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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-29-2024, 03:26 PM
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A K3 iii costs £1899 in UK, exactly what I paid for a full frame Lumix S5ii (which is their latest model) and the 24-105mm f4 lens when offers were on.
How could you compete with that?
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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
09-13-2019, 09:17 PM
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K-70 at high shutter speed 1/4000sec with DA* 60-250
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-05-2019, 11:07 AM
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When God created the world he had the 20-40 Limited in mind, here it is at 20mm and cropped 1:1.
The Hoya Fusion CPL lives on mine, never comes off, a great polariser that has no ill effects on the HD lens, the coatings are brilliant and light transmission so high it doesn't darken when turned, so much better than the old polarisers!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-05-2019, 11:31 AM
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K-30 with HD DA 20-40 f2.8 - f4 Limited and Hoya Fusion CPL
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-27-2019, 02:58 PM
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Prince Harry? Is that the Harry Potter movies or something?
Right back on track here... This is from The Cooley Mountains, County Louth, Ireland, 2018. These four fellows 2 Irish & 2 Polish were quite friendly to me by not robbing me of a K-30 and 20-40 Limited 😀
This was my first time hiking here, stayed up in the mountains until after dark, made a mistake in trying to get back to the car by a different route traversing the mountains, got lost and ended up in severely dangerous territory. No GPS, map or phone but eventually I managed to get back.
This is cropped to 2.35:1 'Anamorphic-esque format'
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-12-2019, 10:25 AM
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Crooksi I just want to get into that boat and sail away 😀
That 20mm end is so good it makes my DA15 stay in my hiking bag a lot of times now!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-24-2019, 03:18 PM
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This takes me back, I remember the tranquility of the sunset on the unspoilt unpopulated beach in Connemara, West coast of Ireland. I bought the HD DA15 just before the trip and I was blessed with beautiful weather and light.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-08-2019, 06:11 PM
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Beautiful scenery just south of the controversial border in Ireland. The mist is starting to form below travelling up Carlingford Lough and the Newry canal which is visible in the centre right, this is one end of the 310 miles long Irish border which has been virtually 'invisible' from the peace process starting in the 1990's and I'm praying this situation remains. :)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-02-2019, 06:40 PM
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This one from the long trek back to the car to get more supplies on my wild camping trip back in August. The Perseid meteor shower was occuring later in this remote dark sky area but it rained heavily every night with completely overcast cloud.
The wreck of the Armada ship La Trinidad Valencera lies just off the beach after hitting jagged rocks on 16 September 1588.
Bi-colour filter added and processed in LR and Color Efex.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-06-2019, 09:52 PM
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Another from below the lighthouse. This is pretty rough for the Irish Sea and I nearly got caught edging out a bit further along the mini pier. :eek:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-23-2019, 06:27 PM
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This one from 2017, not 2019 as the photo stamp. The lake Loughshannagh is further up in the mountains out of view. I just love this old iron gate with the lovely patina of aged red paint.
There are dry stone walls all over the mountains and they are a survival for navigating in fog and cloud also providing great shelter from the wind which can be savage... This year 2 hikers were blown over the side of cliffs within an hour at two different spots and unfortunately they did not survive.
Helicopter rescues are a common site also with both the British and Irish coast guard frequently helping fallen hikers.
Don McLean wrote a song about this mountain range too :)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-03-2019, 10:23 PM
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Love being able to do this again after building powerful modern PC, I was stuck with a 4GB laptop for years... Very disabling and frustrating!
This one of my friend looking out to the North Atlantic from our August wild camp in Donegal, Ireland. He lives in a bustling Chinese mega city and loved the solitude he once enjoyed here :)
7 exposures or so for this stitch, better if you use a pano head on tripod but worked OK. This would print wide! :lol:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-12-2019, 05:00 PM
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The fabulous and unspoilt beaches of the west coast of Ireland.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-05-2020, 04:07 PM
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Belfast urban landscape photography from a bedroom with a fire escape window. Pity I can't get up higher to see more of the mountains blocked by the houses, I have a better view from another bedroom but would have to photograph through the double glazing.
HD DA15 Ltd 3 image panorama merged and PP'd in LR
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-30-2020, 01:36 AM
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This adapter is turning out to be more interesting than K3 iii
I wonder why eh? :p
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-28-2020, 11:55 PM
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I was thinking this without laughing...
Sometime in the future when I want FF, I love the K-70 but don't like the size of the K-1.
If that adapter does all what is says it would be brilliant, Pentax Limited and * lenses on a FF MILC would be great.
No wonder I got high prices for sales of my K35 f3.5 and M50 f1.4 last week! I'm pretty sure the buyers were not Pentax camera owners, maybe I should ask them?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-17-2020, 08:12 AM
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If I was the CEO of that company I'd pay Crooksi 1Million Euro for a super large print and have it on the boardroom wall.
