POW June 14, 2009

<p>Hi Pentaxian friends.<br /><br />I can't believe the POW hasn't been posted yet. I am taking this opportunity to post two pictures taken with the K-7. The pictures are nothing special...the IQ is special in my opinion.<br /><br />I finally have the K-7 in my hands and I will be testing it in the days and weeks to come. Today, I took a few shots only, as I had to work all day. We have some flowers around the buildings and I shot several with the 15mm DA Limited and the DA* 200mm SDM. I am going on a photo shoot in the mountains Monday and I should come back with plenty of examples.<br /><br /><em>Note that the photos are untouched, except for reducing them to 640 pixels wide and converting to JPG from RAW/DNG.<br /></em><br />The first one was taken with the 15mm DA limited, 1/180 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400.<br />The second was taken with the DA* 200mm, 1/3000 sec, f/8 at ISO <strong>1600</strong>. <br /><br />I am currently working on the "Pentax K-7 Everything you need to know...and then some" book. I hope to have the book out in early July, coinciding with the availability of the K-7. Yvon Bourque</p><div></div>

<p>2nd Picture.</p><div></div>

<p>I just had to put this picture in as well. K-7 with DA* 200mm SDM, 1/250 sec, f/4, ISO 200.</p><div></div>

<p>Continuing my film theme from last week, this is from the 645N.<br>

<a title="Six Mile Creek Urban Wilderness" href=" title="Six Mile Creek Urban Wilderness"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/3365/3597028039_c4e4e01e00_d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </a><br>

<em> 645N, Provia 100F, 55mm (~35mm in 35mm format) @ F/8. </em></p>

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And moving back to digital...<br>

<a title="Caney on Mount Antone" href=" title="Caney on Mount Antone"> <img src="http://static.flickr.com/3348/3591115790_8607322d07_d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </a><br>

<em> K10D, DA 50-135 f/5.6, ISO 400</em></p>

Heh, your dog closely resembles my assistant, except she’s black instead of tan.

Bad week for photography, rain almost every, there was nothing to do for it but

to put on a pair of rubbers and go muck around in the swamps. Gosh it felt great

to be 12 again. I went to find the world's smallest flower, duckweed. Duckweed

forms the mats of vegetal flakes you see floating on the surface of ponds. There's

tons of it. A compact mat may contain well in excess of 100,000 individual plants.

Unfortunately flowering is rare and I didn't find what I went looking for. But

nevermind, pond water is still marvellous stuff. Here is a picture of a water

mite, taken through the microscope with a Coolpix 990 and cheap relay lens --

not a good system for imaging live (read: frenetic) subjects: rickety camera;

no Vista remote control software; three optical systems between subject and

sensor; low ISO; etc. Thankfully, I should receive a Pentax adapter this week

to use with the K20 and Pentax Remote Assistant. We'll see how that goes.

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/3623502616/" title="Water mite (Hydracarina) by manual crank, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2434/3623502616_efb3b31804_o.jpg" width="800" height="640" alt="Water mite (Hydracarina)" /></a>

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A ladybug. K20 + DA 35.

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/3614608418/" title="Ladybug (Coccinellidae) by manual crank, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/3614608418_ca88e55eb9_o.jpg" width="800" height="641" alt="Ladybug (Coccinellidae)" /></a>

<p>So how do you get your mitts on a K7 Yvonne? Nice :-)<br />Love your first shot, and also the third one..<br />Justin, that is a great shot of Caney! He looks smarter than quite a few people I know! lol<br>

Ben, that first shot of yours is really nice looks good in b/w.. I find the second one a bit 'flat'<br />Leo, your shots are very impressive.. nice one of the ladybug.. left you a comment on flickr as well.<br />Not much in the way of photography for me this week.. I took some pictures at a party, but those are pretty much D & B. I did some more processing of shots from last September in OZ..</p><div></div>

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<p>I did only light photographic work this week during breaks in computer support sessions and some strolls in the old city part of Zurich. Since we will see lots of flowers and plants I show something different :-) </p><div></div>

