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Forum: Sold Items
07-25-2022, 08:15 AM
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You need to mark it as sold. Only the seller can do that.
Look to the right under "Seller Tools".
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-14-2022, 12:17 PM
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I'll second that. The rear gel filters are cheap and work great. (filters on the rear do not need to phase flat over a large region).
And on a long exposure photograph, who needs auto focus? (the Irix is manual focus).
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-14-2022, 03:40 AM
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As an Icelander this is something that I find to be funny. We joke that we get four types of in a day but all of those weathers are mild.
The weather in Iceland is typically mild. Not too hot, not too cold. Not too much sun and not too much rain. Maybe a little bit too windy but not a storm. That is on a typical day.
There are of course storms that happen, those will be known many days in advance. Most of these occur in September to April. Summer weather is rather predictable.
These are not random events that happen out of the blue. Mild sprays maybe. Heavy rainstorms no.
Just check the Iceland Met office website while you are here Home-page - Icelandic Meteorological Office | Icelandic Meteorological office.
I am sure there is a Faroese equivalent.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-13-2022, 05:12 PM
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Blowing water and horizintal waterfalls may be hard. I dont do stitching so I can not really comment.
Perpare for strong winds. And have good footwear.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-12-2022, 10:34 AM
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Not heavy rain often more like every mists. I was in both last fall. In the Fareos you do need a wide angle lens much more than a long one.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-12-2022, 08:57 AM
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Given the fact that weather resistance isn’t covered by warranty… I’d probably do both.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-11-2022, 11:45 AM
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You might consider picking up an Irix 15mm Blackstone which is full frame, water resistant, and can take either screw-on front filters or gel ND filters at the rear.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-11-2022, 11:00 AM
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Also keep in mind you can do composite frame averaging to get the effect of ND filters (without the need for one) in some situations. Such as shooting long exposures of waterfalls in bright sunlight, for instance.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-15-2021, 12:50 AM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-14-2021, 08:58 AM
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but you do talk like someone who uses film.
I occasionally get out my old film camera, but not very often, because I always produce pictures just like the ones you end up with by degrading your digital images.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-13-2021, 07:14 PM
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Thanks barondla.
Thanks hadi, I only use ND filter 10+3 stops double stacked for long exposure, the rest is post processing.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-12-2021, 03:43 PM
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Forum: General Talk
05-12-2021, 08:47 AM
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I don't think you're in the minority on liking the characters first in the SH books. Holmes and Watson, their quirks and their relationship, are what makes the stories so good. The detective work is fun (especially Holmes's disguises and the pliability he had with different classes of people, and his capricious ways of dealing with his suspects) but the character is obviously the star of the show. Doyle definitely sort of set the characters from the beginning, so the idea of character development is hard, especially with Holmes. But when I think about quirky detective characters in fiction, there usually isn't much character development. The authors feel the need to follow the recipe that works, and you can't change much about the pivotal personality. With Watson, I feel like Doyle did in fact create some character development, intending to end the series, but when he buckled to the pressure to pick the stories back up and put out more books, Watson's character kind of got subsumed to the needs of the story writing.
I think most of us just want more... I've read the stories enough times that I just wish there were more, with differnet insights into the characters's lives.
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Forum: General Talk
05-11-2021, 08:55 AM
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Yeah, Dickens was definitely Victorian, pre-modernist. I could never get into him, his style is just not that enjoyable to me. It's not a reading comprehension level, I'm currently reading Plutarch (though in English). Hahah. But for Victorian authors A. Conan Doyle is my favorite by far, the Sherlock Holmes books are perennial favorites, and many of his other novels, like The White Company and The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, not to mention his The Lost World books, are fantastic. The Victorian era was the high point of adventure fiction for sure.
Modernist authors were part of a general movement into what I would call a perfecting of mechanics, they were very self-aware when it came to the way they wrote, they were often disillusioned with some of the happenings of the world and shedding "old ways" and scrutinizing Humanism in a more rational way. Some find it tiresome or bleak, and sometimes a bit self-obsessed. I can find it that way some of the time, and can't read modernist literature nonstop without a break for something more agreeable. Hemingway needs to be appreciated almost like poetry, his "simple" style is a study in turning brevity into its own art form.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-10-2021, 06:12 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-10-2021, 06:48 PM
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In a plane at about 2500 feet, shooting down.
