Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-17-2008, 10:13 AM
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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.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
07-08-2008, 08:42 PM
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Shooting HDR will also work.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-06-2008, 12:26 PM
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It also could be a possible faulty memory card. Try another card with a fully recharged battery to see if it still happens.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-05-2008, 08:44 PM
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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?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-04-2008, 04:51 PM
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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.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
07-04-2008, 12:14 PM
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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.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
07-03-2008, 11:32 AM
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From your friend's definition of a "good picture", all macro pictures are bad!!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-25-2008, 01:19 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-25-2008, 11:46 AM
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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.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-04-2008, 08:45 AM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-04-2008, 10:06 AM
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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!!!
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Forum: General Talk
01-09-2008, 10:39 AM
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
11-08-2007, 09:18 AM
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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.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
09-20-2007, 08:02 AM
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Thx! I'll let my friend know.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
09-19-2007, 12:52 PM
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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?
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-17-2007, 01:08 PM
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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
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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.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
08-23-2007, 12:34 PM
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You can bring your camera to a Pentax repair depot to get them mapped out. I had it done to my camera before too.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-22-2007, 09:44 PM
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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.
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Forum: General Talk
08-21-2007, 11:32 AM
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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)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-21-2007, 11:15 AM
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Probably for the camera to turn off when the it opens.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-16-2007, 07:11 PM
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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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