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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-06-2012, 02:58 PM
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Thanks everyone for your input, don't think i'll be rushing out anytime soon to purchase a nikon or canon unless my lottery ticket comes up.LOL
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-06-2012, 01:58 PM
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I just tried this pktether, It is good for showing shots after they are taken but will not show live view. I tried a google search for more information after my view screen started to blink and I found out that it should not be used in Live View mode as it will most likley cause the camera to freeze. so it looks like i'll just need to keep looking.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-06-2012, 01:39 PM
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Thanks for that crewl1 I'm just going to look at this now and will let you know how I get on.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-06-2012, 01:21 PM
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Can anyone give me tips on how to shoot with live view through my laptop or to the relevent thread as i'm thinking of trying this out.:confused::confused:
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-20-2012, 04:22 AM
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Its a first, Binocular vision by Pentax.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-20-2012, 04:00 AM
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I'm going to have a look at that thanks for your feed back.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-20-2012, 03:22 AM
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-13-2012, 06:01 AM
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I do have more, hopefully later today I will be able to put a link up for anyone interested.
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-12-2012, 07:05 AM
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Thanks Tom, I will use your tips next time and will try black and white or even sepia.
On the day the sky was caught some where in the middle of shoud it rain or not with plenty of haze, but hey that's Scotland.
At this time of year it's not uncommon to go through all four seasons in a couple of hours.
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-12-2012, 03:45 AM
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Here are some pictures from the Bo'ness and Kinneil Scottish Railway Preservation Society i too the other day.
I know i have a long way to go go but please tell me what i can do to improve these photographs.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
03-16-2012, 02:48 PM
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Thanks Docrwm I will get on to it right away.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
03-16-2012, 02:36 PM
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I'm now going to show how computer savy i'm not, how do i do a firm ware update? is there a guide? I have downloaded the update from pentax but it dosn't want to open any advice please.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
03-16-2012, 08:58 AM
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Hi all,
I've been on and of this site with older style cameras but today i just picked up a brand new K5 and can't wait to get using it. is there any tips you can pass on about the K5 i would love to hear from you.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-12-2012, 08:19 AM
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Try a little washing up liquind to help release it.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-12-2012, 07:49 AM
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Hi all I did join over a year ago but things have been so busy what with both my elderly parents passing away my Mother just last week that it has just been so hard to find time to myself.
When i joined i had hopes of by now owning a K-7 by now but instead have a MZ-7 to keep me busy. I intend to be a pest and pick some brains along the way as it has been nearly 28 years since i used a SLR.
After next week I am intending getting out and using my camera to the utmost so any hints and tips anybody can give me would be greatfully recieved.
I almost forgot I did have a pentax K1000 which by now i guess would be some where in Moroco as i gave it to a young Mustafa who was 8 years old but his passion for photography was so deep and he knew everything about the camera. The young lad was only over here to have a prostetic leg fitted after having been born with a underdeveloped leg.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-21-2011, 03:26 AM
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Ok, I would like you to imagine that all of the SLR cameras where to stop working all around the world and there was no repair possible as from today.
You do however get to change your SLR for a nice new Pentax DSLR at no extra cost (I told you it's hypothetical) and you where permitted one function or one feature from your SLR and put it on to the DSLR.
What would you choose?:confused:
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-18-2011, 08:49 AM
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I got into photography when i was 5 but it was the story behind the picture that captivated me. One picture that i remember was when my Dad was stationed in Kenya, Africa in 1946 his photograph had been taking after shooting a lion that had came into the camp and had attacked and injured two men. Both men had stitches and where in hospital for a couple of weeks.
My dad was photographed like the hunters of old with one foot on the kill. So for me it's the story and the memory that is held in a photograph.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
02-18-2011, 08:40 AM
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Well i never got my K7 but i did buy a K1000 as for the next couple of years i wanted to get right back to the grass roots of photography.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-18-2011, 08:37 AM
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Well that's new to me, you see i was passing a charity shop here in Scotland and decided to go in asking if they had any camera gear. A short time later on of the staff brought out a Carl Zeiss Jena DDR MC S 1:3.5f=135 in very good condition. I asked how much they would take for it and i was told £1.00 about $1 or so. Without any questions i offered to give them £10 but they said it was priced at a pound and would not take anything more for it. I am wanting to use it but i now need to source an M42 to Pentax K adapter for my k1000.
I don't know if you guys in other parts of the world have charity type shops or not but if you do you may just get a great bargain.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-18-2011, 08:21 AM
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As a rule all council owned spaces such as parks are public areas. If you have any doubt just go to the local council and ask them and even tell them what you are wanting to do. It would only be a jobs worth council who would refuse.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-18-2011, 02:18 AM
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Going back to when i was somewhat smaller and younger than i am today, in fact i was very small and young, to be exact i was 5 when i bought my first camera when on holiday in in 1972 visiting my brothers who where all stationed in parts of Germany. My Dad had a box brownie which i was not allowed to touch so of course i wanted a camera of my own.
Just along from my brothers house was a small corner shop that just happened to have a very cheap Halina 110 plus film for the price of 1 DM old German money which was only about 7 pence UK. I headed back to my Dad and asked him if i could buy the camera and he took me back to the shop and bought it for me along with some extra rolls of film.
I had fun for the rest of the holiday taking photographs and out of about 100 pictures 1 or 2 where ok the rest, well the less said the better.
I loved using that camera and i still had it in the mid 80's but what happened to it after that i don't know.
Now that i am all growed up i have a grups camera.:lol:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-15-2011, 02:35 AM
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I'm loving the answers coming back. Now i would like to ask another question.
When i use film for any type of photography and then have it developed i either have the negatives or the pictures in my hand granted there will be some that are not worth the paper they are printed on. I have seen myself looking back over the pictures that i have done 20-30 years ago and still enjoying them.
With the digital age of cameras i have uploaded many pictures printed only a handful and lost so many to cyber space, also last year my brand new computer decided when i was loading my pictures from my old computer to delete about 40% of my files losing many pictures that meant a lot to me. I let a computer whizz look to see if he could recover the files but they where gone even from the old computer.
Would i have had this problem with film?
Is it better to have the developed product in your hand or on a disk.
Is it better looking back over memories with a computer or film
Which do you honestly prefer.
I am still buying a Pentax K5 in a couple of years as i enjoy both mediums of photography so i'm really not bias.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-11-2011, 07:40 AM
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Sheesh that will take either some amount of time or money to develop that lot.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-11-2011, 07:05 AM
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Over the next couple of years i will be building up a collection of manual lenses so when i get my k5 i shall have the option to use both.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-11-2011, 06:49 AM
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I don't really, but what i do mean is that with a slr you are in my way of thinking a bit more hands on in deciding what film to load for the type of pictures i want to take. the fact that you can't see instantly what a picture will look like until it is developed. My Nikon D300 was a very forgiving camera and i found if my calculations where out it would correct me without any prompting if used in one of the auto modes. When a mistake is made with the SLR then you learn from that as you either have to go back and try again and hope for the same conditions as before, after all a roll of film costs money and you may have 36 shots only to get it right whereas the DSLR you can nearly fire off as many shots as your memory card can hold.
I also love the DSLR and in the next couple of years hope to have the new K5 to add to my collection.
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