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What is SoyCon? (taken from their website): SoyCon is a 2-day annual cosplay gathering event full of food, photos, and fun. This event is the best way for everyone to come out and socialize with fans alike. There’s also events for attendees to participate in. Events such as roleplay battles, costume contest, and a variety acts show. Come on down to SoyCon: The Largest Cosplay Gathering of The Midwest! Photos on Facebook Soycon Soycon founder Equipment and techniques: I was using the K-01 with the 24mm f2 lens and the K-5 with the 85mm f1.4 lens. For whatever reason I had quite a few back focused images with the K-01+24mm and some front focused images with the K-5+85mm. It’s too bad because some of the images with focus issues would have been nice framing and content wise.   I’m not sure if it was the general lighting conditions or something else, because I don’t remember having focus issues with the K-5+85mm combo in the past. I might have to look into that and see if I can...

I spent the weekend with a friend at Soycon taking photos. This is dubbed a “cosplay gathering” where a large group of people meetup for events and photography.  Edit: I removed the old video along with various similar videos. All of those were compiled into one video and placed on my Cosplay/crafting channel instead of the “Photography Banzai” one.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH8CkEjKDTA A few highlight images: From a photography standpoint I did have a few issues. My newer camera, the K-5, is being fixed (It looks like I feel compelled to mention that in every single posting until I get it back…), so I had to use the older K-7.  That meant less dynamic range, poor high ISO, and fewer megapixels. For whatever reason the camera seems to back-focus at around 10 feet away from my subject, which isn’t something I remember happening in the past. I noticed a hint of it with the 55mm f1.4 when I looked at those model shots I took a few days ago, but on Saturday when I ...