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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-24-2012, 09:26 AM
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I'll jump in to say that all the images are not out of focus, but blurry due to a combination of camera and subject movement. You can reduce the camera movement problem if you have for any reason turned shake reduction off by turning it on. If it is on, you need to half press the shutter button long enough for the shake reduction to boot up. It's about 1/2 second most of the time. Here are a couple of things you might try, but with the kit lens, you are never going to get really good shots because the lens is so slow.
- Set the camera to use only the centre autofocus point. The bench is a bit sharper than the players.
- Set your autofocus to AF.C rather than AF.S so you can hold the half press on the shutter button without locking focus and enable SR.
- Make sure you press the shutter release gently. Many of us, in the heat of the moment, stab the button, moving the camera.
- Follow through. Wait until you see the mirror drop back into positionbefore taking the camera away from your eye.
As the others have said, though, with that (lack of) light you are beyond the capabilities of your current equipment.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-23-2023, 08:30 AM
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A spring herd of female elk near Sparwood, BC. This field is on the East side of Highway 43 perhaps 1 km North of Highway 3 on Highway 43 which runs from Sparwood to Elkford, British Columbia, Canada, a few miles West of the Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains. The herd is common in the early spring days as they fatten up for the summer.
K-3, DA 55-300 ED ISO 250, 1/320 @ f/11, 170 mm. DNG image cropped and adjusted in Lightroom Classic. Green (Grandma) program.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-24-2011, 08:21 AM
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What a great topic! Here's one I took some years back when a cloud of Least Skippers made it to our home which is on the extreme North edge of their range.
K10D, M 100/4 "dental" macro
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-25-2023, 04:56 PM
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I rented one of those with the factory grill in Calgary, Alberta for a Christmas visit to a delightful RN posted to Calgary Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps detachment in December 1964. It was the same colour, even.
We met in the Canadian Forces Medical Services Training Centre, Camp Borden, Ontario earlier in the year, where I had the interesting (:fedup:) job of teaching first aid to doctors. She had just completed her crash course in English and as I was bilingual refused to speak to me except in Français. To use her words, I promoted her to the kitchen July 24, 1965 in the RC Chapel, Camp Borden. She's upstairs working on a cross stitch panel as I type this.
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Forum: General Talk
01-21-2023, 09:22 AM
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I don't think so: I think you just pay attention to your vehicles and do the necessary maintenance. I'm over 384,500 Km (114,600 miles) and have had a "won't start" twice -- when I didn't close the driver's door all the way and drained the battery over night. I cannot blame Mr. Toyota for that problem!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-06-2023, 12:39 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-17-2022, 03:28 PM
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Brrrrrrrr
It is just like that outside at the moment.
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Forum: General Talk
12-06-2022, 01:30 PM
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I just received my new shipment of B&L contact lenses. I have had cataracts removed, and so my new in-the-eye lenses have no focusing system, as the old lenses supplied by nature had. That means that I need reading glasses or similar to pull out of my pocket when I want to read a dial on my K-3 or read the fine print on a prescription.
B&L PureVision Multi Focal lenses with ADD HIGH. They are multifocal contacts, (soft of course; I have no need to scratch my corneas). The Rx is 0 correction as the lenses inserted with the cataract surgery take care of distance viewing, but ADD HIGH for closeup work. The max closeup ability is 2.5 diopters. Basically there are overlaid rings of +1.25 and +2.5 diopters and after a short period of adjustment (minutes) the brain seems to use the necessary corrected images and ignores the other two out of focus images.
The advantages are multiple in the Rocky Mountains. They don't fog up when I enter the house in the winter. I don't lose them all over the house like my readers. Unlike varifocal spectacles, I get the close up correction throughout the entire field of vision. Fine print above me is as easy to read as below. I can use normal ski goggles for protection against blowing snow.
They work for me, but might just as well be wrong for you, but I thought I would just tell you my 82 year old's solution to reading glasses.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-27-2022, 01:40 PM
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Too bad the Getty Images covers part of it, but I do understand the need for putting it there.
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Forum: General Talk
10-24-2022, 09:23 PM
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It is worse as you get into locations with cold winter weather. There is a double whammy between using more electricity to keep windshields clear and drivers from freezing, not to mention the loss of efficiency when battery temperatures drop below freezing. They are hopelessly impractical where I live. We are experiencing freezing temperatures overnight already this year.
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Forum: General Talk
08-12-2022, 01:51 PM
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I refuse to drive any vehicle where I have to push a button on a screen to turn the defrosters on.
