Hi,
What price do you expect to get for FA 50/1.4?
So you change system, to which one?
Alek
Uytkownik Coleman Nee [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa:
Hi everyone. My ZX-5n finally died altogether recently, and I can't bring
myself to throw good money after bad by buying another autofocus body.
That's why
Rob Brigham wrote:
snipped
Obviously no estimated Street Value but my source tells me expect the
final street price to be roughly $6,000. Release date sometime in April
2002.
Presumably April 1, 2003?
John
Dan Scott wrote:
I applaud Glen's good works. But I don't know that good works earn
anyone the right or an entitlement to photograph someone else. I
understand that being in public entails being seen in public, but when
you are homeless you have no privacy and no choice. You can't escape.
Hi ,
Do you know if dslr accept also A, M and K lenses like present bodies.
I still wonder what financial condition of Pentax is , if they are making profit
selling their cameras or loss. Sometimes I also think about changing system since no
one knows what the future for Pentax is.
Canon/Nikon
On the contrary, I think it raises awareness of the problem and their
plight, and those who see such photos may include an extra blanket or a few
more cans of food for a 'homeless collection drive'. Too many want to
pretend they don't exist, but they do, and we all can do something about it.
czesc!Mozesz cos wiecej napisac o tych nowych powlokach?Czy sie charakteryzuja?
Niby nowy dslr ma obslugiwac obiektywy FA, a co z A M i K?
Ciekaw jestem jak Pentax stoi finansowo, czy sprzedaje duzo puszek itd, czy tez
przynosi straty jak bylo z LX-em.
martwi mnie ze firma malo (niemal wcale nie
At 12:23 17.12.2002 +0100, you wrote:
czesc!Mozesz cos wiecej napisac o tych nowych powlokach?Czy sie charakteryzuja?
Niby nowy dslr ma obslugiwac obiektywy FA, a co z A M i K?
Ciekaw jestem jak Pentax stoi finansowo, czy sprzedaje duzo puszek itd, czy tez
przynosi straty jak bylo z LX-em.
Sorry I wanted to ask Sylwester directly, in Polish.
Alek
Uytkownik Antti-Pekka Virjonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa:
At 12:23 17.12.2002 +0100, you wrote:
czesc!Mozesz cos wiecej napisac o tych nowych powlokach?Czy sie charakteryzuja?
Niby nowy dslr ma obslugiwac obiektywy FA, a co z A M i K?
Ciekaw
Sorry I wanted to ask Sylwester directly, in Polish.
Alek
Uytkownik Antti-Pekka Virjonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa:
At 12:23 17.12.2002 +0100, you wrote:
czesc!Mozesz cos wiecej napisac o tych nowych powlokach?Czy sie charakteryzuja?
Niby nowy dslr ma obslugiwac obiektywy FA, a co z A M i K?
Ciekaw
Hi,
The Pentax bellows system uses a double ended cable release to
trip the shutter and close the diaphragm of the special bellows
lens. This allows you to compose and focus, then take the
picture without disrupting the setup and at the moment decided
by you.
On a camera without a cable release
On 17 Dec 2002 at 0:15, Scott Nelson wrote:
Has anyone tried this before? I'm curious, but I think the second
option would be much easier to implement and is reversible. Oh yeah,
and does anyone have any beat up, broken A series lenses with f/2.5 or
f/2.8 maximum apertures?
PDMLer Mark
Sylwester wrote:
SP You are right, but it also confirms what I said. Still Bojidar's site needs
SP to be updated, just because almost every new lens (like cheapo FA
SP 35-80/4-5.6) from Pentax features ghostless coating - not only the high end
SP ones. Even older lenses has this coating - just
- Original Message -
From: Feroze Kistan
Subject: Auto bellows
This was the reply I got from the seller, does the explanation
he gives make
sense?
And the answer is :
Sorry for not answering your question sooner The bellows is
the Auto Bellows
A however the bellows can be used on
Please turn off the HTML (MIME format). It blows up some people's email
(and it takes up a lot of room)
My apologies to all for the bloat of my first four or five messages as a
renewed PDML member. The strange thing is, I use MS Outlook 2002 set to Rich
Text--not HTML. Nothing like this has ever
- Original Message -
From: John Whicker
Subject: Re: Rumour mill again...
If Asahi had offered the K bayonet mount at least
10 years earlier, Pentax would still be a brand of
choice for the professional user. Staying with the
M42 mount was the main cause of the decline of
Pentax
There's a 30/2.8K in Mint- for $375 at http://www.kevincameras.com .
