Bay Bridge Blue. San Francisco, California. July 17, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: Looking south past the west tower of the San Francisco Bay Bridge in the early morning.
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Pentax Joins the Digital Big Leagues
Michael Reichmann at Luminous Landscape on the Pentax K10D:
One can’t really get the measure of a complex camera like the Pentax 10D after just a week of use and a few hundred frames. But, it didn’t take me long to discover that this is a camera that the sophisticated user will find to be a pleasure to work with. Image quality is on a par with virtually anything else on the market, the camera is very feature rich, the price is right, and it therefore isn’t a stretch to say that the K10D is probably the best value in a 10 Megapixel DSLR at this time.
As a Canon user I can only wish that the folks at Canon’s marketing and engineering department have a close look at some of the more innovative features offered by Pentax in this new model. With DNG, post exposure JPG processing, and auto-ISO with limit setting, Pentax now offers one of the most innovative feature sets to be found on any DSLR. It looks like the big boys are going to have to start playing catch-up.
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Morning, San Francisco Bay and East Bay Shipping Yards
Morning, San Francisco Bay and East Bay Shipping Yard. San Francisco, California. July 17, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: I took the train to San Francisco very early on this warm and hazy July morning and walked along the waterfront toward the Ferry Building.
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Tioga Lake, Mammoth Peak
Tioga Lake and Mammoth Peak. Tioga Pass, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: This photo was taken on a beautiful clear early summer day at Tioga Lake, one of those first days of the new season when the sun is warm, the air is still, and mountain visitors are beginning to return to the mountains. Just before Tioga Pass on the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park there was still plenty of snow around, from the patches in the meadow just below the pass to the large snowfields on Mammoth Peak and Kuna ridge in the distance.
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