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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
4 Days Ago
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I haven't shot jpg in years, all my stuff is raw. But that's my decision, and your choice to shoot jpg is yours. Knock yourself out, enjoy your new camera and the images you make! :D:D:D
(and if you tire of the camera I'll take it off your hands...;))
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Forum: Product Suggestions and Feedback
4 Days Ago
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An airbag for the camera, yes. Don’t need one for the bozo. ;)
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Forum: General Talk
05-12-2022, 02:21 PM
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Yep, but this viewer is in the UK. :(
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-12-2022, 02:17 PM
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Is this any more convincing?“I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home. As I reached an intersection a hedge sprang up obscuring my vision and I did not see the other car.”
or this old favourite:–“I saw a slow moving, sad faced old gentleman as he bounced off the roof of my car.”
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
05-12-2022, 05:17 AM
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Back in the mists of time, before many of us were even a twinkle in our grandparents’ eyes, someone came up with the variable aperture for a lens so these gentleman photographers weren’t limited to the f/8.3 maximum aperture of their Dallmeyer Double Anastigmatic glassware. In order to predict how many hours an exposure should be increased when using a smaller aperture, the control had a calibration scale which soon acquired click stops so you might accurately set these reduced apertures. The term “f stop” arose from these matters, or so it has always seemed to me. One click would usually halve (or double) the exposure although some manufacturers gave an option of half stops.
Later, the introduction of shutter mechanisms to accurately time exposures less than a second led to shutter speeds also being calibrated to give the photographer predictable exposures. Since f stops doubled (or halved) the exposure from one click to the next, it was practical to do the same with shutter speeds. Photographers soon grew to regard changing shutter speed by one click as increasing or decreasing exposure by “one stop” just as they did with aperture settings.
Electronics and finally digital gave us half or third stop variations in both shutter speed or aperture as well as sensitivity of the sensor. Halving the ISO is equivalent to halving the exposure (if nothing else changes).
Some things just need to be remembered.
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Forum: General Talk
05-08-2022, 12:32 AM
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
05-08-2022, 12:22 AM
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I used to use Photoshop CS2 with my K7, but I shot raw files as .DNG. These aren’t pixel-shifted images, are they?
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Forum: Product Suggestions and Feedback
05-07-2022, 01:14 PM
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I'd like an automatic Rule-Of-Thirds composition checker which would warn the photographer when the photo just taken doesn't conform. Then I could laugh like a drain and just keep my own composition anyway. :lol:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-07-2022, 01:07 PM
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Top of my list would be the Pentax MX, a small and fully capable film SLR with the capabilities of the KX but that really compact body wrapped around a fabulous viewfinder. (yes, I've had one since forever) :cool:
But would it succeed? Nope. I hate to think what it would cost now and although film is enjoying a revival it's a really small niche within a shrinking niche. Sorry. :(
I hope you have a great class, film is where it all started for me!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-05-2022, 11:12 PM
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Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em - two for the price of one …..
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Forum: General Talk
05-05-2022, 01:32 PM
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I tried to think where I've heard these before, but I'm sorry I haven't a clue. :(
My favourite:– Monsieur et Madame Isthesoundofaracingcar and their son Pierre... ;)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-04-2022, 11:27 PM
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If you want to know how much a particular item might sell for on eBay, search for it using a “Sold items” search filter. That will also give an idea how many have sold recently.
Don’t take a list of others merely offered for sale as your guide - many of these will never sell, like the Rolex watches at $12345….. ;)
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
05-04-2022, 11:40 AM
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Printed on a joiner/carpenter's invoices (back in the day) was the following:–
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Forum: General Talk
05-03-2022, 02:08 PM
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Well ah ain't no bot but ah jes' haven't a clue. Gotta google the gal...
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... nope, didn't help. Sorta basic ball player and we jest plain don't play ball hereabouts, nosirreee. :confused:
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-02-2022, 04:55 AM
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The truth is out there. Waaaaaaay out there.
