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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-13-2017, 09:41 AM
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Don't get me started on purchasing furniture.
A little more on topic, let me get this straight, photographing photographers is a “thing”. And I thought it was just me.
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-26-2016, 03:27 PM
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There are just some things you can't un-see!
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-04-2014, 06:34 PM
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There is a wide spot in the road up to a place called the Arctic Valley Ski Bowl Area. The road on the map is “Arctic Valley Road” but the locals call it “Ski Bowl Road”. On a clear day you can see all of Anchorage, the Air base and the Army Fort. There is a mountain behind (as you are looking at the valley) and more mountains on the other side of the valley. If the weather is good the sun sets can be a treat. The problem is if you go in the summer the weather may be good but it will be very late at night until the sun sets.
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-18-2012, 08:08 AM
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When I was at the 9/11 center at Thanksgiving I did see 2 Pentax on the streets of New York. But last weekend that I had in Hawaii was a surprise. I was walking around the Waikiki beach. The beach is loaded with tourist and not surprisingly a lot of Japanese tourist. Most were having fun documenting just about everything in sight. Mostly using camera phones or P&S's. This Japanese tourist spots me with my K5 and is happy to see another Pentax shooter. He wanted to see what model of camera I had and show me he had a K-r. I don't speak any Japanese and he did not speak any English but I did get it that he thought that Pentax were very good cameras.
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-03-2012, 09:04 PM
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You are indeed correct and sharp eyed. I stand corrected. After looking some other photos I have of this boy in one I can see the back of the camera. In that photo I can see the slightly larger size of the back LCD screen so that would make it a K20. As to the lens all I can tell is that it is a DA 18-55 but I can't make out the label on the top to see if it is a I or a II.
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-03-2012, 10:35 AM
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I was at the landing of the Super Guppy last weekend. This was essentially a big photo opp. 100S of people were at the event. 90% plus with some kind of camera. There were probably 50+ DSLR mostly the usual Canon and Nikon. I did see a Sony Alpha and and more then 1 or 2 Pentax. I even spotted a 645D.
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Mostly with Pentax it has been with older photographers but I have seen a new trend to the younger like this with a K7 or K5.
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I am also seeing some other new trends. For example I had my camera on a tripod (mostly so I did not have to hold it all the time and to create space around me), I would meter and take 1 photo. Around me when ever I would hear someone take a photo is was almost always 3 shots at a time. When I noticed this I started looking around and watching the other photographers. Almost all of them were not metering just shooting 3 frame bracketing. Just point, shoot and pick the best one later.
Another trend I am seeing more is more shooting like this.
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Even when using a big lens and using the optical view finder would be faster, easier and a lot more stable, more new photographers seem t bring there cell phone photograph to a DSLR.
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-11-2011, 12:10 PM
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This made me think about how often I changes lenses, so I went back and counted what I did yesterday. Saturday when I went out would have been a typical day so I would not have done anything to different except it was hot. Hot makes me lazy and it shows in some of the photos.
I was out shooting at 2 different places and times. An early afternoon and a late afternoon until sundown.
The early afternoon was more open space and I used zooms. So there were a lot of different focal lengths but because I was using zooms I only changed when I was going very wide or to moderate short telephoto. In 2h 25m 42 photos 8 lens changes.
The late afternoon was more street type photos using mostly primes with 1 very wide zoom. In 3h 15m 84 photos with 10 lens changes.
Now the interesting thing about this (at least to me) is not how many times I changed lenses but how many time there was some one around to see it and how little time someone could have seen a lens change. Out of 18 lens changes from memory only about 5 times where there people around to see it (although I did gets some looks like I had taken the camera apart on the street). I takes only about 30 seconds to change a lens so out of 340 minutes of shooting only about 9 minutes could anyone see me changing a lens.
The places I went were tourist type places. I saw dozens of Canon and Nikon (maybe 1 Pentax but I can't be positive as it had gotten dark but I did see 2 film cameras in use), even more bridge/P&S but by far the most common camera I saw was the cell phone by 2 to 1. No lens changes (except for me) mostly kit lenses and no hoods in use. So what this tells me is that most people are just out capturing memories. The ones with DSLRs are just looking for a little better camera to capture memories with not to be an artist. They may have spent to much (they were either over sold and/or they over bought) but fantastic photos is not what they are after. The ones that are trying for the arts stuff will have a tripod and/or more lenses with them. They are the ones that are more interesting (sometime funny) to watch.
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-10-2011, 12:42 PM
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Your right. Silly me. Lets just all go out and buy $600-1000 of camera and lens but not use the little piece of plastic the company thought we would need and gave us.:rolleyes:
DAZ
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-03-2011, 02:17 PM
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Maybe this would explain why the only thing rarer then a Pentax users are people that use lens hoods.
DAZ
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