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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 2 Days Ago  
The Bokeh Club
Posted By goatsNdonkey
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A good way to learn about bokeh is to carefully look at this entire thread from the beginning. It of course shows a great variety of kinds and degrees of bokeh.

When I did that, I didn't wish to eliminate or disparage any of those kinds and degrees, but I arrived at the view that the best bokeh significantly contributes to the overall image and that image is better than it could possibly be without its contributing bokeh.
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 2 Days Ago  
Caption Contest CAPTION CONTEST ENDING MArch 14
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 8
Views: 439
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I want to thank the academy, my parents, . . . .
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-11-2024, 07:24 AM  
My beginner setup
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 45
Views: 1,536
Thin negatives, meaning less than strong evidence of the image there, generally means underexposure. Expired film is less sensitive than when new and generally needs extra exposure, depending on how old it is. But it could have color shifts and fogging even if you have given the extra exposure it needed t to have had.

I started shooting negative film (as opposed to slide film) a third stop slower than box speed when I was first using an interchangeable-lens SLR around 1971, because I was having some underexposure issues in first rolls shot. It might have been because my camera's meter was off, or because I wasn't (but should have been) exposing for the shadows better.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-11-2024, 06:05 AM  
Post Your Half-Frame Photos
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 3
Views: 545
There are a number of half-frame photos in this old half-frame club thread, as well as some discussion of various half-frame film cameras. Unfortunately, the thread hasn't had any activity since the year it was started and active for a while: 2017.

The HALF-FRAME-35mm Club - PentaxForums.com
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 03-11-2024, 05:55 AM  
A Pentax fullframe DSLR I want to see (and have)
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 29
Views: 1,780
But if I'm carrying a REAL camera, I want to leave the phartsmone at home.
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 03-11-2024, 05:48 AM  
A Pentax fullframe DSLR I want to see (and have)
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 29
Views: 1,780
I would love to have somebody to give me a full-frame digital back for my ME Super!
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 03-09-2024, 07:41 AM  
Caption Contest CAPTION CONTEST ENDING MArch 14
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 8
Views: 439
Boop-boop-ee-doo!
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-04-2024, 02:18 PM  
My beginner setup
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 45
Views: 1,536
Portraits of people can be unflattering when taken with a 28mm that is too close to their faces. Taken from farther back they might not be unflattering at all.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-02-2024, 07:40 AM  
My beginner setup
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 45
Views: 1,536
The way to learn to use the 28mm is to try to do everything it can do with it. Close ups, distant horizons, point it downward, point it upward, photograph faces, groups of people. street scenes, urban views, rural views, pristine nature, factories, boats, rocks, water, clouds. Concentrate joyfully on everything it CAN do that the 50mm cannot do that way!

Don't think of its ability to bend straight lines as some horrible flaw----think of that as one of its supper powers. With it, rectangular structures, towers, poles, bridges, flat horizons all become mutable in your hands! And it can bring things on the periphery into unlikely context with any central subject in thought-provoking ways. It can't do those things to the degree to which a wider angle lens can, but it can do them.

Also, if you can, shoot both black-and-white and color film with it, not just one or the other. It might excel with one of them in unexpected ways with certain kinds of subject matter.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-01-2024, 10:54 AM  
My beginner setup
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 45
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No, I didn't mean that. However, if you were in a narrow street and wanted to photograph the colorful facade of a building on the north side of the street, but, with you back against a building on the south side of the street, your 28mm couldn't take in everything you wanted to include in that picture, you would need a wider angle lens to do that.

Ordinarily, there is no reason why you shouldn't photograph from any distance your particular 28mm is able to, from closest to infinity., but you don't always have the option to stand at the best location for doing that for some subject matter.

In my own practice, rather than carrying around a lot of lenses, I like to put a lens on a camera, and that day take the most interesting pictures that lens can take. That means not getting upset about the ones I might have taken with a different lens, but reveling in what the lens I have with me can do. So, if I had to pass on such a street scene as I mentioned as an example, that would be okay....but sometime I might want to have a wider angle lens on my camera in a similar situation.
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 03-01-2024, 10:18 AM  
Caption Contest Caption Contest -Feb 29- 6 March 2024
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 10
Views: 402
My eyes are NOT brown! They're hazel.
Forum: Homepage & Official Pentax News 03-01-2024, 10:10 AM  
Pentax announces 35mm half-frame camera coming this summer
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 3
Views: 273
Dwayne's Photo and Old School Photo Lab, both in the USA, will do half-frame film-processing and scanning.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-01-2024, 09:37 AM  
My beginner setup
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 45
Views: 1,536
Even if you only had a 50mm and a 28mm for a long time, for years I mean, there is so much that you could do with them. In the early days of photography some amazing artists only had one lens (or maybe two). They became experts in understanding how that lens could see their world. And there can be a lot to discover about the differences between the special, but different, strengths of your 28 and your 50 --- the things each wants to do and can do. When you know some of those things, you'll be able to walk right to the spot in a scene either lens would want to be in order to see its surroundings best.

