Re: Autofocus settings

When I had the Pentax *ist DS and K10D bodies, I replaced the poor quality standard focusing screens with ones that worked well. This is actually the exact same thing I did with focusing screens in some of my SLR camera bodies from 20-50 years ago. In fact, I was finding that focusing my

Re: Autofocus settings

When I had the Pentax *ist DS and K10D bodies, I replaced the poor quality standard focusing screens with ones that worked well. This is actually the exact same thing I did with focusing screens in some of my SLR camera bodies from 20-50 years ago. In fact, I was finding that focusing my

Re: Autofocus settings

In the case of when I cannot see well enough to focus, I just set a distance by scale and get perfect focus. Of course, this doesn't work if you have lenses that have no focusing scale, but I tend to avoid lenses like that. G > On Feb 25, 2021, at 1:14 PM, John wrote: > > Unless you're half

Re: K-1 Again ... plus

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 12:41 PM, John wrote: > > I looked at off the shelf storage solutions and didn't find one I could > afford. I certainly understand that game. > > I built this one out of pieces-parts for ~ $1500 and 2/3 of that is the 10 > drives I have in it. 10 drives? That must

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

> On 25 February 2021 at 21:01 Bill wrote: > > > No, and I thought I had heard every joke about the 6x7. It sounds like > something Mike Johnston would come up with. > > bill Someone wh worked for Delphi. I feel this thread may be a thinly-disguised party for bashing the Pentax 67. If so,

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.photo.equipment.medium-format/c/Cwpq_aGDLnU?pli=1 Scroll all the way down to the post of Jun 14, 1997, 8:00:00 AM by Danny Gonzalez. He quotes a post from the rec.photo.equipment.medium-format (Yahoo?) newsgroup of 9 months previously. It has the quote you are

Re: Autofocus settings

This is pretty much what I’ve been doing, but I don’t like to assume that just because something seems to work for me that it is the best way. I have learned that stock focusing screens in 2020 don’t work nearly as well for manual focus as focusing screens did 20-40 years ago. Unfortunately,

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

Am 25.02.21 um 22:14 schrieb mike wilson: I feel this thread may be a thinly-disguised party for bashing the Pentax 67. Exactly. Thanks a lot. A friend has bought a used 6x7, although I think it is a fake. It has paint on all corners. ;-) Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne,

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

It could also part crowds. Decades ago, I was in DC on a lovely morning and decided I wanted to get a different angle on the Lincoln Memorial. I took my film 35 mm SLR out of my camera bag and started wandering around, just looking through the viewfinder from various vantage points. I never got

Re: PESO - Sledding in the Park

I'm pretty sure Texas allows 16 year olds to have at least a provisional driver's license. On 2/24/2021 19:38:59, Larry Colen wrote: On Feb 24, 2021, at 3:52 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Thanks for asking.Grace is doing well. She’s 16 I was going to make some smartass joke about, you’ll

Re: PESO - Sledding in the Park

Well, fortunately Texas is NOT on the other side of the moon, so you can visit there and she could come visit you. So you're not completely cut off from each other. And IIRC, you have Facebook, so I expect that's another avenue for visits. On 2/24/2021 18:52:16, Paul Stenquist wrote: Thanks

Re: Autofocus settings

Unless you're half blind like I am and can't get a good manual focus. On 2/25/2021 00:54:48, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I just turn AF off and focus manually. Much faster and simpler. :) — G — Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigio...@me.com - 408-431-4601 On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:26 PM, Larry Colen

Re: Autofocus settings

I use the back AF button and leave the shutter button for tripping the shutter. The camera stays in AF-C all of the time. When the camera is focused on what I want to focus on, I take my thumb off the AF button and it stops there. It did take a little while learning to do it that way.

Re: Autofocus settings

Ditto what Alan wrote. Rick > On Feb 25, 2021, at 2:55 AM, Alan C wrote: > > I mostly use auto focus, single point, spot. Works fine for me. M focus > occasionally if I am trying to thread the sensor through the undergrowth. > K110D, K7 & K5 all the same. > > Alan C > > On 25-Feb-21 07:59

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

No, and I thought I had heard every joke about the 6x7. It sounds like something Mike Johnston would come up with. bill On Thu., Feb. 25, 2021, 2:19 p.m. Ralf R Radermacher, wrote: > Way back there used to be a text somewhere in the internet, joking about > the 67's mirror slap and somethong

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

Isn't biking off-road around where you live kind of dangerous too? 8^) On 2/25/2021 09:34:45, Alan C wrote: Very dangerous for road cyclists here too. 2 fatalities I can remember. Road Bikes have virtually disappeared in favour of Mountain Bikes which are mostly ridden on the local dirt

