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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-07-2024, 02:26 AM
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Different people perceive colours differently. You can show Fred and Joe two photos from two different cameras, one CMOS and one CCD, and Fred might say that he sees no significant difference while Joe says that to him the difference is obvious. They are both right.:)
But if Fred tries to tell Joe that there isn't any difference because he doesn't see one himself. Oh, boy. . . :lol:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-02-2024, 01:58 AM
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Since he joined the forum in December, @Manuel_Portillo has been posting superb photography both in this thread and the B&W film thread. It makes me truly happy to see photographers with his level of talent and skill choosing to join us.
You seem to be choosing to misunderstand what was actually a very clear, straightforward, and valid point that he made.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-07-2024, 10:14 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-25-2023, 10:03 AM
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A sad loss of a great camera. There are others out there but they will never feel quite the same. In the meantime. . .
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-26-2022, 10:21 AM
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And you nailed it! That's a wonderful photo.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-21-2022, 02:35 PM
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If you look at the back of a K or M series lens, you'll see a lever that opens and closes the diaphragm when you move it. That's the stop down lever that closes the lens down to the shooting aperture when you press the shutter. But if you look again, you'll see another smaller lever inside a semi-circular groove that moves when you move the aperture ring. That's the aperture follower. The aperture follower connects to an aperture feeler lever inside the mount on the camera body, and that adjusts a variable resistor in the camera's meter so that it will give a correct exposure reading for the f stop that you've set to shoot at. But only on film era bodies.
Modern digital bodies haven't got an aperture feeler built into the lens mount, so they can't connect to the aperture follower on the lens. So the only way a digital Pentax can get an accurate meter reading with a fully manual lens is to physically stop down for a moment when you press the green button.
When people talk about wanting a DSLR with a "non crippled" mount, what they mean is a mount with an aperture feeler.:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-30-2021, 02:55 AM
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It's hard to tell about the deer's nose being burnt out from that angle. We'd really need a close-up of the grass around it to look for traces of white powder around the hooves, plus the mirror and razor blade he used to cut his lines, and probably a rolled-up £20 note somewhere nearby -- all the usual signs of a deer trapped in the misery of cocaine addiction.:lol:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-28-2021, 03:04 PM
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I'm officially jealous. . . or more accurately seething with envy.
I'm stubbornly holding out trying to get decent results with the K-S1 since my GX-10/K10D took a nose dive off a viaduct, but every time I look at this deeply beloved thread my resolve weakens a bit. There's magic in that old sensor.:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-26-2021, 02:00 AM
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James, that's a wonderfully kind and generous offer but I really couldn't accept it. Losing my GX-10 has left me with a strong feeling that a more compact camera is the way for me to go now, and I've realised that a weighty camera bag over my shoulder just isn't what I want any more. So it wouldn't be fair for me to accept your truly kind offer when I'm not sure if I'd give the camera much use.
I've looked at your profile and I think your photos are really excellent, so it would be great to see some more of your own GX-10 photos when you've got some to post here.:)
Thank you again for your offer. It's a beautiful reminder of how wonderfully good-hearted people can be at their best.:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-20-2021, 12:43 PM
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Thank you for posting those. They are really beautiful, and they remind me so much of the look that I got with my little Olympus XA in Italy back in the nineties. They look, for want of a better term, non-digital, and I mean that in a very positive way.
Perhaps something like a G3 could be just the antidote I need to the utter revulsion that I feel nowadays when I look at photos taken with the latest top-of-the-range digital cameras. Or maybe one of the later G series with a few more megapixels. I think I'll go looking for some sample raw files to play around with. And don't worry, I'm watching out for a replacement GX-10 or K10D too.:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-20-2021, 11:09 AM
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Over here both the K10D and GX-10 are creeping up and up in price, while all the other newer Pentax models are coming down and down. I dunno. . . it's almost as if people are seeing photos taken with those cameras in some sort of an online K10D Club somewhere and deciding that they need some CCD action for themselves.:)
I've been wanting to give one of the early CCD sensored Canon Powershot G series a try for a while, so I think I might pick up one of those. But there's no rush about anything; the K-S1 will do for now. I've epoxied the aperture at f/8 and sawn the aperture lever off the lens so it doesn't catch on the lever inside the camera, and I've taped over all the contacts on the camera mount to make it a fully manual fixed aperture DSLR. Should be fun.:lol:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-20-2021, 02:29 AM
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I thought about it but I just don't think my soldering skills are up to the job, and hearing that @ChristianRock ended up with a damaged body shell on his K-S1 has been enough to convince me not to try. And I'm sure as heck not planning on spending any money to fix the K-S1.
To be honest, there's a part of me that's getting tired of lugging around even the minimalist amount of DSLR gear that I carry, which is perhaps why I'm feeling so unbothered about having dropped the GX-10. For a while now I've been wondering if a good quality compact like the original Leica X or a Fuji X100 might be better suited to the role I want photography to play in my life these days. After all, back in the nineties I used nothing but an Olympus XA with a fixed 35mm lens for almost the whole decade, and I took some of the best photos of my life.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-20-2021, 01:52 AM
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When something's "vanilla" it's sort of conventional, uncontroversial, and. . . well. . . just normal. So, as a GX-10 user, I've always tended to call the standard Pentax version the vanilla K10D.
