I figured it out eventually. The setting for letting the camera work with non-A aperture has to be set to allow focal length setting for shake reduction, otherwise it wont let you. Once I did that, I picked 55mm which was closest to 60 (but not over).
Thanks for the comments. The small bug looks really good on a big screen, where the bokeh can really shine. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really like the first image (232)! The sharp and colorful bug, > against the blurred white foreground and background, is very > effective. In the other shot the bug is too small, IMHO. > > My primitive understanding of the SR system is that it wants to know > the focal length of the lens, Somewhere in the menus one can enter it, > if it is a lens without a chip that handles the job automagically. > > Cheers, > > Rick > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Gonz <rgonzoma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I played around with the Laowa (Venus Optics) 60mm macro I got >> recently, handheld. The weather here has spring coming at least a >> month early, all the bugs are out sans mosquitoes (thank goodness). >> Was gonna take a pic of these plants we have in the garden that are >> like velvety white and saw this tiny little katydid sitting on one of >> the leaves. I wish I had used a tripod, as its difficult to get any >> depth of field with this lens unless you stop it down, but then in >> order to focus and meter handheld, you can't see anything through the >> dim viewfinder for anything more than about f8. The aperture is >> completely manual. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/66982297@N02/32177689944/in/dateposted-public/ >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/66982297@N02/33022765995/in/dateposted-public/ >> >> Now I had a question, I'm not sure this is the K-1 particularly since >> I have not tried to do this with the K-5, but when I put this lens on >> the K-1 turns off shake reduction. At least my M lenses on the K-5 it >> would ask me the focal length at the beginning, but it would never >> turn it off unless I told it to. >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- 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.
