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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
04-09-2019, 06:18 AM
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"Inferior" is subject to a lot of opinion about what people expect from an image. I happen to like your image. The second pair of shoes leads to a lot of speculation.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-30-2016, 02:07 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
03-16-2016, 07:40 AM
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I bought my copy of this lens used. When I mounted it on my (then) K-r and took a couple test shots through the window I thought I had a bad lens. I live in a 110 year old house and much of the glass is original. What I didn't notice with my eyes, but caught VERY well at 300mm was how much distortion the window glass was adding to the image - even at a foot away from the glass and near infinity focus.
The lens worked MUCH better outside my house. :lol:
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-28-2016, 06:25 PM
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We took a vacation and visited out daughter. I didn't bring a lot of gear with me, expecting to shoot landscapes and a few family snapshots. The day we arrived our daughter said "Dad, I need a headshot, today."
Portrait photography is not my strong suit to being with. But I had little of the gear I would have wanted at hand. No suitable backdrop inside her home, no reflectors to work with fairly harsh natural light outside. What do I have?
The final combo was a shady area behind the garage with a little distance to foliage in the next yard, K-30, KA 50mm-f/1.7, built-in flash in wireless mode, Sigma EF-610 DG Super flash - off camera, wireless slave handheld by my spouse.
Since I didn't have any post-process gear with me, I shot RAW+, knowing I would have to give her an out of the camera jpeg and perhaps have an opportunity to give her a tweaked version later. It took a few test shots, but under the circumstances I don't think we did too badly-
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-24-2015, 04:52 AM
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From a couple years ago, but as they say 'tis the season!
(DA 18-135)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
11-04-2014, 06:06 AM
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The K-30 is as weather resistant as its weakest point - typically that will be the lens. Were you using a WR rated lens? And did you leave it mounted until the camera was completely dry? And weather resistant is not the same thing as water proof.
Going back to my film days when there was no such thing as weather resistant photographic gear, I keep a plastic SLR bonnet stuffed in the bottom of my camera bag. It weighs almost nothing and takes no space away from other gear. I'll take photos in light weather with my K-30 and a WR lens, but I'll play it safe when it starts to get seriously wet (or dirty) and slip on the bonnet. Typically a bonnet won't keep your camera dry in heavy weather, but it substantially reduces the water (or air) pressure on your gear allowing the WR features to do their job.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-30-2014, 12:26 PM
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I've been to Maunalua Bay, but it has been a number of years. At first glance I thought this was a shot from somewhere near the airport over to Diamond Head. Oh well, at least I knew the camera was aimed in an easterly direction. :lol: My wife has at least 3 generations of cousins in Pearl City and Ewa, with another branch over on Maui.
Very nice shots. I like to think I would never run out of photographic opportunities in Hawaii, but folks say the same about this area and frankly there are days when nothing new grabs my attention. (We too live on an island, but it is a bit different when you just have to drive across a bridge...)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-21-2014, 05:45 AM
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Other than the lens aperture shaped sun, this HDR feels natural. I like it.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-19-2014, 01:59 PM
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It IS a lovely photo.Photoshop works (obviously). Have you played with reflectors? I find they can do great things in lighting like this. And depending on the couple's desires, I might try playing with some cropping.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-28-2014, 07:22 AM
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My spouse, daughter & son-in-law and I made a trip past the end of the official roads on the Keweenaw Peninsula (juts out into Lake Superior from Michigan). It generally takes about 45 minutes to drive the 7.5 miles / 12km. 4 wheel drive recommended. We visited a remote harbor and the abandoned NASA rocket launching site where I took the attached photos- (jpg snapshots with no post processing, I am still working on post processing for the whole group)
Pentax K-30 with 18-135 lens
Horseshoe Harbor: 18mm, ISO 100, 1/125, F/11
NASA site: 68mm, ISO 100, 1/500, F/6.7
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-10-2014, 03:59 PM
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Absolutely. The K-50 is a K-30 with tweaks - basically a version 2 model.
Really nice shots by the way.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-02-2014, 02:00 PM
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Indeed - and I hope our neighbors enjoyed it!
