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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-21-2019, 11:18 AM
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Nice shot. I think I stayed in an inn just out of shot to the left when I went to view my now dog when he was a puppy. He was from a farm near Allington. I do recall it all getting a bit raucous outside after closing the night we stayed over
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-15-2019, 09:34 AM
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Saving the pic to PC and checking properties shows the focal length as 35mm. I suspect that is due to the use of 67 lenses and adaptors.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-03-2019, 01:38 PM
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Absolutely lovely shot Mike. The level snow line briefly made me think it was two shots one above the other. I have been laying 900mmx600mmx50mm slabs all day though.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-25-2019, 10:55 AM
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What a great subject for that technique. Very well executed too.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-08-2019, 03:12 PM
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A series of 3 7 vertical frame panoramas taken over a 45 minute period looking down Glen Etive with Buachaille Etive Mòr on the right and the White Corries to the left. It was quite dynamic weather with wind, hail, snow, rain, and sunshine all within minutes of each other. Taken with the Z and 28-45mm.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-28-2019, 04:06 PM
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With a little bit of style.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-12-2019, 02:15 PM
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I still had electricity and two commercial greenhouse fan heaters going. I also have a woodburning stove. So no great hardship. The issue is with an air source heat pump. I read elsewhere of some poor soul having heat pump issues and having to sell his 28-45mm. Luckily mine is still under guarantee for this round of repairs. However if I stop posting pics on the forum completely you will know what has happened.
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A handheld panorama from the battlements of Fort St Elmo in Valletta Malta, looking across Sliema harbour to the Valletta's modern sister city of the same name. This was taken last November. 9 portrait frames with the Z and the DFA 55mm 2.8.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-11-2019, 02:36 PM
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F8.0 and 1/60th. I supported the body on a tripod in the room and, embarrassingly, the lens barrel with my 645 FA 150 mm lens jammed under it on the window sill.
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Another shot from the recent cold snap local to my home. Taken with the Z and DFA 55mm. The view accross Loch Awe from the bottom of my access track. The warmer loch producing heavy mist that lifts a little as soon as the sun rises above the hill behind me. I was down there at this time as I was shuttling electricians and plumbers up the track on a quad bike as the track was not passable to their vans. They were there to fix my central heating on the 31st of January. It had broken down on the 31st of December......
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-11-2019, 02:00 PM
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My 'home' mountain Ben Cruachan with late sun rendering the snow cover pink. 645Z and A 300mm. The slopes are some 16 miles away from the bedroom window I took this shot from.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-07-2019, 04:00 PM
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The City of Valletta in Malta lighting up as dusk falls. This is a panorama of 14 vertical shots with the Z and the DFA 55mm.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-09-2018, 03:50 PM
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Glad to hear that you and your gear are dry
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
09-11-2018, 07:40 AM
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I took a speculative trip up to Rannoch Moor as deeply mixed weather was forecast. All these were shot with the Z and the 90mm macro handheld the first is a handheld panorama of 4 protrait shots stitched in PS CS6. The second is a single handheld shot and the third a stack of two handheld images. The loch is called Loch Ba and the rock reminds me of a crocodile's head. The weather sealing of both camera and lens came in useful to say the least.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-30-2018, 10:54 AM
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Looks like it needs a few clicks left and another few up.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-28-2018, 08:48 AM
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Yes somehow the reds are better through the one 67 I currently own. I also really like the way it renders greens. Pentax has generally done well with greens, but somehow in this horticultural context the slightly less saturated green helps with showcasing flowers.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-28-2018, 04:40 AM
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That is a lovely shot. Really captures the haze from the fires, one of the few hazes worth capturing. One day I will try and get the 600, but maybe I will have to get the 1.4x TC first.
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I have found that locking down the 90mm can be problematic in the wind, let alone a 600 with 1.4tc. Focusing through live view shows the image dancing a little. The tripod seems rock solid with a very heavy duty head, but still there is vibration from the wind.
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That lens really does look good for garden photography. 'True' colour seems to be a feature with many 67 lenses.
