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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-27-2016, 07:40 AM
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My K30 failed at about 12000 images. I almost never used Live View. I still shoot a lot of photos with my K30 but now they are all with old A and M lenses with the aperture ring. Since all of these are manual focus, I now use live view regularly.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-20-2013, 05:51 AM
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A few sots from my recent trip to the north shore of Minnesota.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-10-2013, 10:43 PM
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A few photos from a recent soccer match taken with a Bower 85mm f1.4. Not bad for a manual focus lens. I had let my daughter use my 70-200 f2.8.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-01-2013, 08:45 PM
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A shot from a performance this weekend. Shot with the K-30 and the Bower (Samyang) 85mm f1.4. ISO 400, 1/125 and f2.0.
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
07-01-2013, 08:27 PM
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-30-2013, 09:11 PM
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Yup. I'm sure. I've checked all those settings and as confirmation there isn't any consistent sequence to the underexposed shots.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-30-2013, 06:09 AM
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It happens regardless of the metering mode and is extremely inconsistent. Even full manual (which is how I usually shoot), on a tripod pointed at a blank wall and it still happens. I am inclined to think something is sticking as it is more likely to happen at the beginning of a sequence of shots, although one will be dark every now and then regardless. EXIF data all shows the same settings as well but wildly different exposures. Sounds like a trip for service is in order.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-29-2013, 05:48 AM
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Exposure sometimes is unpredictably way off.
For example, during testing with fully charged battery, exposure set to manual, fixed ISO, bracketing off, matrix metering and taking a picture of exactly the same scene: one image about 3 stops under exposed, one about 1 stop under and one that is spot on. Not quite random because the under exposure it is much more likely to happen with a single image and the first image of a sequence. It can nail 10 images and then mess up 3 or vice versa. The majority of shots are exposed correctly. This has happened with every lens I tried after it initially started. The shutter sounds normal but I haven't focused much on the sound.
Any ideas would be welcome. Mike
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
06-29-2013, 05:36 AM
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I started having the similar problem a couple of weeks ago in my K30. During testing with exposure set to manual, fixed ISO, bracketing off, matrix metering and taking a picture of exactly the same scene: one image about 3 stops under exposed, one about 1 stop under and one that is spot on. Not quite random because the under exposure it is much more likely to happen with a single image and the first image of a sequence. It can nail 10 images and then mess up 3 or vice versa. This has happened with every lens I tried after it initially started. For me the exposure times ISo and other factors did not seem to matter.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-08-2013, 05:31 PM
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Hi Lowell, I have the Bower version of the 85 1.4 and love it. Wonderful for portrait and street photography. Thanks fro starting the group. Mike
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
12-30-2012, 07:59 AM
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I'd go for the full-frame but, I am really interested in broadening the lens selection. Particularly fast primes. The limiteds are nice but relatively slow. An improved 16-50 f 2.8 would be nice too.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
05-28-2011, 06:13 AM
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Untitled - Black and white of Flowers backlit by the sun.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-05-2011, 05:23 AM
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Lots of great pics. Getting to choose 17 might be too many though. Having more choices doesn't necessarily makes it easier.
People are never happy! :)
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-02-2011, 03:26 PM
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Thanks to all the reviewers! As a fan of the old manual focus lens, reviews like these are especially useful when thinking about acquiring an older lens. Thanks again.
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