Only downside to life deep in the rabbit hole is ya keep bashin’ ya head and steppin’ in rabbit poop. Ah hates when that happens. :mad:
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Forum: General Talk
05-01-2022, 12:19 AM
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There was a guy who said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member? :lol:
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-30-2022, 11:16 AM
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There’s also Burt Munro, another Kiwi, who set the under-1000cc motorbike land speed record when aged 68. This record still stands! Anthony Hopkins made a great film about Munro, titled The World’s Fastest Indian.
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Forum: General Photography
04-30-2022, 01:11 AM
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I shot B&W and processed my own prints, so yes, I spent the time needed to get the results wanted. That’s what was such fun about it! Whatever results I had were only from the effort put in.
Nowadays I shoot digital and run the images that seem successful through post processing to get what I want: since I don’t simply accept the camera’s opinion of my image, there might be quite a bit of processing involved or there may be almost none. So I never compare an original with a processed version because I haven’t got some “original” to compare it to, only a generic preview.
I hope everyone’s stocks of popcorn are holding up! :lol:
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-30-2022, 12:45 AM
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T’missus met a paramedic we used to know who told her he was the first healthcare worker to catch Covid in his area, two years ago, and thought he was dying for real but did recover and went back to work. His phone was constantly going off with colleagues asking for symptom info while dealing with other cases. They saw so many cases they got to recognise which cases were probably going to hospital to die and which were probably going to recover after hospitalisation. Grim job.
He said it’s completely different now with both the new variants (which are less lethal) and the new treatments such as those foul-tasting antivirals, so chin up old chap, it could be a lot worse!
Oh, and another friend went right off tea for a month, but is making real progress….!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-29-2022, 02:47 PM
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I thought Covid played merry havoc with your sense of taste? Glad to see your gubmint is dishing out antivirals (that’s what they are, eh?) Hope you’re feeling better soon, the prospects are so much better than two years ago. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-29-2022, 02:41 PM
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It might be interesting to compare soccer-hosting place names with other mangled names. Cholmondeley for one, also Beauchamp. Be glad your surname isn’t Featherstonehaugh! Which variety of satnav is it anyway that can’t pronounce Swindon??? :p
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-28-2022, 11:00 PM
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Last week we went to another star of satnav mangling to see the Galloway Hoard exhibition, a collection of silver and some gold dug up from a field 8 years ago. The BBC also has problems pronouncing Kirkcudbright. :lol:
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-28-2022, 10:46 AM
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There is something missing – Developer Studio 3 (Silkypix) LE is by today's standards a very basic editor. In fact looking at the manual for the latest version 8 it's still a very basic editor. The only editing it can do which affects part of the photo instead of the whole thing is dust spot removal: all the other tools are global. Want to warm up the shadows without turning the rest orange/yellow? Nope. Want to darken the sky without also darkening skin tones? Nuh-uh. Want to lighten only the subject to better stand out from the background? F'geddabahdit.
This is the other weakness of Silkypix I can see – by default it saves your edited photo as JPG. Yes, TIFF is an option but you've just said you don't use it, so you're not even keeping all the data in an edited version of the raw file. As others have said, JPG are 8 bits per channel, TIFF are 16-bit, so the risk of banding in an edited photo is higher. If you send your photos off for printing, a decent print company is quite capable of handling these "incredibly big" files, thus reducing the banding risk.
Of course some RAW editing programs offer more than others, most offer "local" adjustments. That means you can selectively lighten, or darken, or alter contrast, or colour balance, or sharpen, or remove irritating details instead of just being limited to changing the whole photo at one time.
I'm not going to recommend which RAW editor to use because my editor is old (although very capable), but there are many, and the members will soon recommend their own favourites.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-27-2022, 11:19 PM
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Would that be the Rover P6 series Tim? The Gordon Keeble was built in the 60s so now you know where Leyland took their styling cues from! :cool:
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-27-2022, 12:39 PM
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This rang a bell in the dustier corners of the old onion and I'm sure there is no actual connection other than they're both cars, but this rarity was owned and driven by a local man when I was growing up:–
(this isn't the actual one)
The Gordon Keeble GT: designed by Guigaro at Bertone. Chevrolet 5.4 litre V8 and disc brakes all round. Fibreglass body so it doesn't get acne. The owner was a local character, so the car was appropriate to the man.
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