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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-15-2024, 11:14 PM
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Right! Book it in, my friend. And know that you can stay with me!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-13-2024, 04:34 AM
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I understand fully that feeling of knowing you could have done so much better, but I hope that with the passage of time, you come to realise that the shot you have got remains stunning. Sometimes the 'looks good from afar' effect is very valuable in itself...
On the other hand, there will be a total solar eclipse in Sydney in 2028, so you'll have to come here and show me how it's done!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-12-2024, 04:11 PM
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Mike, I saw on Facebook some of your slapstick difficulties on the day (hope you're alright!). But when it comes to this shot, all I can say is WOW! Just wonderful! So glad you got this for your considerable efforts.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-28-2024, 02:30 AM
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Lovely mellow, rich feel to this one, mate :-)
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I guess I don't need to tell you where this was taken!
Top of the picture is a multi-image stack over about 90 minutes. That was then combined with some low ISO frames - including to extend the scene at the bottom, so it's a pano of sorts, made easy by the use of a shift lens.
Fuji GFX100S with Laowa 20mm lens
[IMG] StarTrailsFromFiles_DSF8795-9999And0001-1205_DxO_Step17CropSMALL by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-03-2024, 10:11 PM
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Final shot in this sequence of images of churches in the Grantham (Lincolnshire, UK) area.
St. Wulfram's church again, on a misty morning. I actually went to a primary school immediately adjacent to this viewpoint (from the ages of 7-11) and became so familiar with the fact that one corner of the tower is outsize that I hardly even notice it any more. This is because that's where the spiral staircase runs up the tower (years later, I'd often walk up those stairs to ring the church bells!).
GFX100S with Laowa 20mm lens
[IMG] _DSF9515_Step8sRGBSMALL by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-29-2024, 03:57 AM
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Yes, that is so. But I find that sometimes I need more correction than the lens itself will allow in a given situation. For example, the picture posted above in message #20308 was so tight that getting things perfectly straight would have required maybe 16mm of shift upwards. The max. the lens allows is 12mm, and quality falls off after about 10mm. So sometimes I will shift upward to the max. that the lens allows, then make the final parts of the adjustment in post. This gives a much better result than doing it all in post.
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This time, it's Barrowby Church (a village a couple of miles away from Grantham, where the larger church is - posted above).
GFX100S with Laowa 15mm lens and 10mm shift.
N.B. After taking this, I put my drone up and took some moody images of the church through the thicker, swirling fog. But obviously I can't post them on this forum! The wider collection, in case anyone's interested, is here: Barrowby Church | Flickr
[IMG] Barrowby Church on a misty morning by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-29-2024, 08:28 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-28-2024, 12:02 AM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-26-2024, 11:39 PM
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St. Wulfram's church again, this time on a foggy morning
Fuji GFX100S with Laowa 15mm lens - shifted 10mm vertically then perspective further tweaked in post...
[IMG] _DSF9517_Step11sRGBSMALL by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-29-2024, 02:42 PM
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I fully agree, Tuco - usually, I try to do such corrections with a light touch so that things are corrected without introducing new problems! However, the shot that prompted this discussion is a special case IMO; the lighting conditions made me want to create something surreal, and the bizarrely correct perspective somehow added to that for me.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-28-2024, 01:49 PM
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Very inSPIRE(ing), my friend ;)
(OK, that joke would work better in spoken English!)
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You raise a great point, Tuco - and I do agree. By the way, in this latest image, it was all done with shifting the lens (not in post), but your point stands. In general, I favour correcting to some extent but not trying to make it "perfect", as it looks more real somewhere between flawed and perfect. However, this image looks surreal and sinister, so I felt the oddly straight corrected perspective added to that mood.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-06-2024, 03:58 AM
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Dating back to the early 14th Century, St. Wulfram's church in Grantham (England) has a remarkable spire for a mere parish church - rising to 282 feet (making it the six tallest church spire in the country). There are elements of the church that date back even further, with Saxon and Norman features present.
