Sintra Palace (Tiled Room)

[Guest]

Here is another from our recent holiday in Portugal. The pictures on the walls of this room in Sintra Palace were made up from tiles about 4-5 inches square.

[jojo]

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I think you've captured the colours really well Dennis - the blue of the tiles is wonderful. I traweled the net looking for similar images but the majority are of the outside of the palace.
jo

[Josh Bear]

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Great colours. Can I ask what camera you use?

Best Regards


Josh

[Guest]

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Josh - I use a Pentax K10d and this picture was taken with a Tamron 18-200mm lens which I use as my walkabout lens. As a point of interest I see from your profile that it says 'I started life in Manchester' - well just to let you know I started life in Rochdale !!

[Josh Bear]

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Thanks.

Pentax cameras are getting some really good reviews re picture quality at the moment and I remember my dad having a film pentax SLR. I fell into the canon route via the 300d and once I had lenses then that was it. There is so much good choice for phtoographers these days.

Good to hear not the only North West person here.

Best Regards

Josh

[fluffy penguin]

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that looks brilliant.
looks like you have captured the essence of it
all that work gone into it.

[Pol]

Re: Sintra Palace (Tiled Room)

Thanks.

Pentax cameras are getting some really good reviews re picture quality at the moment and I remember my dad having a film pentax SLR. I fell into the canon route via the 300d and once I had lenses then that was it. There is so much good choice for phtoographers these days.

Josh

Pentax has some superb pancake prime lenses and limited lenses. You can see a gallery from each lens if you go to http://www.pentaxslr.com/lenses
Select the lens on the left then go to the 'Pentax Gallery' on the right for a selection of pics from your chosen lens.

The pancakes and limited lenses are outstanding as well as being small and also very leightweight so you can have a range of focal lengths in your bag, or even your pocket, but with very little weight to carry around with you.

At the moment I have the 21mm pancake, the 70mm Limited and the 50mm 1.4 and David has the 40mm pancake - all are superb. We rarely use any other lenses since we got those.

The 70mm Limited is my all-time favourite lens but the 21mm pancake is rapidly winning my affections too.

Pol