I think it is best to think about the strength of the lenses you have, rather than their deficiencies, but you may of course discover things you want to do that are hard for them. So here are just a few things to think about:

-- any lens longer than your 50mm might be considered a better portrait lens, in that you don't have to be as close to the portrait subject as with the 50 and that can put such persons more at ease. So anything from 80mm-150mm might fill that category, and with more 135mms made there are more choices and a wider price range among them.

-- a l35 can be also considered a short-telephoto also, but one of them that can focus at closer distances than some others might also be good for taking close-up pictures of small things, too (I don't want to say "macro" since that is usually an incorrectly used term). It might not do that better than your 50mm if it can focus on very near things, but the 135 would give you more space between you and them, as in human portraiture.

-- if you find yourself wanting to take closer pictures of things you can't get near enough to with a 135, a 200mm might be a good option. That was another very popular length, and like the 135, should be easy to find.

--on the other hand, if you can't seem to take in as much of a scene as you want because you can't stand far enough from it with your 28mm, look for something wider. If that is hard to find find, you might have to wait until you unexpectedly discover one.

The things I am saying are very basic, and you might have already thought of some or all of them, in that case, I only mean to remind you of their significance.

On this forum, you may sometimes see this abbreviation: LBA. It stands for Lens Buying Addiction. When we have that bad, it can mean we are focusing too much on collecting lenses than on taking photographs, and we know it and have to joke about it to help us cope with that. I am wishing you more happy photographing than LBA.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 02-28-2024, 05:59 PM  
Digital gear p0rn - post it if you've got it
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 264
Views: 17,540
It has to be a good lens if it passes the cookie test!
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-27-2024, 08:03 PM  
Just Black and White-ur B/W Monochrome photos here
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 30,105
Views: 2,086,900





k10d with Sigma Mini Wide II 28mm F2.8
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-27-2024, 07:57 PM  
Show me a Sign! Billboards,sign,bus ads,shop signs go here!
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 6,891
Views: 607,537


k10d with Sigma Mini Wide II 28mm F2.8
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-27-2024, 07:52 PM  
Thematic Post Your Cloudscapes
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 5,571
Views: 360,726


k10d with Sigma Mini Wide II 28mm F2.8
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-27-2024, 07:47 PM  
Thematic Post your Church images
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 1,193
Views: 104,436




k10d with Sigma Mini Wide II 28mm F2.8
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-27-2024, 07:42 PM  
Rust Never Sleeps!-post your rust images here.
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 3,118
Views: 270,904


k10d with Sigma Mini Wide II 28mm F2.8
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 07:16 AM  
Just Black and White-ur B/W Monochrome photos here
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 30,105
Views: 2,086,900
I personally don't think mirror lens highlights look at all like donuts. I think they look far more like Spaghetti-Os.

It can depend a lot on how many of them there are and what they are doing in the background for me to consider whether they distract from or contribute to the image somehow.

In this case, the pattern reminds me especially of the swirly "bubble bokeh" of some prized antique lenses, some of which I could not afford to buy!
Forum: Lens Clubs 02-24-2024, 06:55 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 40,769
Views: 4,310,331


K10D + RMC Tokina f8 500mm mirror (as b-b-b-bul-lack-and-white bokeh monster)
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 06:51 AM  
Just Black and White-ur B/W Monochrome photos here
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 30,105
Views: 2,086,900


K10D + RMC Tokina f8 500mm mirror (as b-b-b-bul-lack-and-white bokeh monster)
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 06:46 AM  
Rust Never Sleeps!-post your rust images here.
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 3,118
Views: 270,904


K10D + RMC Tokina f8 500mm mirror
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 06:43 AM  
Thematic Show your texture, pattern, repetition, shape etc. shots here!
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 4,173
Views: 323,226


K10D + RMC Tokina f8 500mm mirror
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-24-2024, 06:38 AM  
Thematic Cliche perhaps, lets see Silhouettes
Posted By goatsNdonkey
Replies: 679
Views: 59,718



K10D + RMC Tokina f8 500mm mirror
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