On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Chris Stoddart<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I haven't posted here in a long time (couple years maybe?), mostly 'cos my > life and job got way too busy and I had a lot less time for photography (and > much PDML reading). Recently things have got a lot better, and I am a lot > more enthused about taking pictures again (and reading PDML of course!). > > However, recently I got tired of looking at my old *istD sat idle and > thought about selling it. I mentioned it to a co-worker and he was initially > enthusiastic. Then I got this mail... > >> Chris I think I will give your Pentax a miss. I have been looking at >> sample photos on the internet and they all have something in common, >> that they look a little harsh to me and the colours are not easy on >> the eye. That's what I like about my Fuji camera, the pictures are >> soft and natural looking. > > Now, I don't mind that he doesn't want it - that's fine and I am not > entirely sure I want to sell it anyway, but I get the feeling he might be > dissing my wee camera a bit too much here? :) Harsh and the colours not easy > on the eye? Has anyone ever come across that opinion of Pentax 'look & feel' > before? Should I thump him? BTW I have no idea what Fuji he's on about but > it's not a DSLR. > > C. >
Welcome to the wonder of default JPEG settings. They suck, especially on older Pentax DSLR's. Turn down the saturation a notch and the colour will be nice and smooth. Pentax colours are not garish. Canon's defaults on their lower-end bodies do garish. Fuji is however noted for very, very good colour, especially on the SuperCCD and SuperCCD EXR based cameras. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