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 17.12.02 12:13, Alin Flaider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Alin,
I wouldn't rely on this when buying a FA 28-70/4. Mine was
manufactured several years ago before the first ghostless SMC lens
was officially acknowledged, and I doubt very much my sample has the
new type of coating (not that
I agree with Jonathan on all his points, especially regarding the 24/2.8K's
contrast and saturation. Back in 2000, I believe, I voted the SMC 24/2.8K my
favorite lens, adding that it makes me look like a better photographer than
I am. Yesterday I mentioned that I sold it, and my Zenitar 20/2.5K,
Hi,
Sylwester wrote:
You are right, but it also confirms what I said. Still Bojidar's
site needs to be updated, just because almost every new lens
(like cheapo FA 35-80/4-5.6) from Pentax features ghostless
coating - not only the high end ones. Even older lenses has this
coating - just
Bill,
First time I've seen anybody doing this at home. Long ago as an
undergraduate, I saw lots of these pictures from Doc Edgerton's lab.
Capturing bullets in mid flight was about the seminar class you could
imagine. There is a book out there somewhere of Edgerton's photos. They are
on 17.12.02 13:34, Bojidar Dimitrov at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Bojidar,
Well, I went to the USA site today, and searched for ghostless. All
that came up was: 24-90, 28-105/3.2-4.5, FA35/2, and FA200 Macro. I've
updated my internal KMP version.
There was also one more match on the USA
My wife is Russian, and our family spent the weekend visiting her relatives
in Brooklyn, New York. Saturday night was the main event, the celebration of
her cousin Ilya's 50th birthday at a Russian restaurant. (The vodka flowed
like water.)
I went armed with two SLRs: A Super Program and a Ricoh
Just ask Yoshihiko!!
Alek
Uytkownik Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa:
on 17.12.02 13:34, Bojidar Dimitrov at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Bojidar,
Well, I went to the USA site today, and searched for ghostless. All
that came up was: 24-90, 28-105/3.2-4.5, FA35/2, and FA200 Macro.
this guy's prices are insane. I've picked up many
of the lenses he lists for 1/3 to 1/2 his quotes
on ebay.
JCO
-Original Message-
From: Paul Franklin Stregevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 7:26 AM
To: 'Pentax-Discuss'
Subject: Re: To get K30/2.8 ?
I can see from my 35mm 100 speed film
negs that the 2400 dpi scanner I'm using
is inadequate. Will 4800 ppi settle the
matter once and for all or should I be waiting
until 6400 or 7200 ppi scanners arrive to upgrade?
JCO
Welcome back Paul. We missed your articulate voice.
Paul Stenquist
Paul,
Your sending attachments on the last 4 mails to the pdml.
Regards, Bob s.
In a message dated 12/16/02 8:33:45 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
File: winmail.dat (6264 bytes)
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SN Even still, the entrance
SN pupil on mine looks like about 51mm, which would make it f/2.6 or
SN f/2.7.
Same conclusion here.
Yes. The Takumar Bayonet 135/2.5, with its meager 52mm filter
thread (unlike the K 135/2.5, which has a 58mm thread) would seem to
be unlikely to be much faster
one of our French PDMLers has a web page dedicated to the
discussion
Might you have the URL handy, Rob?
Fred
J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can see from my 35mm 100 speed film
negs that the 2400 dpi scanner I'm using
is inadequate. Will 4800 ppi settle the
matter once and for all or should I be waiting
until 6400 or 7200 ppi scanners arrive to upgrade?
This is a slightly controversial
In a message dated 12/17/02 2:17:43 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone tried this before? I'm curious, but I think the second
option would be much easier to implement and is reversible. Oh yeah,
and does anyone have any beat up, broken A series lenses with
JCO,
the current crop of 35mm film scanners (4000 dpi) is, by and large,
adequate for most uses. With all but the less grainy films this is
enough to make visible the grain structure.
I doubt higher resoltion could get much more information from the
average film.
I had a few 20x28 prints made
John Whicker wrote:
Bob Blakely wrote:
Once upon a time in the 35mm professional world,
the Pentax Spotmatic was THE camera to have.
If Asahi had offered the K bayonet mount at least
10 years earlier, Pentax would still be a brand of
choice for the professional user. Staying with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone tried this before? I'm curious, but I think the second
option would be much easier to implement and is reversible. Oh yeah,
and does anyone have any beat up, broken A series lenses with f/2.5 or
f/2.8 maximum apertures?
I don't know, I don't think people pictures can be cliches unless they are
very over posed as every person is an individual. Children and puppies are
kind of a universal make me smile thing. Now, the typical tourist postcard,
on the other hand...
Ciao,
Graywolf
Testing the FA 50/1.4 I have found there's no difference in
sharpness between f/8 and f/5.6, while the f/4 comes very close.
An extraordinary lens that begs for 25 ASA and tripod...
