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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-14-2016, 03:08 AM  
why is it so hard?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 66
Views: 6,465
Hey, I tried some sports photography with polo yesterday. Now this field I am like a novice. Never really did. But I was impressed with how afc with 9 point selection thing held the focus.

But I was really not impressed with ISO performance. With arena lights, it's so tough to get the motion to stop while having a lower shutter speed. I felt for polo to stop horses motion, about 1/500 was necessary. But had to crank up the ISO to 6400! and very grainy.

Would I need a faster lens for this. I usually do portraits travel and catalogue shoots. So my lenses don't go beyond 50mm. I had 18-135 so tried this polo game on that.

If suppose I get a faster lens like 200mm 2.8, would 2.8 give me problems in depth of field? Any tips?
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 03-12-2016, 12:55 AM  
Colourful
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 4
Views: 518
Thank you so much [emoji4]
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-09-2016, 04:20 AM  
Am I the only one who feels left out buying a pentax?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 60
Views: 7,481
Well said
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-04-2016, 11:54 AM  
Am I the only one who feels left out buying a pentax?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 60
Views: 7,481
Thank you for all the contributions. Always good to have so many perspectives. Guess I'll hold on for some months. And see if pentax can deliver the support. That's my major concern. Because I don't use my gear very well. Put them to all sorts of conditions. Lol
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 03-02-2016, 05:38 PM  
Colourful
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 4
Views: 518
Thank you [emoji4]
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-02-2016, 03:39 AM  
Am I the only one who feels left out buying a pentax?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 60
Views: 7,481
That's exactly how I feel. I didn't know the support is not so well here. Maybe I just fell in love when I held the camera. I didn't do much research. I just held, loved it. And bought then and there. Lol
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-02-2016, 01:15 AM  
Am I the only one who feels left out buying a pentax?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 60
Views: 7,481
Thank you for all your replies. I get the idea that service is a problem with pentax in many areas.

I've never had autofocus problems when it works. My problem was a hardware problem. It was, when I saw a sharp image in viewfinder, it showed autofocus confirmed and would give me a sharp image as well, when I focussed manually to be sharp in viewfinder, it wouldn't confirm focus, and would also give me an out of focus image. It had something to do with the focussing screen. I tried fixing myself, thought the focussing screen has moved, but it didn't fix. So sent for repair after finding Ricoh here. First they denied saying they don't service cameras here. Then I had to speak to some Indias head person, I was happy that he was helpful and did allow me a service. I had to ship my camera to Mumbai. And they shipped for around 3000 rupees. That's about 60$ I guess. Which I had to cover. Then it came back after one and a half month. Upon that it wasn't rectified. I was really pissed off. Somehow it works now automatically. But I still have that dent in my confidence as I said. A feeling that it might return.

However now that it works, it works nice. I don't have problems with it not locking focus or anything of that sort. I just majorly have problems with its availability. Firstly I can't rent from anywhere cuz there are no places who rent pentax gear. Many a times, I just need a lens for a specific project. So I can't justify 1000$ for that project. I'd rather rent like I did on Nikon. I have a few pentax lenses, but I am still not completely into the system, so I still have a chance to bail out, hence he confusion. Because the more I invest into Pentax, the more I'd be looking towards service and such.

Maybe I'll wait for a couple of months and see if they really improve their presence in my regions, if not, I might have to switch, and personally I really loved k3 it's such a brilliant camera. I wish it had more presence. I really love this camera.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-01-2016, 12:44 PM  
Am I the only one who feels left out buying a pentax?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 60
Views: 7,481
That was exactly my confusion. But after holding k3, as honest as I can be, 7100 felt like a plastic toy. K3 really has a very assuring and solid feel to it.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 03-01-2016, 12:28 PM  
Am I the only one who feels left out buying a pentax?
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 60
Views: 7,481
Hey everyone,
It was a tough decision, going from Nikon to pentax, I had some issues with it in the beginning. With focus being blurred. And in India pentax market is really not so well. So had issues with support. Anyway somehow it automatically got fixed after so many months. I don't regret it a bit now. But that experience just put a dent in my confidence to really recommend or when I am commercially working. It's like that little phobia settled in.

Anyway apart from that I am really happy with the camera. Now that it's one year with k3. It gives me everything I need. And I've blown some people away by its image quality and convinced many people to switch too. Some people didn't even know and thought of it to be full frame till many months. Who never heard about Pentax dslrs. However I feel left out in matter of how common it is.

First is the support from other products, everyone supports canon/Nikon. Next is rentals. Next is support. Especially in India. It's so rare to find anything Pentax that sometimes I just feel like ditching this camera. No one even knows Pentax does DSLR!

I just wanted to know is it really that rare in your country/region? Do you feel the same sometimes? Do I switch? Cuz this is sometimes coming in way of my commercial work. And to switch is kind of a tough call. It's like back to zero and I'll have to deal with some broken months if I switch.

Please let me know where do you live and do you feel the same? And any suggestions. I live in Hyderabad, India & Kuwait, and this problem seems to be in both the places
Forum: General Photography 02-13-2016, 02:12 AM  
Poll: I need help choosing out a logo
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 27
Views: 2,360
1. So clean!
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 02-05-2016, 02:21 PM  
Colourful
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 4
Views: 518
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 02-02-2016, 04:33 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Yes it'll take a lot of time.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 02-02-2016, 12:06 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Awesome!
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 02-01-2016, 03:04 PM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Thank you for the suggestions. I guess you are right. It's I think it was more of a challenge in my face about DCU vs Lightroom. Hahah. But I need to accept that both are different and have their pros and cons.

I should rather focus on my photography than getting caught up in this wasting time.

On that note. Please visit my website. To see my actual photography haha.

www.TheLensElement.com [emoji4]
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-30-2016, 07:19 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Yes if RAW, then obviously colour space won't apply to it. So you can change. Since you'll have both RAW and jpeg separate
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-30-2016, 07:13 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
I don't think you can change colour spaces later for the file that we shot. Let's see what Steve has to say.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 03:47 PM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Hahahaha I know. I was just amazed as to how DCU and my camera was able to get that orange out and still manage to make it look better, but not lightroom. I get the point now though. Pixel level
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 11:41 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
I see. I really love the reversal film though. I guess my best bet would be to just use the jpegs or maybe DCU. When I want to get that look
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 11:26 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Hahaha. That's nice. So Much to read tonight [emoji4][emoji4]
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 10:38 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Lol nice one
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 10:33 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
That's alot will read it
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 10:27 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Hmm maybe but as you said that doesn't sound worth the effort
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 09:53 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Oops I purchased those then. What do they do then?
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 09:40 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
I know that. But I have nothing to do with the umbrella. I am just trying to replicate the reversal film process and it's so tough. I have also compared natural and other and it's very tough to mimic the tones rendered from dcu in lightroom. But someone just gave a profile link. I'll check that.

---------- Post added 01-29-16 at 09:40 AM ----------




Thank you so much for this link. Will try out and post here.
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 01-29-2016, 08:55 AM  
Pentax K3 such a huge difference in colours. Between DCU and lightroom.
Posted By Irfanintekhab
Replies: 42
Views: 5,100
Yes I'll do that in sometime

---------- Post added 01-29-16 at 09:18 AM ----------


added the pictures for some reason they come rotated. But you can see the difference. This is the closest i could come by making a profile in Adobe DNG profile manager thing. So maybe a profile would do good. But unfortunately we dont have accurate profiles for pentax k-3 in lightroom that would closely match the camera renderings. Unlike canon, nikon, fuji sony and much more. really sad right now
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