Recent content by Yvon Bourque

Hi Pentaxians and friends, Lately, I have not been able to post new articles on my blog site as often as I would have liked to. My day job is getting in the way of my hobby. I may have to remedy that and quit my day job. My stepson has just started to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)...

Nothing really, but while I have your attention... Through the years, I have taken many thousands of pictures, with from film to digital. Some were from landscapes and scenes from a vacation, some were portraits of friends, and family, some were of flowers, special events, etc. Every time we...

There is nothing on my post that is spamming or "shameless plug". My blogsite is about Pentax DSLRS and Pentax equipment. Looking at your own posts and Blogsite, you do suggest some lenses and equipment for Pentax. Is that spamming? I don't think so. Many Pentax users need equipment and books...

Pentax Photo Gallery nominated for Webby Award. Mr. Ned Bunnell...He's the man. Hi fellow Pentaxians and friends, I spend a great deal of time promoting the virtues of Pentax products, on my blog site and everywhere else I meet someone interested in photography. If someone is not...

Another approach to take pictures of flowers. Hi Pentaxians and friends from across the ocean, It seems that everybody likes to photograph flowers. I'm not the biggest fan of flower pictures, but a few weeks ago, I saw an article about this woman that was taking pictures of flowers at...

Dear Pentaxians and friends Tonight I went to Barnes & Nobles bookstore, just as I do about three times per week. While sipping a Venti® cup of Starbuck peppermint mocha, I was looking through six or seven photo magazines. I usually purchase the magazines published in the US, if I find good...

Hi Pentaxians and friends, Pentax has moved closer to the Professional caliber DSLR cameras with the K20D, although I see no reason it is not in the Professional class to begin with. It is a better camera than that 8 mp expensive Professional DSLR camera that sold around $8,000.00 a few years...

Hi Pentaxians and friends. I haven’t written anything for the past five days or so. My daughter and my granddaughter were visiting and we spent some times at Disneyland, California. I will post about that later on this week. I was in Claremont, California, last week for business. While...

Hi fellow Pentaxians, Today I felt like a kid with a new toy. Actually we’re all kids at heart; the only difference between kids and us, grown ups, is the price of our toys. Anyway, I just wanted to post a few pictures taken with the K20D and the DA 10-17mm lens. It is very unusual to have...

Most of us have pets. It appears to be universal. Dogs especially have been human’s companions for centuries, although cat and bird drawings were found on walls of ancient civilizations. Here in California, it seems that one out of every two families have a dog. People love their dogs...

3/9/08 This is Part 2 of the post about Aperture, Shutter Speed and Sensitivity posted on 3/7/08. I am writing these posts especially for all the entry-level photographers. I know that it is over-simplified at times, but as photography skills develop, the techniques will come easy. Too much...

Dedicated to all Pentax DSLR "Newbies" . Join the fun. Yvon Bourque, Mar 07, 2008; 05:54 p.m. Too often, we forget that new Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras are sold every day to someone with no experience with DSLR cameras at all. Whoever we are and however good we are, we started...

Actually, what's wrong with saving files (Just the keepers) on CD or DVD's? CD's and DVD's won't ever crash like a hard drive will eventually. :dunno: Regards, Yvon Bourque

This post is a brief reasoning (my own, mind you) of why you should shoot RAW. A full twenty pages could have been written, but I tried to keep it short and simple. There are also many reasons why you should shoot in RAW mode, and so few reasons why you should shoot in JPEG mode. See the reasons...

Yvon Bourque, Feb 25, 2008; 02:32 a.m. It was just a little over a year ago that we started to hear about a new K10D DSLR that Pentax was about to introduce. I owned Pentax cameras all of my adult life, and after reading about the camera on every website I could find, I knew the camera would...