An extraordinary lens indeed. Note that in Tim Sherburne's shot in this
month's PUG that the optical quality
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My apologies to all for the bloat of my first four or five messages as a
renewed PDML member. The strange thing is, I use MS Outlook 2002 set to
Rich
Text--not HTML. Nothing like this has ever happened before. (At least, no
one has told me.) I
I found that a very interesting slice of life tale...
Thanks for sharing it with us, Paul!
keith whaley
Paul Franklin Stregevsky wrote:
My wife is Russian, and our family spent the weekend visiting her relatives
in Brooklyn, New York. Saturday night was the main event, the celebration of
Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can see from my 35mm 100 speed film
negs that the 2400 dpi scanner I'm using
is inadequate. Will 4800 ppi settle the
matter once and for all or should I be waiting
until 6400 or 7200 ppi scanners arrive to upgrade?
JCO
at 4000 dpi, the Provia
I'm thinking of getting a ZX-L, and I have a few questions, since what I'm
reading in the downloaded manual doesn't seem to coincide with the list
of features on the Pentax web site.
One is the strobe-assisted focusing, firing the flash to help focus in low
light conditions. The on-line
The problem is that RTF is viewed as HTML by Email clients (and in this
case, the list) that cannot read RTF.
Please refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base info at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q217390
As usual, this is because there's a proprietary M$ thing that is
depends on what you are shooting. i am pretty sure that with anything color, 4000dpi
is as high as it is makes sense to go (and very rarely).
bw is a different story though -- tmax100 seems to have frightening high res
(although i don't have a lot of experience with it).
best,
mishka
I can
on 17.12.02 15:18, Gregory L. Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gregory,
One is the strobe-assisted focusing, firing the flash to help focus in low
light conditions. The on-line comparison charts says it doesn't do that,
although the ZX-7 does. The manual makes some brief mention of it.
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I had a few 20x28 prints made from Provia 100F scanned at 4000 dpi and
they looked fine except for the horrible color shift.
HTH.
Ciao, Flavio
who did the printing or color adjustments?
Herb...
Rob Studdert wrote : -
On 17 Dec 2002 at 0:15, Scott Nelson wrote:
Has anyone tried this before? I'm curious, but I
think the second
option would be much easier to implement and is
reversible. Oh yeah,
and does anyone have any beat up, broken A series
lenses with f/2.5 or
on 17.12.02 15:52, Alexander Krohe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Alexander,
Hi,
I am a bit confused about what is being discussed
here. In my understanding (which may be wrong of
course) the A-lenses' current circuit is only closed
when the lens is set to the A-position, i.e. when
the
Herb Chong wrote:
...
who did the printing or color adjustments?
Herb...
The service my customer sent my slides for digitalisation :-(((.
I blamed the printing which had been done on big plastic sheets (40x28)
but then I got to see the scans on the CDs and they were exactly the
same
Alexander Krohe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a bit confused about what is being discussed
here. In my understanding (which may be wrong of
course) the A-lenses' current circuit is only closed
when the lens is set to the A-position, i.e. when
the A-contact of the lens is protruded (as opposed
to
I did a wedding Saturday, and while I was wandering around the groom's
grandmother came up to me and told me how pleased she was to see me
using Pentax.
Turns out she has a PZ-1p that's a bit complicated for her, but her
favorite body is her LX!
Favorite lens is an A 100 macro. She's trying to
What about a 70 years old man doing the same? He thinks the Apo 400 mm is
not so soft at f8 and smaller. Or is there a difference between what old men
can get out of a given piece of equipment compared with old women? Don't
take this too seriously.
On my website there are a few pictures of tree
Rob Studdert a écrit:
On 17 Dec 2002 at 0:15, Scott Nelson wrote:
Has anyone tried this before? I'm curious, but I think the second
option would be much easier to implement and is reversible. Oh yeah,
and does anyone have any beat up, broken A series lenses with f/2.5 or
f/2.8 maximum
Hello Rodelion
My experience with my KX has been fine - meter working and spot on. It's worth
mentioning that these cameras are approaching thirty years old. The mirror box foam
will be rotting and the light trapping around the back will be turning to goo and
lubricants will be dry. I think
The K and A 24mm lenses are the same are they not? Apart from appearance.
Thanks
Anton
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Anton Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An earlier reply seems to suggest that a dead meter is not
repairable, I don't know about that, perhaps you could ring
a service facility and ask.
Note that both KXs I've worked on had identical symptoms. Since I verified
that the problem with the meter
I've had good success scanning 35mm at 4800, even at 4000 for up to 8x10.
Paul
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
I can see from my 35mm 100 speed film
negs that the 2400 dpi scanner I'm using
is inadequate. Will 4800 ppi settle the
matter once and for all or should I be waiting
until 6400 or 7200 ppi
i had both -- they were identical (maybe, apart from coating).
mishka
From: Anton Browne
Subject: K A 24mm f2.8 the same?
