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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-08-2013, 11:09 AM
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Sunlit flowers on the kitchen table. And, the old motel in Solana Beach, California... 16-45mm lens, TAv, f/4, 1/100, ISO 3200.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-06-2013, 01:08 AM
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'Santa Ana' today in San Diego, hot winds coming in from the eastern desert, wildfires sending a thick plume of smoke out over the sea. K-30 with 18-55 WR lens. A surfer at sunset... Swami's (Self-Realization Fellowship)... and a train at the old station in Carlsbad.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-14-2013, 10:49 AM
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At the beach early this morning, flat gray light, clearing fog. They are rebuilding the bridge at Del Mar, California, and the train has to go slowly underneath it, which helps a lot. K-30 with 16-45mm lens at 26mm, on TAv, 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 320, cropped and edited with Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-13-2013, 09:29 PM
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@lectrolink... looking through the photos here, just saw your San Pedro 'figurehead' shot. Just perfect!
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-07-2013, 01:14 AM
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Hot day, drove to the San Diego coast town of Coronado... they were setting up a corporate food bash on the beach by the hotel... with this strange moon-like globe light. Had my K-30. Also, a Photoshopped merge of two images to make one picture of the San Diego skyline, as seen from Coronado.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-03-2013, 08:38 PM
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San Diego. At the baseball game yesterday, K-30 with 55-300mm lens. TAv, 1/800, f/10, ISO whatever. The K-30 is excellent for sports, more than fast enough if you pre-focus on a spot where action may develop. Camera is way better than I am ... missed several shots by mistakenly spot-focusing on a player behind the one I wanted. Ergonomics are superb... so easy to handle... never had to think.
Last pic below is from an RX100... I keep it in my shirt pocket for wide-angle images. Easier than changing lenses on the K-30, don't have to carry a camera bag. Love the 55-300mm lens... next challenge will be to learn the 55mm end of it. Portraits? detail shots? Pre-set for street photography grab shots? We'll see.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-03-2013, 08:25 PM
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San Diego, at the baseball game yesterday. A small Sony RX-100 in my shirt pocket for wide angle shots, and the K-30 with 55-300mm lens for sports action. Not a very exciting game -- two last-place teams, hot humid day, few attempts at base-stealing and no plays at home plate. But great hot dogs, and the cold beer sure hit the spot!
First 3 pix below from the K-30 on TAv. Lens at 1/800, f/10, ISO whatever. The K-30 autofocus is more than fast enough for action photography. Particularly for a sport like baseball, where you can pre-focus at a particular spot where action may develop. The 300mm lens gets you in so close -- you have to keep your other eye open to see what will be coming into your viewfinder. The K-30 is a far better camera than I am a photographer -- when I missed a shot, it was usually because I had the spot focus mistakenly on a player behind the one I wanted to photograph. K-30 camera and lens ergonomics are perfect for sports. You can't miss, it's a delight.
Last pic below is from the RX100, so you can see the whole stadium. Chose to use it instead of taking a Pentax 28mm lens along -- what with beer and soda splashing, dust in the air, etc. My challenge now will be to get everything I can out of the 55-300's widest setting... the 55mm end. It's not wide angle, but should work fine for portraits and detail closeups... we'll see.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
08-19-2013, 11:14 PM
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At the San Diego Zoo this morning. 55-300mm lens really gets you up close. Used it for all except the young Maylayan Tiger, which was pacing back and forth behind a glass wall, hoping it could eat the nearby children.
The bird at right in the second picture is a Sulawesi Green Imperial Pigeon, ducuta aenea, from Indonesia.
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