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

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

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

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

Okinawa Aquraium

Auto everything ;p

 

Ad post on wall

Beach play

Knot

Hong Kong, a city printed with inkjet

Old stuffs in Hong Kong

Kid shot with K20D

A very naught boy! XD

Edited with Lightroom

June 4, 2013 at Victoria Park, HK

 

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

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

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

Contrast and color tuned in Lightroom.

Street of Tai Chung

I like those fingers. LOL

Instagram snap

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

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

Back from my ski trip at Yongpyong, S. Korea

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