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Forum: General Talk
08-12-2022, 08:22 AM
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I'm with you Racer. What I don't understand is how ANYONE can climb into a vehicle other than their own usual driver and don't check out where all the switches and such are. I consider it to be a given than I am going to need the light switch or heater control (or A/C) or defrosters or .... I have a friend who is a member of the RCMP and invited him to keep me company on a trip to Lethbridge. On the way back I felt less than optimum (not unusual at 82) and asked him to drive the rest of the way home. He touched everything before pulling out of the turnout. And he had driven the same model and make before.
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Forum: General Talk
10-10-2022, 05:21 PM
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I remember one model of Chevrolet where the #8 spark plug could not be changed without either removing the engine or cutting a hole in the fender.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
08-02-2022, 09:32 AM
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The mirrorless cameras do not interest me in the slightest. Trying to compose on the equivalent of a phone screen is a losing proposition, not to mention that holding the camera "way out there" and keeping it steady is another problem. The K3 III is very interesting to me (K3 owner), but for the price of the K3 III is unfortunately for me about the same expense I need to replace the worn out tires on my Tundra before winter.
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Forum: General Talk
10-07-2022, 02:10 PM
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Those of us who live North of the 49th (and 60th) parallels see many problems with EV for power. As the temperature drops below 32º F/ 0ºC and stays there, we have to add defrosters to the power draw along with heaters. Battery efficiency drops rapidly below freezing. I'll keep my old Tundra, thanks very much. I "recharge" it in minutes at the petrol pump and can do several hundred Km on each tank fill. I'm still not certain that spending thousands of dollars to buy an EV with the environmental impact off battery production is a net gain to the ecology.
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Forum: General Talk
10-01-2022, 01:54 PM
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I first saw an M*300/4 in Jasper at a photo shop. I walked into it and the man saw me carrying my KX and almost grabbed me to show off his new M*300 and the LX it was destined for. I left a trail of drool on the floor on the way out ...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-30-2022, 06:15 PM
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A phone shot by my daughter about 20 years ago, entitled "The Bums" My bum (my best side) is on your left ... the other one is my "much older twin brother" born two days before me (and 3000 miles away) in Minnesota, USA. I was born on the West coast of Canada two days after he came out.
The image appeared as I just sold a piece of music Johathan (on your right) gave me that we were playing from: Cundick's Three Duets for Organ. The apartment is on the 15th floor of Presidential Tower 3 in Chicago circa 2001. The similarity of costume was pure happenstance. The music arrived in the UK, 20 miles from Birmingham yesterday.
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Forum: General Talk
09-12-2022, 06:40 PM
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A new vacuum cleaner to replace the one where all the plastic parts broke, including the handle, while I was vacuuming yesterday. ~Cdn $ 250
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-09-2022, 04:11 PM
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Forum: General Talk
08-19-2022, 03:30 PM
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We babysat a friends' house while they were away, and ate all the ripe tomatoes from their greenhouse while we did. They surprised us with these as a gift today as a thank you. Quite colourful, they are.
K-3 and DA* 16-50. EXIF in the images.
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Forum: General Talk
08-12-2022, 08:55 PM
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Oh, just great. Now someone says "I'm too hot" and the heater turns off. Whoopee. I think I'll keep the old truck -- When Claire wants to adjust the temperature she just reaches over and does it. 345,000 Km give or take and it still starts right away -- except when the temp is in the mid 30's C (80+ F). Then it takes two shots because of all the $%R^ ethanol in the manifolds.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-08-2022, 10:47 PM
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I cannot resist posting this. It's a 1073x713 crop from K-3 and DA 55-300 ED with the original resolution at the K-3 normal of 6000x4000. Hand held. The lighting under the tree above the bath is never the greatest, but the birds like the location. I took a bunch (nothing new there!) but the expression this little one had is priceless.
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Forum: General Talk
08-12-2022, 09:38 AM
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I brought a 1958 Mercedes 220S back from Europe when I left the forces. Nobody seemed to be able to get the turn signals to work. The stalk on the left of the steering wheel was the "flash to pash" signal. Turn signals were activated by turning the horn ring. That, BTW, was the most convenient arrangement I have ever had.
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Forum: General Talk
08-08-2022, 01:48 PM
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Reluctantly, but with really no other options for the way I handle my photos, Resubscribed to Lightroom Classic. Cdn$15 a month won't kill me, but nothing else could possibly resurrect all my old photos complete with all the corrections I have made over the many years I have used LR and PS.
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Forum: General Talk
08-01-2022, 10:21 AM
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They do, however, require one to remove them from the pocket and recharge them frequently. A wristwatch is simple: glance at wrist. (Set it with the phone time to ensure reasonable accuracy). One of my two wristwatches is waterproof and battery operated. I don't like the digital display all that much, but since it's good to some insane depth of water it's a lot more useful camping than the iPhone that I leave in the trailer because it is, relatively speaking, fragile.
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