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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
06-03-2014, 04:12 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo because it seems to capture a mood: awesomeness happening in the fellows brain. "I'm wearing a yellow moosetache! This is awesome."
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
08-01-2013, 02:51 AM
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I certainly didn't much like the D7100 either when I picked one up and prefer my K-5. But I don't have a 645D either so I like my two D800E a lot thank you very much. I am looking forward to seeing what the 645D MKII brings to the table but I doubt I could afford to change up..
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
07-29-2013, 02:35 PM
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jppp, I know exactly how you feel. Did you use AF-C and use the AF button on the back? I generally disable AF on my shutter release button (AF on back button) and anti shake for sports pictures and also stick to the centre AF point. It's not really using the system but I've found it works better. I also got the impression that my K-5 is quicker in AF-S mode. Occasionally I focus in AF-S (with focus priority) and rattle of a few shots which are normally in focus. Again, a way around a fairly slow and basic AF-C system compared to the competition. My K-5 with Sigma 18-200 mm was outperformed by a Canon EOS 20D with 70-200mm/f4 lens recently :o but then Canon doesn't use the camera body to move the lens. I used a Nikon D7100 with a 18-105 mm lens however, and that was much slower than my K-5 with the kit lens.
Sometimes it is frustrating but using the AF button on the back helps a lot I find. I recently went to an airshow and the weather was rubbish so I wasn't expecting much (it's not technically sports I know but still fast moving). But looking at my pics at home made me realise that my "old" K-5 can take some lovely (in focus) pictures (with only a handful out of 700 not in focus) and it's still the photographer who decides. Although it might be just that little bit harder than it should be, using a Pentax ....;)
I've attached a few pics from the day. Shot with fungus infected (and in dire need of cleaning) Sigma 400mm f5.6 APO Macro Tele AF. Will wait and see what Pentax brings out next and take it from there ....... apart from trying to have the lens cleaned ...... ;-)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
07-26-2013, 02:06 PM
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Thank God I switched to D800. I don't have to get so much excited any more... Nevertheless, I still have K-01 which I consider one of the most underestimated cameras in the world. Together with old K/M series it works wonders ;-)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-10-2013, 07:43 AM
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Party time in old town...:)
Pentax 645D with 2.8/55mm
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-29-2013, 11:13 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-27-2013, 10:53 PM
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Very atmospheric pictures esp. the second. A Hassi (501C) was my first medium format camera which accompanied me for many many years:)
Here's a picture taken with my actual medium format camera: Pentax 645D with 2.8/90mm MACRO. Stein am Rhein, a small picturesque village in Switzerland, near the border to Germany.
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Forum: Pentax K-01
05-05-2013, 10:30 PM
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With Phenix 50mm f1.7
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
10-04-2012, 01:30 AM
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I'm just as happy with my 645D;)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-18-2012, 11:00 AM
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Having purchased and used the Pentax K7 and K5, Nikon D3X and the Canon 5D Mark 2(and played with the Nikon 3200 - a co-workers camera) here is our take: we had the D3x for around 3yrs,and the Canon for less than 1yr. If we look at the prints made to 20x30 or smaller we could not tell the difference from the D3X and the K5, and we are both very fussy. The D3X does allow more cropping, and that is really helpful. The Canon was an also ran: the shadows have weird pattern noise as well as a lot of chroma noise, and pictures of the 5D3 show it still has that. Also the 5D2 could not AF it's way out of a paper bag with the 1st years firmware, which I heard got better with the 2x firmware; but it was really awful and killed that system for us when considered with the pattern noise. The K5 has an incredible sensor, every bit the equal of the D3X one except for the MP count, and even if DXO says the D3X has better lower noise at high iso's I still do not see that. Now if you compare the Nikon 3200 sensor to the one in the K5 it may have a higher MP count, but has a lot more noise esp. starting at 3200 and above, IMHO not in the same league at all. I rather have the lower noise for churches and museums than the higher MP count, so I can see why Pentax kept the sensor MP the same in the K52. And sensor technology does march ahead: The K52 may have an improved sensor(albeit marginally) over the K5's. Someone on here was talking about the Nikon D3X sensor as being the same as the Sony Alpha 900 - that is completely false as I have used both cameras. The Nikon sensor was/is made by Sony, but was much better. Having owned the Nikon 24-70 2.8 lens, one of the fastest focussing lenses in the Nikon line, I say again that in good light the K5 does focus faster many times over the Nikon. Where if falls down in in low light, and I hope the K52 fixes that. For weddings, the Nikon just kills the K5: Nikon's firmware allows the camera to just about always find the bride or grooms eye and make that the sharpest part of the picture, when using the 51 point auto AF; you have to see it to believe it. Canon does not do that either. But on medium to distance AF, the K5 is often better at precision with fast glass. I can live with 11 AF points, if Pentax delivered on the low light part and it hunts less. We changed from the FF nikon because of having to carry all of those huge f2.8 zooms with the D3 size/weight body; Karen could not physically shoot with the thing. With the D600 Nikon that could change, but we like our current glass on the Pentax, and it's 7fps on the K5(the K7 is used as a car camera, so we always have one). Anyway, others will think different, and as we do not shoot sports I cannot comment on that, Now, will someone please post about how the new K52 AF works compared to the K5????
David
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
08-19-2012, 06:14 AM
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where is the "pre-order button"
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
05-22-2012, 12:26 PM
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I took this picture last Sunday at a synchronized swimming practice. NO CASE, just prefocus and dipped the camera into the water and took some shots.
Pentax K-5, DA* 16-50, ISO800, F5.6, 1/1000
I did find it difficult to get a good edit. Weather was a little gray so there wasn't much sun. Any tips appreciated
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