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Forum: General Photography
03-24-2024, 11:32 AM
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Actually one of the "key" improvements of our trips is that each one of us has their own car keys.
The other improvement - there is enough podcasts or audiobooks in the car so that no-one gets bored waiting for the spouse.
It's even more important in winter.
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Forum: General Photography
03-24-2024, 03:50 AM
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That is what the spiked feet on a tripod/monopod are for......... to shoo the philistines away :lol:
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Forum: General Photography
03-24-2024, 03:44 AM
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When I was married, if my wife, son and I went for a walk and I took a camera with me, my wife would radiate impatience and frustration whenever I stopped to compose and take a shot. She didn't have to do or say anything... she'd just stand there, think whatever she was thinking, and charge the air with negativity. It was incredibly off-putting.
Over time, I learned to copy her technique for use on our shopping trips, when we inevitably ended up in the ladies' shoes and clothing departments... :D
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-15-2024, 08:35 AM
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I have found similar issues with K-mount lenses vs other mounts....
my solution was to buy an adapter and use the lens on one of my Fuji cameras.....
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
03-12-2024, 02:38 PM
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The only way you can get infinity focus is through an adapter that works like a teleconverter. This will reduce the optical speed, quality, and make the lenses more telephoto by whatever factor the adapter has (1.2-1.5x) This is not a good choice of lenses to adapt to Pentax in general.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-09-2024, 12:00 PM
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Yes, that looks like classic banding from using Electronic Shutter with LED (and some CFL) lighting.
in future, the solutions are:
1) Don't use the electronic shutter. (This also avoids motion artifacts in shots of moving subjects even if you use a fast shutter speed.)
2) If you do use ES, do some pre-event test shots with different shutter speeds to find one that works. Slower is better. A setting of 1/60 or 1/50 sec (depending on your country's AC power grid frequency) should work. If you need want faster shutter speeds, the trick is the find a shutter time that is an exact multiple of the LED's pulse width. Then use Tv or TAv mode to stick with the band-free shutter time.
(P.S., anti-flicker settings of some high-end cameras might work with stadium lighting and room lighting but I'd bet that the mixed lighting of theatre and music venue lights (different brands of lights for different purposes) often have different flicker frequencies which makes these settings much less likely to work.)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-06-2024, 06:06 AM
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Do you? Really? I don't see the first post in this thread being in any way supportive of this conjecture. This sentence:
epitomises it. It is borderline brand bashing, which is looked at very dimly here.
If you like Pentax glass, buy the best Pentax body you can and enjoy the lenses to their fullest. Pentax, more than any other company in the history of photography, has bent over backwards to maintain backward compatibility with legacy lenses, so you most definitely do NOT need to feel guilty about buying second hand. I get the overwhelming feeling that Pentax values long term brand loyalty over short term sales, and I for one respect that.
If you don't, jump ship to whatever is shiny this week. What you choose to do is up to you, and you alone.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-06-2024, 05:57 AM
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I buy only used since I cant justify a cost of a new product, period...Im a blue collar in a bearing company and I would give more than 2 of my monthly salleries just to buy a new k3iii or k1ii, not even talking about glass
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-06-2024, 12:04 AM
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I’m not sure I understand this: ”I want to support Pentax but…” Buying a camera of brand X doesn’t mean you have joined the Brotherhood of Brand X, are required to speak up for them on all social media and must commit to purchasing 8 items from their catalogue each year. Do you spend a lot of time on YouTube by any chance?
You’ve bought a camera, not joined a cult. Or have I misunderstood the entire Pentax raison d’etre? :confused:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-27-2024, 07:42 AM
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Well I'm sure you are aware that you can increase available light, rather than increasing the ISO. So let's leave the high ISO comparison aside.
So what are these crippling limitations, aside from performance ISO 3200 and up? What is it that makes a K20D (or even K10D) at ISO 100 so useless? Should I believe you or should I believe my lying eyes when I see the wonderful colors, rendering and the details that are enough for any size prints that I actually care about? Not to mention, more than good enough for my 32" 4K monitor?
I'm not saying anyone has to use an older model, by all means use the best camera you can afford, but "crippling limitations" saying anything older than a K-5 should be headed for the trash can... is quite a statement.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-27-2024, 12:05 AM
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It's that kind of viewpoint that allowed me to buy three little-used near-mint Samsung GX-10s for around the same price as an average-mileage K-5 (which I already owned) :lol:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-26-2024, 11:59 PM
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Well, I used to use a K-7 but after reading the above it got thrown away, so now I have nothing… :confused:
Seriously, the K-7 has perfectly competent performance at base ISO with excellent ergonomics and the LV works properly. The real drawback with its LV is that it canes the battery. I understand later models are more efficient with battery life in LV, but that’s your decision to make.
