Trying My Hand At Abstract Photography!

[SLC Flyfishing]

So what do you think?

SLC

 

[geo7x]

wow that is absolutely stunning, has a calming quality to it as it just looks clean, natural and pure. If that makes sense.

Did you take that with a Pentax K10D?

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

Yes, here's the camera lens and exposure info:

Pentax K10D
smc Pentax-FA 50 mm f/1.4
1/1000
f/1.4
ISO 100

Glad you like it! Didn't you get a K10D?

SLC

 

[geo7x]

Didn't you get a K10D?

No I've got a K100D

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

Didn't you get a K10D?

No I've got a K100D

A fine camera indeed! The lens I used (smc Pentax-FA 50 f/1.4) was very inexpensive, I think I paid like $150 for it. It would work just the same on your camera as well, just so you know in the future if you ever go looking for another lens. The huge aperture really lets you get fast shutter speeds, combined with the high ISO abilities of the K100D (much much better than the K10D) you could conceivably be shooting above 1/1000 of a second inside your house.

SLC

 

[geo7x]

Didn't you get a K10D?

No I've got a K100D

A fine camera indeed! The lens I used (smc Pentax-FA 50 f/1.4) was very inexpensive, I think I paid like $150 for it. It would work just the same on your camera as well, just so you know in the future if you ever go looking for another lens. The huge aperture really lets you get fast shutter speeds, combined with the high ISO abilities of the K100D (much much better than the K10D) you could conceivably be shooting above 1/1000 of a second inside your house.

SLC

Thanks for that I am always looking out for (cheap ) lenses

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

Yeah, I guess cheap is somewhat subjective, but considering the price of most lenses it's a real bargain. I think the Canon and Nikon 1.4's are closer to $300.

Thanks for the complements!

SLC

 

[hollyp0p]

i could sit and look at that for hours....it's the kind of thing you'd want on your wall

 

[Colin_T]

How bizarre. it kinda looks like a nipple. The blue is a trippy colour. What was it before the camera got to it?

I've got a Pentax K100D and its a bucket of poo. Ever since day one it has taken poor pictures that are blurry and out of focus. Pentax swore black and blue they never had any problems with them. The camera shop claims they couldn't find fault with it either. Anyway after a year of arguing with them and asking them to swap the camera I managed to get a photograph showing the fault. It was an alley way made up of stone pillars with some wooden beams across the top. The stone pillars on the right hand side were beautifully focused but the ones on the left were out of focus. i was standing central to both pillars and one side was good and the other bad. I took the pic to the shop and they said they could replicate that quite easily by using the camera on a tripod and having the image stabiliser on. Anyway they still don't want to replace it or give me my money back so I see the lawyer at the end of the month. Off to court we go

Next camera will be a Canon or Sony I think

 

[geo7x]

How bizarre. it kinda looks like a nipple. The blue is a trippy colour. What was it before the camera got to it?

I've got a Pentax K100D and its a bucket of poo. Ever since day one it has taken poor pictures that are blurry and out of focus. Pentax swore black and blue they never had any problems with them. The camera shop claims they couldn't find fault with it either. Anyway after a year of arguing with them and asking them to swap the camera I managed to get a photograph showing the fault. It was an alley way made up of stone pillars with some wooden beams across the top. The stone pillars on the right hand side were beautifully focused but the ones on the left were out of focus. i was standing central to both pillars and one side was good and the other bad. I took the pic to the shop and they said they could replicate that quite easily by using the camera on a tripod and having the image stabiliser on. Anyway they still don't want to replace it or give me my money back so I see the lawyer at the end of the month. Off to court we go

Next camera will be a Canon or Sony I think

This is strange

Personally I think it is a fantastic camera, and suprisingly easy to use even in the hands of a beginner.
Must be something wrong with your particular camera or the settings need to be looked in to.

Make sure you try out even the camera brands that don't have a tv advert (lol) before you buy one. When buying DSLRs a lot of people think it is a good idea to just go straight for the Canons, Nikons, Sonys etc, but other (such as pentax ) are often just as good or better at a substantially lower price. I tried out a Nikon before getting my pentax and the nikon, although being more expensive, just seemed a lot more tacky and less robust (combined with other things that I can't remember now) than the pentax.

Sorry for going off topic.

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

What lens were you using when you had the problems Colin? I ask because I had similar problems when I got the 50 mm lens I used for this photo. When the aperture on a lens is opened up to it's widest setting, the depth of field for that lens is at it's least, distance from camera to subject plays into this a bit too. For this photo, if the bubble had been swept by the current even a few centimeters to the front or back it too would have been out of focus. I realized that I just wasn't used to the depth of field limitations that larger apertures come with.

Even the kit lens can have a pretty shallow depth of field when it's used wide open at f/3.5 and the subject is fairly close. Perhaps that's your problem, or perhaps you may have a defective lens rather than a defective camera.

I hope you get it worked out, but know that there are tons of us out there with Pentax's who are pleased as punch with them.

SLC

 

[Colin_T]

I've tried a bunch of different lenses. I have an old film pentax, hence the reason I got the digital version. So I could use my old lenses on the digital body. When this first started I went out to different camera stores and borrowed lenses and took test shots by the hundreds. The same problem occured with all the different lenses. I even used a $3000 state of the art prime lens and it was as bad as the others.

My recent discussions with Pentax had led me to believe it is a design fault with the Pentax range. The image stabiliser is inside the camera on the sensor or somewhere in there. Anyway when you take a picture the actual movement of the internal mechanisms is enough to cause the image to blur. The guy at Pentax said he had heard of it happening twice from the technicians over east.

It doesn't matter anyway because I just want my money back. If the shop had any brains they would have replaced it originally instead of messing me around. When I did retail if we had a customer come in complaining of the same problems time and again we would just swap the unit and that just about always fixed the problem then and there. I asked Pentax and the shop to swap it a number of times but they refused. Now they are going to have to spend time in court, give me my money back, and they have lost a customer. Further to that I love spreading bad news so when I get screwed over by a business, I let everyone know about it.
What do they say about good service, a few people will hear it. But bad service and everyone hears about it

I must admit I do like the way the Pentax features are set up. Very easy to use compared to many other brands.

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

That's terrible

Well I've been lucky I suppose, never had any real problems with mine. I did send it in to have the AF system checked, they adjusted a misaligned AF sensor and sent it back to me within two weeks. They also cleaned it thoroughly and completely lubed the entire thing, as well as laser aligning my mirror and extending my warranty by another 6 months. Maybe the US service department is just a lot more friendly, either way if your camera is less than a year old, I'd just send it in for warranty service (maybe you already have)

I can't say the same as you though. I've loved mine, and had nothing but great service from the Pentax folks.

SLC

 

[Colin_T]

I think the service is probably better in the US than here. The camera has been back to Pentax 4 times under warranty. And it was at the camera shop for the 5th time being tested by the boss when it ran out of warranty. Hence the reason we're off to court. I bought the camera about 18 months ago (when they first came out) and have been complaining about it since 2 weeks after I bought it. The damn thing has spent as much time being checked out as it has been sitting in my house. I just laugh now and so does everyone I know. When I visit people they say hi, hows the camera My friends recon I will have the camera forever and it will be a curse upon my family. Doomed are those who touch the cursed camera.

 

[Tolak]

Ahhh, you finally found the contact lens my wife lost.

Sorry, first thing that popped into my mind, I do like it though.