Re: Pentax K3 III Monochrome Review

[Larry Colen]

He generally does fair reviews, but I can't take the time at work to watch it, 
though I can get away with occasionally checking email.  Can you summarize?

I'll guess:
If you can afford $2200 for a body that you only use for monochrome, you get a 
stop better performance and better effective resolution.  It'd be great for 
astrophoto buffs that don't care about color.



> On Dec 19, 2023, at 1:38 PM, Steve Cottrell  wrote:
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> Petapixel:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZpLIUzjPw 
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> 
> Cheers,
> Cotty
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Pentax K3 III Monochrome Review

[Steve Cottrell]

Petapixel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZpLIUzjPw 



Cheers,
Cotty

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Re: OT: Mac and google maps ??

[Steve Cottrell]

Ios and Android devices using Google Maps are incapable of mimicking the 
desktop interface, so no you can’t do that. The only option you have is to 
select a route and amend it by clicking on the three little dots next to ‘your 
location’ and ‘add stop’ that will allow you to select a new ‘waypoint’ and so 
allowing you to modify the route. It may take some time :-)

Cotty



> On 15 Dec 2023, at 00:08, David J Brooks  wrote:
> 
> I’ve asked this on some facebook sites but not getting anywhere so I
> thought I’d ask people that may know
> On my Mac desktop if I plot out a route on google maps if I don’t like it I
> can grab points on the rout and move them to were I want, but on my 12 mini
> and 9th generation iPad it won’t let me do it all I can do is move the map
> around
> 
> Any ideas??

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Re: has anyone tried the new firmware update?

[Henk Terhell]

The new firmware was suspended by Pentax due to problems.
https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/digital/k1.html

Henk

Op 2023-12-19 om 20:18 schreef Larry Colen:

A couple days after the new firmware for the K-1 dropped I saw someone on the 
facebook group complaining how it made his K-1 unusable.  I don't remember the 
details.  Being able to use the third gen astrotracer that operates based on a 
test shot rather than dead reckoning is very tempting, but not at the expense 
of breaking things.

In a related note, has anyone tried using the third gen astrotracer in 
conjuction with an equatorial mount?  It seems to me that if the equatorial 
mount is even reasonably close, the computational astrotracer could do an 
amazing job of fine tuning.

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has anyone tried the new firmware update?

[Larry Colen]

A couple days after the new firmware for the K-1 dropped I saw someone on the 
facebook group complaining how it made his K-1 unusable.  I don't remember the 
details.  Being able to use the third gen astrotracer that operates based on a 
test shot rather than dead reckoning is very tempting, but not at the expense 
of breaking things.

In a related note, has anyone tried using the third gen astrotracer in 
conjuction with an equatorial mount?  It seems to me that if the equatorial 
mount is even reasonably close, the computational astrotracer could do an 
amazing job of fine tuning.  

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Gaining an appreciation for my Pentax gear

[Larry Colen]

A while back I picked up a micro 4/3 kit to carry on bike rides.  It is indeed 
a LOT smaller and easier to carry than even the APS Pentax kit.  As things 
settle out these days, I've been doing most of my photography with it, because 
it seems the only time I take many photos is when I'm on a bike ride.   As an 
aside, riding around the inland empire really makes me appreciate the Santa 
Cruz mountains as well, particularly anything at all off road is a very thorny 
issue.

While a lot of the intuitive nature of a user interface is simply just being 
used to it, and I do appreciate certain aspects of the touch screen of the Gx9, 
I'm having a real problem getting used to it, finding what I need to do buried 
under 7 layers of menus.  When I couldn't get the 5-button dial on the back to 
do anything other than change the focus point, I ended up giving up, and just 
doing a factory reset.  Now I can't get it to change the focus point, but the 
touch screen works well for that.  

In terms of user experience, while EVFs have come a long way, this one is still 
a very, very long way from the optical viewfinder on my k-1 or my k-3 iii.  
Granted, for manual focusing particularly in limited light, it is hard to beat 
an OVF with focus peaking.  I love me those high pass filters.

I'm also gaining an appreciation of why so many small cameras are being wiped 
out by smart phones.  I recently got a Pixel 8 pro, and while I have some 
gripes with its user interface, the image quality of it is usually nearly as 
good, often better than, the image quality of the micro 4/3.   I realize that 
this isn't an entirely fair comparison, between a brand new, bleeding edge, top 
of the line smart phone and a micro 4/3 that was released 5 years ago, using 
"somewhat better than kit" zoom lenses.   However, there is just something 
about the image quality of the raw files, particularly at anything past base 
ISO, they have very little dynamic range, and are often quite noisy.  To be 
fair, the noise reduction in the latest lightroom can do wonders with those 
files, particularly on the sky.  

At some point, I'll need to look a bit more closely at some of the OLY bodies, 
likely the EM5-iii, but even used they're rather pricey to pick up "just to see 
what they're like", and it's not like there are any camera stores around.   


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