A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/
I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. No free camera for me, instead my bike was stolen. I love San Jose! --Sasha On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:34 PM, John Francis<[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately neither Larry nor I won the K-7 they gave away :-( > > But they did bring a whole load of nice tempting toys to play with: > > http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow1.jpg > > Apart from several working K-7s (and a cutaway model, and a model > with a transparent body shell) and a Star Wars K2000, they also > had pretty much all the DA* lenses, and a good selection of the > DA Limiteds. I got to try out the DA* 200, 300, 60-250 and 55, and > the DA 15 (which looks *tiny* when you put it alongside the 14). > > (The above shot, of course, is taken with the 10-17mm fisheye @17mm. > That's fairly obvious. Not quite so obvious, perhaps, is that it was > taken at ISO 3200 using one of the K-7s; I took along my own SD card. > It would be even better if I'd dialed in 2/3 of a stop more exposure). > > > Long-time PDML members might recall the name of Mark Dimalanta - he > was active on the list something like twelve years ago. He was the > primary presenter at the event. > > http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow2.jpg > > That's Mark on the left, explaining something to Larry. This was a > shot taken with the DA 15mm - a lens I could easily grow to love. > > > And here's a shot of the K-7 in see-through clothing: > > http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow3.jpg > > That's taken with something at 55mm - probably the DA* 55 (which > didn't seem that slow to focus to me). Unfortunately I can't tell > exactly what lens it was - I haven't upgraded the version of Adobe > Lightroom that I'm using on this machine, so it doesn't understand > the Pentax-private data in the K-7 files (which includes lens ID). > > It's just as well I'm getting a new laptop computer; opening three > K-7 files at the same time on this machine, which only has 1GB RAM, > just about brought the system to its knees. I'll upgrade to the > new version of Lightroom when I've got the new machine. > > > One of the other Pentax folks there was taking notes about points > raised by attendees (Mark had already stressed the responsiveness > of Pentax - he too had not liked the original way that the 4-way > controller worked when selecting focus points during a shoot). I > mentioned the lack of a calibration capability for the built-in > level, so this will probably get back to the folks at Pentax. > > > P.S. I did, of course, wear one of my PDML T-shirts. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
