It is true: the mode dial on my EOS-5 got broken after about 4 years
of use and needed to be fixed - and it seems to be extremely common.
The genuine repair is pretty expensive, since it involves exchange of
the whole top plate. However, there are repairers who mend the mode
dial for you for
I must agree: single malts solve most problems of our existence on
this planet.
Creature's Comfort [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
tom wrote:
Life's rough.
I'm drinking kirsch, and I pour some for the PDML!
Get yourself some single malt and all your troubles will go
away.
--
tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
What I am saying is that if you are shooting handheld in dim light,
you are forced to use an equivalent of more than ISO 400 to avoid
handshake and the noise is really pronounced then. The shutter speeds
go up to 30 seconds.
You're saying even at the
Yes. A person can only have as many cameras as they can handle at a
time.
"Matamoros, Cesar A." [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa /
wrote:
Not in the least. I enjoy the MZ-S almost as much as the
LX. If
there is a flagship LX with AF, I will need to check it out and
assess it as
much as
Yes, I think you have got the point: since professionals accepted the
T90 despite its ploycarbonate body and lots of electronics they were
ready for the EOS-1. Nikon tried to keep things the old way for
longer and the F4 was more like old-times pro cameras. Failure of
Minolta 9000 was rather
If you need to use ISO override to get 1/3 step compensation than we
are all the way back into stone-age of cameras. I had to resort to
that kind of stuff with my amateur cameras in the old days. And what
good does it do to use a handheld lightmeter and camera's manual mode
if you have no way
Do you mean that the MZ-S has a longer time lag than the PZ-1p? Time
lag has been a dreadful bug of all-electronic cameras for years. I
remember tests carried out in the late eighties on time lags in
various cameras (in AF bodies it was measured with autofocus switched
off). The results were
No, no it doesn't work: opening or closing the aperture by 1/2 stop
will only change exposure in the LX if you work in manual mode and
exposure compensation is for aperture priority where opening the
aperture will result in parallel shortening of the shutter speed. And
film speed is not
In terms of optics it's the same lens, manufactured by Cosina and
sold as a Vivitar, Soligor or - for the matter - Pentax. You pay
extra for the Pentax logo on it and different "cosmetics".
Pawel Czarnul [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have experience with the
Yes, that's exactly the case - Canon has used belt drive in EOS 100,
5 , 50 and now in 30. It really keeps the noise to minimum but I
think it is not as durable as geartrain since even Canon kept the
latter in the EOS-3 and EOS-1V. They are fine in machines that do not
see extensive use
I had an opprotunity to shoot with my friend's Canon EOS D30 and
although they made much progress with otherwise inferior CMOS, we
must still wait for a good CMOS-based digital camera. With good light
everything is pretty OK but if you set an equivalent of higher ISO
speed, light is dim and
Strange thing: in Poland, where potential market for MZ-S is
extremely slim (Pentax is not a popular brand here; MZ-S is too
expensive for amateurs and pros rather choose Canons or Nikons), the
company which now represents Pentax placed MZ-S advertisements in
photographic magazines
Jarek
Pl Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
Shel wrote:
Early Pentax had shutters that were good for about 50,000
cycles, later models, like the Spotmatic, bumped that up to
about 100,000 cycles. "Pro" cameras seem to be in the 150,000
cycle range. Where does the MZ-S fall?
I
Beacuse it doesn't work that way: MX was just a name like KX, K2 or
ME whereas LX was chosen deliberately to mark Pentax anniversary
Jarek
petit miam [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
Never thought of it that way:
So the LX is 60, MX is ?510 or ?1010, but then P1-zp
and Spotmatic don't
Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
okay pug-sters, anyone willing to admit that they occasionaly use
a point and
shoot to take photographs?
if so, what p/s do u use and why?
Many years ago I purchased the Pentax IQ
I am sorry but my reply is rather a question to anyone regarding the
focal length of the 55mm f/1.8. I read somewhere that in case of
Nikon SLRs the distance between lens mount and film plane requires
that all lenses of 50 or shorter focal length are of retrofocus
design and some
An LX with AF is not an LX anymore. And besides - I don't want to
take a camera to my grave - I need something or someone more precious
than a camera
Pl Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
According to Pentax camera dept. director they want to make a
camera the owners would want to
"Lewis, Gerald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
I found a Samsung PS with the longest zoom I could find at the time
(I think it is 28-105 but I don't have it in front of me)
Sorry, but no manufacturer has as yet been able to make a point-and-
shoot camera with a 28-105, lens so you must be
That's possible but I remember that my words quoted here were in
response to a statement that paint had to be scraped off extention
tubes to short circuit the contact and thus enable trap focus - if
those were third party extension tubes (Kenko, Soligor etc.) than
they might have AF contacts
Uneven spacing happens more often in cameras relying on traditional
spool and sprocket system to transport the film. Some brands use
infrared beam for spacing and this is damn precise but has a
disadvantage - you cannot use genuine infrared films in those cameras
cause film gets fogged. Thus
1) Yes you can use a Pentax flash - and even the RTF - with yout ZX-
Pn for daylight fill-in and it will render nicely balanced results.
