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Forum: Pentax Q
05-11-2015, 03:35 PM
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I just want a native Q7 super zoom like a 50-300mm (EFL 250-1500mm) This manual focusing my DA-55-300 is getting old
Hans
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Forum: Pentax Q
05-13-2015, 05:12 PM
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If ever a thread needed a "...that's what she said!" post, this is it. :lol:
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Forum: Pentax Q
05-13-2015, 04:36 PM
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I saw that. I got a set of the Lensbaby ones. They're coming, Friday I think...I'm just playing a bit in the meantime. The little Auto 110 lenses are fascinating me a lot for some reason.
One last pic, the obligatory cat pic. Rather noisy but cute pic of Lily, up on my shelves where she has been spending a lot of her time lately. It was hard getting this shot actually. It was rather dark up there and she would insist upon backing up instead of posing properly. She's been a wee bit contrary lately, but that's not that unusual for her. She's a very friendly cat with me and Dad, but she gets into these moods where she's like Garbo kitty. "I vant to be alone..." She'll come down eventually for food, but she's been up there pretty much all afternoon for at least a week or so now lurking in her lair, playing at being a cougar in her den.
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Forum: Pentax Q
03-13-2015, 03:01 AM
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From a previous post...
Try this in LR (should take less than 10 seconds)...
1. Open the DNG file in the DEVELOP module.
2. Open the DETAIL dialog box and go to the Noise Reduction set of sliders.
3. Press the "Alt" key on your PC to turn the image to B&W, then with your mouse pointer, push the Luminance slider to the place on the scale where the noise speckles start to fade, then adjust to suit your fancy (some like to leave a few speckles to keep the image from looking plastic...). Be patient as it may take a moment for the effect to become apparent.
4. Press the Alt key, again and adjust the COLOR slider to remove the color speckles. Again, be patient as it may take a moment or two for the color speckles to dissolve.
5. Go to the SHARPENING set of sliders (above the NR set in the DETAIL dialog box).
6. In your mind, subtract the Luminance adjustment number from 100 and enter that calculation into the AMOUNT slider's adjustment result box. For example, if your Luminance number was 30, enter 70. Notice that the luminance noise you erased earlier has returned. UGH ! Get rid of it by...
7. Press the Alt key on your PC, again, and adjust the MASKING slider to the point that your image appears to be a B&W line drawing.
8. Release the Alt key...
BINGO ! You have killed the image noise AND sharpened it, as needed to fit your taste. Now, let's get that pesky WB under control...
Read more at: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/283047-wow-i-didnt-think-h...#ixzz3UG4Hbj5y
Also, check this out...
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Good luck & cheers... M
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Forum: Pentax Q
01-03-2015, 04:40 PM
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I use my DA*300 (sometimes with the 1.4xTC) on the Q every now and then.
I use the infra-red remote on a decent tripod (I don't even have a fancy gimbal head) and it seems to be fine. I do keep SR activated.
Mind you, I have even used it hand-held and the results weren't disastrous ;)
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Forum: Pentax Q
12-16-2014, 02:12 AM
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Normally I am not really into the heavy hdr stuff but it somehow works here. Taken with the Q7 on a visit to this wonderfull city. EXIF got lost after the google software did it's work.
 Bruges after by
acabrinkman, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax Q
02-24-2013, 04:45 AM
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Here's my Bellows Rig for a Pentax Q, an amazing piece of kit, everything from infinity focus (I can use it as an M42 adapter) to around 5X magnification, which, with the Q's tiny sensor is less than 1mm filling the frame!
[IMG] Q_Bellows_Flash_Rig_01 by screwdriver1, on Flickr[/IMG]
It's winter here so finding small subjects is difficult, but the Wallflowers always try the hardest,
First the overall shot with the bellows retracted
[IMG] Q-bellows_Wallflower_01_Small by screwdriver1, on Flickr[/IMG]
A little closer.
Q-bellows_Wallflower_03_Small by screwdriver1, on Flickr
And a shot of a budding Wallflower, the 'flower' is around 1.5mm across, some movement in this shot because of high ambient light - see below.
[IMG] Q-bellows_Wallflower_02_Small by screwdriver1, on Flickr[/IMG]
Still not at the end of the focus rail with this shot, I could go closer, but not hand holding. Just keeping the subject in the frame is a bit of a lottery when you have this magnification and your still over a foot away.
The TTL flash is important as the short flash duration (1/1000th of a second or faster) effectively becomes your shutter speed if the ambient light is low, All these shots are hand held. Even with the closest one I am around a foot away from the flower. In the last shot you can see some blur caused by the sensor recording for 1/13th of a second, I want little or no ambient, it works best in near darkness using a torch to get focus. Often all you need is the pop-up flash.
I have set the Q so that the pop-up flash doesn't fire when down for this rig, (Custom Menu, item 10 'Flash When Retracted' to option 2), the idea is that off camera flash gives some modelling. The flash will still fire when popped up. By default both flash fire.
The Q never ceases to amaze me, if I put my 300mm M42 lens on this rig I could photograph the Moon, so everything from Astro to near Micro in one rig! Amazing! Can't do that with my K5.
Chris
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Forum: Pentax Q
12-08-2014, 09:35 PM
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This, exactly, is why my fav rig when I was a pro was my Auto 110, not my bag full of LXs. It's exactly why I loved the Q, and now the Q7 best of all. I've never been a compact camera fan; my vision tends toward ultra-wides and, to a lesser extent, telephotos. So the vast majority of compacts have lenses covering all the focal lengths I find most boring.
So these days I carry my Q7 with the 08 -- just a stupid good lens -- with the 06 in a pocket. Makes me happy.
Cjf
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Forum: Pentax Q
11-28-2014, 06:40 AM
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Last year I sold my Q and lenses to help fund a micro four thirds kit. I convinced myself that the new camera would replace my Q. I have never missed a camera so much! Even though the Olympus is technically superior, it does not share the charm of the Q.
I finally bought a Q7 with 02 zoom and then found an 01 lens on fleabay. The camera is new and the lens is like new (not received yet). Its been a long time since I've been this excited over new gear!
Lee
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