Hi fellow Pentaxians,
Today I felt like a kid with a new toy. Actually we’re all kids at heart; the only difference between kids and us, grown ups, is the price of our toys. Anyway, I just wanted to post a few pictures taken with the K20D and the DA 10-17mm lens. It is very unusual to have snow in our area at lower altitude. It snowed yesterday and I just had to go out there and put it on film…I mean on a memory card. While there, I found an old abandoned house and couldn't resist jumping over the fence even if there was a "No trespassing" sign. You have to do whatever it takes to get the pictures.
I just got my K20D last Monday and I received the DA 10-17MM last week as well. The lens was purchased on EBay. It was posted for $350.00 with “Buy it now”. I didn’t wait and purchased it right then before someone else had time to snatch it away. That’s the best price I have seen for it.
Today I felt like a kid with a new toy. Actually we’re all kids at heart; the only difference between kids and us, grown ups, is the price of our toys. Anyway, I just wanted to post a few pictures taken with the K20D and the DA 10-17mm lens. It is very unusual to have snow in our area at lower altitude. It snowed yesterday and I just had to go out there and put it on film…I mean on a memory card. While there, I found an old abandoned house and couldn't resist jumping over the fence even if there was a "No trespassing" sign. You have to do whatever it takes to get the pictures.
I just got my K20D last Monday and I received the DA 10-17MM last week as well. The lens was purchased on EBay. It was posted for $350.00 with “Buy it now”. I didn’t wait and purchased it right then before someone else had time to snatch it away. That’s the best price I have seen for it.
As for or the pictures above, I played with the saturation in Lightroom, but the K20D is a dream camera. All pictures were taken in RAW and processed in Lightroom. The results were transferred as JPEG files to Photoshop Element V.6 and reduced to a resolution of 100 pixels per inch with a height of 600 pixels. It a small file and it e-mails or posts easily.
Some reviewers will trash the K20D while some other will praise its qualities. But if you have a chance to try the K20D, you will know right away that this camera is an evolution of the revolution that was the K10D. I could go on for hours, but the “proof is in the pudding” really applies to this camera. I tell you, Pentax did it again.
Thank you for reading,
Yvon Bourque – http://pentaxdslrs.blogspot.com/
6 comments:
the photo of the corrugated iron shed with the windmill in the background is brilliant. i can hear the ennio morricone score, straight from the good, the bad and the ugly. right - how did you achieve the overexposure at the edges? (question undoubtedly reveals my lack of experience - i appreciated your earlier posts on hints for beginners).
woodsy
Those are some awesome pictures. I bought the Pentax K200D on Thursday and I really love it. Would have been nice to go for the K20D but I didn't want to spend that much money on it.
I've been looking at different lenses to extend my collection and I'm really tempted to buy the DA 10-17mm after seeing your pictures.
Did you do a lot of work in Lightroom or are the changes minimal? Personally I prefer Apple Aperture.
Seeing as this will be my first comment wrt your blogs ... 1st Thanks for the great K10D eBook, bought one some time ago and its invaluable. 2nd I really enjoy your blogs, I've been a pentaxian since 1990 (SF7) and you're set as my homepage on my browser. 3rd and finally to the matter at hand .... WOW these shots are great, 3rd and 5th are my favourites, the kinda images you dream about getting from your skill and gear ...well done. I'll have to save for my K20D and if it involves changing my job to a job paying more I'll do it. It also seems that I'll have to get myself a DA 10-17 even though I have a DA* 16-50 which is really great. Please keep on blogging and sharing your images, it inspires the rest of us to go the extra mile for ours.
These are fabulous, make me think of a happy version of "There Will be Blood" :-)
I love these pictures. I would love a large print of the 4th one down to hang on my wall. It's beautiful!
There are some pretty nice shots here. I really like some of the iron shed shots, and the colours look great. I wish I was lucky enough to have snow as a rare situation. I was lucky enough to have been directed from Photo.net.
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