It hasn't started snowing yet, but there's been a mixture of sleet & freezing rain for several hours now. I'm taking a break from working on my kitchen.
I was reading Petapixal about mixing ambient light with flash for more pleasing portraits. But he was shooting at 1/2000 of a second which got me thinking about sync speeds. I'm not sure if he was using High Speed Sync or not, but I thought about leaf shutter lenses that will "sync" at any speed. Pentax made a leaf shutter 90mm f/2.8 lens for the Pentax67. They also made an adapter so you can use Pentax67 lenses on 35mm Pentax SLRs. Would the Pentax67 leaf shutter lens mounted on the 67 Adapter K work with Pentax DSLRs? Here's what the kitchen looks like at the moment. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/32004605762/in/photostream/lightbox/ The old plaster walls were 3/4" thick, so I'm having to make the new drywall the same thickness to avoid having to shave down the window & door frames. I'm making it the necessary thickness by putting in two layers of 3/8" drywall. I bought enough drywall board to cover two walls high enough to back the base cabinets I've got my drywall inside, out of the weather & I've got a dry porch where I can make the necessary cuts. The first layer has a strip 24" wide along the bottom with a full 48" width piece on top of it. The second layer has a regular 48" wide sheet on the bottom. That offsets the joints for the two layers & gives me enough wall in place I can start setting the base cabinets once the weather clears up enough I can get out to the building materials store. I added insulation in the exterior walls & additional electrical outlets. I only had two duplex outlets, one behind the refrigerator & one GFI for all my small appliances. The double outlet shown is protected by the GFI. The new kitchen will have two double outlets plus the original GFI serving the counter space. I've still got to knock down the plaster on the old wall to the left & install new drywall. You can see the outline of the old cabinets behind the level & T-square. Not shown off the left is the door-frame where I'll tie the new drywall into the existing plaster wall, another reason I have to go 3/4" thick. Since I knew I was going to tear the plaster out, I used it for various notes & drawings to keep track of what I was having to do. I will still have to finish off the upper part of the walls & actually I have to tear out the ceiling in this area to replace it as well. But I already own a drywall panel lift I bought back when I was making repairs after Hurricane Fran. Then I'll need to hang wall cabinets. I think I'm getting close to being halfway done. Eventually I'll try to put up a gallery of how I went about doing the work, but not until it's finished enough I can use the kitchen again. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
