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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-01-2021, 09:08 AM
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KP | DA18-135 @ 135 | significant crop |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-17-2021, 02:01 AM
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I like your late review very much! - Written very well IMO and garnished with nice images. :)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-01-2019, 06:27 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-31-2018, 04:16 AM
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x-post ... Crashed In Dim Light  KP • DA18-135@48 • ISO12.800 • f/9 • 1/160s |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-29-2018, 01:51 AM
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Thank you! I remember your Kilimanjaro posts and liked them very much!
I posted a panorama in the B&W thread. There you see Langkofel and Plattkofel as main mountains within a wonderful mountain site.
Some days later my wife and me took another route that winded behind the Plattkofel, right mountain in the obove mentioned panorama, where at some time we met a view of the (I think) Sella Group, Dolomites. There I also made a panorama - since I didn’t have a tripod with me, this time I did it handheld. Again Combo KP • DA18-135. From your posts I know that you sometimes work that way too. Here’s my attempt. A wonderful mountain site …
 KP • DA18-135@40
This image consists of four images in landscape mode stitched with PTGui, post processed in Capture One Pro. The second image I rate very important for the composition. The direction of the „dotting stones“ within the darker meadow underline the diagonal aspect and slope …
 KP • DA18-135@40
This image also can easily stand for itself IMO. :)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-28-2018, 11:07 AM
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At the end I mostly only took the DA15 and DA18-135 with me on my recent trekking tours, sometimes accompanied by the DA55-300PLM. Because of weight I left K-1 at home and took KP with me. I don't regret it! :D
A somehow lightweight and compact setup for what it is and with great image quality. When I look at the images I took with the KP • DA18-135 combo my impression is compared to K-5 • DA18-135 the images overall are better with the KP. This I also feel when I'm looking at DA15 images. I'm pretty happy. :)
 KP • DA18-135@18 |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-18-2018, 02:08 AM
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Another Couple from the city walk - KP • DA18-135@135   Capture One Pro 11 pp • both pitctures cropped
Since I like such tele pictures I think next time I'll also take the DA55-300PLM with me. |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-17-2018, 12:08 PM
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Ancient Skylines  
KP and DA18-135 plus DA15 are a very convenient setup for city strolling. |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-11-2018, 01:55 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-11-2018, 01:15 AM
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I guess it really takes a lot of time and feeding to get such trust.
Did you work with fixed focus, using the swivel screen and moving the camera to get the bird's eye in focus?
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-10-2018, 09:28 AM
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Wonderful picture - thanks!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-04-2017, 10:18 PM
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With this picture you could try a dramatic Black & White conversion! ;)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-24-2017, 11:04 AM
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Shadow looks like a kangaroo :lol:
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-07-2016, 12:28 PM
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If I remember right you used DA18-135 plus DA15 as hiking kit - same as me.
I don't think every lens for the K-1 has to be a FF lens. So I decided to go with the new 55-300PLM. In addition I'm dreaming of a 31Limited for the wide end. With my DA TC 1.4 I get up to 420mm and used with the 31Ltd I'd get strong 43mm optics in FF providing there's no vignetting. My M1.7/50 and M2.8/28 don't show vignetting if I remember correctly - ok, wide angle plus TC is a bit unusual - but it should work IMO.
The 55-300PLM shows very good IQ IMO. If interested you can find some pictures and some more infos about the lens I put on the thread "Opinions on the 55-300 RE...". I'm "working" on a hiking kit of three lenses plus TC: a new Pentax 20mm (if it has superb IQ) that doesn't exist at the moment, the 31Limited, the 55-300PLM and the DA TC1.4 - the last two I already own.
Sounds a bit nuts?
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-26-2016, 11:55 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-14-2016, 09:47 PM
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Evening Blue  |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-09-2016, 08:55 AM
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Showing images in a lens specific forum doesn't mean that people want to show the strength or weaknesses of that lens - IMO. They just want to show images they took with that lens. Some people love contrasty colors, some black & white, some over sharpened images and they show this. We don't need to love these images.
Color adjustment often is nessessary because lighting could not be captured properly. This has not nessessarily to do with the lens you have chosen.
And yes, cheap optics can deliver very well and many people can't see any differences compared to expensive optics - especially at web sized images.
Not showing exif info isn't a hint on fake. Images contain a lot of information besides exposure time, aperture, lens model etc. - so people feel more secure if they don't show them.
I'd conclude people don't want to fake.
If you want to make a decision about a lens I'd recommend to read what different people write about the lenses, get hands on the lens by yourself, mix up all info and your own experience, set your priorities for the decision (always a compromise) and then do what makes you happy. :)
Besides IQ there are other qualities of lenses to consider. I preferred the DA15 over the DA12-24 just because I liked the metal body and feeling (haptic) of the 15 a lot more. Optically the DA12-24 seems to be better in some aspects - especially corner sharpness.
Sorry - you didn't ask for my advice. ;)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-09-2016, 06:59 AM
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I'd like to say it in a little bit other words:
In camera processing is post processing! Strange isn't it?
No, it isn't. Your camera contains a computer with a raw converter software. Setting a special image profile at your camera configures / sets parameters that are applied while converting the raw data into a jpeg image. The resulting image you can see in raw captures as preview images on the camera display.
Today you even can set in camera special parameters for highlight recovery etc. - so a kind of local adjustments!
Learn to set the camera settings is nothing else than post processing.
I prefer to do these things on an "external" computer. So I photograph using the raw file format and have more time to get it right some time later. This external post processing can be done using presets like the ones you choose on your camera or you do it more refined using local adjustments, digital grad filters etc.
:)
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Hm - you always see a post processed file that did settings for these things when look at a jpeg file!
Talking about lens characteristics, we can say there are some methods in post processing - also in camera !!! - to get rid of lens weaknesses. So what is truth? What we can state is that the better the lens, the less post processing corrections have to be done and image rendering is always a result of lens characteristics plus raw file processing based on a given sensor with specific characteristics :). Not all weaknesses of lenses can be corrected to satisfaction in post - like decentering effects, general unsharpness etc. … so it's always good to get good optics and a good copy of it. :)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-31-2015, 03:39 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-30-2015, 11:22 AM
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 K5 - DA18-135 |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-25-2015, 10:32 AM
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x-post
 Mirrored Forest |
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-28-2015, 12:47 AM
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x-posted
Heron  K5 - DA18-135@135  K5 - DA18-135@115  K5 - DA18-135@135 |
