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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-16-2011, 08:25 PM
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Dang, I used to have to have all my 35mm shots put on CD at the same time I had them developed, and I just went back to look at some of my best shots. The grain and overall noise is terrible! My K10D's photos are at least just as good, if not better! I don't know why I never noticed it before...
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-16-2011, 07:30 PM
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Yeah, I've been doing some searching around and am quickly learning the K10's strengths and weaknesses. Still though, I was shooting at 400. I expect grain at 800 and above (at least with 35mm), but with 400 I was expecting a little more clarity. I'll try to post the photos on the forum later, maybe I'm just being too critical. I never had any of my ISO 400 shots printed bigger than an 8 x 10, most of the time I went with 4x6 and 5x7 prints for albums.
As for the filters, I've always loved using a polarizer and was glad to see it still worked relatively the same with digital. I used to shoot a lot of B&W on 35mm so the red filter sounds like something I'd like to try some time. The Infrared filter sounds rather interesting too. Thanks for the insight.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-16-2011, 11:58 AM
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Hey guys, thanks for the encouragement! Yeah, it gets frustrating - having to learn all over again. The really difficult part is trying to determine whether it's a learning curve on the digital format or if I'm really that rusty. Otherwise, it feels good to be shooting again. I did notice that my wide-angle lenses aren't so wide now.
Do you guys happen to have any advice for taking photos in low lighting conditions? I like to do some band/concert photography occasionally and my photos have a lot of noise in them. Same with sunset shots outdoors. I'm getting some awesome shots, and they look good in the preview pane, but when I put them on the PC, they look really grainy. I'm shooting with an SMC-A f/1.7 with the sensitivity at 400, 10mp, RAW. For the sunset shots, I was shooting with the aperture closed a little bit to contrast the darks with the orange colors more drastically. Looks amazing on the preview pane, but when I pull it up on the computer, it looks ok at a smaller size (probably the equivalent of 5 x 7), but when I look at it in normal size it's really grainy looking. My wife wanted to use it as a wallpaper on her computer, but at full resolution it looks horrible. I tried correcting it with Adobe Lightroom to no avail, 'de-noising' it just made it look out of focus.
And, Rico, rant away! I'm interested in hearing what you have to say about filters! :lol:
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-13-2011, 05:41 PM
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I grew up in a family with semi-pro photographers and, naturally, inherited the interest. Tried learning how to shoot a bit in my early teens on my dad's K-1000. I really loved that camera but my sister borrowed then lens for her setup one time and returned it broke. Being a kid, never had the money to replace the lens and my interest in photography fell by the wayside. The K-1000 got stowed away somewhere and when I was 20 my interest was renewed so I purchased a used manual K-mount Vivitar v335 body on eBay, and then got some 28mm and 50mm lenses. The 50mm was my favorite for close shots and portraits, naturally, and the 28 was my favorite for scenery. I eventually got a NOS Vivitar 28-80mm macro lens on the bay and a bounce flash. The 28-80mm soon became my favorite lens for general shooting (except when I was going for something really artsy indoors or something, then I'd use the 50mm.)
Some things changed, time went by, my time for photography diminished and I started noticing some fungus in the viewfinder of my v335 and got a cheesey Kodak 7.1mp for snapshots and taking pictures to sell crap on eBay. I kept planning on digging out the K-1000 from my parent's storage shed since it was still practically new. But over time I began grabbing the Kodak more often than my v335 due to the fungus issue and I never had time to go rummage through to find the K-1000. I really hated the type of photos I got with the Kodak but made due with it up until recently. I found the K-1000 and wanted to start shooting again but I couldn't find any 35mm film in my hometown! Nor I could find anywhere to get it developed! That made me feel old...and I'm just approaching 30. So I decided to take the dive and go for a DSLR, and of course it had to be a Pentax (or at least a cousin, like my v335.)
So my wife bought me a used K10D in very good condition. I love using it manual mode but I am also getting used to using it in the programmed mode as well. But, wow, I didn't realized how rusty I've become. I haven't shot with a "real camera" in years. I used to have a very good eye for this stuff, but now I can't seem to focus my shots as sharp and I'm terrible at estimating my aperture for artistic shots. And using the bounce flash? Forget it...I'm white-washing all my photos, and the built-in flash is ten times worse.
So I figured I better join the forum and see if I can re-learn some stuff. It might just take some getting used to the world of Digital SLR too. I didn't think it would be so difficult. "It's just like shooting with a 35mm, only digital, right?" Boy, was I wrong!
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