Re: Second thoughts about Pentax

2017-12-17 Thread Eric Weir
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:08 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > So is the Fuji X-M1, released in 2013 IIRC. Yes, but it was no longer in production when I bought mine about two years ago. I was fortunate to find a new one. I see the K-5 is about ten years older. --

Re: Second thoughts about Pentax

2017-12-17 Thread Eric Weir
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:13 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > I'm a bit late to this but, there are two things that stand out. > 1. The K-5 has an AA filter, so the images will require a bit of judicious > sharpening to equal the sharpness of images from the X-Trans sensor in the > Fuji as it doesn'

Re: OT: One of the world’s great headlines

2017-12-17 Thread mike wilson
> On 16 December 2017 at 15:06 Bob W-PDML wrote: > > > https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/15/sex-between-snow-monkeys-and-sika-deer-may-be-new-behavioural-tradition Reminds me of the WWI "French push bottles up Germans" headline for some reason. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Second thoughts about Pentax

2017-12-17 Thread Larry Colen
Eric Weir wrote: Finally you don't mention if you're shooting RAW or Jpeg. Pentax out of camera Jpeg files are not the best. If you're shooting RAW; with a little more sharpening and contrast adjustment to the Pentax images you shouldn't see any marked difference between either camera gi

Re: Second thoughts about Pentax

2017-12-17 Thread P. J. Alling
Actually the K-5 isn't that much older.  It was introduced in 2010 and discontinued officially 2013 about a year after the K-5II and K-5IIs were released. There wasn't a lot of "improvement" in APS-C sensors from the K-5 until the release of 24mp Cameras like the K-3 were released at the end o

Re: PESO - Haleakala Observatories, Maui

2017-12-17 Thread Rick Womer
Clever, Jostein! The place does have an extraterrestrial feeling to it. Rick > On Dec 17, 2017, at 8:14 AM, Jostein wrote: > > Nice pic. > Out of Curiosity (pun intended) I think it would look like this: > http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/curiosity-Womer.jpg > > Yours mashed with this: > http://

PESO+ squeezerlens experiments

2017-12-17 Thread Bruce Walker
I finally bought a Squeezerlens tilt/shift gadget for my 645z because I had a hankering to dabble with pictorialism once again. After shooting a few random scenes and objects I booked a shoot with a visual artist slash model from Seattle who was just visiting the area. That went astoundingly well a

Re: PESO+ squeezerlens experiments

2017-12-17 Thread Bob W-PDML
Good stuff. Interesting lens. I like this: https://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IYXaBBmvIVv0 B > On 18 Dec 2017, at 00:35, Bruce Walker wrote: > > I finally bought a Squeezerlens tilt/shift gadget for my 645z because > I had a hankering to dabble with pictorialism once again. After >

Re: PESO+ squeezerlens experiments

2017-12-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
The first image ("pedestals") just confuses me. My favorite of the group is "Cautiously Optimistic." Quite pleasing and effective. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > I finally bought a Squeezerlens tilt/shift ga

Re: PESO - Haleakala Observatories, Maui

2017-12-17 Thread Alan C
!!!, but shouldn't it be red? Alan C -Original Message- From: Rick Womer Sent: 18 December, 2017 12:37 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO - Haleakala Observatories, Maui Clever, Jostein! The place does have an extraterrestrial feeling to it. Rick On Dec 17, 2017, at

Re: PESO - Haleakala Observatories, Maui

2017-12-17 Thread Rick Womer
Depends on the ambient light, of course. On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 22:03 Alan C wrote: > !!!, but shouldn't it be red? > > Alan C > > -Original Message- > From: Rick Womer > Sent: 18 December, 2017 12:37 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO - Haleakala Observatories, Maui

OT: 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year!

2017-12-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/nature-photographer-of-the-year-2017/ Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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 a

refusal to even attempt to focus

2017-12-17 Thread Larry Colen
This afternoon I was photographing a heron at the Waldport seawall with my K-1 and sigma 50-500 during low tide. It had flown from one spot to another, I was walking back to the new spot, photographing as I went, and at one point the camera went completely out of focus, then wouldn't even atte