A minimum distance of 1.5 -2 meters would have helped here :-) But even the newspapers here like to photograph people from less distance and make them look "a bit comical" greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Praising K10D performance even with limitations Boris, Light looks ideal to me. If I knew you better I might be tempted to remark about the terrible distortion produced by the lens...but perhaps I shouldn't. :-)) Congratulations on your anniversary! Jack --- Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > Yesterday three of us went to a restaurant in Tel Aviv to celebrate > 9th > anniversary of our wedding ;-). It suffices to say that Galia's > questioning us as to why we're here and our answers and the > discussion > thereafter was full of heartily laughter. > > But to the Pentax content. I have taken AF220T flash, the trapezoid > diffuser (cut from the plastic envelope like explained by the guy on > the > video someone posted few weeks ago) and 31 Ltd lens. Boy, this combo > worked flawlessly. AF worked in almost complete darkness. The > diffuser > produced wonderfully balanced lighting conditions. Finding proper > aperture setting for the manual mode was a piece of cake. And > ultimately, camera produced absolutely consistent white balance. I've > > just converted 4 images from the shoot and it all took me just 5 > minutes. No tweaking whatsoever except extremely minute exposure and > brightness adjustments. > > Pentax most definitely rules ;-). > > Here is my face, if you haven't seen it yet ;-). > > http://not.contaxg.com/document.php?id=16300&full=1 > > Please comment on the quality of light as I still want to learn more > about this "light billiard" I've been playing yesterday with the > diffuser and the flash. > > Thanks. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