The limiting factor is the synch speed - 1/125 s is sometimes too
slow for fill-in since good background exposure would ususally
require a faster one. Of
One thing that really flummoxed me once was when I was doing a
shoot with an
EOS and the battery died. I replaced the battery quickly enough,
but the
changeover wiped out all the custom-functions and camera settings
I'd had
entered. So I'm in the middle of a shoot, I don't have the manual,
I used to think the same - a pro camera cannot have an RTF. Minolta 9
made me think twice...
Tom Rittenhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
It is obviously not pro spec, it has RTF.
Terence Mac Goff wrote:
Just because Pentax says its a Pro-spec camera, and prices it
Pl Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
An MZ-S is pro grade camera as Pentax define it. It isn't supposed to
be an EOS1 (which BTW isn't anymore of a pro camera than the Z-1p).
What is this much talked about "pro" character of a camera? In my
opinion it's more than just features - the
As far as I remeber trap focus worked perfectly on my Z-1P with all A-
series Pentax lenses - and I did not have to do anything with
electric contacts on the lenses
Trap focus will only work if the electrical contacts are shorted
together. This
is why I had to scrape the paint off my
I wish you could understand Polish - you would certainly laugh your
head off reading lousy Polish translations of dumb English
translations from incomprehensible Japanese originals. Here in Poland
we have those funny manuals accompanying cameras of all brands - no
brand is discriminated
The 20mm f/4 Flektogon is superior to the faster lens. Both were
manufactured in the former East Germany. The f/4 version - admittedly
not too fast - is excellent both mechanically and optically (Richard
Horowitz used one to take some of his early advertising shots). A
friend of mine made a
Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Pl Jensen wrote:
Chris wrote:
Compared to the LX and its MF ilk, the MZ-S still feels flimsy to
me, but it's better than most of what's out there.
I think you mix up low weight with solidity. I'm sure that
Dave Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
rambling? maybe, but you ramble very coherently.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/16/01 10:16AM
Yes, but auto-everything cameras in the hands of someone who knows
how to
use a fully manual camera can be an even more formidable weapon.
Remember
that
Ed Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
Sir William Robb wrote:
So, with much trepidation, I went off to see the MZ-S on Friday
Snip Bill's rantings...
All so true, yet so depressing also. I think we all want that
perfect
camera that will magically turn us into better
I don't know the cons and I have used NiMH batteries in several
devices whose manuals did not say it was allowed to do so. In manuals
accompanying older equipment manufacturers sometimes warned against
use of NiCd batteries and I would say that the same would apply to
newer NiMHs. Perhaps one
I think colour palette matters much to people in photographs and
preferences are highly subjective; the simplest proof is how much
people argue and differ on prints made on papers by various brands:
some prefer saturated greens of Fuji paper while others find them
unacceptable and artificial;
Using an RTF indoors would be my last resort - only if it provided
the only means to take a picture. I sometimes - though quite rarely -
use an RTF for fill-in outdoors, but solely with lenses that are
small in size and this limits the choice to primes in the 28 - 85
range or short standard
I have this lens and it's really good. Since it's relatively slow,
the front element is small and so deeply recessed that the lens is
very resistant to flare and ghosting. I think you made an excellent
purchase.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa / wrote:
I just bought an SMC-M 50/4.0 macro on eBay
I do not own an MZ-S but from my experience with cameras of other
makers, your conclusion are right. In Canons there is a Custom
Function linking AF and AE at the focus point which means that spot
(or - more appropriatel - semi-spot) metering will will be taken at
the automatically or
It seems that the FA* 300mm f/4,5 is a different optical formula than
the previous F* 300mm f/4,5 so it is probable that the older lens is
better. Still I do not want to be misunderstood - the FA* is a very
good lens and I found it only slightly inferior to some other optics
in its class.
I agree that Z-1P/PZ-1P is one the best bodies from Pentax -
extremelly well specified and a joy to use - but you must treat it
kindly. It is a delicate camera - mine fell down some 50 cm onto a
pavement and both the camera and the 28-105mm Power Zomm were in need
of serious repair whereas a
It is not a bad lens - there simply are better ones. I used to own
one - its central definition and contrast is very good but edges are
quite poor until you stop the lens down to about f/11 - which is not
a good result for a lens that is relatively slow - by contemporary
standards. Wide open
You are absolutely right but...
