Re: Katz Eye Split prism screen

spot. This leaves the center's exposure unaffected for spot metering and stopping down old lenses, since only the micro-prism ring would go dark, and yet you could use the ring to dial in the focus if needed. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax

Re: Wedding Experience (long)

. Despite all the work, it always seems like you missed something obvious, afterwards. A head is too far over, feet are not pointed the right way, someone's hand is stickout out over a shoulder, etc. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

M70-150 f/4

, weighs maybe twice as much, takes much more room in the camera bag, but is a good lens otherwise. We have both, my wife uses the Sigma on a tripod, and since I got the Pentax 70-150 I don't feel any need for another Sigma or Pentax bazooka. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http

Bogen / Manfrotto 322R Ball Head - Anti twist RC2 plate

with a 1/4 bolt, another with a 3/8 bolt. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Having bought a monopod

to have been available only in the last few years, and it adapts to any camera with a flat edge along the lower bottom where the plate holds on. Part # 3157NR Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: Semi-OT: Vivitar 258HV

of manual power levels so you can use it in a studio for a hair or rim light. The 285 has one less power level setting but is also useful in the studio. Use NiMH batteries. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: Kodak May Get Out of Film Sooner

long. These days they could have a digital camera with a macro lens aimed at the film as it went past, and snap a shot every frame almost instantly. It's too bad the cheap places mangle the film and the pro lab charges a dollar a frame. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http

Wide angle backfocus

, then zoom wide and focus again to see if it changed. Do all Pentax digital cameras back focus at wide angle? Has anyone here tried the adjustments under the base plate? Has anyone had a Pentax repair center successfully fix this issue? Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http

Re: Wide angle backfocus

not, which is why I was asking. By the way, this particular 21 Limited is in fact a bit sharper than the our 16-45. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

21 limited vs 16-45 f4

) Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

18-55 vs 16-45?

look at each line of numbers and see where they get unreadable. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Newer sensors

the sensor. On the other hand, for family groups, resolution and lenses comes to the top in importance again. ( I also kind of wish that DA lenses had aperature rings, but that's me... ) Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

OT: Steam Powered

Write time to the X's drive is a bigger issue for me - it took a solid 20 minutes to download each card to the X's Drive II. I have the same (Dane-Elec) card in 1Gb configuration. It takes about 3 minutes to write a full card (90+) to my PC, which is steam powered. You must have a

See inside your lens

it both directions. You'll see all kinds of little bits of dust and such. If there is much of a haze, you'll see it too. You'll also see front or rear elements which have a cleaning film on them. Compare the lenses to see which seem to be worse than the others. Brian -- Brian Dunn

Re: Flash brackets

control, or dial the background up and down with the shutter speed. The 54 does follow the camera's aperature changes, unlike the 383s and 285s which I use. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: AF500FTZ flash

be a Paramount hot shoe to sunpack cable, which avoids the adaptor and the PC connectors. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Rechargeable Bats for the istDS

, with another set plus some regular AA lithiums plus the original CR-V3s which came with the cameras as backups. If we did not use the cameras so heavily then we would just use AA lithiums. The rechargables have paid for themselves, though, at the rate we use them. Brian -- Brian Dunn

Re: What do you do when you get to IMGP9999

are named with the assignment number _something, so they are easy to find on the hard drives. The physical file folders in the cabinets are in the same format. There is a database of event IDs. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Related question to off camera flash

if everyone's on the same aged circuit ( photog lights, video lights, DJ system, etc. ) Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Related question to off camera flash

a flash, with the cable going sideways. You choose which way you want to slide it on. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: [Rant:] Film scanning vs. DSLR

pixel is scanned by three colors, unlike most digital cameras, so the image quality can be much closer to a 6M pixel camera than you might expect. Too bad they then compress it and blast the highlights so much. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax

Radio Frequency Interference

that this has happened in the first place, on two different cameras. Has anyone else seen this yet? Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: AF360 Help

The manual is at: http://www.pentaximaging.com/customer_care/manuals_literature/show_manual Search for '360'.

