On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:29:26AM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: > 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!
Bummer about the bike. Locked up and everything? I wish I knew that you were there, it would have been nice to meet. I think I did notice someone names Sasha there, but but it's not like it's a rare name so I didn't think to ask. > > --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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