The images are what count.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-19-2024, 12:16 AM
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They’re your photos Tony: unless you’re being paid for ’em it’s nobody’s business but yours how you make ’em. Enjoy!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-06-2024, 08:08 AM
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6 sentences is now 3 paragraphs ... ?
The response writing was fine.
The only potential issue is that the reader read it with a presupposed negative tone.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-06-2024, 10:59 AM
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My 2¢...
If you feel comfortable doing it, why not... honestly, a portrait like this is more about getting the kids to pose right (you can get examples online, usually in uniform holding a ball), than any other technicalities.
Being that these would be full body portraits, looking at your list of lenses I would personally use the SMC DA 35mm f/2.4 (I would set it at f/2.8). A longer lens like a 50-55mm that you mentioned, would be too long for full body portraits. Also, the DA 35 2.4 "Plastic Fantastic" has absolutely wonderful skin tones (better than the DA Limiteds in my opinion), f/2.8 (or f/2.4 if needed) is very sharp and fast enough for what you describe as mediocre lighting.
Me and my wife have done the same thing before and it worked out great. It seems like the expectations are low like they were with us ("it doesn't have to be professional quality") so I would try it, but it's up to you to see if you feel comfortable or not. I'd say the key part will be to get them to pose and to have the light source in front of them and not behind them. If you get that, it'll look professional IMHO.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-25-2024, 04:30 AM
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Sensor surface is a glass plate, hard to scratch, unless you used a sharp blade (like tungsten) or diamond.
Two kinds of dirt on camera sensors:
- dust speck stuck by static electricity, usually moves around, and easily displaced by swab
- oily sticky piece of dirt coming from either lens mount, or inside of the lens or part wear inside the camera (mirror, shutter)
Oily sticky won't come off easily, usually not with a dry swap. Like BigMack said, in that case, wet cleaning may work.
I usually clean in order:
- I try ultrasonic cleaning feature of the camera, check
- raise mirror up and blow some air inside, check
- If dust still there, use swap with liquid I use to clean glasses (few drops of dish wash liquid in slightly warm water), I use two swabs: 1 swap with wash liquid, 1 dry swab to dry immediately after wet application.
- If dust resist to diluted dish wash, I use a solvent like 90+%alcohol.
Old M42 lenses and even new lenses can have some sticky stuff that come off of them, from lens mount or aperture mech. To prevent dirt coming off the mount and land on the sensor, I clean lens mounts with isopropanol a couple times a year. Interestingly, cleaning show black metallic residue from lens mounts. Keeping mount clean also clean the contacts , assures good contact between lens and camera every time.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-14-2024, 05:00 AM
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It is easer to build round things than cutting rectangles. Round openings screw in easily, rectangular ones need a mount stay in the correct place.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-11-2024, 07:13 AM
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I'll wait for a Pentaxian guinea pig to sacrifice before I proceed to update firmware on my K1s.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
01-09-2024, 03:10 PM
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It is not about starting the camera with the door open.
It is about the debug-files being stored correctly on the SD card and only then switching the camera on.
I wanted to know this because I have a program which works like the debug menu but it only works if the camera starts as well in debug-mode.
If not, then your Pentax is beyond repair.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
01-06-2024, 10:05 AM
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I think you should not be rude to the people that try to help you! Read your own posts carefully, "Did you read carefully what the problem is with my device?"; "Read carefully and only then give your opinion"; "I described the problem I encountered and you develop some topics that have nothing to do with the topic". "I am waiting for an answer from someone who knows how and has encountered this problem", think it will be a long wait.
Enjoy!
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
01-06-2024, 03:21 AM
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Well, it sounds like you are dissatisfied with ideas given. I still think you should be grateful for the time the people here spend in trying to help you, I can not do so because, honestly, I can not make heads or tails what you are describing (). But some camera's have these tricks that they play on you. And sometimes it is due to pushing a wrong button. If you are absolutely sure you have nothing done wrong, not pushed any button by accident, throw away the camera and buy a new one. That will immediately solve the problem.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
01-07-2024, 04:34 AM
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Remember the times when CMOS sensors were considerably noisier than CCDs? Remember the times when camera sensors couldn't handle long exposures past 30 seconds? Remember when camera sensors with 3Mp cost almost as much as a new car?
Sensor technologies are bound to improve and be expanded upon. This is a first attempt by SONY at getting a global shutter into a consumer product, I wouldn't be such a harsh critic of the technology just yet.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-03-2024, 06:46 AM
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Your 18-55mm lens and APS-C camera provide a "field of view" equivalent to that of a 27-82mm lens on a full-frame camera. The focal length of a lens doesn't change by using it on a camera with smaller or larger sensor - it's the captured field of view that changes ;)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-29-2023, 03:42 PM
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