(2011.04) Group Photo Shoot

• My Pentax Gear review pages:
  • As I have bought, played, sold so many lens and accessories, so I am planning to write a proper review of these gears.
  • I will also put some other's related review and reference at the end of each page

• vivitar 2x macro TC

(2011.06) Group Photo Shoot

My Next manual lens is probably Samyang 800mm f8 mirror, (Got a 400mm prime instead)
then maybe Samyang 85mm f1.4,(not necessary for that shallow dof as it totally blur away the background at f1.4)
then maybe Samyang 8mm APSC fish-eye (Bought for fun, and really fun, then sold)

As you can see, nowadays, only Samyang (re-branded Rokinon, Opteka, …) still produce good cheap manual lens.

Study Links

• 85mm f1.4 lens list: link
• 135mm lens list: compare with all 135mm lens

(2011.07) Group Photo Shoot

(2011.11) Group Photo Shoot

(2012.01) Group Photo Shoot

(2012.05) Group Photo Shoot

(2012.08) Group Photo Shoot

(2013.04) Group Photo Shoot

(2013.08) Group Photo Shoot

• Collection: Pentax equipment pictures (not mine) link
• pentax timeline: link
• best pentax camera list: link
• Pentax film camera: link
• K mount lens series: link

Super telephoto lens is one of the key products that demonstrating the most superior manufacturing capability and best technology of an optical instrument manufacturer.

• In 2011 and modern today with all the Autofocus DSLR world, Canon is still producing super telephoto lens from 400mm f4.5 (1444 USD) to 500mm F4 (7000 USD), 600mm F4 (9000 USD) and 800mm F5.6 (12,000 USD);
  • while Nikon currently only 600mm F4 (9800 USD)
  • Pentax, the longest lens currently still in production is 300mm F4 (1200 USD)
  • Sigma also gives a lot of options from 500mm to 800mm

• Look back in 1960s-1980s, in the manual focusing era, Pentax has produced lots of extreme super telephoto lens like A 1200mm F8, M 2000mm F13.5 Mirror, K 135-600mm F6.7 Zoom, and shorter ones like 500mm F4.5
  • a website showing film era legendary Pentax manual lens: http://kajiwara.weebly.com/takumar-10008-v1-33.html

• in old era, there was Nikkor 1200mm F11 lens: http://www.nicovandijk.net/longtele.htm
  • and Nikkor lens wows in military use as well: http://akiroom.com/redbook-e/kenkyukai10b/kenkyukai201010.html
• and Canon also had 1200mm F11 lens: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fdlenses/index.htm
  • which leads to today's impressive Canon EF 1200mm f5.6

• other film era lens manufacturers
  • Tamron: 400mm F4 (2200 SGD), and one of sharpest mirror SP 500mm F8 mirror
  • Vivitar: 400mm F5.6, 800mm f8
  • and etc: Enna Munchen Tele-Ennalyt 400mm f4.5, Soligor 400mm F6.3, Tokina 400mm f5.6, Carl Zeiss Jena 1000mm f5.6 mirror and more

• of course, the currently cheapest in production 800mm is Samyang (and other rebranded) 800mm F8 mirror (200 USD) like roughly this

How-tos

Steps of setup for usage with manual lens

1. switch to “M” mode on the top dial
2. (if you have mount the manual lens) choose the “Input Focal Length”
3. Press “menu” button
   1. under “Camera icon page 1” > D-range setting > Highlight correction: on (if you choose on, you can only use iso 200-6400 range)
   2. under “Camera icon page 2” > AF mode > AF.A
   3. under “Camera icon page 2” > Select AF Points > 3rd option
   4. under “Camera icon page 3” > Live view > Bright / Dark Area : check
   5. under “Camera icon page 3” > Live view > Autofocus mode > 11 points
   6. under “Camera icon page 3” > RAW file format > DNG
   7. under “Camera icon page 4” > Green Button > 1st option (the green button)
   8. under “Camera icon page 4” > Memory > choose the info you like to store in the image EXIF
   9. under “Camera icon page 4” > Shake Reduction : on
   10. under “Camera icon page 4” > Input Focal Length (change if it is wrong, or you did not enter at the startup)
   11. ~~~~Display~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   12. under “Playback icon page 1” > Playback display method > check highlight and dark area
   13. ~~~~Setting~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   14. under “Setting icon page 1” > Date Adjustment (if you date is wrong)
   15. under “Setting icon page 1” > Deep > (customize when you want the Beep sound, uncheck all if you want silence)
   16. under “Setting icon page 2” > Folder Name > (Date option: if you want to folder photos by dates)
   17. under “Setting icon page 2” > Copyright information > (Here is where you enter your name)
   18. under “Setting icon page 3” > format (format your SD for ready use)
   19. ~~~~Customize~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   20. under “Customize 'C' icon page 1” > 3. Expanded Sensitivity > On option (if you want to use 100-12800 full range)
   21. under “Customize 'C' icon page 3” > 18. Saving rotation info > 1 as yes
   22. under “Customize 'C' icon page 3” > 20. Power lamp > low or off
       1. (if you don't want to camera to be detected, then use off, so the blue light on top of camera will not lit)
   23. under “Customize 'C' icon page 3” > 21. Catch-in Focus > (Pentax AF SLR and DSLR all have catch-in-focus, put on manual lens, then turn on AF switch, press all the way down and hold shutter button, then turn the focus ring slowly, once in focus, camera auto fires)
       • choose “1.off” if you want to shoot with manual lens freely without focus indication aid
       • choose “2.on” if you want to shoot with manual lens restricted, so that camera will only allow you shoot when it thinks you focused correctly
   24. under “Customize 'C' icon page 4” > 22. Using Aperture Ring > 2. Permitted (this one must choose, or camera won't like you shoot with non-A manual lens)

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