If heavily scratched, black paint did come off chrome bodies but
please remember that - in contrast to retro-style-nostalgia silver
paint on AF bodies - it was not put there just for the "looks". Black
paint made bodies less conspicuous and protected metal
I can understand your sentiments of holding those older lens for the
very pleasure of the feeling they give. They do give a
different "feel" or "touch" and this goes true for about any
manufacturer: manual focus lenses display superios handling. My FA
lenses were consumer optics and very
LumiQuest staff is mounted via Velcro and thus can be adapted to
heads of most shoe-mount and bracket flash heads. It will fit your
Sunpack. However, it does not work miracles. Many years ago I
purchased one of "Ultrasoft" devices by LumiQuest and was
disappointed by results: it took much
The problem is that this Russian lens comes with an adapter for
Russian "K-mount" cameras. This adapter will never fit the lens you
have purchased on an original Pentax body. The bad news is that you
have to spend the extra bucks on the original Pentax adapter. The
good news is that you have
Unfortunately this is a case of a vicious circle: a viewfinder with bigger
magnification gives you - yes, you've guessed it - bigger image in the finder, but
that's why it is hard to see the whole image, including exposure data outside the
image
area, at a glance, especially for those wearing
In the good, old days most zoom lenses were catering for both pros' and tyros' needs;
the latter wanted to use the same lenses as pros did. Nowadays there is a clear
startification of zoom lenses: those designed for pros are faster but with limited
focal length range. However, please
It is true that early production samples of most high-end and professional cameras
usually suffer from some kind of shortcomings. It was true of Nikon F4s or Canon EOS
3s - to name a couple. Users' complaints usually make the companies address the
problems - so let's hope Pentax will do the
I would agree with your Pentax Guru: those colour enhancing filters (regardless of the
brand)usually give results which are simply over-the-top and render uniform colour
cast
to the whole picture. Polarizing ususally takes off reflections off foliage and thus
enhances colour saturation. I
Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa³ / wrote:
Bill wrote:
This sounds odd. The Z-1p definitely uses distance information as do all
the PZ/Z series cameras. That is how they manage the auto-zoom size
tracking. Perhaps there may be a problem in making good contact between
your
Boris Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa³ / wrote:
Dear All,
Two months ago, I aquired my first LX. It had a really bad sticky mirror
so I took it into be repaired. Last week, I picked it up from the
repairer's workshop. I happened to have a 40mm pancake on it (as that's
one of my favourite
]
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: pentax lenses...
Hmmm... I've tried that url a couple of times now, and got 404-ed each
time.
-frank
Jaros³aw Brzeziñski wrote:
I believe you can find results of tests of lenses of all makes done at
the Hasselblad
lab
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From: Frank Theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: pentax lenses...
Hmmm... I've tried that url a couple of times now, and got 404-ed each
time.
-frank
Jaros³aw Brzeziñski wrote:
I believe you can find
I seem to have extremely well-mannered friends: when they get married they invite my
to
the wedding stressing that I am a guest and thus should not take my camera along; just
enjoy myself. They arrange for someone to come and take photographs they pay for.
Usually I take my camera anyway and
An invention that definitely comes from East German screw-mount Prakticas is
electronic
transmission of information about the aperture set from a lens to the camera: three
contacts provided this information, albeit it was non-digital communication based on a
resistor. Pentax much improved
Being Polish I beg you to use correct English: you wrote: the polish big
magazine Foto - please note down that polish means a substance used to give
smoothness or gloss versus Polish meaning of, pertaining to, or characteristic of
Poland, its inhabitants, or their language.
Artur Ledóchowski
I am sorry, but you must be wrong: if you use a non-AF lens, no AF body in the world
is
capable of giving an AF-assist light.
Artur Ledóchowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa³ / wrote:
Hi,
In the June edition of the Photographic there's a nice article about the
four best AF 35mm SLR's for under
An NG filter is usually used in landscape photography to reduce contrast between, say,
dark foreground and much lighter sky - to bring exposure for the sky to the level more
or less equal to that for the foreground (the clear part of the filter is placed over
the foreground). Hence before
I used to have one but sold it out for the following reasons:
1. it is pretty lightweight for a 300mm lens but still in some cases I thought it
should have a tripod collar
2. wide-open - and this is how I like using telephotos for some types of photography -
it is pretty good by an ED lens
As far as I know 24mm f/2.8 Sigmas have always been very good performers with
excellent
close-up focusing ability. Otherwise use a thinnest available extension tube with any
wide-angle lens and you'll be pretty OK.
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I used to own one purchased for a fiver but used it scarcely. The results were OK but
focusing in both an MX and LX was flimsy. Theoretically it has a great focal length
range for pics of people but I somehow could not cope with handling of the lens
(although - like you said - mechanically it
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