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Via 1001 Noisy Cameras

 

Read the complete comparison here.

 

 

 

 

 

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Here is an article by http://www.grotta.net/blog.htm. It 's via the PentaxFacebook page. Sally Wiener tells us why she shoots with the PENTAX 645D.

 

Pentax K-01 death. What does that mean for Pentax? Here is an excerpt from soundimageplus.blogspot.com

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This is only the opinion of one blogger, but when too many people have the same perception, sometimes it becomes reality. I hope not.

 

Click on the link  below, via soundimageplus.BlogSpot

 

http://soundimageplus.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-pentax-k-01-is-discontinued-what-do.html

Do you really need 24 megapixels and more? I would say yes.

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Hi Photographer friends,

My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica with a whooping 1.2 Megapixels. I thought it was wonderful and the pictures were actually looking pretty good on my monitor screen. It wasn't quite as good as film cameras yet, but I imagined the possibilities.

 

 

My Second Digital Camera was a Nikon Coolpix 990. It had just a little over 3 Megapixels.  I was able to actually print good 5" x 7" and even ventured to 8" x 10". 

 

 

Then, the real revolution started. Every manufacturer was on board. Nikon and Canon took the lead, but I opted for Pentax, since I always used Pentax SLRs and film cameras. My first Pentax DSLR was a Pentax *ist-D with 6.1 Megapixels. I didn't think it could get any better. It looked like a modern 35mm film camera and even used the same lenses, although cropped because of the sensor APS-C size. Now I was printing up to 11" x 14". What else would anyone want or need?

 





 

I now shoot with a Pentax K-5 at 16.3 Megapixels, and suddenly I need more Megapixels.  What happened you say? For a while there was talks about the pixel war and it wasn't the number of pixels that was important anymore, it was the quality of the pixels or photosites.  Computers were not really designed to manipulate big files. Nikon recently announced the D-7100 @ 24 Megapixels.  Pentax's next DSLR will probably have 24 Megapixels as they usually use the same Sony sensors as Nikon does.  Yes, the files will be large and yes your computer might have a hard time to keep up. Note that you don't have to save all of the pictures your camera has on it's memory card, to the computer. Just download the good images and further select the very best images on the bigger screen.

 

 

 

The reason I want an ever expanding sensor size in terms of megapixels, is that you can crop the bigger image files and get a really good and printable images. It saves on buying expensive telephoto lenses, and lord knows how expensive they are. With a 24 Megapixels image, you can shoot a bird with a 50mm lens and crop it so that the bird will occupy most of the image, while still being crisp and clear.

 

 

Of course the trend is now more pixels but also full frame. That's even better. Bigger sensor and even more pixels. The cropping possibilities are endless. Your lens collection will be possibly reduced in number. Cropping is a good thing. It fixes badly composed pictures. It enables cropping to what a 500mm or 600mm lens would have taken. I know, you will bring the fact that the bokeh is not as good as if taken with a real big telephoto. That's true, but if you have that much invested in digital photography equipment, you already have Photoshop or similar software. I believe that almost everyone retouches their images one way or another. It easy to create the bokeh you want in post-processing.

 

I don't shoot birds, but I have one example shot with my K-5 with 16.3 Megapixels. Just imagine if the original image would have been from a 24 Megapixels camera.

 

 

 

 

 

There you have my opinion...and if you don't like that one, I have others. :)

 

As always, thanks for reading,

 

Yvon Bourque

How to use manual lenses on Pentax DSLRs. - From Pentax

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http://youtu.be/MlPUfAY076I

 

 

Special World Pentax Day Events - Pentax Camera News & Rumors - PentaxForums.com

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Special World Pentax Day Events - Pentax Camera News & Rumors - PentaxForums.com

On the road with my RV and the Pentax K-5

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Hi Photographer friends,

Today was my first day off that was not cold or raining. I decided to hook up the fifth wheel and go try it on the road. I've had the fifth wheel for three Months now, but did not have a chance to road test it. The task seemed to be an easy one for this monster truck. You hardly know there is a fifth wheel in the back. Climbing long steep grades did not seem to bother it one bit. 

I drove about 200 miles, from Apple Valley through the desert toward Barstow, then I came back on old Route 66. Drove on Highway 15 to the Cajon Pass, and back up the steep hill. I understand that the images herein aren't the best I ever produced, but the task Today was more toward testing the new rig.

 

 Historic Route 66 from Barstow to Victorville, CA.

 

 Met this young Mexican Rancher with his Quarter Horse.

 

 Mormon Rock and Cajon Pass.

 

 Road 247 between Lucerne Valley and Barstow.

