Those are wonderful shots. The birds are great (I like the second one best) but those star and moonlight shots are very pleasing.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks everyone, frank: the birds were chained to a sitting pole. I > only had to sit on the ground, wait and shoot. > The 55-300 isn,t perfect the corners are not the best at any aperture > and you really need to set the camera to MTF program line. Wide open > the 55-300 is nothing special at the mtf apertures it's amazingly > good. Combined with high iso and good SR it's a steal for the money. > > About hot pixels. Yes lightroom removes them but not all from long > exposures. I disabled long exposure noise reduction which results in a > second exposure with the shutter closed. > > Toine > > On Monday, 11 July 2011, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jul 10, 2011, at 14:54, Toine wrote: >> >>> I finally got myself a K5. The first one had some serious dust inside >>> the sensor (one black spot, different from the dust chain seen in >>> first batches). My local pusher promply swapped the cam and made me >>> happy. What a beast the K5. A few captures from last week: >>> >>> Stars: >>> http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/#id=album-126&num=content-4602 >>> >>> Moonlight >>> http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/#id=album-126&num=content-4605 >>> >>> DA12 24 30s without in camera noise reduction. The second has some hot >>> pixels. I need to figure out how to substract a dark frame manually >>> >> >> If you process RAW files with Adobe Lightroom or their ACR software (like, >> if you use Photoshop) those hot pixels get removed automatically. How's >> that for incentive? >> >> Beautiful shots. I like the first one the best. >> >> -Charles >> >> -- >> Charles Robinson - [email protected] >> Minneapolis, MN >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
