Hi, Lovely pictures, I envy you having a good camera while your son is that young, my memories from 8 years ago are recorded on a 640x480 P&S.
Glad you enjoyed our little country. Cheers, Andy. Digital Image Studio wrote: > Hi Team, > > I'm back from three weeks in the UK and Ireland, unfortunately I was > unable to deviate from the schedule that I was set and consequently I > sadly missed out catching up with a handful of PDMLers but there's > always next time I guess :-( > > I shot almost more images in three weeks than I had over the previous > year however most were family oriented, not really subjects that I was > able to explore purely as photographic studies. We only had a couple > of days where we were sight seeing of sorts and then we were with > others and rushed so seeing the photo ops just pass by was a little > frustrating. > > In any case it's the first time that I've used the K10D on any trip > longer than a weekend so I've come to appreciate it's strengths and > weaknesses. Firstly no arguments it served me well, I love the speed > of the thing and going back to the rear display size of the *ist D is > a real shock however it wasn't all roses. > > The extra bulk wasn't too bad but then I was working out of a big > pack, I have to find a new case for my three lens kit as it just > doesn't fit the cases my *ist D does. I found that the battery became > exhausted in the order of 350-400 shots with a little chimping (can't > avoid it in low light work) and yes I did get caught once with flat > battery (out on Lough Ree). > > I've mentioned it before but now know that I really don't like the > operation of the WB system as flash as it is, I don't like not being > able to just glance down at the top LCD to see what WB I have > selected. I still wish that there was a dedicated WB button and more > WB memories, I tended to use AWB as setting WB is such a hassle. > > I've been using Av with the auto exposure program set to normal and > Aperture on the front wheel and ISO on the rear wheel with ISO in Auto > (100-800) on start-up. This would be an ideal combination for me but > for the fact that regardless of the exposure program mode and known > lens FL/SR enabled the exposure system when set to auto ISO prefers to > set a high ISO than lower the shutter speed. In many instances ie when > using a 16mm lens I would find the system setting the shutter at > 1/100th and the ISO at 800 when I could have been shooting at 1/8th > without a problem. I wish there was some way to properly control this > important aspect of auto exposure system operation. > > The other irritating peculiarity that I noticed was that all my shots > are rotated by 1.5-2 degree CCW, I haven't investigated the issue > fully but with SR off the camera has less rotational error than my > *ist D had and I never experienced this phenomenon when shooting it. > However the K10D screen (focus brackets) seems to be out by 0.65 > degrees and the outside frame by 0.9 degrees so that's a start > (refitting the screen didn't alter this). I am suspect of the SR > system but I will test my theory properly when I have time. > > I'd love to hear from anyone else with similar observations, I've seen > a few similar posts at dpreview since the K10Ds release but no mention > here. > > I've pretty much moved over to Picasa to display my late images on the > web, it's a great tool for organizing images, producing galleries and > quick edits plus I can push the images to the web and produce a > polished CD in very limited time. I've been shooting RAW+ 2MP jpg so > using Picasa whilst I was traveling I could very quickly DL/process > and update web pages for everyone concerned to view (I shot a two day > wedding and had the images on the web the day after). It can even > manage *ist D RAW files (for the benefit of Frank the new Digi-Boy). > > So what have I missed of the couple of months, anything interesting > that I should know about? > > PS I have galleries from the trip but due to their nature I don't wish > to bring them into the public domain however if any of you are > interested drop me a private email and I'll send you some links. > > As my primary job is currently stay at home dad and house keeper I > tend to have limited subjects to shoot so my little guy bears the > brunt of this frustration in the way of being a captive subject, so if > you are interested in see my kid pics check the following link: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/Thomas?authkey=pzmnlsD2ZJI > > Cheers, > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