<p>construction sites are everywhere in Zurich </p><div></div>

<p>a polarizer would have helped...</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Another beautiful Adirondack Day View</strong> of the Great Range as seen from Noonmark Mt As Justin may agree an Adirondack weather forecast is about as accurate as reading tea leaves. It wasn't supposed to rain!<a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/6-13-09%20Noonmark%20MT/?action=view&current=TheGreatRange.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/6-13-09%20Noonmark%20MT/TheGreatRange.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <em>K10D,16-45mm,A16mm@f/10,1/350s,ISO 100 Wildflowers lined the trail</em> <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/6-13-09%20Noonmark%20MT/?action=view&current=TrailFlowers.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/6-13-09%20Noonmark%20MT/TrailFlowers.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <em>K10d,16-45mm,A38mm@f/4,1/60s,ISO 100</em></p>

<p>I don't typically go looking for opportunities to photograph people, but all of these folks were simply "in my way" as I was capturing the "antique" side of downtown Minneapolis on Friday evening, right at sunset. I do believe the three folks on the left thought me to be a bit suspect... Both photos captured via K20D and Sigma 18-50mm.</p>

<p><img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p26/stevet_010/K20D2685edit1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>And sunset, last night.</p>

<p><img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p26/stevet_010/K20D2606edit1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>This is probably my most interesting shot of the week, taken with the Sigma 105 and a 20mm extension tube. It's another weed--I spend too much time shooting 'em instead of pulling 'em. While the flower isn't quite perfect, it did <em>very</em> interesting things with the light.</p>

<p>Huh? I'll try again</p><div></div>

<p>Dave.. an enlightened weed? ok.. I'm sorry I couldn't resist.. Nice one though :-)</p>

<p>Had mid-terms this week and didn't really shoot anything so here are a couple again from my Puerto Rico trip a few weeks ago. One is with the DA 18-250; which I developed a new respect for on this trip It's a much better lens than I previously gave it credit and since I was traveling with seven non-photographers would not have come home with 1/4 of the images had I stuck to primes. The second with the DA21 limited.</p><div></div>

<p>And the DA21 shot. Interestingly I think the DA18-250 at 25mm has less barrel distortion than the DA21 which is one of my bigger complaints with that limited</p><div></div>

<p>I was only going to post the one this week but this guy just showed up. <br>

Lots of PP challenges with this shot (taken with the 1000mm f8, of course)--fringing, noise and I didn't <em>quite</em> nail the focus. I think (hope) I have better quality shots on that card but but I love this pose.<br>

These guys are <em>big</em> ! This one was being heckled by a Red-Tail which seemed puny by comparison.</p><div></div>

<p>Whoops-I got the ID wrong--it's not an osprey. What <em>is</em> it then?</p>

<p>Inspired by all the lovely (and good) flower and bird pics, here's my share :<br>

(though ofcourse I couldn't resist doing some pp....)<br>

 

<p >This is a grotto, according to my translator a black-tailed godwit </p>

<p ><img src="http://static.zoom.nl/a92fc3b4400a9f10bb2ab8e937e72d52.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="384" /></p>

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<p >and my version of a papaver </p>

<p ><img src="http://static.zoom.nl/b57119c3f465d6225b0dfe8fa488c455.jpg " alt="" width="700" height="657" /></p>

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<p>Dave, was this the Redtail that was bothering your bird? :-)</p>

<p>PS: 300mm is NOT enough reach for this kind of stuff!</p>

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<p>Ok, it's my first post here.<br /> These two photos are from the oldest (probably) oil refinery. There is an oil island in Sweden (i Ängelsberg) with a refinery from 1875. They have imported oil from Pennsylvania.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://gmlynek.ovh.org/IMGP7851_.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="369" /> <br /> <br /> <img src="http://gmlynek.ovh.org/IMGP7849_.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="425" /> <br /> <img src="../photo/9335462" alt="" /> <br /> <img src="../photo/9335471" alt="" /> K100D, DA 18-55 AL<br /> <img src="../photo/9335462" alt="" /> <br /> <img src="../photo/9335471" alt="" /> <br /> <img src="../photo/9335462" alt="" /></p>

<p>One shot this week, a rose in my front garden. Shot with 200d and 35 Limited, I call it "Delicate Beauty".</p><div></div>

<p>Just a quick one here. Costa Mesa Speedway. K10D, DA* 200mm, 1/640s, f/4, ISO 100.<br>

<a title="Speedway Bikes by Fnawzm, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3630/3624704989_bc73d18625_o.jpg" alt="Speedway Bikes" width="800" height="536" /></a></p>

<p>My flora and fauna for this week on Friday morning after the rain. <br>

#1 Frog mislabeling himself as a water lily</p><div></div>