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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-10-2012, 01:58 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-03-2010, 11:02 PM
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Went out for a surf mission with a few friends. Meant to have been large surf at Hickery bay today, and it was for sure. I'm not much of a surfer yet but took my chances for a several hours, then got out and snapped a few shots with the K20D + Tak 300 F4 preset (surf was declining lots by that point though) :o
Started to rain ~10mins after I started so short timeframe really. Fairly soft shots too (a long way from the actual surfers so shots are cropped)
Enjoy - I did :D
*P.S. I really enjoyed the pentaxian video of Mark Dimalanta seen here: http://www.pentaxian.com/#pentaxians/inspirationalist/mark_dimalanta *
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-01-2017, 10:32 PM
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Hi guys,I've made the trip twice in the last few months to go hiking at Arthurs Pass. The views are pretty hard to beat, although my legs feel like they've been attacked by a baseball bat :lol:
Bealey Spur
^^ This is fairly gentle going, working up a ridge towards historic high country sheep farming operation, although no longer in operation one of the original mustering huts is still there for people to stay in.
The person in the photo is my father. The central most valley in the image leads through to Arthurs Pass, one of the key passes through the alps between east and west coast. The braided river gravels show the confluence of the Waimakariri River (leftmost) and the Bealey River (central), glacial and snow melt feed these - they flow out the right side of the image to drain into the sea near my city of Christchurch. :)
^^ Looking towards the source of the Waimakariri, the light catches the river braids quite strongly against the gravel flats.
I returned a few days ago to walk up Mount Bealey. This is a more challenging walk as it turned out :lol: the incline is pretty steep with the first 2km of trail gaining 600m altitude. From above the bushline it's a self-guided affair along the gravel and rock ridgelines to the peak @ ~1820m alt.
Little Mount Bealey
^^ Click image for 360 interactive Pano. A short amount below the actual peak of Mount Bealey. Arthurs Pass township is in the valley with the river on the right side of shot.
Arthurs Pass looking toward Otira & west coast
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^^ Shot @ 135mm reminiscent of the river contrast, this time a river of tarmac haha.
Mount Bealey Summit
^^ Click for 360 interactive Pano Apologies on the view crop, i didn't have a tripod so this was using the summit rock cairn as substitute. & attempting to get into shot for perspective haha :p
The river visible is the Waimak again however from the opposite side as compared with the Bealey Spur panoramic.
Cheers :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-16-2016, 02:16 AM
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Thought you guys might appreciate some shots from the racing down at Cromwell from last weekend. Mostly used my 70-200 for the cars, tried the 50-500mm for some & 18-135 also.
I've got lots more to go through, an awesome weekend. :)
Nissan GT Academy GTR, stacked on Friday before the racing.
This was the least of it I think, didn't end up competing. :eek: :confused:
Mad Mike RX7 Smoke Machine
Australian GT's
SLS AMG GT3 - pretty sexy engine note on this! :cool:
One of two Aventador's being displayed
And the $$ Vulcan (1 of 24 worldwide) turned a wheel during lunch break .. Pretty sleek machine!
Cheers
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-16-2016, 02:48 AM
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On my return from the Highlands 101, we took a detour to Mt Cook National Park. Amazing landscape, and the weather held up just about right considering it was pouring rain down the other end of Lake Pukaki when we turned off the highway. I'll definitely be back!
Driving towards the village was amazing in itself
A quick trip to the Tasman Glacier, right next to the Mount Cook Village. This Glacier is retreating at 500 to 800m per year (face of glacier is in distance, left end of lake), the glacial lake is 7km long x 200m deep so quite a lot of melted ice in that! :eek: In the 1970s there was no lake apparently, so it's rather rapidly declining. :( The gravel sides show the thickness and size of the glacier in the past. The blue colour is naturally occurring as part of the suspended material in the water.
And one at Hooker Valley, on the way to the lookout for Mount Cook - we were running short on time so I wasn't able to go the full distance on this trip :( next time for sure - the view was beautiful either way!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-30-2016, 10:56 PM
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Hey guys, over the last week or so i've had some time to go venture up into ranges near my city. Here are some photos I hope you enjoy - my legs took a bit of suffering getting them :lol:
Mount Richardson
Mount Thomas :D
Cheers guys, love the scenery out my back door long may it stay this way! :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-01-2016, 09:25 PM
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Travelled down again for this amazing airshow, this time with couple of friends who hadn't been before. I'd purchased a 1st gen Bigma ~6months ago and never really had the time to put it to use, so this was a trial by fire. :lol:
Hope you enjoy :)
Harvards out doing their thing
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
UK based Messerschmitt Bf 109 which featured in the 1968 film "Battle of Britain" and the 2008 movie "Valkyrie"
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
C-130 Herc deploying flares
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Jurgis Kairys giving his Sikhoy a pasting
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
A Hawaii based C17 Globemaster III dropped by a for a visit too :)
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Of course no show is complete without the Supermarine Spitfire :D
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Yak-3 gave a mighty good account of itself also
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Dove Of Peace P-51
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
A rather angry P-40 Warhawk
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
RAAF with some Hawk 127 jet trainers
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
A portly Avenger
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Even the odd Whirlybird
Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Cheers guys :)
Oh and a clear night while away allowed me a nice single shot without the light pollution of a city, unfortunately it was cloudy a good deal of the time and the moon was full after about 10pm. 20Sec @ 200mm F3.2 with the o-gps1.
