Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
11-28-2023, 09:06 AM
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Would love to win. Not holding my breath though. :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 09:04 AM
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This is wonderful! One of my bucket list photos, to capture a Blue Jay in flight. Well done, love the bokeh in it too!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 09:03 AM
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Great capture of it! I got to see this in the same place in 2009. It's a gorgeous locomotive.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 09:02 AM
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Lovely! Love the red bridge in amongst the snow.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 09:01 AM
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Ha! Cute, not a monster. Love these guys. Great capture!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 09:00 AM
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Beautiful! Nice and sharp and vivid color.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 08:57 AM
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Love the light in this. It makes me want to be traveling down this road. The fallen leaf color is lovely as well.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 08:56 AM
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Beautiful! I have yet to get a milky way shot that I am really happy with. This gives me inspiration!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2023, 08:54 AM
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This is stunning and absolutely gorgeous! Love the vivid colors and light.
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Forum: General Photography
11-28-2023, 08:53 AM
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There is so much available on the site that it took someone telling me about it that there was an Astrophotography Group. I have found that incredibly helpful as I am just venturing into it with my K3iii.
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Forum: General Photography
11-28-2023, 08:49 AM
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Wow, nice. Wish they would send me one. I didn't buy direct but I did register it for warranty.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
09-14-2023, 05:38 AM
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Love the scarf but is the hat an Indiana Jones one?
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
03-02-2023, 06:16 AM
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This is beautiful! Reminds me of the storms that we have here in the prairie in Kansas.
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
03-02-2023, 06:15 AM
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Very cool image with that light and color!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
11-16-2022, 07:25 AM
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It is. On your suggestion I looked for a cheaper but good old lens and found a SMC Pentax-M* 300mm F4 which got a 10 for sharpness on the Pentax forums. I took it out last weekend and tested it on some birds and I was suitably impressed. I have just been waiting for clear skies and less wind. Even with the heavy tripod we have been having 25 mph winds here.
Thanks again for your help. I have been lurking in the Astrophotography group too. Thanks as well for that suggestion.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
11-04-2022, 08:02 AM
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Thank you so much for taking the time to share information about lenses and such! I really appreciate it. My mistake on the lens, must have been when I Googled it, I got that instead of the one you are actually using.
As for the tripod, I have that covered. My husband is into antique cameras and we have a huge metal heavy one for old large format cameras like a 16X20. It has a great head on it for astro as it can do slight up and down so it's great as objects move in between shots. Thanks again
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
11-03-2022, 11:12 AM
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Thank you so much, I did not see there was an Astrophotography Group. Your photos are wonderful and what I would strive to obtain even something close to that! I see you are using a SMC PENTAX FA 645 400mm. Forgive my ignorance but do you need an adapter to use this with a K3III? As I mentioned, my lens isn't the greatest and I am looking for something better if not a telescope.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
11-02-2022, 12:48 PM
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Thanks so much for the verification. ---------- Post added 11-02-22 at 02:52 PM ----------
OK So mainly tracking times issues. Thank you for the help. I am a total newbie to any kind of astrophotography. Trying to figure out how I want to go and if I want to get a telescope or not. Appreciate the insight. Maybe I just need to spend the money on a better lens. The one I have has coma issues.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
11-02-2022, 05:48 AM
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Thank you for the insight. I hadn't thought about those things really because I thought you could just input the focal length of the telescope you were using. Mine has failed at times but I thought it was more due to shooting in windy conditions. I also read recently that you can't have land in the frame? I shot the Milky Way a month ago or so and it was working fine even in some windy conditions.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
11-01-2022, 07:48 AM
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Hello, sorry if this has been asked, I tried searching with no results. Has anyone used the K3III with a telescope? I was thinking with the telescope as your lens and the Astrotracer feature it would make a great combo but I don't know a lot about the subject. I was hoping maybe someone here had tried it or with an older camera with the astrotracer? Thanks in advance.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
06-04-2022, 07:30 AM
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Thank you @kypfer and @MossyRocks ! Appreciate the help.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
06-03-2022, 07:25 AM
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Forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere, I tried searching. Can you use a manual focus lens (old glass) with the Astrotracer feature? I have not tried using older lenses on the K3 III though I have read in the manual that it is possible but not sure if you can with the Astrotracer feature. Could you put it on a telescope and use it there, would you even need to since you would be focusing closer? Total beginner to this. Wondering about the scope because my long lens has coma issues.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
03-17-2022, 07:20 AM
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Very cool image! Actually it was more middle of the image. Thanks for the help and info that it wasn't my exposure time. ---------- Post added 03-17-22 at 09:21 AM ----------
Ah, that makes sense unfortunately but glad to know there is a work around. I will try some experimenting. Thanks very much for the info and link. Very helpful.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
03-16-2022, 09:27 AM
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I finally had a chance to test the Astrotracer function. I think I am happy with it for the most part. Not sure what went wrong in some images though. I am guessing since my first ones came out OK this is a result of my not focusing correctly? Or is my exposure too long? I was shooting at F5.6 for 25secs with a 300mm lens and 200iso.
This is a heavily cropped and enlarged image to show the detail more clearly of what I was getting.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-14-2022, 02:05 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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