Showing posts with label K100D. Show all posts
Showing posts with label K100D. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2007

50mm in Spurlock

Wel, 50mm/2.8 macro definitely becomes my favorite in K100D. It is fast, sharp, light, and do macro. I spent a little bit over half an hour in Spurlock this afternoon. I always want to take some pictures there. K100D+50/2.8 is a very good combination for that. The SR allows me mostly in iso 800 and 1/25s. And I am very confident to shoot in wide-open in this lens.

The white balance is challenging. The museum's lights are kind of weird and lights in different places has different temperature. Pentax's auto-white-balance is not very well most of the time indoor. But it provides a very useful and handy custom white balance function. I use it all the time. I have to find whatever white place available and I have to use the gray card sometimes bacuse there is no white object to set the custom white-balance. However, to make it worse, the glass of the exhibit often casts some odd shades, which made the gray-card-corrected WB, which can only be done outside the glass, sill quite off. I spent great deal amount of time back in Lightroom to tweak the white balance.

I only walk in the lobby, the Asian room and the small exhibit for Egypt. (Good, leave something for future.) Actually I learned when I was almost done that exhibit for Egypt stuff was not allowed to shot. But they were kindly enough not to ask me to delete them. Anyway here are here.

I really like this Japanese girl doll. The pose, the color and the build is perfect. It is delicate and adorable. I wish that i could record it well in my picture.


This one is in the exhibit of Egypt. It is rudiment yet powerful.



This Chinese wedding march is lovely and it is tiny.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

50mm in Beckman

We had a meeting this afternoon in Grainger and I brought the camera. I wish I had a smaller bag for camera that only accommodates a camera with one lens. That would fit my backpack much better. Now I had to use the smaller camera bag instead and it is still huge for the backpack.

Shot by 50mm/2.8 macro.

It is not a great shot, maybe it would play better if in an absolutely symmetric.


This is a B&W convert for my new bike. Maybe it would look better with a shallow DOF? Not sure.



Some stuff I bid on ebay arrived today. They are Pentax-M 50mm/1.7 and 200mm/4. Now I got a lots of MF lens. :)

Friday, September 21, 2007

28mm Walk around Orchard Down

After yesterday's 50mm walk, 28mm walk is a no-brainer today. Unfortunately, I still have no particular idea for today's photo. So I picked up the 28mm lens and had a walk after I got home this evening. This one is more pleasant than yesterday. It was the similar time (5:30pm-6:30pm), but the sun was much more cooperative and shined all the time. The lawn and garden around the Orchard Down has substantially less mosquitoes. There were lots of squirrels in the small woods and next time maybe I can take a 200mm walk.

One thing very good about this walk is that I got a deeper idea about the focus length. 28mm is more like a standard lens in APS frame camera. (Maybe 35mm is even better.) There is little chance to produce any wide-angle visual impact by it. But it gives you something really normal. (Maybe that will train my eye better?) My off-brand $17 28mm/2.8 lens performs respectfully. I shot a few 2.8 picture and it is sharp enough for me. The flare is serious though. But it is expected in the low sun and can be avoided with some care and my hand worked as shade for sometime. I am wondering how Pentax's SMC performs though.

I developed some more affection for the back-light. The leaves looks lovely light-green with back-lighting. And the back-light define the outline with a touch of gold.


(I think it is 2.8 although I am not sure. The camera does not get the aperture information of the MF lens and cannot record it.)

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Hmm, first

I do not like the introduction. Frankly, I do not know how to write it. Maybe save it for later. Anyway, let us begin.

This little remote came today from Hongkong, only costs $4.46 shipped. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5483 Really tiny. It works with lots of camera. I tested it for K100D and it works. What a deal! Shoot it with Pentax-A 50/2.8 macro with two flashes for the shadeless effects. Not every successful. But it is kind of cool with the reflection. If you look really closely, you will see I am shooting in each button.