I think I learned some things from my last shoot and am giving it another try tonight.
Oddly, things seem to be mostly working just fine with live view. I can see enough on the display to frame myself where I want to be, I can see the preview screen and get an idea how things turned out, and using my wired remote trigger I can take photos when I want. > On Dec 1, 2021, at 9:16 AM, Doug Brewer <d...@dougbrewerphoto.com> wrote: > > Isn't there a timer on the camera? Yeah, that’s how I took the last set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157720168248521 Warning for the faint of heart, there are a few shirtless ones at the end. Ann also explained how I could do the self portraits using a film era camera. I even have some self portraits I took years ago by sticking a mop in a bucket, manually focusing on that, and trying to stand in the same place using the self timer. The point of my complaint was that there are a lot of advantages to being able to see what is in the frame. I don’t know about you folks, but when I’m taking photos I don’t aim the camera and shut my eyes before pressing the shutter. At least not often. However, like I said things were working great tonight, until I realized that if I put the camera in single frame mode, I wouldn’t get a bunch of second frames with uncharged strobes, and the K-1 turned the flash off. Long story short, in live view, if you put it in “motordrive” mode, whatever they call it, they turn off the electronic shutter. Also, something that isn’t well documented, if the camera is in electronic shutter mode, it won’t fire a flash. I had to disable electronic shutter to use live view with a flash. Whoever wrote the K-1 manuals should be soundly beat about the head and shoulders with a tiltall tripod. It should simply say what the effects of being in different modes are. sigh. They spent too much time trying to make the manuals so they don’t scare off morons who would be better off just using their phone cameras and don’t tell the people who know photography what they need. But that is a rant for another day. For folks who are curious, I’ll put proofs from tonight here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157720194746983 I am incapable of critiquing photos of myself, so I post proofs and beg friends to tell me which ones suck the least. > > On 12/1/21 12:03 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I need some recent portraits, and have made some attempts at selfies. It’s >> extra challenging when you can’t see what the camera does. >> I had the clever idea that I can plug an external monitor into the HDMI and >> use that for framing etc. >> It *almost* works. Unfortunately, if I set the camera’s exposure to use >> strobes the live view is so dark it won’t auto focus. Even when I put it on >> manual focus, it often refuses to fire the shutter. >> Also the screen is so dark, it’s damn near useless for live view. >> And there is no way at all to change things so that you can use live view >> with a flash. >> Sigh. >> -- >> Larry Colen >> l...@red4est.com >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
