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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-22-2012, 05:31 PM
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G is for Graffiti
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-22-2012, 12:51 PM
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C is for Chevrolet . . .
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-22-2012, 12:30 PM
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Z is for ZEE Z??ANDAU. Wish I could tell you what the whole sign says or means. I suspect it's an old advertisement for a barnstorming flier.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-23-2012, 12:10 PM
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N-Nyala Bulls
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-25-2012, 05:24 PM
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A is for AARDVARK, that's the way to start the alphabet. Two that are youngsters.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-20-2012, 05:05 PM
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Stick the "stuck" lenses on the ES and watch them magically repair themselves. That little pin was a feature specifically made for the open-aperture metering/shooting functionality that was introduced with the Spotmatic F, ES, and ESII. It works opposite of what you might think, by locking the A/M switch into Auto on those camera models by not pressing the pin, and allowing backwards compatible use on older bodies by pressing it. It was actually rather ingenuous.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-25-2012, 02:27 PM
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A very fast 28mm would makes sense. It would be close to the sensor diagonal of the K-01 and potential successors and would be kind of like a normal prime for the genre.
Edit: From these images, a collapsible zoom seems ruled out but there is a groove in the black base. That means it is "off" the Road Map. A 3rd 40mm or 4th 35mm would be "wild."
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-28-2011, 04:51 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-24-2012, 06:22 AM
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Sadly, as I go through my negs to scan, I realize I have lost some of my work. Some of these images are scans from old prints or reject proof prints. After 40 years and lots of moves, things get lost. Do better than I did and take care of your work.
These are rough scans, unspotted with some PP for contrast and tone. Taken with Nikon F / Hassy SWC / Ilford and Kodak films / D-76 and Dektol / Kodak Polycontrast and Dupont papers.
..."The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera." Dorthea Lange |
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-26-2012, 06:23 AM
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O is for OVERWORKED. This fellow has been exercising far too long.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-26-2012, 04:55 AM
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K is for Kids on a tank
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-23-2012, 12:47 PM
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I always thought the optical viewfinder was live view. :laugh: I mean, anything on the EVF already happened. :Hysterical:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-23-2012, 02:29 PM
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Some like the LV, others use the viewfinder. I'm old school. Was trained with and use the viewfinder 99% fot the time. Sometimes I do like having LV option.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-23-2012, 01:40 PM
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One should decouple two different issues: Is the image optical or a video feed? Is the image presented on a screen or through a viewfinder?
Advantages of a viewfinder, whether optical or electronic, are that one can screen out stray light, avoid glare, support the camera more securely, and exclude distractions. Furthermore, there is no stray light to bother those around you in a dark venue. And with a diopter adjustment one can compensate for failing eyesight.
Advantages of a screen, whether optical (think glass on an MF camera) or electronic, include the ability to review images with other people and, sometimes, the advantages of a physically larger image. It is also possible to watch the screen while still being aware of one's surroundings, though this never approaches the convenience of a rangefinder for this purpose.
The advantage of an optical path include low latency, high resolution, and low noise. But an electronic screen permits data overlays, focus peaking, blinkies, crop lines, horizons, and other exposure and compositional aids.
An Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) combines all of the advantages of an electronic screen with those of a viewfinder. Being able to change menu settings etc. without lifting the eye from the EVF is very appealing and makes for a more efficient photographic workflow. Latency is already minimal on the best of today's EVF models; in another generation or two it will be hard to recommend an optical finder for a smaller sensor camera.
As for screens, their main use is only evident if the LCD can be articulated to permit camera positions that would otherwise be impossible to compose from. Fixed LCD screens are next to useless compared with a viewfinder, IMO. Especially as the viewfinders on my Olympus PEN cameras are 90 degree articulated themselves.
Unfortunately Pentax is a generation or two behind the curve. Try the hybrid viewfinder on the Fuji X100 or the Olympus VF-2 to experience the state of the (still changing) art.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-23-2012, 01:23 PM
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hahahaha!
i use both when shooting landscapes. rough framing with the eyepiece, especially when it is bright outside. my eyesight is not as good as it once was and the eyepiece allows me to actually see in focus whereas i have to move back quite far from the LCD screen to focus on liveview. anyhow, i switch to LV to line up the grid lines with my horizon and manually focus, then shoot.
I find composing elements around the perimeter of the frame to work much better with the viewfinder because LV has all sorts of icons and the live histogram obstructing the view.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-22-2012, 07:57 AM
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His lens has a fairly large diameter barrel and is made to accept a 58mm filter. The hood he has is a slip-on type made to fit a lens with a much smaller diameter. A 58-49 step-down ring might physically work, but the vignette would be something awful, even on APS-C.
Steve
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-17-2012, 01:32 PM
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F is for fallen angel . . . :p
"If you want to see an angel, you have to find her where she fell." Ozark Mountain Daredevils |
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-29-2012, 09:36 PM
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I saw this cute couple sitting there making puppy eyes so I thought It would make a decent picture if I could catch the emotion or the soul of the shot, now.....
Voices carry by Street Vision L.A., on Flickr
Normally folks will turn away when they see me pointing the camera while they are in these moments of public affection, or get embarrassed , but as soon as he saw me taking the picture, he started to really go hot and heavy and for a change, I was the one who got embarrassed... ;-)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-09-2012, 10:15 AM
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K for Kodak.
Mickey
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Forum: General Talk
12-19-2011, 04:58 AM
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I assume you are referring to Norway with this statement, since it was the last one you cited. Thing is, one can hardly equate the mechanics, requirements and complexity of managing a country with a population of less than 5 million occupying an area of 149,000 square miles (Norway) with one who's population exceeds 317 million spread across an area of 3.8 million square miles (the U.S.).
I can hardly have any faith that Norway's government would do any better than ours does over here if they suddenly found themselves legally and by consent governing all of western Europe.
Mike
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