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I like this shot too… the close-of-day feeling, and the way the light works on the different surfaces.

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Good choice to wander Pike Place Market… one never knows what interesting things may be seen. 🙂 I particularly like your first (cropped) shot of the stringed-instrument player, a very nice contextual portrait, IMO.

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Pete, enjoy seeing your landscapes at Arches! Interesting context for the first one, with the green hills and snowy mountains in the background, but I think it suffers somewhat from the frontal light. I had the same sort of problem at Grand Canyon recently…

The “wall” is interesting as I wonder how it was formed and the natural forces destroying it. But I think my favorite of the four is the last “hole in the rock” with the bush having failed in its struggle to survive. The rock makes a frame and contributes to an attractive composition.

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Congratulations on the joint show! The film-strip-on-light-table graphic seems unusual for an M9 show. Especially mixed color and B&W positives on one strip. 🙂 It's been far too long since I've visited Glazers; I should make a point of making the trip to see your show there while it's up. I've admired Ashwin's photos posted elsewhere…

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Decorative colors… and you were ready for it when it happened!

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That second cityscape is intriguing, minimalist, almost like flat cutouts. Striking. And I agree the last one is fun, and I wonder if the walker was caught by surprise.

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Norman, interesting shots, grouped into one big upload. I wish I could see what that central crowd were all looking at, but the lady feeding her daughter an ice cream cone is charming. Also the little girl all dressed up sitting on a rock in the stream; cute. And you caught a good moment with the kid at the fountain. The military group portrait seem strangely posed, different than I would expect. You're obviously having some fun!

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David K;47 wrote: Willing to sell my entire S2 kit for $100k…paypal and shipping included 😀

A bit scary to think that's probably a fair price for three S2 bodies, one each of the four lenses, supporting equipment and access to the models… 😀

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The best ideas seem obvious in retrospect. I'll try that! 🙂

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Finally, a fair attempt with the 70mm Summarit used and processed in the same fashion as the others. This is a view of Sedona AZ, this time with Bell Rock at distant right.

And it's my custom to get a local haircut while on vacation. Have to document the occasion of course! This is not quite comparable as a test, since the TIFF had been cropped a bit to 7221 x 4478.

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I'm on a roll… 😎
Here's the Pentax-67 100mm f/4 Macro.
I ran into an acquaintance named Jim at the local Saturday farmers' market, looking a little startled while sitting on the curb eating some kind of delicacy. Lens was wide open at f/4.

Then I walked around the corner into a custom car show and found this purple Plymouth

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Here are a couple samples of the Pentax-67 165mm f/4 LS… It doesn't seem to be as sharp as the others even with the shutter speed up and decent, but then at the Grand Canyon for shots at distance I was mostly just setting the focus a tad closer than infinity. On the first one I was surprised to spot people on the trail on the hill beyond the nearer light-colored rock outcropping. Several visible in this crop, upper left, and there were others further left at the bottom of the steep slope of trail, where it switchbacks.

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Thanks, Pete… I'm pretty friendly-looking so I don't seem to stir up unpleasant responses from my willing (at least tacitly) “victims”. No, I overexerted hiking the long LV blocks and pulled a leg muscle and then, not watching where I was going, ran into a column at the Luxor. Dumb, but got to hurting later, and about back to normal now.

I just made a 100% crop of a full-frame TIFF, both shown at ~800 pixels on the long side. The crop is taken from near the center (just left of the large shadow) of the full shot of Bell Rock, at Oak Creek just south of Sedona AZ. The luminance sharpening in LR3 had been set to 50 I think rather than the default 130, and noise reduction to 10 rather than the default 25. There was a final sharpening of the jpegs in GraphicConverter after scaling down, but only just enough to be noticeable. ISO 320, other info in the EXIF if it makes it through… 1/250 at about f/11. Ah, and I should specify this is the Pentax-67 45mm f/4 lens!

Thanks for the clarification on the pre-change lens setting, David; that is what I'd concluded from doing it wrong 😮 For the samples below, I'd set the Summarit to f/2.8 before mounting the 45mm so there was a stop or so underexposure. OK, let's see if I can attach a couple of pics…

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My experience coincides with Atanabe's… I have the rear button set up to AF while pressed. I have only the one S lens, the 70mm. Sometimes I'm not sure if the AF has adjusted focus or not when shooting a new subject at a somewhat different distance… it's so fast and quiet (but then my hearing is bad anyway). So I'll focus on something quite close, and then on the desired subject to be sure. I am impressed…

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