Pentax K10 D Continuous Shooting

[davev8app]

i am very happy that non of my canons sound like i nail gun!!!!!!!!!

[AZNFlipy12]

ITS A TRAIN!!

[mMiGnO]

I don't feel like I can do more than 8 shoots at a time with continuous mode. I'm shooting in RAW 10mpx. After the first 8 shots I have to wait about 2-3 seconds for another one.

[general24]

Brilliant tube, just what i was searching for to hear. Thank you very much

[pdf101]

i don't know that did I understand it wrong or not...

people who are saying that k10d's JPEG-s

are soft are just stupid or never touched this camera before, for me...

sharpening of JPEG's is the feature

of entry-level cameras (and all of olympuses)

for me non-sharpening of the image is the feature

of semi-/profesional cameras,

i think that because of that k10d stands out

of D80/D200 and few canons...

[siriusdarkstar]

right on.. i have the K10D GP and i am quite pleased with the jpeg for when i need something a little softer (a portrait for ex)

[pdf101]

and this is because jpegs from K10D are only

72ppi/inch...

i'm always shooting in RAW so my adwise is r

to play with the RAW and after that play with "radial blur" in photoshop :)

[siriusdarkstar]

yup i know.. i shoot jpg when i'm too lazy to process them :) but for work mostly raw

[pdf101]

i had same problem ;D...

my lazyness is my only problem in photography (except low skill ;) but now i'm just shooting with RAW's...

they give you better opportunity in something like white balance,

and they are much easier to process...

[SpeedFreakNO]

I don't really know what you're talking about as I can't seem to find the post you're replying to.

But 72 PPI or 10.000 PPI doesn't matter. It's the number of pixels that matter, unless you're talking about printsize of course.

People talking about 72 PPI for screen size are also talking about stuff the clearly don't know what they're talking about. PPI doesn't matter for screen size. ONLY print size.

[pdf101]

and this is because jpegs from K10D are only

72ppi/inch...

i'm always shooting in RAW so my adwise is r

to play with the RAW and after that play with "radial blur" in photoshop :)

[DubiousDrewski]

"jpegs from K10D are only

72ppi/inch..." That doesn't make any sense. No camera records in dots-per-inch, they record X dots by X dots and that's it.

DPI is a setting in your printer and that's it. It has nothing to do with the cameras themselves.

[pdf101]

check the exif then...

[DubiousDrewski]

That doesn't change anything. There is a spot in Exif data for dpi, but it's a completely irrelevant number in every way possibly up until the moment you print.

The Exif data could say the picture is 72dpi or 2 dpi and the picture would be physically identical in content and size. It's only the printer that deals with a physical measurement such as an inch.

[DubiousDrewski]

And by the way, it's often image editing programs that fill in the dpi field in exif data, not the cameras themselves.

[pdf101]

ok...

thx for explaning then ;D

[harrisonww]

soo slow tho damn.

[DjDwizz]

the softness is not a problem, thats just the default setting change it to bright mode and its fix, remember when they do reviews they dont change anything, any Dslr you buy you will change the setting somehow, BUT when you use raw on this camera it blows away the Nikon D80 and Canons 30D and its cheaper. So image issue is just plain stupid.

[igotitfirst]

The jpeg processing is irrelevant. Anybody serious about photography (which would hopefully include all those purchasing this camera) would know that jpeg is a lossy, 24 bit format, and would stick to RAW instead, where the image softness is not an issue.

That said, hopefully it is fixed with firmware :).

[Carskick]

That's not true. Many serious photographers use JPEG as well as RAW. While RAW does offer more latitude in adjustment, it takes a good deal of time to process a large number of photos, so is not ideal when working on tight deadlines. Also, the buffer will fill much faster with RAW, so it is less than ideal for sports. So JPEG processing is important to a many serious photographers

[igotitfirst]

I take the point about sport. However, if you're a sport photographer, you would be using Canon and not Pentax.

For your comment about the time it takes to process photographs - if you're even semi-competent with computers, you can automate this process (which is what the on-board JPEG processing does, however you can automate it to do what you want as a post-process). Essentially shoddy on-board JPEG processing is not something that we should worry about with this particular camera.

[Carskick]

True, most sport shooters shoot Canon or Nikon. I own a Canon dSLR, and I occassionally shoot sports, but you always get a larger JPEG buffer than RAW buffer. I have shot sports events in both, and yes, I have also used automated JPEG processing to do a large number of similar pictures. It is all doable, but my point is that there are many serious photographers that do use JPEG from camera.

[Solnyshko33]

how do you find the jpeg handling? I hear from various reviews, the output appears 'poorly' processed compared to the competition (soft dull images that in-camera sharpening cannot correct) most noticeable when comparing it's RAW output which matches that of Nikon's D80 & Cannon's 30D. seems really sad Pentax couldn't get their JPEG processing right, as feature and build-wise it beats everything else in it's class - perhaps in a future firmware patch, who knows

[kd5tmu]

The sound is out of synch. I work with these cameras every day, and it doesn't carry on like that in-store. When you release, it stops almost instantly. Not so in the video. It may only be slightly out of synch, but it is still out of synch.

[Cragandrew]

i hope the sounds out of sync.. or if it isn't then why does it carry on shooting after you've let go of the shutter release?

[nathanever82]

no it's not out of sync. It works absolutely fine actually! The shutter speed was set on 1/4000 of a second, and the function "continuous shooting" allows you to keep on shooting different frames without releasing the shutter button. This means that the camera registers how many shots you want to take in the period the button is pressed -

[nathanever82]

If the shutter speed is very high, the camera will record a certain number of shots and will continue shooting after the button is not pressed anymore.

Cheers!