Hi David The camera menu seems easy to understand for me and I'm quite used at tweaking photos after scanning film now. I will shoot raw and maybe raw+ to see what the camera JPG is good for compared to auto and manual adjusted raw conversions.
For my panoramic mountain calendar project I need raw and as much resolution as possible. I will even bracket with different exposures if that works with raw and not only JPG too - I'm not sure about that after reading the manual - or at least combine 2 different raw exposures in Photoshop later... If possible I will travel to the Rhinefalls http://www.rhinefalls.com/ next week for the first landscape samples for the calendar :-) Memory cards are quite cheap nowadays, I don't need the fastest ones for machine gunning, so I ordered 2 4GB Sandisk and now have a 2GB Sandisk Ultra to start which gives me over 100 photos or 3 rolls of film storage . Thats good enough. thanks Markus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Oswald Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:59 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Saturation/Sharpness/Contrast settings at "Natural" in K10D Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi Kenneth > I was a gross misunderstanding on my side of the raw processing bypassing > all of these settings. > Have a little patience with somebody coming from old film cameras ;-) > > I will shoot raw only and on my second day in the all digital world I'm busy > reading tutorials about the different raw converters at the moment :-) > greetings > Markus > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Kenneth Waller > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:36 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Saturation/Sharpness/Contrast settings at "Natural" in K10D > > >> What are your experiences with the settings for saturation, sharpness and >> contrast so far? > I've left them all @ default. > > You have much better control in PS. > > > Kenneth Waller > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Saturation/Sharpness/Contrast settings at "Natural" in K10D > > >> Hi K10D users >> >> What are your experiences with the settings for saturation, sharpness and >> contrast so far? >> Can I just leave them at the default natural setting or would I even get >> better results lowering for ex. in camera sharpening (and/or >> saturation/contrast) and doing that as the last step in Photoshop after >> all >> other adjustments? I prefer natural, not oversaturated and oversharpened >> photos, that's why I ask :-) >> >> Just got the camera yesterday and had not enough time for experiments >> beside >> flashing with the AF280T.... >> If this is your second day in the digital realm, shoot JPEG's for awhile until you have time to get used to the camera. ...at least that's my recommendation. There's plenty of time later to further refine and improve your results by shifting over to RAW, but at first, KISS. ;) Of course, since you're using the K10D, shoot in RAW+ mode (RAW & JPEG). It'll gobble up you memory faster, but you will have the immediate satisfaction of the JPEG's, and the long-term highly editable RAW's to play with when you feel ready. Plus, if you shoot jpeg, all those settings (saturation, contrast, sharpness, white balance) will be meaningful, and you'll learn to use them better so that your RAW's also start coming "out of the camera" with the proper meta-data settings to minimize post-processing time. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