This photo is classic DA15 and blows away the haters of this fabulous lens.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-03-2020, 09:13 AM
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This from the first morning my local mountain opened again from the Covid pandemic. The local cows are still observing social distancing :-)
Divis Mountain above Belfast, Ireland.
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Forum: General Photography
10-24-2020, 03:44 AM
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Why the debate? I heard such nonsense about my phone has more mega pixels going back to around 2005 at a pool match.
You all know it's a pile of crap so why talk about it?
If what I was typing into right know could do what a DSLR and lenses etc. could do then I wouldn't have it as it is a nuisance in comparison to the convenience.
The internet is increasingly brainwashing and making people more stupid than ever.
I'm going Amish, I've had enough! :-)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-12-2020, 11:17 PM
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I'll spend exactly zero on it as it doesn't have the obvious and much discussed essential feature that my lowly K-70 has.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-12-2020, 12:47 AM
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I feel a revolt coming along against this crazy must have centre to corner sharpness at F1.4 coming along.
I'm a landscaper but if I feel the OP should sell the DFA 50 and get a FA 77mm Limited as it is the best portrait lens Pentax made. I love the amazing 3d pop it makes and who looks at corners of portraits? Who looks at any photographs corners?
I have seen good portraits with the DFA* 50mm though.
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Forum: Lens Sample Photo Archive
10-10-2020, 09:58 PM
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Damn it, I'm due to put my K35 3.5 on eBay today then this came up again.
Great dog portrait ��
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-15-2020, 09:16 AM
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Regarding pricing, Sony are releasing their a7c FF MILC in a really small body with IBIS and s fully articulated screen for $1799.
Should K-new be priced more than this or even at a similar price?
Many Pentaxians would have loved Pentax to make such a small FF body of was talked about in forums for years.
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Forum: General Talk
09-16-2020, 03:58 PM
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4800u has 8 cores vs 3700u which has 4. 4800u is testing up to 2.5x the speed of the 3700u in multicore software.
Now my Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores and 12 threads and Lightroom.is using all of these for processing depending upon what I am doing. I have a powerful gaming graphics card but that only gets a tiny bit used by Lightroom (around 10%).
Even a gaming laptop won't have such a graphics card as this but gaming computers are fast at everything else.
Modern software is using more and more CPU cores, even expensive phones and tablets now have 8 core processors.
The boon of the 4800u is the latest 7 nanometer lithography versus the older 3700u which has 12 nanometer meaning it is considerably more efficient, uses less electricity and power to do ABC. It will run cooler, quieter etc. for tasks that are not 100% demanding.
Yes a 3700u machine is great but the 4800u might not be that much more, have a search and compare.
A 4800u machine could do you a couple of years more with the performance it is showing.
My old 2012 i3 3rd generation puffs creating heat with the whirring fan with YouTube videos (annoying) whereas this new Ryzen won't even flinch with the hardware decoding.
The 3700u has modern hardware video decoding too and would be a big step over what you have but...
Many times I have seen shops flogging off older generation machines for the same money as the latest generation to people who aren't tech geeks like me. I'm actually not that bad, not a gamer, just used to be a software engineer and had to research last year again to build a new desktop photography computer.
The best component (peripheral really) and best value was actually the Viewsonic 24" photography monitor, this was a revelation and completely upgraded the photo editing process. In fact everything better with it, Blu-ray films etc., even reading as you can swivel the screen into portrait orientation which is brilliant for portrait photo editing.
I even ran my old laptop into it via HDMI cable which you could do also. I actually did this for around a year until I decided to build a desktop PC to plug into it.
The 24" 1080p screen was only £220 UK.
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Have a quick look at this link
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-4800U-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-3700U/m1005639vsm765724
Big difference between 3rd and 4th generation, mostly due to the 7 nanometer lithography.
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Forum: General Talk
09-14-2020, 12:53 PM
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Anything but a tower, no need for it nowadays.
Today's tech is smaller, look at Intel NUC or any mini computer if you want today's desktop.
A budget smart phone does everything you listed with the exception of powerful post pricessing.
I have a mini-itx PC, Ryzen 5 CPU, nVidia 1060 graphics card, NVME SDD drive all inside a small HTPC case but it rarely gets switched on as I can lie here on the sofa and do everything on a modern £80 smart phone...
Or the latest tablets with a 12" screen (if you are older and need to see easier) are immensely powerful, have no moving parts meaning no nasty Jurassic fans. 1500 Can dollars would buy you a Samsung 12.4" Galaxy Tab S7+ tablet which is a rocketship compared to your 2012 laptop. Google the specification to see what I mean.
Similarly, 1500 Canadian dollars will buy a laptop with UFO performance.
Absolutely no point spending more! And you could spend less and still get an amazing device?
This will be overkill for 16MP K5 RAW processing.
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