Yesterday I received a new broken camera body. This camera had a fault in the connectos between body and lens. In this particular case, as I bought it to replace my old Pentax *ist Ds, used just with old manual lenses, I didn’t care. The fact is that the camera works perfectly if you don’t [...]
After the update of my photography mini-site, I was thinking how I could adapt it to show panoramas. I’ve been shooting panoramas for a while, but they were being kept secret because I didn’t like the way I could publish them on flickr. Well, I tweaked the core of the mini-site to show panoramas, and [...]
…in photography Here it is a basic chart I made some weeks ago from my home’s window. I just thought of posting this test in case someone might find it useful. It pictures the typical problem when shooting a manual camera and you have to choose both diaphragm and shutter speed. This chart shows how [...]
After buying my Pentax *ist Ds body the first thing I did after testing it with my old pentax K mount lenses was looking for some prime lenses with different focal length of those I own. After looking for a while on ebay, I realised that if I wanted lenses to used them on both [...]
Some weeks ago I bought a broken Pentax *ist Ds on ebay. Actually it’s supposed to be broken but as a matter of fact, it was just the flash unit which was not popping up. After some easy disassembly, I got the metal pieces of the mechanism clean and clear and now is perfectly fixed. [...]
