I wanted to share some pics I took this morning of bees on our Silver Leaf Maple tree. I noticed that when I posted the photo I notice that the richness of colors is missing from the posted photo. I am working from an iMac which I know has a bright screen. I exported and converted to jpg files with LR. When I view the JPG file on the iMac using the Mac preview app is looks fine. The UHH preview does not. What am I doing wrong here?

Here is an example.

Thanks for your help,

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When I started looking for a DSLR I decided that a top mounted lcd info screen was importunate to me. The K1 and K3ii have it the K70 does not. I have an older K7 and a newer K3. I still want the top mounted lcd. But to each his own.

I would strongly recommend you consider the 18-135mm lens for your first lens. It utilizes the same DC electric motor for focusing as Pentax uses in the camera body. It is like holding a snake, really fast focusing. If price is a consideration, the Pentax kit lenses 18-50mm and 55-200mm are really good first lenses as well and have metal flanges.

I believe once you start processing your photos you will wish you had the built the GPS offered by the K3ii. My older K3 requires an add on GPS that mounts on the flash shoe which is a bit of a pain.

If you choose the K3ii, Adorama is currently selling the Pentax A200 external flash for $149 which is a more versatile flash than the built in flash on the K70.

What ever your choice you will have a great setup to start your digital photography journey.

As already noted the MBP will cost more, but the operating system (OS) includes Apple’s
Photos app that is a good simple editing package. Currently all OS upgrades are free and include decent Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation, PDF viewer, Movie maker and Music creation software. I would suggest a good external hard drive to store your images as the new MBP use expensive solid state drives.

If you are serious about processing your images you can’t beat the Adobe CC subscription package that includes Lightroom and Photoshop IMHO. It costs $120 per year. But you will need to invest some time and money for video trading courses to become comfortable with either package. Laura Shoe (laurashoe.com) offers an excellent LR training video training package for less than $100. PS training will be more expensive. One neat feature of LR is all your edits can be undone. As you gain more insight you can revisit your old images and re-edit them without any loss of quality.

Good luck on your decision. Have fun.

Here is a site that may help https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-print-a-photo-with-a-file-name-caption

Also make sure you have a flashlight to help you with your camera controls. You might want to see if you can find one that will allow you to add a red lens so as to not have problems with your night vision. The old Mag Lites had this feature.

You should check out a Thunder Bolts dock. We have one from OWC. Check macsales.com. We run a single Thunderbolt cable from our 2015 MBP to the dock. The dock provides connections for a 27” monitor, internet connection, USB connections for the keyboard, camera, speakers, printer and backup hard drive. Works great for us.

Thank you for the correction, so much for my 50 year old materials science course.😀👍👍

Glass is actually a very viscous liquid. Consequently really old plane glass windows will be thicker at the bottom which will impact reflection as well. I believe the angle of the camera plane relative to the plane of the glass will make increase or decrease the effect. I will let the real photographers tell how best to take good pictures of old glass. Being a novice I would experiment with camera angle and see what works best.

Take your time and look around. The poison blue jean frogs for example are very small and easily missed. If you have the opportunity to visit the nature areas hire a guide. They will show you things you will miss on your own. During our visit, Mt Arenal was covered by clouds, however late one night the clouds thinned out and we could briefly see the red lava flows through the clouds.

You will have a great time.

I don't propose to be an expert here. But if you are using PS and edit a jpg file in any way and then save it, have you not just performed a destructive edit? You can not reopen the file and remove the edit. With LR you can always go back in history and start over again even with jpg files.

Welcome Kevin,

After having two expensive Canon AIO printers fail I switched to an Epson XP-850. That was 6 years ago. It is still going strong and makes beautiful prints on Epson paper. It is quite compact but will fax, copy, scan and even print legal size if you use the back paper slot. I have only used Epson Inks because of some of the horror stories from people who attempted to use 3rd party ink.

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I would like to of any specific issues they identities

I agree as well and if you buy the hard copy and regester it you can then download an ebook copy to your iPad.

I fail to see how you arrived at your comment. Mefoto is not expensive but both Amazon and BH reviewers give it a 4.5 out of 5.

I agree with MTshooter but I would also add a good cross body strap. Optech makes one that includes an embedded steel wire to make it cut resistant. Check with Carter at cameracottage.com.