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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-19-2018, 12:16 PM
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Something often ignored. If you can fix it in PP, it's not a problem.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-08-2018, 08:22 AM
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We use a Nikon 130 AW and we find the opposite. I really dislike the Nikon colour rendering, as do many others here. I guess it's whatever you get used to.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-07-2018, 07:28 AM
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I miss my hand held light meter. I'm sure it is around somewhere but it stopped working in the 90s after a 30 year career. I'm sure if it still worked I'd be checking to see how many times I use the EV dial to get the exposure an incident reading would have given me right off the get go. A DSLR is like using a spot meter all the time.
Thses days with digital, no one cares much about how many test shots they waste getting the exposure the way they want. When each roll of 24 shots cost you 10 bucks for film and processing and you didn't see the results for a week, an incident light meter was the way to go. These days we all just chimp.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-06-2018, 09:06 AM
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And don't forget to learn to use the histogram. The camera can choose the speed it thinks is best, you still need to set it to the speed you think is best for maximum results. The EV adjustment is your friend. My range of EV settings ranges from -3 to +2 EV, depending on what I'm shooting.
The camera doesn't know if you want to keep all the highlights and clip the shadows ore exposes for maximum shadow detail. The cameras light meter gives what it guesses you might want to shoot. Most of the time what want to shoot is different, tot he pint where many of my cameras are set to -0.7 EV by default. I just find if i start from 0EV and am paying attention, that's where I end up, and that's ben true for every Pentax camera I've owned be it my XG-1, my Optio 90 or my Nikon 120 AW. - 0.7 EV seems to be my style, You should be figuring out what yours is.
When I live the house, my camera is set to -0.7 EV, I'll change it if it seems necessary.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-06-2018, 08:43 AM
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As I said, forget what the Nikon is doing, just learn to get the image you want with your K-1. Auto mode is not your friend. and while ƒ11 is a nice safe landscape aperture, so are ƒ8 and ƒ16, depending on the scene being captured. Take control of that stuff. AV mode all the way.
Start with the aperture you want, turn on the histogram, use the EV adjustment to centre your histogram. Chimp your images to make adjustments. What your Nikon is doing is irrelevant. It won't help you get better images on your K-1. The K-1 has everything you need. You're complicating the issue.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-06-2018, 07:45 AM
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The key thing here is ƒ3.5 on the Pentax. Setting the camera to ƒ8 and AV will solve that.
I'm not so concerned with the Nikon which to me is irrelevant. If you didn't have it in the mix what would be your advice for increasing DoF?
Personally, I'm not going to use any mode that tells me to use ƒ3.5 for landscape, that's a pretty serious error just in itself.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-06-2018, 07:27 AM
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Dude, we've been thought this. No one cares if the DOF is the same if it's a different picture, and if you change the field of view it's a different picture.
You have to use a shorter lens on APS_c to get the same field of view and the shorter lens will give you more DOF.
Get with the program.
It is simply astounding that there are still folks around who don't understand this after all we've been through. Same picture, same FoV, more DoF on APS-c. Dig it. :D
Same lens, same distance etc. same DoF, but different picture.
APS-c and FF picture (move back or change lenses, APS-c equals more DoF either way.
This ancient slight of hand, comparing the DoF on different images is getting really, really old. Anyone, absolutely anyone with expereince shooting different formats understands this.
"Hey to get the same FoV on my APS_c from the same spot on APS_c and FF, I have to change lenses."
It's not rocket science. ( But it is optical science.)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-06-2018, 06:33 AM
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Landscape on a K-1 should be shot at ƒ8-ƒ16. Use AV mode, set your ƒ-stop, let the camera do the shutter speed. Use a tripod if you have a long exposure and the shutter speed is slower than 1/6s.
An MF lens with hyperlocal settings is nice for getting everything in focus. If not find something a third of the way into the frame and focus on that.
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