The Samsung GX-10, meanwhile, is the "kinky" K10D. The one with the sleeker body and the razzle-dazzle menus and the neckstrap made of leather and chains. The one that all the really sexy lenses want to be mounted on.:lol:
So when it comes to replacing my splatticated camera I've got to make a choice. Do I settle down for a cosy pipe and slippers suburban existence with a K10D? Or do I hitch myself to another GX-10 and take another walk on the wild side?
Ah, who am I kidding? It's going to be another GX-10.:lol: In the meantime I've got a K-S1 with aperture block failure, with an 18-55mm that I got for £10 and glued the aperture at about f/8 to make it useable. And that's not kinky, it's downright perverse.:fedup:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-19-2021, 05:52 AM
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Back in my days in the travel industry, if a plane couldn't fly because of a mechanical failure we said it had "gone tech". If a plane that was meant to be flying fell out of the sky for some reason, we said it had experienced a "vertical excursion incident". And if the vertical excursion incident left it in a million little pieces, we said it had suffered "energetic disassembly".
Well, I was taking some snaps at a place called Magpie Viaduct yesterday, and my GX-10 experienced a gravity assisted vertical excursion incident. It didn't energetically disassemble, being far too well built for that, but it has most definitely gone tech. Fatally discombobulated, in fact.
To put it bluntly, it's clobbered.:(
On the plus side, it'll give me an excuse to pick up a vanilla K10D at some point.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-07-2021, 11:30 AM
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That's magical. Damn, that's a magical photograph.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-26-2021, 03:35 PM
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I wanted to have a go at stitching a more complex subject, so I walked out to Sampford Spiney church today. This is 36 frames in four rows of nine again, which seems to be a number that works well in Microsoft ICE. So now I'm reasonably confident that I can deal with any wider angle with just the 18-55mm if I have to. At least I can when it's a static subject.:)
(I've taken more photos this week than I did in the whole second half of last year. Yay me!:lol:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-26-2021, 11:55 AM
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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-26-2021, 11:50 AM
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You DNA has got K10D in it?:eek: Mine just goes GATTACTAGGCTACGGCATAGATCCATGC. . .:lol:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-26-2021, 11:45 AM
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Abandoned mine workings along the river Walkham. This one's a single frame, not a stitch.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-25-2021, 03:46 PM
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Thanks folks. Ray, the only gear is the camera and kit lens -- you know how much I hate tripods, and the modern software does an excellent job of projecting the image even when the camera has been rotated by hand around a point that's nowhere near the entry iris. I think I'm only likely to have any real problems if I try a handheld stitch with a foreground object that's a long way in front of the background, causing parallax error. I'll have to give it a try and see what happens, although in the meantime I've got my eyes out for a Tamron 10-24mm if one turns up at the right price.
Edit: It's occurred to me to add that, although we're still under lockdown here in the UK, I'm very lucky to have picturesque places that I can get to on the daily exercise walk that Boris says I'm allowed. My sympathies are with those who haven't got such a luxury.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-25-2021, 11:27 AM
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Love it. Am I the only one thinking that it would make the most perfectly ironic grave?
Here's a 36 shot stitch of a little island in the river Walkham just before it joins the Tavy at Double Waters -- it's four rows of nine frames adding up to a 180 degree view. Downstream from this the Tavy joins the Tamar, and then about twenty miles further along at Devonport Dockyard you'll find submarines and aircraft carriers. Mostly canoes up at this end though.
There's something unexpectedly liberating about ending up with an 18-55mm as your only lens. Without anything wider you're forced to resort to stitching, and that has the effect of making you stop thinking in terms of focal lengths. You just find a vantage point where you like the view, then collect as many frames as you think you'll need for the stitch-up. I highly recommend it.:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-19-2021, 09:43 AM
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Thanks Christian. Microsoft ICE couldn't get all the tree trunks lined up properly even after several attempts, but Photoshop managed it in the end -- after crunching the numbers for an hour. There are still one or two slightly wonky looking bends in a tree trunk here and there, but hopefully they're not too obvious.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-19-2021, 07:08 AM
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I bet you could get away with posting that one in the film thread pretending it's a scan of a vintage E6 slide and nobody would doubt it. Beautifully done.:)
We had a pause in the storms yesterday and I managed to get out to Burrator Dam for a walk. This is a 27 shot stitch, with a couple of little people hidden away in there for scale.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-14-2021, 12:36 PM
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All I can say is a genuinely heartfelt thank you. I wish there was an emoji that could represent how truly I mean that, but words will have to suffice. Posting again over the past couple of days has made me understand that I'm not back to 100% yet, and I'm sorry about working through these particular issues so publicly, but I promise that I'll be back when I've got some more snaps to share. Signing off now for the next few weeks though. Getting back in touch with the K10D Club has reminded me just how good people are at their best.:)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-14-2021, 03:36 AM
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I'm truly humbled to think that anyone would do such a thing, but really there's no need. I'd blush every time I visited.:)
Hi Glinda. The Dartmoor ponies are semi-wild (so are most Dartmoor humans). The ponies are all owned by farmers, but they live their lives on the moor as if they were wild. The true Dartmoor pony is an exceptionally hardly breed with significant genetic differences to most other equines, although most of the ones you'll see nowadays are partly mixed with the pit ponies that once worked in the mines on the moor.
Here's a snap from last July that I'm sure I wouldn't have posted here since I'd flounced out of the forum in a hissy fit by then. It was the last photo I took before spending five months in cloud cuckoo land.
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