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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-25-2022, 05:29 AM
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hjortron? -Svensk?
Hälsningar från en norrbagge boende i Norrbotten.
There's a bit of extra sharpness in my K-5iiS, but the difference from my previous K-5 isn't noticeable unless I'm pixle peeping.
I bought the K-7 from Kameratori in Tampere, Finland.
https://kamerastore.fi/
Check it out,-loads of second hand camera stuff.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-25-2022, 01:36 AM
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Nice video from Brighton . . .
HDR timelapse is nothing special.
Let the camera do the HDR bracketing and the intervalometer do the intervals. The intervalometer will then give one shutter actuation at the pre set interval and this makes the camera shoot the preset bracketing shots. Just make sure the intervals are longer than the combined exposure times plus the time required for writing the files on to the card plus a bit more for good measure.
One thing I did was very useful: -Make timelaps videos of an alarm clock that has seconds, minute and hour hands,-one video for each hand.
When each video renders each hand's movement smoothly take a note of the interval times needed to achieve this.
The seconds hand interval is nice for fast moving clouds,-the minute hand interval for very slow moving clouds and the hour hand interval suits instances where things change even more slowly.
This will reduce the choppy appearance of a time laps video.
Also, manual mode and manual focus is a must. If a autofocus lens is used you could switch to manual focus after autofocusing.
Unfortunately I lost all my pics and vids in a hard drive crash,-only a couple of pics survived thanks to uploading them to Facebook.
Here's one of them:
This was shot at night (midnight sun) in the northernmost part of Norway.
This is not HDR, but one exposure of the sky and one of the foreground.
Later the two were combined in Photoshop using layers and masks so HDR isn't always needed.
https://postimg.cc/cvpTkMnC
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-29-2013, 03:01 AM
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Family reunion. Dimly lit room. Everybody expects lots of images to be taken. Welcome to ISO-noise hell.
This is the situation when I usually would be tempted to leave the camera at home and just enjoy the party.
But it so happens that my camera is a Pentax K-5, so I brought it with me and shot loads of pics all night @ 3200 ISO.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-21-2013, 01:03 AM
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K-5, 400 ISO. Pentax SMC-M 50mm f. 1,7. Shot at f. 1,7 natural lighting.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-23-2013, 10:24 PM
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I recently bought a second hand K-5, and the seller recommended me to throw in a few extra bucks and get the
SMC-M 50/1.7 to go with it. I'm amazed that such a cheap lens can be this good.
The lack of AF doesn't bother me one tiny bit, neither does the fact that I need to go manual-mode on the K5,
just like in the old days. (Yes, I grew up in the film era long before AF and camera-modes were invented.)
My recommendation is go get one of these lenses and learn how your camera works without all that fancy stuff.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
06-18-2013, 11:04 AM
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I've just upgraded from K20d to K5+ SMC 50mm f 1.7 manual lens.
It's a wonderful combo,-perfectly suitable for portraits.
The pic below was shot with the lens wide open and the K5 at 400 ISO and with highlight protection on.
Note the highlighted area at on the left side of the face. With the K20d this area
would have been pretty much burned out. Not so with the K5.
A wonderful camera indeed.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-06-2011, 05:51 AM
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I'd like a K5, but at present the K20d will have to do.
Under "normal" conditions the K20d is all I could ask for, but I sometimes shoot in low light conditions, and the other night I put the K20d to the test.
Below are three images of an occurrence of northern lights.
The first image was shot at 400 ISO, 30 sec. f 2,8.
The two others were shot at 800 ISO and 8 sec. and aperture as above. All images were shot in RAW and post processed to deal with noise which wasn't all that bad. In fact the K20d handles reasonably well at high ISO settings (below 1600 ISO). Post processing was done in Photoshop CS5 using masks, noise reduction and sharpening.
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