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Forum: Sold Items
05-30-2017, 06:39 AM
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Yes, still is. If you're interested, please write me a PM.
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Forum: Sold Items
05-09-2017, 09:09 AM
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Forum: Sold Items
05-09-2017, 09:08 AM
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Forum: Sold Items
04-29-2017, 10:15 AM
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PentaxForums.com Marketplace Listing
(Sold for 400€)
Item for Sale
FA 43mm f:1.9 Limited silver, Made in Japan + polarising filter
Asking Price
450.00 EUR or good offer
Item Location
Berlin (Germany)
Item Description
Selling my FA 43mm f:1.9 Limited lens in silver. The lens is Made in Japan. Original metal hood, metal top lens cap, screw-on plastic bottom cap and lens pouch are included. Original box is missing.
I'm also including a 49mm Hoya HRT CIR-PL UV polarising & UV filter. As many Pentax lenses, especially the Limiteds, use 49mm filters, this one is quite versatile. I've used it on this lens, on a DFA 100mm and the DA 15mm Limited without problems.
Price is 450€, but offers are considered as well. I'll ship worldwide for free.
I also sell other lenses in the marketplace, please tell me if you would like to buy more than one item. I offer a 5% discount per additional item purchase.
Are you the original owner of the item being sold?
No
Are you selling or trading this item?
Selling
Item Condition (Key)
Used
Excellent
Shipping Destinations
Worldwide
Shipping Charge
free shipping
Shipping Services
DHL, tracked & insured
Accepted Payment Types
PayPal Check/Money Order
Return Policy & Additional Details
EUR payments preferred, but USD is also possible.
Please send me a private message if interested in the item!
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Forum: Sold Items
04-29-2017, 10:06 AM
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PentaxForums.com Marketplace Listing
Item for Sale
DA 15mm f:4 AL ED Limited, black
Asking Price
400.00 EUR or offer
Item Location
Berlin (Germany)
Item Description
Selling my DA Limited wide-angle lens DA 15mm f:4 Limited AL ED in black. Lens is in excellent condition, metal screw-on top cap, plastic screw-on bottom cap and original lens pouch are included. Original box is missing.
As the screw-on metal cap is beautiful but inconvenient, I'm including a normal pinch-style lens cap as well.
Caution: Lens is not suitable for full frame cameras.
Price is 400€, but other offers are welcome. Shipping is free worldwide.
I also sell other lenses in the marketplace, please tell me if you would like to buy more than one item. I offer a 5% discount per additional item purchase.
Are you the original owner of the item being sold?
No
Are you selling or trading this item?
Selling
Item Condition (Key)
Used
Excellent
Shipping Destinations
Worldwide
Shipping Charge
free shipping
Shipping Services
DHL, insured & tracked
Accepted Payment Types
PayPal Check/Money Order
Return Policy & Additional Details
EUR payment preferred, but USD is possible
Please send me a private message if interested in the item!
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Forum: Sold Items
04-29-2017, 08:56 AM
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PentaxForums.com Marketplace Listing
Item for Sale
smc D-FA 100mm f:2,8 WR Macro full frame lens
Asking Price
400.00 EUR or offer
Item Location
Berlin (Germany)
Item Description
Sad to give this one up, but I'm not really using my SLRs anymore.
Selling my D-FA 100mm f:2,8 Macro WR. Condition is excellent, Both lens caos, hood and original lens pouch included, but missing the original box.
Lens is suitable as a Macro lens (focusses to 1:1 as well as a moderate telephoto. Can be used on full frame and crop sensor cameras.
Price is 400 EUR, but other offers are welcome. Shipping is free worldwide.
I also sell other lenses in the marketplace, please tell me if you would like to buy more than one item. I offer a 5% discount per additional item purchase.
Are you the original owner of the item being sold?
Yes
Are you selling or trading this item?