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Thank you Susan. It is an unusually photogenic location. There used to be horrible homogenous conifer plantation obscuring this view, but it has recently been cut down. I will be visiting quite regularly to try and get the scene captured in the nearly infinite weather and season moods that present themselves
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-25-2018, 12:53 PM
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Thank you. It has been a scene I visit often. I saw it once as an amazing sky with a cloud bow, a rainbow, sun rays and a distant rain shower. I rushed to the location and all the weather closed in and no shot was worth the running. So I keep going back in hope of a repeat. I like this one, been 20 times and not bothered, but I know there is a weather/composition combination that will make it sing. I will keep going back.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-25-2018, 09:28 AM
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Another moody weather shot, this time in Glen Etive. Handheld with the Z and 28-45mm. I was driving my other half and step son so didn't get much opportunity to shoot on this trip (they don't have the slow and steady medium format genes)
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The road rising over Keils Peninsula with the Isle of Jura beyond. This was taken with the Z and 67 200mm with a pentax adapter lent to me by, then bought from, fellow forum user BobL. It is much better than the 645 A 200 I had before.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-25-2018, 09:10 AM
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Taken a couple of days ago, the River Add estuary flowing into Loch Crinan in the mid evening. It had been raining hard and the clouds parted a little. Z and DFA 90mm.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-29-2018, 03:25 PM
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As the planned location for observing the lunar eclipse was totally clouded over and being drenched with torrential rain I have been revisiting a few images from my early Z owning days. Coming, as I did, from APSC I had some approaches to PP that were not well suited to the Z files. There was one image that completely stumped me with PP. I had 5 bracketed images for this one as the DR was extreme, beyond even the Z. I didn't actually know that at the time as the Z was new to me, but just repeated my APSC workflow for high DR scenes. But... the conditions changed so much, wind on water, clouds forming and racing that HDR was not working for this image. I have posted an older attempt previously and now hate it. I ended up taking two images and tone blending them in Photomatix Pro. This made a total hash of the water and the sky and mountain/sky interface. But it made a good stab at the terrestrial area. I then manually blended the darker of the two images and the tonemapped photomatix image. It isn't perfect but it is a great improvement on my earlier attempts. It is such a beautiful scene, and a unique take on a very well recorded subject, I will probably revisit these images again as I learn more tricks to make it right.
So Kilchurn Castle during the last moments of blue hour ahead of sunrise on a misty morning with the Z and the FA 150 2.8
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-16-2018, 03:03 PM
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Both very lovely. But for me the first one is more meaningful. I love the larger space (literally), above the human history. But that's just my opinion.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-13-2018, 06:10 AM
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Richard, I used to use Flickr but my account got lost when BT Internet and Yahoo parted ways. The Flickr way works well, but so do other approaches. I now use my Pentax albums as a conduit to forum image sharing.
There are two ways I prepare images for the forum. Using photoshop CS6 and/or Lightroom.
1. Export an image from lightroom at 1280px long edge sized to max 999kb, with export sharpening 'standard'. Import the image to a forum album, copy the BB code from the album into the forum post.
2. In photoshop resize to 1280 long edge and 300pixel/inch. Create a copy image in PS and convert it to a smart object. Add gaussian blur at about level 7, modify the blur to obscity value 9 in the smart object. Smart sharpen at 0.2 pixels radius and level 200. Reduce opacity of sharpening in smart object until sharpening artefacts minimise in 100% view. Flatten the image and export for Web at a max file size of 999kb. Import to album and share as above.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-09-2018, 09:19 AM
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The camera side of the adaptor has no metal pin contacts whatsoever. It could be that it is a connector in itself in it's entirety. It is connecting a 67lens to a 645Z and it doesn't support 'auto' anything. It is fully manual. There is only one connector pin on the lens that protrudes when the lens is set to auto, and connects to a pin on the adaptor at the lens mount interface. As the adaptor body makes contact with all of the camera contact pins perhaps there is some 'contact' made, but it isn't via a specific connector pin on the adaptor camera side.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-09-2018, 05:29 AM
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I have cleaned all the contacts. There is actually only one between the lens and adaptor and technically none between camera and adaptor. If only the adaptor is on the camera the mirror up functions 100%. But with the lens on it is hit and miss, mostly miss.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-09-2018, 02:14 AM
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Thanks for trying it out. It is a mystery. Actually it does work for 1 in a 100 attempts. I hope someone who knows about these things can determine the cause. Maybe letting me know here or on the other thread I started.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-08-2018, 03:24 PM
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Thanks, just quick shots with f4 and f 5.6 (from memory, as not recorded in exif). It does render lovely OOF areas at lower f stops. But as it is telephoto it helps to have distance between the subject and the backdrop. For some reason I can't get the 645Z and this combo to work with mirror up. Sounds like the the mirror or the lense activates, but no delay for second activation or sonic beeping to indicate two stage mirror up. Also no image recorded when the it 'fires'
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