Welcome to the live list. I enjoyed your photos. The chess set was my favorite. Nice light, nice bokey. Hope we see more of your work. Keep posting! Paul
> Hi there....long-time lurker, first-time poster. > > I got an *ist DS this past weekend & spent the weekend playing with it. > I've > posted some samples on my livejournal. > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/ouij > > Please feel free to go ahead & leave comments. > > the text of my entry runs like this: > > So I finally bit the bullet and bought a DSLR. It's a Pentax *ist DS. After > plonking down a lot of hard-earned cash (I was nearly sick when I realised > that the body cost about as much as the rest of my photographic equipment in > all other formats did, combined--which probably says more about my tightwad > approach to photography than the actual amount of cash dumped) I proceeded to > do the obvious thing and play with it. > > Initial impressions: the camera is small--smaller even than it's predecessor, > the Pentax *ist D. It is about as big in the hand as my Pentax MX filmbody. > The controls are intuitive and nonthreatening--a big plus, considering that > most of my photo equipment is all-mechanical. The viewfinder is bright and > clear and actually pretty good to manual-focus with: gotta love real glass > pentaprisms. > > And about manual-focus: it was trivial for me to attach my manual-focus > K-mount stuff. Of course, doing so deprives me of a lot of the gee-whiz > features: autofocus, spotmeter, matrix metering, program exposure. It does > give me aperture-priority AE wide-open, and full-manual exposure (In the > latter mode, the AE-lock button under my right thumb serves as a stopdown and > meter switch, stopping the lens down, setting the shutter speed to what it > "should" be, and then opening up.) > > The kitlens is a very small and light 18-55mm f/4-5.6 zoom. No aperture ring, > and probably no full-frame coverage, so I can't use it on my film bodies. Not > too bad, except for how slow it is wide-open. I haven't used it much lately, > since the light has been pretty poor. > > So I took some sample pictures, which you'll find behind the cut below. These > have all be resized & processed for web display (levels and unsharp mask, > really). Full-res, straight outta the camera images are available if you're > interested and know how to get in touch. > > Oh. And nearly all of these images were taken with my old 50mm f/1.4 XR > Rikenon. > > thanks. > > -Luigi de Guzman > > www.livejournal.com/users/ouij >
