On 07/04/07, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob. Hi Boris,
Strange, I only just received your email though it was sent hours ago, the vagaries of the net? > Long time no chat. > > http://tinyurl.com/yqmc5z <-- you (it is you, right?) look very much > like Connor McLeod here ;-). Well I've been called many things in the past Boris but hey thanks (though I'm not sure that my Irish/English ancestors would approve) ;-) > As for your obs about K10D... I never managed to produce leveled images > handheld consistently - neither with *istD nor with K10D. Having bought > a monopod improved things some. However when I do align the lines in the > viewfinder with focus bracket marks and when I manage to keep it this > way throughout the exposure ;-) - it comes out all right. I have a mono-pod however its uses are pretty limited for me, I've just never experienced such consistent errors in my work and it's much more satisfying to blame the equipment. > My preferred mode of operation is very similar to yours: > P-mode (I just love hyper program two wheeled operation) with Auto ISO > set to 100-400... It seems to work properly for me. In fact, my > observation is that it would raise the ISO only at the last resort. I just tested my K10D again and it seems that regardless of the metering program the camera will not start pumping up the ISO at 1/30th with my DA16-45 at 16mm and from 1/100th with my A16/2.8 FE (even though I've set the FL for SR to 15mm). So it's not really working for me. > You see, generally as a ballpark auto WB works for me. Then (having > finally shelled out cash for Adobe LightRoom) I can adjust it in post > processing. Although auto WB of my K10D is much more to the point than > that of *istD. Setting WB visually using a little rear screen is simply not an option for me and the whole process is far too complicated, I want to know how come Oly got it right so many years ago on their first E body and Pentax still haven't caught on. :-( > Finally, thanks to certain folks here, I did buy the Adobe LightRoom and > I love it immensely. Just yesterday I sat down and processed two dozen > images in less than an hour. It does amaze me how fluent and user > oriented is its whole concept. LR sounds like a fabulous tool but while I was traveling I found Picasa extremely practical. I didn't take a PC on my travels, instead I had Picasa and some other utils on a dedicated 2GB USB/SD card in my wallet. I loaded Picasa on the systems of the people who I was staying with, all legal and a benefit to them ultimately. I brought back all the working Picasa db files on the card and uploaded them to my system when I got home. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