Selling
Item Condition (Key)
Used
Excellent
Shipping Destinations
Worldwide
Shipping Charge
free shipping worldwide
Shipping Services
DHL, insured & with tracking
Accepted Payment Types
PayPal Check/Money Order
Return Policy & Additional Details
Payment in EUR preferred, but USD possible
Please send me a private message if interested in the item!
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Forum: Sold Items
04-29-2017, 08:40 AM
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PentaxForums.com Marketplace Listing
Item for Sale
K5 II + smc 18-55mm f:3.5-5.6 AL WR + extra battery/lens pouch
Asking Price
400.00 EUR or good offer
Item Location
Berlin (Germany)
Item Description
Selling my K-5 II with kit lens smc DA 1:3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL WR. Shutter count of the camera is 3922, manufacturing date is 2012-11-03.
All original accessories included: Charger, Cables, Manual (print & CD-ROM), software, lens & body caps, shoulder strap. Original box NOT included, otherwise everything is pretty much like new.
Also included is a second battery, new & unused but not Pentax brand, and a patent leather pouch for the lens, Nikon brand.
Price is 400€, but offers are considered as well. Shipping is free worldwide.
I also sell other lenses in the marketplace, please tell me if you would like to buy more than one item. I offer a 5% discount per additional item purchase.
Are you the original owner of the item being sold?
Yes
Are you selling or trading this item?
Selling
Item Condition (Key)
Used
Excellent
Shipping Destinations
Worldwide
Shipping Charge
Free shipping
Shipping Services
DHL, insured, with tracking
Accepted Payment Types
PayPal Check/Money Order
Return Policy & Additional Details
Payment in EUR preferred, but USD is also possible.
Please send me a private message if interested in the item!
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Forum: Ricoh GR
01-05-2015, 04:06 AM
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What the eyes see isn't what the camera sees. I've found that a fixed perspective on my camera helps me envision the latter and thus makes it easier to grab a good shot.
I spent 2 weeks in December hiking in Morocco (sorry, no pictures to show yet :( ) with my K5 + 43mm lens. I had other lenses with me, mainly because of the same fears you have, but I ended up never using them.
If you like it, and are comfortable using it, your GR will do fine.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-05-2014, 11:52 AM
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I actually like the shadowy part at the bottom. Framse the sunlit earth nicely.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
09-02-2014, 12:36 PM
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Funny thing about those green peppers: They all turned bright orange within a day.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-11-2014, 07:07 AM
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A cat that kept coming round our house.
Zinal,Switzerland, '08
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
04-20-2014, 02:26 AM
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To me, nothing quite says 'spring' like that shade of green.
That's from a tree right outside my window. It's always the last to notice winter's over, and always the most beautiful when it does.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-11-2013, 07:43 AM
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I'd say you exactly nailed the shutter speed. The center part is still perfectly detailed, while the water is already forming one continuous wavy sheet - perfect, to my eyes. Also has a slight "This is impossible!" feel to it, because until you think about it, only the outer part seems to be moving at all.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
06-18-2013, 02:42 PM
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They're probably all hidden until after the submission period is over.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
06-15-2013, 07:21 AM
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How come the contest-subforum shows 13 threads, but when I enter it there's nothing there?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-15-2013, 02:41 AM
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Where and what? - Bar at the river Spree, Berlin.
Equipment - Pentax K5 II with Pentax D-FA 100 Macro @F2.8, 1/30s, ISO 3200, handheld
PP software used - Processed from RAW in Darktable
** "Before" shows RAW with base camera curve & slight sharpening applied (but nothing else) to mimic in-camera jpeg. I would make the 'before' shot look deliberately bad otherwise. **
Post-processing steps and why:
Standard stuff:
- Base camera curve and moderate sharpening.
- Lens correction (not very important for the 100mm Macro, but hey, if the profile is there ...).
- Strongish chroma denoise using a noise profile I generated for my sensor (Colour noise sucks)
- Dito luma denoise, but less strong (Shots, especially night-time, are allowed to be grainy, besides, detail is already somewhat iffy due to 1/30s handheld shot with 100mm - no sense in further reducing it)
- Crop and rotate: Shot isn't level, I shot it so that the central wall is level, but that messed up the perspective. + shooting while swimming at night in the Spree is a bad idea, so I couldn't get close enough.
