Re: PESO: Bellbird
On May 11, 2024, at 4:56 AM, Alan Cole wrote: > Very nice, Dave. That 400 is a great asset. It is, although I do struggle with it at times. When the AF gets it right I get some great images. I was lucky with this one as I'd been in such a hurry I'd forgotten to pay attention to the settings and it shot at f/6.7 so depth of field was not in my favour. I remember trying to calibrate the focus of my lenses soon after getting the K5ii but gave up as the AF system just wouldn't quite focus consistently. If I focused on the target a few times in a row it'd always come out slightly different, which made me wonder what was the point of calibrating it. I seem to remember my target wasn't perfect but I never quite got around to having another go with a better one. I do wonder it if's simply a mechanical limitation of the screw-drive mechanism. Cheers, Dave -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: New LRC catalog
That would be the ideal solution. If you can get the drive your catalogue is on working long enough to copy it to a good drive, copy it then tell Lightroom to use it. You should also have a back up of it somewhere, though sometimes it ends up on the same drive as the working catalogue if you aren't careful. bill On 5/10/2024 6:19 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Thanks Bill The drive does work on occasion I guess I just can’t copy to catalog over to the other then redirect it at closing LR?? Dave Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 8:12 PM Bill wrote: It is, but any edits you have made within Lightroom will be lost. bill On 5/10/2024 5:37 PM, David J Brooks wrote: My old external drive is not being read on my new iMac, but my other one is. The non working one has my LRC cataloge, do I just go agphead and create a new catalog on the working drive, is it really that simple? Dave -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Bellbird
Dave, what was the shutter speed? On Sat, 11 May 2024, 12:07 David Mann, wrote: > On May 11, 2024, at 4:56 AM, Alan Cole wrote: > > > Very nice, Dave. That 400 is a great asset. > > It is, although I do struggle with it at times. When the AF gets it right > I get some great images. I was lucky with this one as I'd been in such a > hurry I'd forgotten to pay attention to the settings and it shot at f/6.7 > so depth of field was not in my favour. > > I remember trying to calibrate the focus of my lenses soon after getting > the K5ii but gave up as the AF system just wouldn't quite focus > consistently. If I focused on the target a few times in a row it'd always > come out slightly different, which made me wonder what was the point of > calibrating it. I seem to remember my target wasn't perfect but I never > quite got around to having another go with a better one. I do wonder it > if's simply a mechanical limitation of the screw-drive mechanism. > > Cheers, > Dave > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Bellbird
On May 12, 2024, at 5:56 AM, Alan Cole wrote: > Dave, what was the shutter speed? 1/3000th. ISO was 1600. Cheers, Dave -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT. OM-5 first impressions
After the weight of my new (13 months) K3III in my handlebar bag caused my bike to fall over and but the Smart Function knob, I looked into OM-5s again. The price had dropped below my pain point, and since thanks to online shopping there aren’t any convenient camera stores to look at them, I bought on on Amazon, and if I don’t like it I’ll feel no guilt over returning it. My one word review: Adequate My basic review of the Lumix GH3 was that I loved the size, was unimpressed by the sensor/image quality and hated the UI. The OM-5 is the same size, seems to have a substantially better sensor, and the UI is better but really makes me appreciate my Pentax cameras. I would not want one as my primary camera, but for something light and convenient to carry, if not use, it’ll work. One example of something that I do on my pentax bodies that I can’t quite do on the OM 5 is my nominal shooting modes are two stop bracketing, either nominal and -2, or three stops shot in order of -2, nominal and +2. First of all, with the OM, I get at most one stop per frame, it also always shoots nominal first. Another difference is that with the Pentax, one press of the shutter shoots all of the bracket frames at once. In daylight, the EVF, frankly, looks like shit. It is little better than giving me the shape of the objects in the frame. I recognize that there are advantages of EVF, particularly in low light, for manual focusing, focus peaking is nice to have, and other info, but for the experience of photography, not ready for prime, or even zoom, time. Also the camera’s biggest strength is also a weakness, the small size makes it awkward to shoot with, even with my tiny hands. Battery life seems mediocre, I’m used to running on Pentax batteries for hours, and this seems to be running low fairly quickly, but batteries are light and can be bought cheaply. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Did anyone get Aurora photos?
I’m afraid that even if they’re visible this far south, I can’t get to anyplace dark enough -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Did anyone get Aurora photos?