Re: K-1 Again ... plus

That would be nice. On 2/25/2021 04:35:16, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 25.02.21 um 00:29 schrieb John: I had to dig out the user manual to figure out how to set it up for back button focus & get the RAW format set back to DNG. I understand that and why the repair shops reset the camera

Re: K-1 Again ... plus

I looked at off the shelf storage solutions and didn't find one I could afford. I built this one out of pieces-parts for ~ $1500 and 2/3 of that is the 10 drives I have in it. Plus I learned how to do some stuff I hadn't known how to do before. On 2/24/2021 18:52:08, Bill wrote: On Wed.,

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 12:14 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > We USED to have wild turkeys in our yard. The occasional fox has turned > into three foxes, running around, and, no more turkeys. I’ve never seen a fox in these parts. I’ve seen a couple of bobcats. I may have seen a couple

Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

Way back there used to be a text somewhere in the internet, joking about the 67's mirror slap and somethong the author called sonic subject relocation or some such. The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud it would push a person backwards and result in unsharp photos. Does anyone on here

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

We USED to have wild turkeys in our yard. The occasional fox has turned into three foxes, running around, and, no more turkeys. Also, fewer rabbits and squirrels. I haven't seen a possum or groundhog in a couple of years either, as I think of it, and the chipmunks seem to be confined to our

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 4:58 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > I like it very much. Also 3741. Nice work, as usual. Thank you. ITYM 39741. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:16 AM Larry

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 2:55 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50978501612/in/album-72157718425170102/ > He can certainly use this as the profile portrait. > Must be the boss, I Guess : ) It was certainly interesting to watch them. There were a couple of

RE: "PLUS" - was Re: K-1 Again ... plus

The shares are set up and I've begun copying files to the new server. Taking it slow & easy because I don't want to risk over-stressing my existing NAS (I call it the toaster-NAS because it's about the size of a toaster & has two drive slots). On 2/24/2021 18:29:17, John wrote: It came back

Re: Autofocus settings

On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:54 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> I just turn AF off and focus manually. Much faster and simpler. :) > > Depends on which Pentax body. Like I said, with my K100, K2 & Kx that was > true. I forget which one you’re

Re: PESO - Sledding in the Park

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 9:42 AM, Rick Womer wrote: > > Thanks, John and everyone else who commented. > > I revel in your accolades! In the department of better lade then never, it is a great photo, you certainly captured everybody having a lot of fun -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com --

Re: PESO - Sledding in the Park

Thanks, John and everyone else who commented. I revel in your accolades! Rick > On Feb 24, 2021, at 5:31 PM, John wrote: > > Eat your hearts out Currier & Ives. > > On 2/23/2021 19:59:50, Rick Womer wrote: >> Across the street from us us a park featuring a “bowl,” whose sides are good >>

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

Very dangerous for road cyclists here too. 2 fatalities I can remember. Road Bikes have virtually disappeared in favour of Mountain Bikes which are mostly ridden on the local dirt tracks. Alan C On 25-Feb-21 12:55 PM, Bulent Celasun wrote:

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

I like it very much. Also 3741. Nice work, as usual. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:16 AM Larry Colen wrote: > No, not some stained glass from Bulent’s neighborhood. I realize that > this sunny 70F

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

>https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50978501612/in/album-72157718425170102/ He can certainly use this as the profile portrait. Must be the boss, I Guess : ) ... >...converting my bike to mustache bars to ease the strain on my wrists. Did they help? Your bike looks very good as a whole, by

Re: Autofocus settings

I just turn AF off and focus manually. Much faster and simpler. :) — G — Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigio...@me.com - 408-431-4601 > On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:26 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > What settings do you use in which situations? -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send

Re: Autofocus settings

On the K-1 I use for handheld shots  AFS single spot with back focus button. For butterflies and damselflies in flight often manual focus because the Pentax AF is not fast/accurate enough. For landscape on tripod in Live View (tilted screen!) in Select mode to get more area to focus on. For

Re: K-1 Again ... plus

Am 25.02.21 um 00:29 schrieb John: I had to dig out the user manual to figure out how to set it up for back button focus & get the RAW format set back to DNG. I understand that and why the repair shops reset the camera before they work on them but why on earth can't Pentax let us store our

Re: Autofocus settings

I've taken the autofocus away from the trigger button, put it on the AF button and set it to spot in the center of the frame. So, I take the detail that I want to focus on into the centre, shortly hit the AF button with my thumb and then shoot when the moment is right. Works fine for me. Ralf

Re: PESO Turkey Iconography

Like the Turkeys. Haven't seen any around here for years. Some people used to keep them long ago. The commercial ones are all small whites. More like a MB now. I agree, upright is much better for old toppies. Your next project could be to fit one of those aux. electric motors. Maybe Elon Musk