Fun stuff:
What I wanted to fix:
The bar was lit immensely colourful and the reflections in the water were awesome and I wanted to show all those different colours. But the shot came out waaaay too pink. That has to go. I want to show colourful lights and reflections, not things illuminated in colours - all colour casts should go. The pink haze throughout the bar also washes out a lot of the detail (see bottles in bar or the rigging for their lights etc.). People's faces look rather pink. Too much background light, black isn't black enough, too much brown/orange.
Shadows/detail:
- used highlight and shadow level adjustment to darken shadows closer to real black while keeping the wall between bar and water illuminated.
- used the equalizer to bring out finely structured areas - waves, bottles, plants, etc.
Colour:
- used global colour correction. Makes people's faces less pink, reduced red/brown cast in shadow water.
- used colour zones on hue to selectively push pink into blue. The main part, really. Get rid of all that pink, bring back other colours.
- things are still to saturated in pink, and now I also have a problem with violent blues. Use colour zones again, this time on saturation, to selectively desaturate pink and blue a bit. Brings out red/yellow/green.
- used highlight level correction to reduce reflections that got overexposed in all those other corrections.
For completeness' sake:
- added watermark
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-26-2013, 03:48 AM
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Hrrm, I meant to type "shake reduction". Fingers, report to brain immediately ...
Glad to hear that's OK. Come to think of it, Nikon's VR lenses sound similar, it's just much quieter. I guess the moving elements there are smaller.
Interesting. I would have guessed the sensor is moved by piezos, but that doesn't sound like them. How is the sensor held/moved, magnetically?
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-25-2013, 09:47 AM
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I've now had some time to play around a bit (pics coming up!) and get a feel for the lenses. Firstly, I haven't really tested this, but my 15mm seems pretty sharp for such a wide lens. Distortion is also much better controlled than I expected. Heavy on the CA, but corrects very well.
The 15/43 combo: Is it a good set?
Yes-ish, I'd say. I'm loving it, very much, but 15-to-43 is a pretty extreme step. If you find the 43 too long for a given shot, you're out of luck, because if you though about the 43, 15 is waaaay to wide. If the 15 is too short, the 43 will be way to long for the same reasons. It needs some thinking, this set does.
I like it that way, because very wide + longish normal fits me perfectly. Eventually, I plan on getting the DA21 and maybe the FA77. For now, I much prefer the wide range of 16+43+100 to the easier stepping of 21-43-77. If you're not really in need of something as wide as the 15, the 21+43 combo might be better.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-25-2013, 09:32 AM
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Hi,
my new K-5 II makes weird noises when I move/tilt it (when shut off and especially in LiveView), bit like plastic scraping on plastic. Is that normal?
The only "loose" thing I can think of would be the moveable sensor for noise reduction, but I am a bit surprised, I would expect it to be somehow locked in place when the camera is of. Something shaking around in my camera when I carry it can't be healthy ...
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-24-2013, 02:32 AM
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Darktable is absolutely great, and both their mailing list and IRC channel are immensely informative and helpful. Bit of a resource hog though, but which RAW converter isn't?
For profiled denoise you can go to the GIT master version, it contains a lot more profiles. I recently send them the profile I made for the K-5 II and they included it immediately. It is a development version, of course, so the usual caveats apply.
I second that. One of the best auto-noise reductions I've ever seen, even with only the generic profiles.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-24-2013, 02:27 AM
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I created a profile for the K-5 II, for everyone using darktable's GIT version, the profile is in the current git master.
For anyone trying to profile their camera: I've found it works best to take a bright day and point your camera at a window. Then hang a black t-shirt or something next to the window within the camera's frame. Then expose so that the black bit is very slightly underexposed. That worked quite well for me. If you can get the sun itself into the picture, it gets even easier.
