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Forum: Sold Items
08-26-2015, 01:02 PM
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Hey man,
Im also interested in the Sigma if the sale dont go through
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-12-2015, 04:36 AM
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
12-13-2014, 05:36 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-05-2014, 12:30 PM
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Thank you guys.
I would love to learn more about that catch-in focus for the manual lenses. I'll look it up. But do you have a thread you can direct me to?
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-05-2014, 10:15 AM
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Hey what's up guys. Im very happy with my new K5-IIs. I jumped on the B&H deal from last week (bundled with free grip and 64gb sd card) even though I didnt really need an upgrade from my K-30.
(Beware long wall of text)
I do a few panoramas and I felt like I would really benefit from being able to use the grip for the portrait mode.
So I wanted to talk with you fellow owners of K-30 and K5-IIs and maybe learn more about it.
What do I think of it so far:
- I'm so glad with the Grip. Oh my... I wanted one since the first days with my k-30 and learning it wasnt supporting one really made me sad at times. And now i feel like i have the right camera. Just ergonomically (maybe word, maybe not) speaking. My panoramas dont need as many pictures as I can take higher framing without making several rows, i take more portrait pictures because sometimes it works better. It's already helping me see differently. Im really happy and hope its not just the novelty that makes me feel like that.
- i didnt think i would miss focus peaking that fast. But the takumar 55 at 1.8 can be tough without live view help. But oh well i learned it, I can unlearn. I did see something weird happen with the autofocus in live view when I was on AF-C. The screen zoomed briefly on a random zone then got back. I thought it was a kinda weird version to help you focus manually. But cant find anything about it in the manual. Maybe one of you know what it is and how to properly use it. Would love some pointers.
- how did I live without the digital preview button on the on/off switch !!!! This is amazing. I found it the first day. Didnt know what it was, read the manual. Tried it. Cant stop using it. AMAZING. I have much more keepers when I get home simply because I can experiment more and set my shot before actually recording an exposure. Less trying shots and I already find myself converting more and more of the previews to raw because it was a good picture . I LOVE IT.
- I love that I can organize the playback images by dates jow to see how much I shot on a certain day without having to have an empty card first and substracting from the numbers of the last and first image. It feels more organized. I love the software changes.
- the dedicated buttons for ISO and E.V are really helping with the speed of operation. In the first days I would just press it. Change the value and press it again. Then i read the manual and realized I can hold the button and change it. And thats it. Superb and fast. Definitely an upgrade in operating my camera.
- i had on my K-30, a green user mode I made so my family could take pictures with me in it. Because i back button focus. And it's crazy how weird of a concept it is for other people that never even thought before about the camera focusing between the point where they pushed the button and the picture is taken. So I had to make a user mode that would focus the "old" way and hope i wouldnt be blurry in the outcome. But the green mode on the k5-IIs is actually staying exactly like it was before i put the back button focusing for my other modes. I finally was present at thanksgiving. Yay.
- i dont understand the purpose of the custom image button. The manual explained how to use it. But not why its there. Is it made to use only when you shoot jpeg and want the image to look a certain way. Or does it also inluence the raw shots?
- this camera can shoot fast. I mean when I heard that 7fps for 30pictures, i was machinegunning my wife (to her full annoyance). Cant wait to try this on a few panning shots. Just gotta remember to turn the SR off before.
- im wondering if the fact that I can connect to a hdmi tv means I can pseudo tether on my tv. Did you guys try it? How would you use the hdmi of the camera normally?
- Finally i realized the AE-L actually adapts the exposure value even when you change one of the settings. i dont know if my K-30 used to do that too. But i think its amazing that you can do that, change the shutter speed and let the camera do the adaptation to maintain the exposure in manual. Really helpful in experimenting with shots easily.
So as you can tell I love my new camera. And I would love to know more about your experiences with it. Or maybe just talk about it. What else do I need to know. This was my unofficial review.
Peace y'all.
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
12-03-2014, 01:12 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
09-30-2014, 07:33 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-31-2014, 05:51 AM
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Hello all,
I feel like I deserve the Pentax 50 because in the short months since I bought my K-30, I rediscovered the world around me.
I was a professional dancer for more than a decade, but life led me away from it a couple years ago. After a few months where I couldn't dance anymore, I felt very depressed without being able to know why.
But these last holidays, I was gifted enough money and I bought my camera because I always loved photography, but only through the images I saw from my numerous photographer friends. And Pentax seemed like the ultimate Bang for your buck. I started learning the basics and practicing my photographer's eye.
And then 1 day, it just clicked. I was not depressed anymore, I was excited. I wondered why. And then I understood...Photography had helped me reconnect with the part of me that needed to express itself, that needed to say something. Since I couldn't dance anymore, I couldn't push out all I used to say with my body. My mind was gagged. But then this little Pentax brought me back to life. And because it's not a camera anybody around me has like the Canikon, I feel unique with it and it helps. I will never put it down.
[Picture: Canoe by the lake]
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-28-2014, 04:52 AM
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thank you guys, I felt like that too. Almost kept riding past it, but it was compelling.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-27-2014, 03:40 PM
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Going back from work I had to park the bike because this looked so old school, I felt it screamed PAST TIMES.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-09-2014, 03:55 PM
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thank you.
though it looks pretty grim for me
:-)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-02-2014, 11:35 AM
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Hope this one will help me a little more
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
04-29-2014, 02:45 PM
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My neighborhood colors in Spring.
Trying to make it win something. Haha
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
04-29-2014, 01:07 PM
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I nominate this because as a self portrait, its creative and you had to work and juggle to make it happen. Great job.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
04-29-2014, 12:52 PM
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Trying this picture because the other one didnt have any traction.
haha
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Forum: Video Recording and Processing
04-17-2014, 02:24 PM
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This was amazing.
Travel movies like that always make me so happy we have the technology to record and remember these moments.
Thanks for sharing
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-13-2014, 04:21 AM
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Haha Thank you. That winter was brutal, im so happy we're done with it. Hang on man, its gonna go away.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-11-2014, 01:57 PM
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The whole neighborhood is blooming
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-11-2014, 01:22 PM
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Hey man. Dont know you, but I just wanted to tell you sorry you lost your wife to health issues. It's a sad thing, but Im happy you're back and that everything seems to be better now.
Im a wandering noob on the site but reading that, I just felt like welcoming you.
Peace
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Forum: Sold Items
04-11-2014, 11:27 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-03-2014, 09:18 AM
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Haha thats nice. I thought of making it more dramatic too. But chickened out.
Thanks for opening my eyes.
:-)
Did you tweak exposure only? Or did you do something else? The shadows maybe?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-03-2014, 09:16 AM
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Thanks. You know thats a great idea.
I was even thinking of doing a long exposure with a friend dressed in white signing the viewer to go up the stairs.
He would stay immobile. But the people around him would be blurred.
If i make the shot I'll be sure to share with you all.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-03-2014, 09:12 AM
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Thanks.
It was saturday so there was not that many people walking around. Waited for 1 person to go and snapped it.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-02-2014, 03:51 PM
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Stopped in front of the metro escalator because it looked nice
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-02-2014, 03:27 PM
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interesting, could you give me a link to a tutorial for this?
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