A website for pentax p-ttl flash comparison, a good read!!

http://pttl.mattdm.org/

yup, really crazy...why the price doesn't come to our shore?!!....at least with that price maybe more people will attracted to K01 and pentax...I know I do tempted too...

can't afford multiple bodies...me, not even can be categorized as hobbyist

I am trying to justify myself for tele-lens. for just in case these guys come hanging around on my backyard again!!


super crop taken with 100mm.. from my bedroom windows


also crop....taken with 50-200mm

My 50-200 wr lens got crack!!!

I don't know how it happened....It mounted on my K30, I took it out tonight because it have been one month ++ in the camera bag, I wanted to see if there a mold/fungus on the lens due to non usage...and I see a spot on it, try to wipe it off but no changes...so it must be inside the front element instead...




up close and personal!!!



confirm it is crack right??? not fungus? more like a windscreen that got hit by small stone!!!

I must be unluckiest off all..!!!

Could it be, due to overzealous use of silica gel in the camera bag, I am using the biggest packet of silica gel that I can find, that is 2 Inch x 4 inch size!! maybe the humidity in the bag is low than outside...so when i take it out from the bag, it got cracked??? hahahha....

I should bought UV filter for all my lens now....

Sorry for so much early morning ranting....hopefully it won't effect the IQ of the picture taken with it...

thanks...yup it's WR shouldn't easily affected right..

Yup on the front element glass...but it seems the crack is inside, because I touch the outside, it is smooth like normal glass...sigh..
I don't think will repair it, until confirm it will degrade the picture...still maybe can remove the cacat place in post process right....huhuhhu...

It does look like fungus, except still doesn't show any greenish or yellowish sign of life...I will try jemur it under the sun next morning......

ya very possible, it happened once to glass (drinking one) in our cupboard before...the glass got crack and broken...the remedy is put some water in a glass in that cupboard....
with silica gel it hard to control the humidity, I just put a smaller packet one...

thanks for all the concerns anyway hopefully we will be more cautious!!!

need to test the lens....this Friday, maybe..

yes, duhhh .. I am showing my noobieness of lack knowledge in photography

greetings...

anyway the lens is fine and dandy for my use, I took 129 images today...with my lack of experiences I can't discern the before and after the crack...

I just found out that SOOC jpeg at 100% really showing jagged and stepped edge!!! I should pixel peep more...

on another note how to sharpen the moon shot..in ACR? or photoshop? or when doing save as jpeg for web by choosing bicubic sharper?? I always chose auto in ACR and not touching the sharpen and noise part in ACR...

the moon from this evening

hello guys,

a couple of monkey images that I took with 50-200, they visit the backyard of my house again....

and testing hosting image from wordpress.com













waiting for yongnuo yn-560II and the cheapest tamron 70-300 I ordered from fotogears.com make me restless...

Thanks for the tips.. I hope I will be ready when they came next time...

got to learn post process...but lack of time...usually I do pp after 12midnight!! already sleepy and the eyes also can not distinguish between blur/sharp/contrast/colour thing...huhuhu just use auto in ACR and auto level in PS...

Still doesn't have chance to test the t70-300, hopefully tomorrow not rain like today...

hello,

spam some blur-blur image taken with tamron 70-300..need to learn breathing technique and do some meditation to calm my self..

this is supercrop




all image below taken using macro ( more like closeup ) mode/switch, plus crop








then I took some flower image...because both birds and insects flew away from me...
this are the flower of pokok pulasan





thanks

This post has been edited by doshka: Apr 22 2013, 07:27 PM

It seem underexposed on the monitor at my work place too...but at my own monitor it seems fine... maybe the difference of monitor brightness, which hardly can be taken into account while doing the post processing due to many brands and models...though I agree with the lack of pop!!...

this is the bird in the full frame, taken at 3.32 pm...ehm maybe an overcast sky that day.

hahaha..thanks for reminding me about the histogram....I totally forgot about it .. now I think I need to enroll in basic post-processing class!!
yup after balancing the histogram, the image come of a bit brighter...need to reprocess that image and check other image histogram too...

that article is really good, had read it before, will read it again....

thanks again...

there are new firmware from Kr to K50, for new flash and new HD limited lenses

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/

the cats are out of the bag?
the silver one, hmm...

manage to screen capture....

us-ricoh-imaging make a blunder by publishing info on K3 early...kind of officially officiate things, gah I don't manage to see the details specification...although there is the leak spec...