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Forum: Sold Items
02-04-2010, 10:32 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
01-28-2010, 06:28 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
01-23-2010, 10:09 AM
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Flash has sold. K100d is still available. Thanks!
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Forum: Sold Items
01-22-2010, 06:24 PM
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Lens has been sold. Flash sale is pending.
I've had some interest in package deals containing the k100d. The other items had been spoken for by the time I received those requests. Contact me with any interest in the k100d.
Thanks folks!
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Forum: Sold Items
01-22-2010, 07:46 AM
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Will reply to PM's when I get home from work this evening. Thanks everyone for the interest.
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Forum: Sold Items
01-21-2010, 10:59 PM
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I have a lens, a flash, and a camera body to sell.
Pentax FA 50/1.4 includes box and caps - $225 [SOLD]
I purchased this from Amazon about 2 years ago. The only issue to disclose is that the serial number sticker peeled off a few months after I purchased it. Lens functions fantastically.
Pentax AF540fgz includes box, manual and case - $275 [SOLD]
Flash is like new. Very powerful.
Pentax K100d - $185
Missing rubber eye cup and as you can see in the pictures, I don't have a pentax strap for this camera. I will include the canon one I've used with it if you'd like. Camera has about 6200 actuations.
Shipping is $15/item USPS priority insured, or $25 for UPS insured.
At this point I'd prefer to ship to continental US.
Feel free to ask any questions about the items.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-26-2009, 07:16 PM
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It looks like the body in that picture has no front control dial, but the grip does. It looks like a mix and match between a k200d type body and a k20d type grip.
Either that picture is photoshopped(likely) or he's holding a body/grip combo we haven't seen yet.
-Sam
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-15-2009, 08:57 PM
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You make a good point, and it prompted me to go read a bit more about it. Apparently there's technical issues with getting a clean "shutter closed" effect from the electronic shutters. This can negatively impact image quality by way of noise and exposure variation, also some rumoring of it affecting sensor life.
I'm actually glad this came up because I have to admit to lusting after the d70 for a while. The electronic shutter issues that I ran across might be overblown, but it's a good reminder to research things like this thoroughly before jumping in.
-Sam
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-14-2009, 05:26 PM
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Several of the 6mp Nikon DSLR's sync on the hotshoe at 1/500, using exactly the method you describe. D50, D70s, D40.
If you take the flash off the hotshoe and use a sync cord or a radio trigger you can sync all the way up to the max shutter speed of the camera (radio slave delays notwithstanding).
My understanding is that this electronic shutter implementation is possible on CCD sensors, but can not be implemented on CMOS sensors.
If someone came out with a 10-12mp CCD camera with electronic shutter, 1/500 sync speed (with possibility to hack higher sync speed via radio triggers), solid AF performance and great high ISO, they'd sell this camera like hot cakes to strobist fans.
-Sam
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-13-2009, 09:02 PM
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I wouldn't think that the 200 2.8 would do anything for you portrait wise that the 50-135 couldn't do.
If it were me, and I didn't have any applications other than portraiture, I'd be inclined to pick the 5d. I wouldn't pair it with a 24-70 though. I'd pick up a prime, probably the 85 1.8, and really play around with exploiting the 5d's DOF control. To my mind DOF is the selling point of full frame.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-28-2008, 10:01 PM
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Oh thanks poco, I wasn't looking at those adapters correctly. I think that'll give me everything I need.
-Sam
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-28-2008, 04:24 PM
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The AF540 has a sync port, but it's the pentax f5p connector, it's not a generic pc port.
So the question is I guess, is there an adapter to go from the pentax specific port to a generic PC port. I haven't been able to find one.
I realize the p-ttl will not account for the light from the manual flash. That's actually an integral part of the lighting setup I have in mind.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-28-2008, 10:52 AM
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Hi all,
The title pretty much says it all. I'm going to be buying a set of cybersyncs within the next few days. I'm going to use the cybersyncs to trigger a viv285 flash manually off my camera. I'd also like to be able to attach my 540 to the camera. I mentioned in the title that I'd like to use the on camera flash in p-ttl but I suppose Auto-thyristor would work for the oncamera flash as well. Forgot to mention this is on a K10d.
So basically I either need to connect my 540 directly to the camera shoe, then connect the cybersync transmitter somehow to the flash? (the problem is I'm not sure what the options are for a f5p -> pc cord are, or if such a thing exists)
Or else I need to get some kind of a hotshoe adapter to sit between the flash and camera that would allow a pc connection to the cybersync transmitter. The pentax hotshoe adapter F looks like such an adapter, except the extra sync port it provides is the pentax f5p layout.
Does anyone have experience with this? It seems like this problem boils down to needing an f5p to PC adapter. I know this would be easier with a k20d and it's nice dedicated pc sync port. I'm hoping to hold out upgrading bodies for a bit though.
-Sam
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Forum: Sold Items
11-11-2008, 09:24 PM
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Grip arrived today! Quick shipping, great purchasing experience. Bump...
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Forum: Sold Items
11-06-2008, 10:50 PM
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Sent you an email for one of the grips.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
09-22-2008, 09:48 PM
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A method I've been working on at a few friends weddings has been to accept a low shutter speed, (very low by your standards) and try to make it work with panning.
In this image below I'm at iso 800, F2.8, 1/30s, no flash. Focus was on the Groom's face. I'm aware theres quite a lot of blur in the Brides face, but I'm fairly certain that the bulk of it is actually due to depth of field rather than motion blur. If I had it to do over again I'd have bumped ISO even more yet, stop the aperture down for more DOF, and I'd try to focus on the bride (who cares about the groom right?).
The neat (I think) side effect of this is that the motion blur of the background caused by my panning imparts a nice sense of motion into the image.
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