Toby using Pentax

Yet another standard zoom? the new HD Pentax-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR

2014-09-17T00:18:00.001+08:00

HD Pentax-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR: A Closer Look - Photokina 2014 | PentaxForums.com

What in the whole world Pentax is thinking about? In the standard zoom category, There are already 5 lens: DA18-55/3.5-5.6, DA16-45/4, DA*16-50/2.8, DA17-70/4, DA18-135/3.5-5.6. Will adding a 6th member to the line-up will improve the lens collection? Come-on!

I am sorry to say that: Pentax, you disappointed me this time.

A very beautiful Homestay in Taiwan

2014-08-18T21:41:00.001+08:00

At Alishan area. I stay there for 2 nights in my recent family holiday trip to Taiwan. I like it very much.

Beautiful Loire Valley

2014-08-10T00:10:00.000+08:00

3 years old photo, still strikingly beautiful. Thanks to LR, it's easy to re-look at my old photos.

Okinawa Aquraium

2013-07-17T17:27:00.001+08:00

Auto everything ;p

Ad post on wall

2013-07-15T22:43:00.004+08:00

Beach play

2013-07-09T23:16:00.001+08:00

Knot

2013-07-08T17:40:00.000+08:00

Hong Kong, a city printed with inkjet

2013-06-28T18:39:00.000+08:00

Old stuffs in Hong Kong

2013-06-26T18:55:00.001+08:00

Kid shot with K20D

2013-06-24T09:58:00.000+08:00

A very naught boy! XD

Edited with Lightroom

June 4, 2013 at Victoria Park, HK

2013-06-22T21:02:00.001+08:00

The low light performance was very impressive indeed. I was using ISO6400 in many of the above photos, which is already sensitive enough for candle lights. The pictures, are very low in noise and have good details. I was just shooting jpeg, surely will get better result if shot in RAW.

My K20D dead

2013-06-22T20:38:00.001+08:00

With years of abuse, my K20D finally dead a few months back. Well, it's not dead. It's very strong indeed, except I have broken the top cover and resulted in malfunction of the mode dial and light-meter switch, which makes the multi-segment meter and P mode gone. Not a very big deal for me.

However, another problem make me put away the K20D in the deepest corner of my camera box forever: it's a strange horizontal line on EVERY picture I took with K20D, jpeg or RAW. At first, there was a dead pixel on every pic. Easy fix with Pentax because K20D comes 'pixel mapping' function, handily in the setup manual. It turns out to be a disaster:

INSTEAD OF JUST ONE DEAD PIXEL, A HORIZONTAL LINE TOGETHER WITH MAPPING ARTIFICE APPEARS ON EVERY PIC. (See below pix)

While dead pixel can be easily fixed in Lightroom, the mapping artifice is very troublesome because I have to fix it manually.

My K20D served a good 70,000 shutter count. So I just let it R.I.P. in my camera dry box. Amen,

I get a used K5 instead.

Street of Taipei

2013-01-24T14:42:00.000+08:00

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

2013-01-24T10:40:00.001+08:00

Contrast and color tuned in Lightroom.

Street of Tai Chung

2013-01-24T00:59:00.003+08:00

I like those fingers. LOL

Instagram snap

2013-01-22T21:20:00.001+08:00

The world has changed a lot. Sometimes, I will use my phone to take snaps. It works slowly, there is no depth-of-field control, but it does have the instantaneous as of Polaroid. I like it indeed.

Street of Seoul

2013-01-22T19:13:00.002+08:00

It was freezing -5 deg C. No one really wanted to stay on the street for too long. This beggar, without both legs, put himself on wasted tyre and dragged himself along the icy floor with his damaged hand.

Sad.

Sad Chimp

2013-01-22T19:06:00.001+08:00

Back from my ski trip at Yongpyong, S. Korea

2012-01-11T00:21:00.003+08:00

Took by Olympus T-610, a Tough P&S camera.

Depressed

2011-09-28T22:51:00.000+08:00

Untitled snap with Pentax DA21 / 3.2 AL

2011-09-15T23:49:00.003+08:00

A street snap with my beloved DA21, my "standard" lens for street snap. I love it's small size, but the slow focusing speed of the Pentax system is a bit annoying when doing street snap - it's just not fast enough in some situation.

Sometimes I have to rely on the decade old zone focusing technique, not ideal for digital images because you can easily notice the out-focus with these old-day technique when blow-up on your screen.

Another pic from my recent France trip

2011-09-12T16:01:00.001+08:00

Red, and white

2011-09-08T23:57:00.002+08:00

A snap in Shanghai

2011-09-08T00:34:00.001+08:00

Corner

2011-09-06T00:38:00.001+08:00

I am not sure why I like these kind of framing when snapping sad subjects. I just like it.