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
06-04-2014, 07:06 PM
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I pack the P7100 when I am flying and have too much business equipment to squeeze in a dSLR. I also have a scuba-rated underwater case for the P7100. I could afford that case, but I cannot afford a comparable case for my K-30.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
06-04-2014, 06:42 PM
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It was a brutal winter on Lake Superior. Normally all the ice on the Lake is gone by April. We are now in June and there is still ice in the water. The first photo was taken on May 24th near our lake side cottage. The air temperature off the land was around 80F / 27C, but if the wind turned to come off the water the temperature almost instantly fell to 60F / 15C.
First photo taken with my Nikon Coolpix P7100 - the last one of this line that includes an optical viewfinder. It is a semi-pocketable advanced P&S.
Okay, I know what this thread is about .... The second was taken with my K-30 and 18-135 WR on May 25th about a half-mile / 1km from the first photo.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
03-27-2014, 10:48 AM
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When you press the shutter release your camera reads the values of every pixel on its sensor (all digital cameras do this). Your camera then stores those values in one or both of two ways-
RAW - this file format retains the values as seen by the sensor at its designated ISO.
JPEG - in this file format, the computer takes the sensor values and adjusts them according to the current camera settings, and then stores those revised values using a file format that compresses the data.
In short, your camera is a pretty sophisticated computer doing some automated image editing with minimal user input. And when you use AUTO (the green mode on the selection dial), you are telling the camera to use even less user input. You are pretty much limited to a few pre-built editing programs as setup by Pentax engineers.
For general photography, these pre-built programs are actually fairly decent. But move into an image that falls outside what the camera is programmed to handle, image quality can get blah pretty fast. From my perspective there is nothing wrong with using AUTO so long as you recognize and understand where the limitations lie. And the artists participating in this Forum will frequently tell you that most extraordinary images fall outside AUTO's limitations.
For everyone who complains in this Forum that their older point & shot camera took pictures just as good as their expensive dSLR, they are probably correct. And the reason they are correct is in the preceding paragraph.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
03-03-2014, 04:23 PM
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Your turn is coming. :p Our son-in-law grew up in Uruguay, so we get regular weather reports. It has been brutally hot on the Atlantic side of the continent.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-26-2014, 09:07 AM
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Photo taken on January 10th. Well it isn't one of the Great Lakes! I agree with the others. Your camera is using a manual ISO that is at least 4 stops too fast for the light in this scene. Either switch to a wider auto-ISO or manually set ISO to 200. See page 85 in your manual.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-07-2013, 02:05 PM
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:lol: No me neither. Again, I like all the images in your post. Suggestion? Go into your profile and add a location so everyone knows in what part of the world you typically shoot.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-07-2013, 12:51 PM
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Beautiful photos. Now what do you qualify as 'very cold'? That looks like water to me, and it is freely flowing.
It is currently +7F/-14C here on the south side Lake Superior, and my friend in northern Minnesota about 60 miles west of the west end of Lake Superior saw -25F/-32C on his thermometer this morning. And I'll bet some of our Canadian and Alaskan friends to our north would think of that shirtsleeve weather. :)
This is our flowing water at this time of year - sorry not a Pentax image. I had an Olympus P&S in my pocket that day - 28 December 2010, Lake Superior between Eagle Harbor and Copper Harbor, Michigan:
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-20-2013, 05:44 AM
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While I like the photo - to be honest I had to look twice to make sure it was a 'real' scene and not an extremely well photographed miniature. The slight over saturation of the red roofs and nearly identical shade on the picnic tables for all the world look like it came from the artist's same paint bottle.
This is the 'red-stained' as in 'red pencil eraser' camera? If so, you have done some very nice post-processing work.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-18-2013, 11:37 AM
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Very nice moon photo. I've taken similar photos with my 300mm so I am assuming you cropped this image. That or the moon is a LOT closer to Spain than Lake Superior! :)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-07-2013, 11:06 AM
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Actually that is one of the best reds I've seen. It isn't overexposed or oversaturated to the point that detail is being lost. If the rose had been in last month's 'red' contest, it would have had my vote.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
08-13-2013, 03:21 PM
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August 9-10, 2013 - Tall Ships Festival in Chicago (DA L 55-300), plus Cloud Gate (The Bean) in Millennium Park ( DA 18-135) and the Wrigley Building and Chicago Tribune Tower on Michigan Avenue at the Chicago River (DA 18-135).
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
08-06-2013, 02:14 PM
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I've stood very near that same spot several times. Our daughter and son-in-law lived in Cambridge for a couple years. But their career tracks saw them moving to another part of the country last month.
From my wife's camera a couple years ago...
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