It's just not *wanting* to use the filters, or use them as little as possible. You start stacking filters and using small apertures and the view through the viewfinder is too dark to use. :-)
Tom C. >From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed >Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:48:33 -0700 > > >On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Amita Guha wrote: > > > Funny you should mention it, I put my remaining 3 manual Pentaxes up > > on ebay this week. My K1000 is at $6.50 right now, so I'm almost > > there. ;) > >:-) > > > I agree with Tom that the lack of real ISO 100 is a disappointment, > > although I rarely shoot ISO 100. Still, it'd be nice to have it. > >I've never missed ISO 100 or ISO 50. When I want to blur moving >water, either of them is too high anyway. ISO 50 in sunny daylight is >only 1/50 second @ f/11, 1/15 at f/22. > >I use a six-stop ND filter that renders ISO 200 to ISO 3 on the *ist >DS, and ISO 100 to ISO 1.5 on the K10D. That lets me shoot at >exposure times in the 1/4-1/2 second range, f/11, in sunny daylight. >An eight-stop ND filter, or adding a polarizer, drops that further >into the 1 to 4 second range, and dropping to f/22 runs the time out >as far as 16 seconds. Those get the blur I'm after when I do this >kind of thing... > >Godfrey > >-- >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