I grew up in Grantham, before moving to other parts of the country then emigrating to Australia many years ago. I'm back in town to look after my Mum (who lives alone) as she recovers from surgery. She's now well enough that I'm gearing up to go home - and I've been able to go out and take a few pictures. As a child, I spent huge amounts of time in and about this church, having gone to C of E schools immediately adjoining it, so it's wonderful to be close to it again.
Fuji GFX100S with Laowa 20mm lens with 11mm of shift
804 files stacked, with low ISO files used for the foreground
[IMG] St. Wulfram's church, Grantham (Lincolnshire) by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-14-2024, 04:08 PM
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Couldn't agree more! And let me emphasise again something that was said a few messages back: please note how many people posting here with non-Pentax equipment are Site Supporters. Something to note...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-13-2024, 08:04 PM
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Paul, Mike, Theuns, mingmonk, w2ck, Jonathan, dbs, volley, mxlx - very well said and I do agree with what you're saying. I absolutely love this thread. The images are superb; the people contributing them even better. We share a love of image-making together and I consider many people here friends and like-minded souls. This thread has rarely been about the gear, but all about the art, the experience, the camaraderie and the joy.
When I referenced 'being able to see both sides of the debate', what I meant was that this thread is on pentaxforums.com, so I can theoretically understand how someone might argue that the focus should be exclusively on images made with Pentax gear. But that has never been the case with this thread, so I see no reason to suddenly change things just because there seems to be some reaction to Fuji. So much would be lost by such a move and very little (if anything) gained.
I too would put myself in the camp of being someone who only considered purchasing a non-Pentax camera because of the lack of an update to the Z. I'd have stayed on-brand had that happened.
Just wish we could settle this once-and-for-all and avoid having to repeat the angst again in the future :-)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-13-2024, 03:12 PM
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I can genuinely see both sides of this debate and I really don't want anyone to be upset at the result. That's why I'd prefer to have a totally definitive steer from the Forum about what we should do here. The precedents are clear, as it's always been all/any Medium Format on this thread - but I think it would be best for everyone if the dispute could be settled once and for all, not by us individual members but by an official decision. If we simply allow the former to happen, I am sure the issue will keep coming up again as more new members join. And I frankly am rather tired of the unpleasantness that eventuates whenever this issue rears its head again.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-09-2024, 04:31 AM
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I have always understood that this particular thread is for showcasing all and any medium format images, despite being on Pentax Forums. I do notice that images taken with old (non-Pentax) film cameras don't ever seem to attract the ire of the people who object to non-Pentax digital images being shown. I wonder what to make of that?
In any case, I'm quite happy to take the instructions of the Moderators here. What's allowed and what isn't? Despite having a GFX100S these days, I still consider myself a Pentaxian. The 645Z still sees some use, as do all of my Pentax lenses on both cameras - and I've been an avid Pentax fan for nearly 25 years. You may also note that some of the people posting with non-Pentax gear are Site Supporters (something to consider, perhaps); it suggests that some of us feel part of a wider community of Pentaxian friends, regardless of what gear is used to make any particular image (provided it's medium format). However, if images taken without Pentax gear are not permitted here, I may slope off into the distance rather than having to remember only to post images used with some pieces of my equipment over others. All just too tricky and pedantic to my mind. I'd accept the decision in good grace, but I'd miss the place and many people here, were that to happen.
I can certainly see both sides of the issue here, so no hard feelings whatever the outcome is. However, since this issue does crop up periodically - and often with some angst/bile in the communication - I do feel it's best that it be settled with finality for us all.
Mods - are you able please to advise definitively on this situation please? I don't want to rely on strongly expressed views of individual members but rather to have an absolute steer on what the rules are. Then we can all simply get on with it, whatever our personal views might be.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-15-2024, 05:24 PM
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Barrenjoey Head (spot the lighthouse!) as a significant storm system moves away to the south and strong sunlight bursts onto the scene.
Fuji GFX100S with Laowa 20mm shift lens
[IMG] _DSF8579_Step5sRGBSMALL by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-16-2024, 02:43 PM
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Hey Paul - just want to say how much I've been enjoying your recent NZ posts. Lovely stuff! Like you, these shots just sing :p
Looking forward to the Tokyo stuff in due course...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-29-2022, 02:19 PM
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Hello! I can speak from experience of the Fotodiox Pro adaptor on a GFX100S - which I assume behaves in exactly the same way.
