentax predictions published on DPR, Pentax has outlasted DPR.
Its a pity in many ways, although I always thought the association with Amazon had the potential for product placement biases (only internal to DPR will they know for sure if that was the case or not).
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 03-21-2023, 01:48 PM  
Talk me out of buying the D-FA 21mm limited
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 87
Views: 5,159
Don't buy it because it RUINS most of your other lenses!
Since getting mine, my other wide angles don't seem to perform quite as well as I remember ;-)
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 01-26-2023, 05:30 PM  
Ultra Wide for Full Frame lens?
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 50
Views: 4,193
HD DFA 21 f2.4 Limited currently and love it!
Previously used / tried:
* Sigma EX 24 f1.8 - Got some pretty good shots with it but my copy is somewhat decentered (as is common it seems with these lenses) and AF was sometimes a bit hit and miss
* Samyang 14mm f2.8 - unfortunately the copy I got was decentered to the point that it was no use to me. I returned it with plenty of sample photos proving the defect and the manufacturer said it was "to spec", but eventually got my money back - put off trying again though.
* Pentax FA-J 18-35 f4-5.6 - Again got some pretty good shots with it but not that sharp in the corners / edges of the frame, and its a relatively slow lens.
* Pentax FA* 24 f2 - Seems like a lens people love or hate but I like mine. Many good shots with it. With wider apertures the edge and corner sharpness are not great but I found overall it to be quite usable. However I started craving something a bit wider and more modern! Still can't bring my self to sell it though.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-19-2023, 09:21 PM  
What is the 70mm Ltd lens for?
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 147
Views: 7,172
I have both the DA-70 and FA-77 and I think both are great lenses.
I use the DA-70 in my travel light kit (K-01, DA 15, DA 40 and DA 70) and has often pulled off nice images. But it really depends on what you want to shoot of course.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-18-2023, 09:43 PM  
How does autofocus on the 28-105 compare to other modern Pentax lenses?
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 33
Views: 1,898
The DFA 28-105 focuses pretty nicely. The only modern lens I have to compare (that doesn't have screw drive that is), is the HD DFA 21 f2.4. The DFA21 makes a similar noise but is noticeably quicker than the DFA 28-105 and at least as accurate (and probably a bit better).
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-12-2023, 01:41 PM  
Help for getting better results with close-focus AF for an f1.8 20mm Sigma on the K1
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 18
Views: 984
I had a 20mm f1.8 Sigma on my K-1 (now lucky to have HDFA 21 f2.4) and it can be challenging. For a start mine was a bit decentered (not uncommon for these lenses it seems) which really shows up on full frame (and not bad on crop). Also I always found AF to be a bit patchy. I had carefully calibrated it with a focus chart (ideally you need a bigger print for UW), but sometimes I just couldn't nail focus (where as the HDFA 21 seems pretty reliable - which it should be given the price!).
It really helps if you stop down a little, even f2.8 is a lot easier to work with, and when focusing on close + moving subjects I would stop down more (ideally at least f5.6) and set my ISO higher. I found I got great results from my K-1 up to about ISO 3200 (and sometimes more with extra post processing).
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 01-02-2023, 02:05 PM  
Forest lights
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 6
Views: 116
I would like to nominate this photo
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 01-02-2023, 02:03 PM  
"light against lights"
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 9
Views: 253
I would like to nominate this photo
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 12-28-2022, 04:34 PM  
Monochrome Converted Pentax Cameras - why?
Posted By kiwi_jono
Replies: 26
Views: 2,258
Must admit I'm quite curious about peoples experience doing this. In theory without an RGB filter you could gain more resolution and more light sensitivity (don't have a colour filter for each pixel). The problem with the extra resolution is it depends on camera and post processing software to extract extra resolution, so I suspect people are not getting extra resolution but instead do it for the extra sensitivity but I'm sure someone who has done it will comment!
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