 

 

 

When I retire, this is going to be our home for most of the year, although we purchased a modest home in Southern Texas for the colder months. In addition of this Photographic blog, I will also have a blog about travelling across North America and how to photograph the people and places we will visit. The sister blog "The long way home..."   is currently under construction. You can take a look and send me some suggestions if you wish.  Although we are still working, we will be visiting California, Nevada and Arizona starting next Month and through the summer and fall. There are plenty of great places to visit in those three states.

 

Gradually, we will spend more and more time on the road until we become full time RVers. I hope that you will continue to visit this Pentax Blog, as well as the new Blog, as it will incorporate even more photography than ever before.

 

Thanks for reading,

 

Yvon Bourque

 

P.S. I should receive the Pentax MX-1 soon and will give my impression of it as well as writing an e-book for it.

 

 

E-books for most of Pentax DSLRs available here.

 

 

1999 with a Nikon Coolpix, low resolution images.- New software advancements gives a new life to my old pictures. It's not as good as if captured with a Pentax K-5, but it's still fantastic.

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In 1999, I was living in Maine. One of my first digital camera was the Nikon Coolpix 990. It had 3.32 megapixels, and I thought it was fantastic. The truth is that it was indeed fantastic. Pentax did not have a digital camera at the time and I was astonished at the images I was able to produce.

 

Fourteen years later, I reloaded some of the images on my computer and tried to improve them with today's Photoshop. Take in consideration that the images were improved back then with the Photoshop version available at the time.

 

The images are still not very good for enlargements on printed paper, but considering that most people view or exchange images on a computer screen, the results are pretty impressive.

 

Look for yourself. The first images are the originals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have thousands of pictures taken with low resolution digital cameras. Maybe it's time for me to rediscover perfectly good images lost in inferior technology.

Isn't technology amazing?

Thanks for reading,

Yvon Bourque

I'm glad that cameras like the Pentax K-5 are available, but I'm also glad that technological advancement in software allows me to give a second life to my older images.

The Pentax MX-1 available now.

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Check images of it on Pentaxfans.net. You probably can't read Chinese,, but since a picture is a worth thousand words, you have many thousand words.

http://forum.pentaxfans.net/thread-134470-1-1.html

Thanks for reading,

Yvon Bourque

Combining my photography blog with my newest passion; RV travelling.

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Hi Photographer friends,

A few years back, my second favorite hobby was four-wheeling with my Jeep. The Jeep has found a new home a while back and now we are into luxury camping, with a fifth wheel. This will expand my photography immensely. Starting in a few months, we will try to spend weekends in different places within 200 miles from our home in the high desert of California.

 

From here, a weekend of camping can bring us to all Southern California, part of Nevada and Arizona. There are a multitude of nice places to visit with gorgeous opportunities for photography. With our Pentax cameras and lenses, we will travel as often as possible and report on these short trips with stories and plenty of photos. I will try to use different lenses for each trip and show the results here.

 

With this new endeavor, I thought it would be appropriate to also link to other bloggers engaged in RVying and photography as well. You will find these links listed on the right side of this blog.

 

This is what will be pulling our house on wheels.

 

Above is the House / Photo Studio, on wheels.
Below is part of the inside.

 

 

This is going to be a new chapter in our lives and we will share the experiences with you all. It's still going to be a Pentax oriented blog, with a twist. I am in negotiations with Pentax to borrow different lenses for short periods of time and reporting on the results. It should be interesting.

 

Thanks you for reading,

 

Yvon Bourque

Download a free sample of the Pentax K-5, K-5 II and K-5 IIs e-book right now.

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Hi Photographer friends,

Download a free sample of the Pentax K-5, K-5 II and K-5 IIs e-book right now. See for yourself why this e-book will help your photography. Thousands of copies were sold all over the world, and less than 1/10th of one percent complaints were ever received. 100% of the received complaints were 100% resolved and were all about someone having problems downloading the e-book on their particular reading device or computer.

 

 At less than $15.00, this e-book contains all the information needed to be a great photographer, at about the same price as a McDonald meal for two. It goes in details on how to apply the knowledge you will receive, specifically when using the Pentax K-5's series of DSLRs.

 

About one third of the e-book is included in this sample. A full table of contents  plus information you can use right now, are included in the sample, and you don't have to purchase the full version if you don't want to. From one honest Pentaxian photographer to another, you will not regret getting this e-book full of information way beyond what the OEM manual supplies.

 

If you like the e-book sample and want to purchase a full copy, click  here.

 

We also have e-books for the Pentax K100D, K10D, K20D, K-x/r, K-01 (for the Apple iPad), and K-7. We are crazy about Pentax.

Pentax e-books

 

Click here or on the image above to see all the e-books available.

Best Regards to all,

Yvon Bourque

 

The Digital SLR Advantage Pentax K-30 via Men's Journal.

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Here is an interesting article by the Man's Journal:
The Digital SLR Advantage:
Pentax K-30

Pentax K-5's price reduction at BH Photo and Adorama

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