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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-16-2024, 12:52 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
01-11-2024, 12:25 PM
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Right. So I am doing my usual walk in the woods this morning, accompanied by the KP with the DA*16-50 SMC and the K3III with the 55-300 PLM, when it starts to rain. No surprise, this is Oregon, and no big deal, this is Pentax.
Then the screen on the back of the K-3III fails. No amount of pressing buttons, turning the camera off and on, swearing out loud, invoking various saints of art and photography, or even pulling the battery for a moment and then restarting does anything. I can't view photos, use the menus, nothing. Chimping is now officially over. And it's no more than a light drizzle. Even Canon would survive this! I head back home, in a somewhat foul mood, planning on drying the whole thing out while I fix breakfast, and hoping the problem is not terminal.
As I get nearer the house I glance down -- the K-3III is hanging around my neck now, screen side up, pretty damp -- and I suddenly notice a tiny drop of water, much smaller than a grain of white rice, on the edge of the eye detection window that senses when you're looking through the optical viewfinder. Without thinking too much about it, I use my (now very cold, it's 34 degrees this morning) fingertip to flick the droplet off the screen. I push the blue playback button. A photo appears! I hit 'info' and a grid of life choices emerges. The rear screen works again.
Who knew such a tiny bit of water on that little window would shut down the screen? I don't think it leaked at all -- it just changed the amount of light that got into the eye detection window.
So here's a photo I got -- with absolutely no chimping.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
12-14-2023, 07:43 PM
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Good morning all, yes, we're back with the new monthly format, and it's been a big week. I seem to always get the same eccentric Uber driver in my area, he has all these schemes he dreams up.
He told me, "I wanna start a flight company exclusively for bald people. I'm calling it "Receding Airlines!"
But it wasn't all bad. I was delighted when the kind people at Inland Revenue wrote to me recently, telling me that my tax return was 'outstanding'.
Particularly since I can't even remember sending it in.
This week I want to talk about the challenge of shooting through glass at say a museum exhibit or a wild animal in a zoo, which generate reflections.
For the pic below with my K-1 and Tamron 28-75mm f2.8, I wanted the scene of the Melbourne CBD as evening set in without glare from the well lit bar area behind me. The windows were naturally full of people's reflections.
The idea was to get as close as possible, with the lens hood against the glass, perpendicular, not angled, and a tea towel I had packed draped around it to further seal the light from behind. There is also a polarizing filter on the Tamron, that was rotated until the contrast and colours were at their maximum. The tea towel (you can use a spare T shirt on holiday) can be used to wipe the window in front of the lens first.
The picture is an HDR from three bracketed exposures. You can see there is still, for example, an orange vertical band in the upper right, and a glare area in the upper left corner, so to get more serious in the future I have since bought a 'Lenskirt' flexible hood that will fit most of my lenses, and let me back off, because the hood spreads out and attaches to the glass itself.
To finish with, there's the story of the man seeing his regular medical practitioner.
Guy : Doctor, my girlfriend is pregnant but we always use protection and the rubber never broke. How is it possible?
Doctor : Let me tell you a story: "There was once a hunter who always carried a gun wherever he went. One day he took his umbrella instead of his gun and went out. A lion suddenly jumped in front of him. In order to scare the lion, the hunter used the umbrella like a gun, and shot the lion, then it died!"
Guy : That's crap! Someone else must've shot the lion.
Doctor : Good! You understood the story. Next patient please.
Find the rest of the series here: Clackers' Beginners Tips (Collected) - PentaxForums.com
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-24-2022, 05:50 PM
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Did you hear about the scientist who successfully made an exact copy of himself? Unfortunately it was very foul mouthed and crude. The scientist grew tired, and finally pushed it off a cliff. He was later arrested for making an obscene clone fall.
And then there's the cheating accusation at a school ...
Teacher: "You copied from Tim's exam paper didn't you?"
Pupil: "How did you know?"
Teacher: "Tim's paper says 'I don't know', and you put 'Me neither'!"
Perhaps you've heard of images being hijacked and used by someone else without permission or payment. I went to a workshop on night photography run by an international sports photographer, who said he paid two companies annually to use software to find his images being reused illegally.
You've seen people putting 'watermarks' over their image. But whether you do this or not, you can embed copyright in the EXIF metadata - that's data in a picture that's not visible - of all your images. The metadata is viewable in software, or if uploaded to a site like Online Exif Viewer
The Setup menu has this option - the picture below is from the K-S2 as an example. You can enter the photographer's name and the copyright holder's too, if that's different for some legal reason - this could be when you're subcontracting to a company, for example. But I think it would be more useful to put a contact email address there.
To get round this strategy, a pirate would have to remove the EXIF data in software, or instead use a reduced pixel screenshot of your real picture. Both are deliberate actions and undermine their usual defence - that the misuse was accidental, and that they didn't know who to approach for permission.
To end with,
I was reading a "People Who Passed Away In 2020" article and saw that Larry Tesler, one of the co-developers of the basic copy and paste function for computers, died in February.
I was reading one of those "People Who Passed Away In 2020" articles and saw that Larry Tesler, one of the co-developers of the basic copy and paste function for computers, died in February.
I was reading one of those "People Who Passed Away In 2020" articles and saw that Larry Tesler, one of the co-developers of the basic copy and paste function for computers, died in February.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-19-2020, 07:12 AM
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You didn't have to cut your camera in half to make your point - we'd have believed you!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-10-2021, 01:14 PM
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I require having removable media. Such requires no cable, provides multiple options for access. Highly portable.
Lack thereof on a camera is a deal breaker for me.
I should add that I almost NEVER use a wired connection to my camera to export files to my computer for PP.
Steve
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-24-2021, 07:08 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-17-2021, 09:08 AM
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From the article : Interchangeable lenses though  It's sad when once great names get bought by Spivs. Demonstrated by Kai W here :
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-09-2021, 03:22 PM
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There are plenty of Chinese knock-off versions on ebay for about £20, just search for the Tamron equivalent part A034. OK you don't get a magnesium alloy, just aviation aluminium whatever that is.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-09-2021, 10:23 AM
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-09-2019, 11:19 PM
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Ah.. bad things happend, my room was on fire that day i couldn't save my equipments.
I was using 2.0x anamorphot (slr magic), the experience is very unique, is it worth the price? if you're film maker like me, then yes.
The Pros
1. The widescreen of course
2. It much better using low contrast color profile
3. 1080,30fps / 720,60fps highest frame rate are best setting for this lens
4. Less noise compared to normal lenses
Cons
1. Shake reduction makes my footage jello much
2. Need more lights
3. Weird live preview, if the objects are on frame and then it's fine.
4. You''ll need to rescale the footage on video editing software.
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It looks like this, but 2.0x are insanely wide
and now, a new start, i bought a new k-01 :^) I still love this camera
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-05-2012, 12:56 PM
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Welcome to the Forums from "another Aussie" :)
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