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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-21-2016, 04:55 PM
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All business.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-21-2016, 01:21 PM
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Where would you get corrective optics?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-21-2016, 12:26 PM
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I was on Amazon the other day and saw and ordered a "digital" back for my 4x5 Speed Graflex camera. It consists of a plate with a mounting bracket where you can attach you Pentax to the plate and then take the back off the Speed and attach the plate to it. This allows you to take a digital picture using the 70+ year old camera. Pretty cool. My SG has a 127mm lens on it. The problem is that to get it to focus at all I have to move the bellows all the way into the body of the SG, in the storage position, to achieve focus at about 20 feet.
Is there any way to adjust the focal distance so that I can extend the bellows and use them more traditionally to focus? I go to WWII reenactments and it would be cool to be able to take some picture with something like this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Wayne
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
09-03-2015, 05:24 PM
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Picture of a German 88 firing at D-Day Conneaut Reenactment. 2015.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-15-2013, 10:10 PM
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Every version back to the k10 has been able to save tiffs in camera.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-14-2013, 09:09 AM
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Instead of using the jpg, can't you convert in camera raw to a gig file? It should apply all your jpg settings to the tiff file as well.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-13-2013, 04:06 PM
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Here is a screen grab of a quick test file I did. On the left is the DCU5 jpg preview and on the right is the same image with no edits in the "laboratory" view. The laboratory view is what I get in Lightroom as well. It was shot with multi auto white balance. Apparently the only way to use this is to convert a picture in camera or extensive adjustments in DCU5 or Lightroom.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-13-2013, 06:45 AM
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Pdcu 5 doesn't work either. Now I'm not an expert with that software. Nightmarish to use but the jpg preview matches the camera but when you go to edit raw it's off too. Under white balance there is no option for multi light so loading as shot in camera is off. Setting to auto white is better and setting to silkys balance is most like the jpg. Very frustrating! What's the point in having a metering option tfor nothing can read except the camera or if it only works on jpg images, only make it an option there. I wish it worked cause the white ballance in this mode is amazing...... In the camera preview. Don't forget to turn your LCD on the camera down almost all the way or you will never come close to what the camera is showing outside the camera.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-13-2013, 01:17 AM
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Just downloaded and installed Lightroom 5.3 and it says it supports k3 now. I'm having a weird issue that I've never noticed before with my other Pentax's. Some shots I take, when I go to view them in Lightroom, Lightroom is not displaying the white point "as shot" correctly. I shot some indoor birthday shots under compact florescent lights with other led lights in the background and birthday candles. I think I shot it in either auto white balance or the new multizone white balance. I'm thinking it was the miltizone. Well, when I view these images in Lightroom they are super green. If I switch the white point to florescent, then what I see in software fairly closely matches the camera lcd. (have to turn down the lcd brightness almost all the way to get them to match)
Later I shot a school play and I set the white point to florescent in camera and those come out right on the money.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Wayne
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-02-2013, 10:41 PM
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Just got my k3 tonight and was putting it threw some tests. I was trying some high iso tests and playing with the interval shooting. I found that if you shoot a single shot at 12800 and then compare it to a 12800 interval of 8 shots set to average, the noise reduction is incredible. Way better then using in camera noise reduction. Try it at 52,000 and results were even more amazing. Could pull a much cleaner image this way then trying to use in camera noise reduction or Lightroom noise reduction. The image does end up a hair softer though but that's at 200 zoom. Tried the test at 2000 iso and it works there too but Lightroom can easily handle that noise almost as well. But interval and Lightroom is a great combination.
Anyone else confirm tried this? I tried a 19 shot average but at some point the averaging doesn't improve it any more. I think it's somewhere between 6-9 shots seems to provide the best results. Attached is a 12,800 with some Lightroom sharpening and a bit of noise reduction.
Wayne
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-29-2013, 09:56 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-16-2013, 06:52 PM
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Here is one of the train car rooms
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-16-2013, 06:48 PM
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Station is now owned by the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis. The main terminal was converted to the ball room. You thee are old train cars you can stay in inside the hotel too. Very cool.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-16-2013, 01:20 PM
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Here are some shots from my k5 over the weekend of the inside of the old Union Station in Indianapolis. Tricky lighting but yielded some dramatic results in the end. In the ball room, I bracketed the shots and exposed for the window to keep it from blowing out and thought I would blend them together in PS but in the end I was pretty happy with what I could do in Lightroom to recover both the shadow and highlights on a single exposure. Interesting byproduct was a more saturated color pallet but think it works.
Wayne
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Forum: Pentax Q
04-07-2013, 04:30 PM
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Here is a shot from q10 with Sigma 500 "bigma" attached via Pentax adaptor. At full throw of the lens it can be a bit soft but for 2500+ mm think it's not too bad. This has been run through Lightroom. I find contrast and saturation is a bit understated on the q10 but very workable. But could just be me being new with the q10 too.
Wayne
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