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Forum: Lens Clubs 09-27-2014, 06:54 AM  
The 15mm Limited controls my mind - club
Posted By wtlwdwgn
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 05-07-2011, 09:22 AM  
Pentax DA 18-135 or limited primes?
Posted By dmort
Replies: 53
Views: 12,863
Don't ditch the prime, as mentioned earlier, having the primes will force you to become a better photographer as they will make you think about having to move around to create better compositions. I have the 21mm and 43mm primes and the 18-135... They are different tools for different situations. I like the 18-135 and it is super convenient and it is weather sealed (which is nice when you are on a trip and you aren't sure what will happen with the weather) but I prefer using the two primes. They are just so fun to use. An added benefit is when using the primes, you get to laugh at the Canikon crowd with their giant heavy lenses. I do this regularly at the Bronx Zoo.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 10-01-2014, 08:09 PM  
Traveling to Europe. Lens ideas?
Posted By steve1307
Replies: 65
Views: 7,636
If you are travelling with family, or primarily for a family vacation rather than just photography then less lenses is better.
This depends on how patient you family is of course. Less stuff is lighter carry around too

Having said that I think that something wider than your 18-55 is essential for typical European towns and cities. My admittedly biased recommendation is the magic DA15.

Out in the countryside with landscape an UWA fits all of the view in but this perspective also diminishes the impact of distant subjects, like those spectacular mountains in the horizon etc., so it's not always the first choice for landscapes.

Your 35 /2.4 would be handy for indoors , low light and it's small and weighs practically nothing so I'd put that in.

I think the 50-135 might be less useful for just scenery but lovely for family holiday potraits and for the zoo as you said. Weathersealed for the German winter conditions.



I just had a few weeks in London, UK countyside & Paris on family vacation.

I took DA15, FA31 and 18-135 (also a Sigma 8-16 last minute inclusion but i didnt carry it around every day)

We had really, really nice weather so these were mostly outdoors, and some places we went (castles/palaces etc) didn't allow photo inside :(


from a couple of thousand shots
18-135 was 57%
DA15 was 27%
FA31 was 14%
8-16 was 2% I only took it out once for some night shooting in Paris.

Very often i felt that the 18-135 just was not wide enough and most of my 18-135 were taken in the 18- 85 range and a handful at 135mm

What would have been ideal would be a nice weathersealed, silent focussing, DA 16-85 lens with decent IQ. I wonder where we could find on of those.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 10-02-2014, 05:39 AM  
Traveling to Europe. Lens ideas?
Posted By DeadJohn
Replies: 65
Views: 7,636
I think the above quotes summarize your needs. You want a single lens that can do a bit of everything; I'll constrain the options below to a maximum of 2 lenses for your trip. You didn't specifically mention weather-resistance but I think that's important for travel, so I'll add that as a requirement. Most of your subjects need wide to medium focal lengths. Zoos need a bit of telephoto, but I don't know how many outdoor zoo exhibits will be open in Germany during the winter and you might be able to ignore telephoto images.

Is your 18-55 a weather resistant version? If yes, bring that. Make lens #2 for DA35 for image quality, or if you feel like buying a new lens get the DA15 or DA21 for wide image quality. If you want to cover the zoo, bring the 50-135 as lens #2 but then you're emphasizing zoom shooting rather than cities. (and bringing 3 lenses is too many)

Or buy the 18-135 for weather resistance, more zoom range, and better quality than the 18-55.

Or buy the DA* 16-50. Prices are high but Christmas gives you enough time to wait for Black Friday sales. Some reviewers knock the 16-50 as being unsharp but I think it's reasonably sharp just not as sharp as a prime lens. I love having the extra 2mm on the wide end. There's a significant difference between 16mm and 18mm indoors. Bring your 50-135 for the zoo.
Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II 04-03-2012, 04:21 AM  
I swear these things are indestructible.
Posted By Schraubstock
Replies: 72
Views: 14,396
Hi

Earlier this year, I photographed the annual Couta Boat race off Sorrento Victoria Australia. Together with camera men and women from Australian News Papers. I was on a small motorboat taking pictures of celebrities who participated in the race. It was only a small boat and there wasn't a lot of room on board. A woman reporter with her camera found herself sitting on the foredeck. I was aft in the open. As we darted from boat to boat to take pictures at one stage we were heading into the wind which resulted in some sea spray hitting us full on. When this happened the lady photographer up front quickly scrambled to cover her camera with a beach towel and everybody else ran for cover. Except yours truly carried on shooting with the K-5. I got some dirty looks from my fellow photographers with a stern reminder I should take better care of my gear. I normally would not do this but I couldn't help it, I ceremoniously poured a bit of water from my drink bottle over my cam with the remarks, "only get a bit of this salt water off". The looks on every bodies faces was priceless. :lol:

I took a pic of the lady photographer as she sat anxiously covering her expensive gear with the towel. (Taken through the windscreen of the boat).

Greetings

P.S. The guy with the raised hand in the photo below is John Bertrand who took the America's Cup Mug off the Americans in 1983.

Couta Boat: Couta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 12-28-2012, 03:16 AM  
Disappointing results
Posted By interested_observer
Replies: 58
Views: 6,900
Personally, I like ambient low light photography - essentially, what you are doing here. You want to do 3 things.
  • The shutter speed is always going to be long, so you need to hold the camera still, setting it on something as you are doing is perfect or a tripod. You have that down.

  • With the camera sitting solid - use the lowest ISO available, in this case the K110 will go down to 200 - but its a very good 200. In this last set you are using 800, which came out very clean, no (or very little) noise. Noise is the appearance of a grainy or sandy look to the image, especially in the shadows.

  • Then aperture - or f stop. You are probably using the kit lens, and you went for f3.5 which stands to reason, as it lets in the most light possible. However, the lens is "wide open" ( i.e. the aperture which is the variable sized hole that lets in a measured amount of light). The aperture is very important as it controls the "sharpness" of the picture. If you close the aperture down to say f8, you will get a better, more sharper image. It varies from lens to lens, the sweet spot for the kit lens is about f8. This is where you get the optimal resolution (center, boarders and corners). Aperture also controls the depth of field (DoF), which is the "thickness" or width of the area that is in focus. When its wide open (f3.5) it is at its thinnest, at the other end of the range its thickness (f22). However beyond f11 to about f16, a little aspect of optics called diffusion starts up, where the individual pixels start to "bloom" or get fat, and thus you start to loose sharpness. So, that is why f8 is usually the best place to be. If its not perfect, it is very close.

You are doing very well...


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