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Forum: Lens Clubs 11-02-2021, 05:22 PM  
Theory on DA 35mm ltd 'greatest lens ever' (?) tag
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 09-20-2021, 01:37 PM  
My K5iis will not power on
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 12
Views: 805
Did you have to reset the clock when it started to work ?
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 08-30-2021, 04:50 AM  
HD DA 16-85... Vs.....DA 16-45 .. sharpness and colors at the wider end (16-20mm)
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Replies: 94
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I was tempted to get the 16-85 when it came out, but somehow shots taken with it that I'd looked at lacked something undefinable that my 16-45 had.

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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-30-2021, 10:32 AM  
1 inch sensor club
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Replies: 403
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III 06-11-2021, 03:05 AM  
K-3 III bug in 2s self timer mode - Source of fuzzyness
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 147
Views: 11,998
Does turning on 'composition adjust' make any difference ?
Forum: Pentax K-3 III 06-10-2021, 12:42 PM  
K-3 III bug in 2s self timer mode - Source of fuzzyness
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 147
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Unless the problem is deep in some on-board not user accessible firmware. A pretty embarrassing cock-up. My betting is that the next firmware update will disable horizon correction when on timer and pretend that the problem never existed ...
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-04-2021, 11:36 AM  
1 inch sensor club
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Replies: 403
Views: 37,581

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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 05-27-2021, 03:35 PM  
1 inch sensor club
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Replies: 403
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-20-2021, 03:24 PM  
Interesting experience with Topaz sharpen AI
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 50
Views: 5,146
The auto setting process seems far too quick for Sharpen to be doing any too complex analysis of the image.

I agree that the optimum amount of sharpening depends on how the image is going to be viewed. In that respect Sharpen is a pixel-peeper's dream as it makes up texture detail right down to a crazy pixel level. I tend to use it cautiously and what I liked about it was that it did not give unwanted sharpening halos. Topaz have managed to break this in the current version and with my graphics card. :mad:
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-19-2021, 05:28 PM  
Interesting experience with Topaz sharpen AI
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 50
Views: 5,146
You mean like this ? This is caused by too much sharpening and/or by using wrong AI model.


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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-19-2021, 07:26 AM  
Interesting experience with Topaz sharpen AI
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 50
Views: 5,146
Sharpen seems to be pretty good at deciding what needs sharpening, even without masking.


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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-18-2021, 02:58 PM  
Interesting experience with Topaz sharpen AI
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 50
Views: 5,146
A good graphics card is a must. On my (10 year old) machine with NVidia GeForce 1050 Ti it takes typically about two minutes to render a 20 megapixel image.

In their latest (3.0.3) release of Sharpen Topaz have changed the AI models, trying to get more speed out of it. They have succeeded, but Sharpen now gives bad halos at times, making it pretty much unusable. The previous version (2.2.4) was slower but gave much better results. In both there is a difference in how details are rendered between CPU and GPU rendering - easy to see by looking at the difference in PS.

Also, the suggested defaults are usually too high, unless you like your shots oversharpened to death. It is quite remarkable what Sharpen can do though. Most of my recent shots taken with the little Panasonic TZ100 have been processed with Sharpen.

All in all, the Topaz packages seem to be very much 'work in progress'.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 05-16-2021, 11:46 AM  
1 inch sensor club
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 403
Views: 37,581

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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 05-15-2021, 05:07 PM  
Basic information for pentax lens protocol
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,549
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 05-15-2021, 12:02 PM  
New ON1 NoNoise
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 34
Views: 3,688
If I were them, I would choose images which make their NoNoise look good. That owl one is a very sad example ...
Forum: Pentax K-3 III 04-26-2021, 02:30 PM  
K3-iii, any news on Eye AF and Video Codec?
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,019
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 04-21-2021, 06:18 AM  
AF Fine adjustment,,,how do you do it?
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 42
Views: 6,436
That is fine as long as you also allow for temperature of the camera and lens. And for ambient air pressure and composition as this will affect its refractive index. I'd also read somewhere on t'Internet that a freshly sacrificed black goat makes an ideal AF fine tune target ...
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 04-07-2021, 01:06 AM  
AF Fine adjustment,,,how do you do it?
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 42
Views: 6,436
That seems reasonable. For shorter distances (other focus zones) any extra fiddle factor offset needed should be read from the lens rom by the camera.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 04-06-2021, 03:28 PM  
AF Fine adjustment,,,how do you do it?
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 42
Views: 6,436
I use a convenient church tower about 1.3 km away. So for my longest AF lens (300mm) it is some 4,333x fl and for my shortest AF (10mm) it is 130,000x ;)

Actually, any distance, as long as it is in the 'very far' focus zone as read back from the lens slip contacts, is fine ...
Forum: Pentax K-3 III 04-02-2021, 03:24 PM  
Advantages of K-3 Mark III over the K-3 II
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 75
Views: 6,401
Interestingly, the DA12-24 is not on the 'won't work' list.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 03-30-2021, 04:54 PM  
This is the Pentax K-3 Mark III
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 636
Views: 59,609
Who's going to be the first with the obligatory 'person on a bicycle about to run over the photographer' shots ?
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 03-17-2021, 09:16 AM  
Save cash on high MP cameras with Adobe's Super resolution.
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 31
Views: 2,083
Make sure that you have some faces and small text in the shot ;)
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 03-16-2021, 04:20 PM  
Save cash on high MP cameras with Adobe's Super resolution.
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 31
Views: 2,083
Faces are always going to be the hardest to make up because as humans we are pretty good at knowing when they are wrong. Less so with bushes, feathers, lawns and other random objects. Noise is also always going to be a problem.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 03-16-2021, 09:58 AM  
Save cash on high MP cameras with Adobe's Super resolution.
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 31
Views: 2,083
In the realms of consensus reality laws of physics do not apply. What you get is what the AI net calculates that ought to be there if you had more pixels.

At least Adobe limits you to 2x. With Topaz there is no such limit and things can get pretty wierd ...


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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 03-14-2021, 06:16 PM  
Pixels, Pixels, Pixels
Posted By kh1234567890
Replies: 14
Views: 1,336
Try Topaz Gigapixel. ;)
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