Mark Stringer wrote:
the old B&W film days. Both have instant surrealism which I think is harder to achieve with color. These days any digital image can be made surreal but all of the mundane subjects I am tired of are new again in IR. Stringer (aka "no mas Mark") -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 8:16 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Two Questions - more or less 1. Is anyone using Windoze 10 yet? If so, how do you like it& is it any good for running PhotoshopCS6 Extended? I don't use Lightroom or CC. 2. If you had to choose among an *ist-D, a K10D or a K20D to convert for IR, which would you sacrifice? Who would you choose to do the conversion?
I think that if my goal were IR, and I had a K20, I'd sell it and buy a K-r (even a K-x) or just about anything newer. I loved the UI on my K20, but once I bought a K-x I hardly ever used my K20 outside "the studio", unless it was raining out. The images from the K-x were that much better. The K-r is a K-x with every shortcoming improved. I'll be putting my K-5ii up for sale in the next few days, and I'll probably be lucky to get $300 for it. At that, in many ways, it'll outperform just about every other Pentax short of a K-1. The difference in performance between a K-5 and a K20 is hard to believe.
If you're shooting with a K-100, you can just about get away with IR without doing a conversion, just putting an IR pass filter on it because the IR block filter on it is so weak.
When I was getting my first K-5 repaired, I had them convert it to full spectrum IR. It was lots of fun, unfortunately, the camera died shortly thereafter for other reasons. You can do lots of fun things with a full spectrum camera and an IR flash.
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