bryan_kyan

Thanks, Alexander. I know I will feel better when I have taken a good 4000 or so photos and get them into Lightroom. I just feel irritable because I have been seeing hundreds of great shots...

There are almost ZERO Pentax used lenses or Pentax-compatible lenses on the entire island of Okinawa, unless someone sells their Pentax collection for a new D300.

 

I envy those of you that can find glass in actual stores. I have to order from online and have it shipped here. The adapters are $50 each, here.

Hi Everyone,

 

I just got my camera back today and all they did was change the sensor and test it. A few indoor test shots look OK, but I will put the camera through some paces tomorrow or Sunday and post anything interesting here.

 

As a side note: Whenever I read about someone getting "burned" by a company, I was able to sympathize, but I was never able to say that the same thing had happened to me until recently. I HAD a K100D that I took thousands of photos with and it worked like a champ, but I sold it shortly after the K10D purchase. I NEEDED that K10D to shoot photos at an international scientific conference just a few days later and 90% of those shots are not usable because of that noticeable texture. The only fix I could resort to was to wait 4 weeks, miss thousands of photos of Okinawa basking in 3 weeks of good weather AND get seriously scalded over the conference shots. Pentax's response was just a shrug. I lost money and future work because of it...and it's MY fault for picking what I thought was a quality camera and getting the one in a million defect...

 

So call me burned. I have Pentax glass, so I have to keep buying their cameras, but I swear I will only buy them in the future if I can take them out of the box and SEE that they work as I expect them to.

 

 

 

Now that I am commission-free for the next...few months, at least, maybe I can console my financial loss with snapshots of the island. I should've gone with a backup, ne?

Javier's frog looks like it's reaching for a life preserver or a beer.

 

 

Which one was it?

In Japan, new lenses cost a MINT and in Okinawa, used Pentax lenses are rare and very difficult to find. To get any nice lens that rates 2.8 or better means paying probably 40% more than in the US.

 

I am usually into Tamron and Sigma just because it's easier to find their older lenses in pawn shops and on auction sites. I am not sure that I will ever be able to afford many lenses from that roadmap. It's a shame because I am seeing all kinds of awesome images from the posts here using Pentax lenses.

Sometimes, only a photo can make us say, "There but for the grace of God, go I."

 

And that makes us feel relief and gratitude.

Nice lens and great photos!

Hi everyone!

 

 

First of all, thank you for the swift feedback! I talked to the people at the place I got the camera and they said it might be a rare CCD issue so I am taking it in tomorrow. Just to check, I called Pentax USA and talked to a product specialist and he said it might warrant a CCD replacement. He said to go ahead and take it in and Pentax Japan would definitely make it right.

 

For the record, I had firmware 1.3 on the camera the first day I got it and I have tried several RAW processors, including Silky Pix. I have no battery grip attached and I only use the genuine batteries to avoid power problems.

 

 

I'm glad I'm not just seeing things (almost had to quit my sake habit!) but I am quite sad that my new Sigma and Tamron lenses will have no playpal for the next few days in the sunny Okinawan spring weather.

I had a K100D Super for 4 months and took about 5000 photos with it. I love

that camera, but I wanted the weather seals and more professional capabilities

so I picked up a K10D about 2 weeks ago and have been shooting with it. I have

used both the kit lens (18-55mm) for the K100D as well as a Sigma 17-25mm f2.8-

4.0. I like the way the camera handles, but I've noticed that there is a

distinct herringbone or diamond crosshatch pattern on all the photos. Last

week I attended a conference where I was the photographer and almost all my

photos have this visible pattern in them! It's not so noticeable in bright

light, but it shows up on dark colors quite strongly.

 

I shoot RAW and convert to TIF/JPG in Lightroom. I noticed that I could see

this patterning in the RAW file in Lightroom. I did a long, extensive Google

search on pattern noise in the K10D and noticed the VPN and HPN examples

posted, but I haven't seen this before. I get it with the Pentax and Sigma

lens both and at all ISOs and exposures. It's just more noticeable in lower

light/darker colors.

 

Below are links to full-size JPGs (about 5 to 7MB each). You can see the

diamond/herringbone pattern without zooming in.

 

 

First up is a fruit closeup with the Sigma lens. <A

HREF="http://images.bluemagister.com/IMGP0803.jpg">Fruits</A>

 

Next are shide at a Japanese shrine.

 

<A HREF="http://images.bluemagister.com/IMGP0580.jpg">Shide</A>

 

Last are some flowers.

<A HREF="http://images.bluemagister.com/IMGP0408.jpg">Flowers</A>

 

 

I really hope I am being stupid with this and it's something that won't require

a call to Pentax Japan.