Nice girl and excellent lighting. But why the piercings? Can't understand that trend.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > Right off, I would just like to say that the K3 is the first Pentax SLR > camera I have owned, whether digital or film, other than the 6x7, which just > works. > I like this camera. It's easy to use and very capable. > One gripe, and this is pretty minor: When the K7 came out, they had broken > the OK button, then they fixed it. They broke it again on the K5, and on the > K3, they left it broken, but put on another button to switch from AF point > selection to operating controls. I preferred the K7 way after they had fixed > it. > So it goes, it didn't take much getting used to. > I shot everything off a tripod with wired remote today, so I can't attest to > the camera's handling. The tripod didn't tip over once. > I shot with the 77 Ltd, the 70Ltd, the DA*55/1.4 and the A*85/1.4. I was > stopped down to the f/5.6 to f/8 range (small shooting space these days, my > lights are overpowered for it). > > The auto focus works under studio lights. This is a first for me with > Pentax. Every Pentax AF SLR camera I've had prior to this one has had flakey > AF in the studio. I'm very happy with the auto focus. They seem to have done > some improvement to the focusing screen as well. I found focusing with the > 85 to be very easy as well. I suspect I will be leaving the screen alone and > not install a Katz-Eye in this camera. > > I hate to say it, but there are still not enough AF points...... Because > they are almost all packed into the central rectangle on the screen, there > are still a lot of times I am not placing the focus point on an eye unless I > want to compromise the composition or recompose (possibly knocking the eye > out of focus anyway). However, the AF is better in every respect than > previous Pentax SLRs. I didn't try LiveView AF today. Perhaps next time. > > Anyway, this could have been done by any camera, but it was done with the K3 > at ISO 100, with the 70mm Ltd at f/4.5. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/pictures/elle1.html > > bill > > > -- > 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.
