I decided that since the OM-5 works OK for carrying on my bike, I was better off getting the K-3III repaired while I'm in a photographic lull, lest I find something else critical that is wrong when I absolutely need it, and then find out that it'll take weeks or months to get it repaired. So, I sent it to Precision, their estimate is now up to $683, and it turns out that the parts are on back order for a week or two. So, yeah.
I've had a few chances to go on bike rides and am becoming more familiar with the OM-5. It really does make me appreciate the Pentax UI. A few years back I commented that when processing photos, comparing my APS Pentax with a friend's full frame Nikon, I could get similar quality with the Pentax, but that the files "felt more brittle". I'm running into the same thing with the OM-5, only more so, it feels like I have very little extra dynamic range to work with. On my bike ride Monday, I found a place of Reche canyon where someone has collected a bunch of old dead tractors and just has them sitting around, and rather than a No Trespassing sign, his signs simply say that if you get hurt, you can't blame him. I had just photographed this yellow tractor when a bright pink "honey bucket" truck was driving past, so I had to grab another shot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/53755809787/in/album-72177720317430356/ In other news, I needed to upgrade my local storage and a friend offered me a QNAP 435A 4-bay NAS. I bought it, and some refurb/returned 16T drives off Amazon. With RAID 5 it gives me almost 43 TB, which is nice, about twice my current photo library. I'm trying to point my Lightroom Library at it, and I dunno if it is the QNAP, my trashcan mac, or whether using a NAS over a 1G net but while things seem to work, they aren't, as yet, working well. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
