A grey day with the Ensinor 28mm and the dogs

Another walk with the dogs.

Another camera & lens combo to try out.

I'd used the Ensinor 28mm with the Pentax Q10 for the HDR images of the lighthouse and I didn't have high hopes about using it again but it was there on my desk and the dogs needed walking.

Winter dog walks in the mud, yuck!

Dodging the you know what that other people leave behind too. Well other peoples dogs! 

I think any lens can be sharp enough if you get the focus right.

28mm makes it easier too as you're never going to get wildly out of focus backgrounds.

The wider the lens the deeper the depth of field.

The longer the lens the shallower the depth of field; all that lovely creamy out of focus stuff!

Focus peaking and magnification on my Sony A9 makes it easy to focus too.

So what did I photograph? Not a lot!

HDR landscapes with the Pentax Q10 + Ensinor 28mm vintage lens

Is the Pentax Q10 worth it in 2023?

Probably not! It really is a crap camera; terrible autofocus, rubbish image quality, poor battery life.

What's the Pentax Q10 like to use?

I actually quite enjoy it.

So there's 2 very different takes on the same camera.

The image quality really is bad; mobiles have better sensors! 

And I don't really use the native lenses with autofocus; the Pentax 02 Standard Zoom is possibly the biggest bag of shit I've ever seen, its awful!

The camera is so small that I can put it in my pocket (with a native lens attached) and carry it around no problem. It's a lot more chunky with different lenses adapted though but it's a lot more fun.

I've got loads of old crap M42 mount lenses that I've picked up from charity shops and car boots for a couple of quid. I'm enjoying putting them on different cameras and seeing what I can make with them.

This time it was the Ensinor 28mm.

I really put the camera to test; a golden hour HDR.

I didn't get setup quite on time though (blame the kids) so time was running out fast; it was getting darker and darker by the minute.

The biggest stumbling block for a HDR with the Pentax Q10; there's no exposure bracketing with the self timer.

I only found this out when standing out on a bloody cold riverbank......in the dark!

So the HDR image was always going to be slightly flawed as the images were never going to be exactly the same composition; with each press of the shutter, after changing the shutter speed, the camera will have moved even if only by 1mm left or right on the tripod.

And then there were the muddy, noisy files. I never wanted to create an unrealistic image of perfect highlights and no shadow; the usually over edited kind of HDR. I wanted make a near time image with a little more detail; you could say a dark one.

Would I recommend the Pentax Q10 for HDR?

NO!!!