Cloudy here last night, looks more promising tonight… Sent from my iPad > On May 11, 2024, at 8:06 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I’m afraid that even if they’re visible this far south, I can’t get to > anyplace dark enough > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Did anyone get Aurora photos?
I took a few with my phone from my front gate last night, just as a record. What amazed me is that they were visible at this latitude, from in the city with all its light pollution. I have vague plans to keep an eye out tonight, not sure if I want to go to the effort of getting any proper photos. Cheers, Dave > On May 12, 2024, at 12:37 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > Cloudy here last night, looks more promising tonight… > > Sent from my iPad > >> On May 11, 2024, at 8:06 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> I’m afraid that even if they’re visible this far south, I can’t get to >> anyplace dark enough >> -- >> Larry Colen >> l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est >> >> >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 04:50:59PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > After the weight of my new (13 months) K3III in my handlebar bag caused my > bike to fall over and but the Smart Function knob, I looked into OM-5s again. > The price had dropped below my pain point, and since thanks to online > shopping there aren???t any convenient camera stores to look at them, I > bought on on Amazon, and if I don???t like it I???ll feel no guilt over > returning it. > > My one word review: > Adequate Hmm. I was considering getting an OM-5 as a backup/lighter alternative; I still feel nervous going anywhere with only a single camera body, even though I'v never yet had a digital camera body fail on me (and, in 50 years, only had two mechanical failures; once when my MX motor drive bent a drive shaft in my MX, and once when my PZ-1p objected to being used in rain, and took some time off to dry out. I don't count my MZ-S objecting to having its lens mount knocked off when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower and banged it hard against an upright - that was entirely my own fault). I suspect 'adequate' might still serve my purpose, although I will admit that I was verging towards the slightly newer OM-D E-M5 Mk III. I'll be interested to see how you feel about it after a week or two. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions
> On May 11, 2024, at 10:32 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 04:50:59PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: >> After the weight of my new (13 months) K3III in my handlebar bag caused my >> bike to fall over and but the Smart Function knob, I looked into OM-5s >> again. The price had dropped below my pain point, and since thanks to >> online shopping there aren???t any convenient camera stores to look at them, >> I bought on on Amazon, and if I don???t like it I???ll feel no guilt over >> returning it. >> >> My one word review: >> Adequate > > Hmm. > > I was considering getting an OM-5 as a backup/lighter alternative; > I still feel nervous going anywhere with only a single camera body, > even though I'v never yet had a digital camera body fail on me > (and, in 50 years, only had two mechanical failures; once when my > MX motor drive bent a drive shaft in my MX, and once when my PZ-1p > objected to being used in rain, and took some time off to dry out. > I don't count my MZ-S objecting to having its lens mount knocked > off when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower and banged it > hard against an upright - that was entirely my own fault). > > I suspect 'adequate' might still serve my purpose, although I will > admit that I was verging towards the slightly newer OM-D E-M5 Mk III. If you like the OM-1, then I suspect the OM-5 would be just fine for you. I also suspect that a lot of things that take the shine off for me aren’t things that come up for you as often. My shooting needs are generally very different from yours. If you don’t do a lot of bracketing of raw files, then my complaints there are totally irrelevant, and even so may not be something that bothers you. > > I'll be interested to see how you feel about it after a week or two. This afternoon/evening we bopped by the Getty to play with cameras. As things got darker I ended up needing to lean on the ISO a bit harder, it’ll be interesting to see how the images turn out. On a quick look on my laptop, they seem to be usable at 6400. I was shooting with the 25/0.95 I bought from Boris and focus peaking went away in Manual Focus mode. I put one of the autofocus lenses on, and focus peaking worked fine. So, for some reason, manual focus assist does not work on manual focus only lenses. As we were leaving, I saw someone else waiting for the tram with a small retro looking camera, thinking that it might be another Oly I took a closer look, it was a Pentax MX! I did tell him about PDML, he found the camera in his dad’s attic and is interested in learning more about photography in general and the camera in particular. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Did anyone get Aurora photos?
In some ways I'm ideally situated now: Good northerly location (Scotland) and far away from any significant light pollution. AND the weather has been pretty clear - unusual for Scotland. But we've been doing long hikes during the day and I've been too exhausted to stay up until it's dark enough to look for auroras (which is made no easier by the fact that sunset comes *very* late at these latitudes). -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