Re: AF360 Help

The manual is at: http://www.pentaximaging.com/customer_care/manuals_literature/show_manual Search for '360'. Ok ok, so it's an interactive website and that particular link doesn't work. Try http://www.pentaximaging.com/customer_care/manuals_literature instead, and select Cameras and

Lens ghosting

Using the new DS, I was able to test the Pentax mount lenses which we have. We have a light board, and I took a piece of aluminum foil and poked holes in it with a thumbtack, as well as a few slices with a pocket knife. With the foil on the light board, and the exposure set for massive

More ideas for Pentax

, the camera stops down the aperture, takes a meter reading, then immediately flips up the mirror and takes an exposure. The camera could also take into account whether dedicated flash is used when selecting a shutter speed. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com

Ideas for Pentax

it right. Idea for Pentax: Let us choose between auto focus speed v.s. accuracy. Some people will be happy with 98% focus if they can get 1/3 the auto focusing time. Others will want sharp images even if it does take 3x as long to auto focus. Brian --- Brian Dunn Photographic http

Flash for Ds

a flash for the DS, even though many of them carry the DS and DL bodies. -- Brian --- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com

Re: Ideas for Pentax

the OK button to activate auto focus. Brian --- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com

Re: *ist DS Firmware 2.00

I'm wishing that Pentax would add quick access to metering modes. Possibly a custom item to swap metering mode onto the Fn keys in place of flash mode, which would then be back in the menus. It's unlikely that you'd frequently be using both at the same time, but I'd switch in and out of spot

RE: 3rd *istD body bites the dust

Interesting stuff about RFI: Heresay: One of the PDA manufacturers supposedly had problems with their product locking up if a cell phone was used close by. Personal experience: In a previous job, I used to develop software for embedded controllers. These programs had to survive real-world

Weddings with digital cameras

Hello. I recently got into digital photography. I bought an Olympus C-8080. Great camera, but the EVF would not work for me to shoot people events such as weddings. Try waving your hand in front of the lens on an EVF camera and you will probably see a lag time delay between what happens in

Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long

A minor warning regarding Canon... Supposedly some of the recent Sigma lenses do not work well with flash on some of the latest Canon bodies. I'd assume Sigma will rechip them, when they figure out what to do about it. Pentax probably keeps their lens communication standard more or less the

Digital printing kiosk quality

( In response to all this talk about optical vs digital prints, film is dead, etc. ) Here's an area which you'd figure digital would have helped tremendously but which seems to still be a big problem... You'd think by now that anywhere which takes a digital image in sRGB and produces a digital

*Ist-D memory write speed

are focusing on the next subject, but does it write any faster than every other second? Will a faster memory card speed up the D's write speeds? Brian Dunn http://www.bdphotographic.com

Quietest Pentax

for this kind of situation. Even those Cosina body things you find in Wolf Camera seem quieter than the loud klick-buzz-clack of the K1000 at 1/15th second... Do I really want one of the models with a mirror with shock absorbers? How loud is the mirror slap in an Ist-D or DS? Brian Dunn http

Re: *Ist-D memory write speed

supposedly runs DOS inside of it...! Brian Dunn http://www.bdphotographic.com

RE: 35mm Scanning Prices?

The PF1800's major flaw is its inability to handle a wide contrast range. It works ok for negative film, but has real problems with slides. A quick fix is to take a tiny piece of white cellophane, such as from a white plastic grocery bag, and layer that between the glass and the back side of

RE: Scanner Test

I'm going to go the other way on this. The PF1800 can scan the full density range of a negative very nicely. Your cat's image does not have blown highlights. The scanner is successfully reading the entire density range of the negative. For negatives, the PF1800 can give nice results within

ZX-M metering

. With manual mode, you can tell it to give you, say, f10 at 10 feet with full power for 100 speed film, and as long as you are 10 feet away from the subject and the flash has been allowed to recharge, it will give you f10 even if you are shooting right into the sun. Brian Dunn Photographic http

A35-105 f3.5 is a varifocal?

Pentax A35-105 f3.5, purchased from KEH in 'bargain' condition. When I change the zoom, the focus seems to change. For example, at 105mm focused out at 20', after zooming out a bit it will clearly focus well below the 20' mark on the focus scale. I find that I cannot trust the scale near the

Weddings, film, digital, Pentax

, which can bump you pretty good just over the eye if you bring the camera up too quickly. Brian Dunn http://www.soltec.net/~bd Email address is on the website, along with some nature, people, and pet photos.