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Forum: General Talk
05-06-2021, 04:26 PM
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Yes, it is a Dean Acoustic Bass Guitar
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-06-2021, 10:42 AM
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FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax DA* 55mm F1.4 SDM
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Forum: General Talk
05-06-2021, 05:51 AM
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I grew up wanting to be an architect. The drafting, creativity, and structural challenges appealed to me from quite a young age.
As my education advanced, and I realised I was in the top few in my peer group, I actively rejected medicine as that was the sort of thing "my sort" was expected to do. Yes, I was always contrary ;)
When my big brother got into medicine, I saw his lecture notes and found it fascinating. I poured through his text books and was hooked. So early in my final year of high school I changed tack. At that stage, the fact that my paternal grandfather and paternal uncle were both doctors was completely lost on me.
None of this meant I was to be a particularly good student at medical school. I played a lot football, took (and processed) a lot of photographs for my university newspaper, discovered the opposite sex, failed a year, deferred a year, and graduated in the middle of my class.
I was spat out of the system with no real idea what branch of medicine I would pursue. Although I enjoyed everything I did as an intern and resident medical officer, it was not until I did a spell in anaesthesia that I really felt at home.
So there we are. Thirty years later I have zero regrets.
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Forum: General Photography
05-04-2021, 04:40 PM
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Yes definitely Red Red Wine should work just fine 😁
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
01-12-2021, 03:32 PM
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I'm shooting all month with the A 100 ƒ4.0 Macro - its only a 1:2 reproduction, but it makes a razor sharp portrait lens
Low key image means stopped down... ƒ11 is painful
 Old glass full sized by Matt, on Flickr
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Forum: General Talk
04-29-2021, 02:08 PM
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I recently bought some shoes from a drug dealer.
I'm not sure what he's laced them with, but I've been tripping all day.
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Forum: General Talk
04-29-2021, 10:27 PM
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Working 40 hours a week ( not a desk job), plus hiking and shooting has helped. Upper body work out is handholding Pentax 645Z. I've actually lost a little weight vs pre covid. Getting out in nature with the camera and listening to music on highend stereo keeps me sane.
Thanks,
barondla
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Forum: General Talk
04-29-2021, 04:32 AM
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In particular, the AWD is relevant to anyone living in a country with serious winter, like what we get in Quebec city :)
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Forum: General Talk
04-28-2021, 07:27 AM
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Interesting forum post.
I am probably in the majority here where I have not been able yet to enter a career of passion. I am only 26, and after college took a sales job for a company a family member worked for already. Perks, I got to train in Dallas, Texas. Never had been to Texas and got to live in the Mid Cities for 8 months which was a cool experience (work related tasks excluded).
Then after training got assigned to an office in Denver, Colorado which was absolutely incredible. Colorado was one of the most beautiful states I have ever lived in. But alas, I despised my profession. The beauty of the natural environment of Colorado did not help. Seeing such amazing places made me reconsider my choices and confused as to how I could spend all my days in an office when the world is full of such splendor. Seemed like a life wasted.
I then, like a good amount of people my age, yearned for escape. Applied for and got accepted to teach English in Thailand. Taught there for under a year, then travelled SE Asia through various countries and ended up living in Vietnam for about 5 months. That over a year period is probably the most fulfilling of my lifetime. But, then my bank account balance began to dwindle and also the big pandy, COVID hit. It was time to go home.
Upon arriving in the States, the only money making opportunity afforded to me was to work labor for a big construction company. I enjoyed the time spent outside, the manual labor was my exercise and when I clocked out, I clocked out. Did not have to worry about work. It's now over a year later, I was "promoted" back in October to more of a clerical position, but still requiring most of my work to be on-site. I make less money then I was as a laborer and am currently pushing 80+ hours a weeks with only about half of Sunday as free-time.
All that to say many people just work because they have to. I am constantly trying to come up with alternative avenues of money collecting, as this is not the life I desire. One day I hope I find my calling or at least a way to cover my costs of living by utilizing some yet to be seen skills and/or talents.
Long story short, have yet to get into my "career of choice" but simply my career of circumstance.
Thanks for reading!
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