Eta Carinae Nebula
Astro by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-30-2015, 07:31 PM
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Passed our city airport on my way home on a particularly misty night, and decided it was worthy of grabbing my gear and going back out. Standing my SUV roof + tripod to clear the security fence in some of these :lol: Was good fun, but really bitterly cold.
Airport Nightscape by Dafydd Williams
This was shot shortly before the security guys did a driveby on me, a C17 Globemaster as part of the US Antarctic Program. :lol:
Airport Nightscape by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
A new business park is being created, and before it fills up you can get some pretty cool negative space images.
Airport Nightscape by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr
Cheers :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-29-2013, 05:28 PM
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I went out for some Astro stuff, since i've recently acquired a 10-20mm. Little did I know that an Aurora was going on :D Anyhow this is a three shot stitched, some NR applied.
Shot with the K-30 http://www.adorama.com/IPXK30BK3.html
Milky Way & Aurora by Dafydd359, on Flickr
And one of the Orion Nebula, Sigma 70-200 EX and the very cool O-GPS1 astrotracer function :) Just a single exposure, i'm sure better could be achieved with stacking
Orion Nebula by Dafydd359, on Flickr
Thanks for looking :D I have a timelapse of the Aurora i'll probably link in a while.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-20-2015, 03:25 AM
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Tremendous, really awesome atmosphere :) You've done the subject well!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2015, 04:31 AM
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Extremely dusty conditions for the 2nd round of the national series, in my city. I'm very glad for WR lens, it seemed to keep the dust at bay and the camera operated fine (I even rinsed the lot afterwards).
Hope you enjoy a select few from a rather action packed corner :)
A mutual brownpants moment I think! :lol: - He should be going to my right (his left) of the tree dominating the right of the shot - not straight at it/me!
Some sense of the impossibly steep loose surface :eek:
Backing it in, great control :)
I thought for all money this woman was about to crash, bucked hard pointing completely the wrong direction pushed right over her bars - I think she probably did too! :lol:
But no! In a great feat of skill she reeled it in, turned inside the tape and kept it flowing somehow. More skill in a finger than i've got in me body :confused:
Getting it all wrong! :asleep:
  
At least all his dust made for a nice atmospheric shot, I doubt he shared my sentiments however :lol:
A final parting shot
I have plenty more, but I think this is representative enough. The 18-135mm was amazing once again, really neat wee lens. The lighting was actually quite dim, but nothing some noise reduction couldn't handle on the RAW's
Cheers
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-24-2013, 03:01 PM
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Took that over Christchurch with the K-30 using sigma 10-20mm stitched 3x images. Aurora is what gives the lower section that pink and orange glow.
same night:
and a different outing, the lights are from a port.
I also have the astrotracer, I must get out more. :) The K-30 is definitely able to capture some astro stuff if the conditions are right.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
04-30-2014, 11:50 PM
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I'll nominate this image also, I like the muted contrast HDR-esque effect that is not overdone feels very painterly with the mist :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-01-2014, 04:56 PM
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I mentioned in the description, the glow was from an Aurora that was on going - no cities or anything with light out that way (except for the very bottom right hand corner, edge of our city but not responsible for the glow as you can see) :)
THIS (clicky - not for contest entry) might help illustrate, from the same night, better view of the colours cast by the Aurora
Cheers :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-01-2014, 12:11 AM
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HDR does not usually do it for me, but this image really benefits - nominated :)
Textures environment are exciting to the eye, the subject really pops from his surrounds due to the contrasting smoke and high vis against the dull street. Nice stuff
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-01-2014, 12:45 AM
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Good thing he did!
Almost gives the impression of being on the bow of a ship through the sky looming over the city below. Thanks for sharing :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-01-2014, 12:54 AM
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Wow, is he riding down that on a board!?
Amazing, I nominate this due to the subject matter but also the interesting terrain - looks like a real winter wonderland
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-30-2014, 05:39 AM
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Many many nights of clouds finally gave way to a crispy winter night, the first of the year. Was happy to come out with this Milkyway shot, 20mins away from the lights of Christchurch, one of the benefits of living in a relatively sparsely populated country :lol:
Foremost silhouetted are NZ Native trees.
Another, on a related tangent is from Mount John Observatory. Alas I was passing through during daytime, and cloudy at that. Still I will definitely make a trip out and try my hand at some night shots from atop this hill in a truely dark region of the country.
Cheers :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
04-30-2014, 09:51 AM
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I'd like to nominate this photo, dramatic scene and good composition that leads draws the viewers eye. Muted colours are complimentary with the overcast threatening clouds.
