Zeiss Ultron 1.8/50 cheesecake

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

'mocca chesecake' I think it was called at Highlands coffee shop in Saigon
CZ Ultron f1.8/50mm ( Pentax K-x )

wished I had focused on that white chocolate triangle, it tasted so good

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

hmmm, looks delicious Andreas!

rbelyell · Expire: 2014-01-31

there ya' go andreas! great result w k-x!

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

Nothing wrong with that colour Yum!!

my_photography · Expire: 2016-12-25

You have stirred up my appitite. Laughing

I always have room for cheesecakes.

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

it WAS delicious Klaus. a bit too much on the creamy side, I like cheesecakes for being light, but taste sure was first class, and then those chocolate toppings, hmm

yep rbelyell, it was worth while that I had spent close to one day and one night posting my problems and inquiring, now I handle the camera better, and so are the results.

Mo-Fo there is one big difference in shooting M42 lenses between the *istDs and the K-x. With the *ist I used to take Av mode and it metered, well, not perfectly correct, but useable, sometimes I needed some exp. bias, it seemed more reliable to me than using M mode pushing AE-L ( later Pentax models the 'green' button ) to meter. With the K-x I started out using Av mode, but that had been bad....sometimes, with strong sunlight and stopped down a bit, even +3 exposure bias was not enough and it still underexposed ( that 3 ladies in the other thread was an example ) in shadows it needed around +1.7, at low light none at all, and that is a rough estimate, it was freaking difficult to get exposure right in Av mode.
Now I dropped it and use M mode pressing the green button to meter. Hm..one step more, but so far metering seems to be even more precise than it was with Av mode on the *ist.

Second thing was that Lightroom does not have the camera calibration for the K-x yet, and I had a difficult time to correct, with Av mode, often badly exposed photos. Then I started using the bundled software that came with the camera ( silkypix converter incorporated ) and the results are much better.

I am not sure if the K-x RAWs really require more post processing than those of the *ist, so for they do, but that very likely could be due to first getting the right setup. Jpegs of the K-x are reported great, but I hardly have used it, tried in the beginning but I thought I had spotted some of these too heavy saturated colors, maybe the easier blown out highlights which had made jpeg unusable on the *ist

- I'll keep on reporting Smile

rbelyell · Expire: 2014-01-31

like anything else, new stuff takes some getting used to. look forward to more now that youre getting the hang of it!

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

Thanks for the reports I am taking notes Very Happy

seriously!! Although as rebylyell states it takes awhile to get used to new "toys"...and I have never handled a DSLR in any form so all your help is much appreciated.