With 645 lenses that lack an aperture ring, the adaptor allows you to set an aperture manually - it grabs the stop-down lever on the back of the lens and stops down an increment that corresponds to where you have the ring. Totally manually. Please note that the ring on the adaptor, because it doesn't 'know' which lens it's attached to, simply lets you set a proportion of the aperture range of the lens. It isn't marked f2.8, f4, f5.6, etc. for this reason. So you need to work out roughly what the different markings on this aperture ring correspond to in terms of real aperture for each lens. At one point, I worked out (with a little help from a maths friend) what each marking exactly corresponds to, before I realised that the adaptor doesn't actually use the whole range of the markings; try to go to the fully stopped down end, and it doesn't get there fully in many cases. So, my habit for landscapes is just to throw the adaptor to about a mid range of the markings, and that seems to work fine. For astro, where I am using the lens wider open, it's a bit more of a guess.
If you lens does have an aperture ring, the adaptor behaves differently. First set the aperture on the lens, then when you turn the ring on the adaptor, it gradually stops the lens down until it reaches the aperture you selected on the lens; it won't go any further. So the lens aperture ring represents the correct setting you end up using, provided you turn the adaptor ring to the limit. In this way, it amounts to a preset - open it, and you can focus with the lens wide open; close it until the reaches the limit, and you are set to the aperture you chose on the lens.
Other P645 adaptors, that don't have the aperture ring (and so can only be used with 645 lenses that do have aperture rings), I assume behave more simply - they probably grab the stop-down lever on the lens and simply close it down continuously to whatever aperture you have the lens set to. But I don't know this for sure - the Fotodiox Pro is the only type of P645 adaptor I own. All I can say is that it's how I would design the simple adaptors if I were making them!
Hope this helps!
The process can be a bit slow, but for landscape stuff, that's no hardship most of the time and the results are good for me. The only caveat is that I do find some wide angle lenses perform in the corners worse in this adapted form than the did natively on my 645Z, even stopped down. It's not a huge problem, but it is there. The longer lenses don't have this issue.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-14-2024, 06:26 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-30-2023, 03:02 AM
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On a recent trip to Bali, I set off from my hotel at around midnight in order to start a trek up Mount Batur volcano at 3.30am - so that I could be at the summit before sunrise. This is the result looking across a fog-covered Danau Batur lake to the larger Mount Agung volcano and Mount Rinjani (on the island of Lombok) in the left distance.
Fuji GFX100S with Pentax 645 28-45mm lens @ 28mm
[IMG] Mount Agung from Mount Batur (Bali) by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG] Mount Agung from Mount Batur (Bali) by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Paul, all your shots from this trip so far have been stunning. Congratulations!
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Mount Batur volcano at closer quarters
Fuji GFX100S with Pentax 645 25mm DA lens
[IMG] Mount Batur volcano at dawn (Bali) by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-06-2023, 12:05 AM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-30-2023, 05:20 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-20-2023, 12:29 AM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-24-2023, 05:19 PM
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South Curl Curl beach has one of Sydney's many rock pools - always populated by keen, daily swimmers by 5am (many of them in their 80s!). Australia really is a place that's all about exercise...
Anyway, I dragged my much-less fit posterior out of bed this morning on the promise of a high-cloud forecast. That largely failed to eventuate, but thankfully these striations saved the day!
GFX100S with Laowa 20mm shift lens (and 4mm of upwards shift).
[IMG] South Curl Curl streaker by Ed Hurst, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Many thanks for the kind comment and question...
I presume that your question is based on the assumption that the tripod legs were in water? Well, that's only partly true! The water there is tidal, and throughout the phase where I was shooting for the stars, the water was far enough out to be away from the tripod. I then took some shots for the wider scene and foreground, by which time a) there was some pre-dawn light and b) the tide had come in far enough to be around the tripod legs. So it was only those final shots where the water was a potential issue, and I was able to get away with it.
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