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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 07-17-2008, 10:13 AM  
Noise Reduction - K10D
Posted By eman
Replies: 4
Views: 1,986
When noise reduction is turned on, any shots will cause K10D to perform the noise reduction step. The time it take to do noise reduction is equal to time of the exposure, so basically exposure time x2 for the time of a shot. A couple of situations I can think of when you want to turn nosie reduction off, one is when trying to take picture of firework, as the exposure time is in the seconds, you don't want to wait any time to be ready for the next shot. Two is when you want to use post processing to do your only nosie reduction. I have not had the needs to turn off nosie reduction myself yet.
Forum: Photographic Technique 07-08-2008, 08:42 PM  
Help shooting sunsets
Posted By eman
Replies: 7
Views: 2,001
Shooting HDR will also work.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 07-06-2008, 12:26 PM  
Purple images
Posted By eman
Replies: 19
Views: 4,786
It also could be a possible faulty memory card. Try another card with a fully recharged battery to see if it still happens.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 07-05-2008, 08:44 PM  
Tests to determine if a new K20D is faulty
Posted By eman
Replies: 21
Views: 2,944
So far metering seems to be the only issue listed, but I think it is due to the "culture" different between various camera makers. It is something the user needs to adapt to with every brand.
Isn't there a low light focusing issue, or that is not a defective function, it is the charactistic of a normal K20D?
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 07-04-2008, 04:51 PM  
Tests to determine if a new K20D is faulty
Posted By eman
Replies: 21
Views: 2,944
I have read from different threads about various issues that some K20D is not working correctly. Just for new comers (like me) that gotten (or about to) a K20D, to determine from simple tests to see if the camera is good or need to be return. It would be nice to create a thread to list the tests to be "run" to determine the condition of their K20D.
Forum: Photographic Technique 07-04-2008, 12:14 PM  
OK, what is the best way to send my camera back?
Posted By eman
Replies: 10
Views: 2,730
I had to bring my K10D for warranty service once, I took it back to the store I got it from, then the store told me to bring it to the Pentax service depot locally. It turn out to be a very small shop specialized in repair Pentax cameras. Since you live in a bigger city than me, I would expect there is a similiar repair service depot locally.
Forum: Photographic Technique 07-03-2008, 11:32 AM  
Are people required to be in a picture to make it a good picture?
Posted By eman
Replies: 46
Views: 10,154
From your friend's definition of a "good picture", all macro pictures are bad!!
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 06-25-2008, 01:19 PM  
K20D / K10D shake reduction
Posted By eman
Replies: 16
Views: 4,536
Check out the shake reduction test for the K20D in DPReview as the bottom of:

Pentax K20D Review: 16. Features:
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 06-25-2008, 11:46 AM  
brand new K10D high image and click count
Posted By eman
Replies: 28
Views: 7,043
The important things are picture IQ, focus speed, exposure metering accuracy and hot or dead pixels on the senor. As the shutter mechanism is rated for operating 50K times, a couple of hundred shots is a very small percentage. If everything else is fine I would opt to keep the camera and maybe try to get some discount from the dealer due to "not new" issue.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 06-04-2008, 08:45 AM  
Dumb question?
Posted By eman
Replies: 45
Views: 6,374
Check the thread "Love the K20 grip", someone posted a ebay link for a 3rd party K100 power grip.

Anyways here is the link :Ownuser Vertical Battery Grip for Pentax K100D D-BG1 - eBay (item 160245291315 end time Jun-04-08 09:29:13 PDT)
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-22-2008, 01:02 PM  
Screen ruler software
Posted By eman
Replies: 3
Views: 2,611
I just found a free ruler software for both PCs and Macs that is pretty useful.

omnidea - your business starts here
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 03-18-2008, 09:47 AM  
Free Photoshop tutorial
Posted By eman
Replies: 0
Views: 3,025
Just found a funny Photoshop tutorial site to share with everyone!

You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie Hoyle | Laughing Squid
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 02-04-2008, 10:06 AM  
K20D review at digitalcamerainfo
Posted By eman
Replies: 47
Views: 9,005
I am confused from the review, especially in the Picture Quality / Size Options part where it said the K20D have 2x the resolution of K10D and said K10D has only 6.3 mega pixels. I alway thought the K10D have 10.2 mega pixels!!!
Forum: General Talk 01-09-2008, 10:39 AM  
Calgary members?
Posted By eman
Replies: 14
Views: 3,099
I am from Calgary :)
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 11-08-2007, 09:18 AM  
K10D Newbie
Posted By eman
Replies: 10
Views: 2,894
There were serveral threads posted about similiar issue with the K10D, I think if you play around with the metering mode (example: to center point and lock exposure etc...). It should produce a brighter picture.
Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories 09-20-2007, 08:02 AM  
Mini tripod
Posted By eman
Replies: 5
Views: 3,605
Thx! I'll let my friend know.
Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories 09-19-2007, 12:52 PM  
Mini tripod
Posted By eman
Replies: 5
Views: 3,605
A friend is looking for a small tripod, that is about 1 meter fully extended and around 20cm when folded, also should be able to handle about 3kg of load. Anyone know of a good one?
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 09-17-2007, 01:08 PM  
What's the difference between these lenses? (Sigma)
Posted By eman
Replies: 6
Views: 3,215
I think DG is for digital APS-C format sensors (not full frame). Here is a description from Sigma's site. Sigma - Lenses - Overview
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 08-26-2007, 10:31 PM  
Anybody having problems with PEF files over 16,5 MB?
Posted By eman
Replies: 11
Views: 4,010
I shot mostly in PEF RAW and about 10% of my pictures are 16M and over, for those that are in the upper 16M sizes, PS CS3 cannot read them and I have to convert them into DNG format using PPB for PS to read them. I am too upgraded to firmware 1.3.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 08-23-2007, 12:34 PM  
Dead pixels!
Posted By eman
Replies: 3
Views: 2,607
You can bring your camera to a Pentax repair depot to get them mapped out. I had it done to my camera before too.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 08-22-2007, 09:44 PM  
Welded dust CCD question ....
Posted By eman
Replies: 2
Views: 2,075
Me too! I have the same issue! After buying $90+ in sensor cleaning stuff and trying many time to clean that 1 spot. The only solution I have not tried yet, is to bring it into the repair depot,as that will take up to 2 weeks to get it fix.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 08-21-2007, 11:38 AM  
Photoshop elements 5.0 or Coral Paint Shop Pro XI
Posted By eman
Replies: 8
Views: 6,022
You prefer to do HDR manually? I use photomatix for HDR picture. If you don't know it already their url is HDR photo software & plugin - Tone Mapping, Exposure Blending & HDR Imaging for photography
Forum: General Talk 08-21-2007, 11:32 AM  
RAW is huge. How do you handle backups and such.
Posted By eman
Replies: 14
Views: 2,288
I kept a seperate directory for RAW and processed jpg and burn them to DVD once they fill up to 4.7 GB. Have you tried to use PEF RAW format? It is smaller than DNG. Also if you want to keep all of 1 shooting into I DVD and it happens to be bigger than 4.7GB. You can always use the dual layer DVDs which will give up about 9 GB of storage per disc. They are a bit more expensive, but not unreasonable. (Assuming your DVD writer can use them)
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 08-21-2007, 11:15 AM  
Lever / switch in Memory compartment
Posted By eman
Replies: 6
Views: 1,567
Probably for the camera to turn off when the it opens.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 08-16-2007, 07:11 PM  
PEF vs. DNG
Posted By eman
Replies: 20
Views: 4,131
I have CS3 and it can read PEF format, is there something CS3 can do in DNG format, but can't in PEF?
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