I've found that you need MASSIVELY overexposed images, since many where my K-5 showed overexposed areas turned out not to be to overexposed once converted to that weird green linear profiling base curve.
Not entirely related to darktable, but so what:
I created lensfun lens correction profiles (distortion, tca and vignetting) the DA 15 Limited, FA 43 Limited, DFA 100 Macro WR and current WR version of the 18-55 for use in darktable and any other software that uses the lensfun library for corrections. Should be included in the next version of lensfun, if anyone wants those profiles now, I can give them to you.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-17-2013, 02:23 AM
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Yes.
I found no option to change anything beyond file format of the RAW in my K5II. Once they're on your computer you can use ExifTool to strip the full res jpg (or all of them, if you want to minimize size and don't view them outside your RAW converter). The DNG on it's own should be fine though, a 640x480 image consumes only some kB. I don't know if there are any other relevant differences between the formats, though. I also don't know to what end Pentax gives you the PEF at all. Why offer a proprietary format if you already offer a standard one?
I shoot .PEF so that I have the full jpeg if I want to have something to quickly give to people, but I remove all jpegs once I have converted them (It's easy to script that if you don't want to do it by hand).
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-16-2013, 11:31 AM
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Just to quickly complete what I said about extracting embedded jpegs:
I verified it, .PEF files contain a full resolution jpeg generated by the camera. If you store your raws as .PEF, and if you plan on doing image editing that benefits from raw (see Lowell Goudge's post), then you can in principle shoot only raw and simply process raw or extract embedded as needed. I'd still stick with jpeg, for now, if I were you.
For the interested:
What is stored where:
Nikon (.NEF) has full resolution in JpgFromRaw and medium resolution in PreviewImage.
Canon (.CR2) has medium resolution in PreviewImage and small resolution in ThumbnailImage.
Pentax (.DNG) has medium resoltion in PreviewImage.
Pentax (.PEF) has full, medium and small resolution in JpgFromRaw, PreviewImage and ThumbnailImage, respectively. Pentax wins!
Resolutions are probably camera dependent, but here were 1600x1200 (CR2), 640x480 (DNG/PEF), 570x375 (NEF) for medium. Small images were 160x120.Tested with a Nikon D7000, a Canon Powershot S100 and a Pentax K-5 II.
For the extremely interested:
ExifTool is available for Linux, Win and MacOS. It's commandline, so you'll need a terminal / cmd.exe.
will extract the jpeg indicated by (JpgFromRaw etc.) embedded into rawfile (e.g. IMGP0001.PEF) and save it as .jpg. (%f .jpg will result in IMGP0001.jpg - in my example)
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-16-2013, 09:56 AM
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Depends on the camera and file format. Pentax (at least the K5 II) stores a full res, 1600x whatever and 434x whatever in the EXIF if you use .PEF as format, but only the two smaller ones when using DNG. Nikon stores only the full res and smallest version, Canon at least on its compacts stores the lower two resolutions. This is probably so that the camera can offer different zoom levels when reviewing images, so I'd guess that a camera that can review at 100% stores a full resolution image.
There are three different places in the EXIF where jpgs are stored (I'll look them up when I get home), but camera makes use them differently.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-16-2013, 08:59 AM
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When I got my first digital SLR I kept my 50mm (no way I had the money to buy the camera AND a lens). That I was now using a short tele as a standard lens, though noticable, didn't bother me. It was 6 years before I augmented my lens set with a 35mm (Though I had already added a 12-24, and 24 is already getting normal-ish).
If I understand you correctly you have the kit lens? So you're covered at 35mm (50mm equiv.) already (only not with a fast prime), but have gained with the 50 (75mm equiv.) a very good portrait lens.
I'd say stick with the kit lens and the 50 for low light/portrait/small DOF etc., and if you ever miss a true "standard" prime, you can always add to your collection.
As for relearning your camera, a prime is a good idea, but I wouldn't be too fuzzy about the focal length. Anything not-very-wide-not-very-tele to me would be fine. Keep the 50.
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