Would you mind telling us some further information around this photo, location and what brought you to this place and time? :)
Thanks
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-21-2014, 09:56 PM
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Despite a sketchy forecast I made the trip down south for the biannual Warbirds airshow. Glad I did because the weather held in the end and it was an awesome event. The drive home was clear too so that provided some great opportunities for some Autumn photos in Otago.
Hope you guys like 'em :)
Sunrise at Tekapo, our overnight halfway stop. Cropped but otherwise straight from camera.
RNZAF Kiwi Blue display team
Yak-52 Aerobatics
Aircraft of WW1
P-40 Warhawk
Pitts S2
Ground display
DH.100 Vampire, I love the design of these little beauties!
Aero L-29, I couldn't resist a small alteration to this shot ;)
All participants in the air race, L-29 L-39 and Vampire jets.
Vampires doing display manoeuvres
Recently restored MK.1 Avro Anson "The Flying Greenhouse" :lol:
And a few panos from the drive home, with the trusty Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6:
Mount John Observatory (I'll definitely have to return with clear skies for some astro!)
Otago Autumn
Plenty more, but thats probably the main ones.
Cheers :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-04-2013, 07:40 AM
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Woohoo, first attempt and first success :D
Very pleased :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-05-2012, 03:27 PM
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The first real "storm" (we don't get weather extremes really here) I've witnessed here in Christchurch since I was a child, I recall looking out the window with my brother as a child counting the seconds between the lightning and thunder to find out the distance with water streaking down the glass. :lol:
This was over in 45mins or so, did cause a small power outage but nothing serious :lol: It even made the national news, such is the rarity for these parts hehe. :lol:
Boiling Skies by Dafydd359
The Heavens Open by Dafydd359
Thunderstorming by Dafydd359
The final shot was a long exposure on tripod the other two just anticipated while set on aps.c
Cheers :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-12-2012, 11:36 PM
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The forecast for Christchurch was sleet and rain, way to welcome in Spring! :lol: My boss is really awesome and I knew the mountain report for Mount Hutt was vastly better despite only being one hour from the city. Barely a cloud to be found and some fresh snow over-night, very good decision :)
I took a full HD vid with the K-30 of me snowboarding down (carefully mind, haha) but it has a fair bit of shake so i'll leave it with just the handheld pano.
Mount Hutt Summit by Dafydd359
There is a 6000px version on Flickr.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-13-2012, 03:49 AM
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The camera settings? - these differ from individual copies of the lenses, no point getting mine.
If you mean in general, the K-30 has lens specific adjustments available. For focus chart look HERE
Chart print out pdf links at the bottom. Instructions are on the site or essentially below:
Basically cut fold put on flat level surface - put cam on tripod/sturdy surface facing directly at it - and level. Central AF point, AF.S, Shake reduction off (probably won't matter though),AV mode and 2-sec timer for shutter. Make sure lens is out of focus, then allow camera to focus on the central part of the black/white circle take photo at full open aperture first up (F2.8).
Review photo in-cam and zoom/scroll across to the numbers and see if focus is good or not. If it is then you should have on the left hand readings 0 in focus, with an even amount in front and behind (or a bit more behind is acceptable if 0 is in focus).
If it's off, then go into the camera and adjust through the menu. MENU --> C section 4 option 22 "AF Fine Adjustment" press Right, turn it "On" with right button scroll down to "Apply one" and adjust in either direction for front/back focus.
Exit out of menu and re-test (insure the camera goes out of focus, and fully reacquires). If the photo is too soft to clearly identify the focus on the chart close the lens down a bit to increase the DOF and sharpness (say F4/5.6) and make sure you're a sensible distance to the target - 1 or 2meters. Being stopped down on lens obviously increases the amount in focus on the chart, but the Front/Back focus bias will stay the same.
You'll possibly find results may change as you adjust the lens between 17-50mm which makes singular in-cam adjustments pointless (maybe yours is consistent and you're lucky). On my K20D I had to adjust one way for 17mm and the other for 50mm, on the K-30 the lens is just too far out of whack.
I found up really close ~15cm or so focus results were much closer to being normal - which is decidedly odd (should be consistent throughout focus range) Any further back, regardless of how much distance/zoom adjustment and results would front focus so much that full 10 adjustment only has it reaching 0 on the chart and front focus, nothing behind focus point. Zero adjustment in camera has the focus point waay down around the "Copyright" text on the chart.
I will send mine in to Tamron for service, only option left - i've been quoted at $100-200NZD to fix ($80-160 USD)
I did find an online guide to adjusting the lens for front focus issues, by loosening screws around the front element and rotating it - i've tried this through the entire range of adjustment and it did *nothing* detectable on the charts. :(
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-10-2012, 02:18 AM
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This is also how my K-30 is, he is just too inexperienced or never bothered to look at the manual to find an answer. :lol:
OK button does double duty, no big deal.
Oh, and I also put up a quickie AF under Tungsten test for all you rabid savages. Probably not up to snuff but hey at least i'm trying ;)
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