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:58:43 -0800
-
The K and A 24mm lenses are the same are they not?
Apart from appearance.
Thanks
Anton
Thank you all for your replies. It will help me with my purchase.
Now I have to unsubscribe again, caus my woman thinks this (very enjoyable) mailing
list costs me too much time (time she wants me to spend with her).
So I'll see you guys later another time.
And oh... I could of course go for
We have 2 horses at the boarding facility that do that too,Billg
Dave
Original Message:
-
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:25:46 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How I spend my Sunday afternoons
Hi:
No Pentax content, as the pictures were taken
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 09:45 PM, Pat White wrote:
I notice you're in Victoria, Australia. Here in Victoria, Canada,
it's 10C,
windy and rainy.
Is there a third Victoria, and are there any PDMLers there?
Pat White
See
I got some nice stuff today.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1946284547
JCO wrote:
JCOC I can see from my 35mm 100 speed film
JCOC negs that the 2400 dpi scanner I'm using
JCOC is inadequate. Will 4800 ppi settle the
JCOC matter once and for all or should I be waiting
JCOC until 6400 or 7200 ppi scanners arrive to upgrade?
Strictly theoretically speaking, a 4800
No wonder these people lost the Cold War.
I found the general story funny and the quoted statement offensive. I lived in Russia
for 31 years and took many pictures and only read in books about something similar
somewhere overseas. The case you described exsisted, I am sure, but leads to not
Although quoted in reply to Treena... annsan wrote the puppies and children
thing...
It kinda looked in your quote below that I was quoting treena telling a story
about
someone named Ann anyway...
T Rittenhouse wrote:
I don't know, I don't think people pictures can be cliches unless they
Fred wrote:
F [The SMC K 135/2.5 is on the left, while the Takumar Bayonet
F 135/2.5 is on the right.]
Fred,
Unfortunately I was referring to the SMC K 135/2.5 . :o(
The front lens diameter as it appeared to my limited measuring
capabilities is around 52mm, that translates to an
Perhaps an interesting twist on the Cliché theme. Imagine producing an image
that illustrates a common cliché. For instance:
A fork in the road
Imagine a long hilly road stretching off into the distance. Image take at
ground level in the middle of the road. Long yellow double lines stretching
This is where you've gone off track. The A contact has *nothing* to do
with the metering mode. It's all the *other* contacts on the camera body
that affect matrix metering (and A lenses will work with matrix metering
no matter how you set the aperture ring).
I see now, the A contact on the
Pentax is good value for the money, while Nikon or Leica would make me a poor man.
Regards,
Rod.
- Original Message -
From: Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: The way things might have been - WAS: Rumour mill
Shaun wrote: I'll be down to my frilly knickers by lunchtime.
Er, thanks for sharing...
Pat White
ps. Thanks, Dan, the site turned up 11 Victorias (but not the one in
Australia, oddly enough).
If Pentax...would
have applied advances in autofocus, image
stabilization...how many of you would
be still shooting with Pentax (a majority brand)? Or
would you be shooting Canon FD and poking jealous fun
at Pentax snobs G?
Hah! Great point.
Canon is so good at being Canon, nobody else
Despite my having fun recently with my most modern camera, a PZ-1,
and a few autofocus lenses, I always have to go back to one of the
older bodies after a little while (or have a black-and-white roll
going at the same time in an older body).
Of my older cameras, the MX, Spotmatic, and the ESII
You can use the bellows unit with the MZ-S. I have a Bellows K, and found
it wouldn't fit when the BG-10 grip was installed, until I realized you can
loosen the setscrew on the bellows mount and rotate the unit 90 degrees.
There's no clearance problem, but the camera is in the vertical position.
I would like to enter the world of microphotography. What microscope
type is the most usefull for photographers. I already have the
Microscope Adapter K and two Mplan lenses (5X and 10X). Basic
Olympus microscopes seem to go for little money on eBay.
Maybe Don could give me some advices?
- Original Message -
From: Mike Johnston
Subject: Hypothetical Question
So let me ask a hypothetical question here. Asked of everyone.
IF you have
to choose between EITHER the older, metal bodied, manual focus
Pentax family
(Spotmatics, M series, A series, up to LX) ***OR*** the
By the way, I found in reference books on optics that acetone is a
safe product to use on glass if you want to clean fungus. To be used
pure unless the lens is a doublet (or a triplet) when it have to be
diluted 1:1 with water. I'm not sure this is enough to really wipe
out all fungus
Paul Franklin Stregevsky wrote:
[big snip]
When I asked Ilya why the guy had taken so few shots, he explained how it's
been proven that each time you take someone's picture, you take away part
of their life energy. Whoever owns the print can hurt the person in the
picture by--I
The model in question was the Bellows A, does the
camera work with the K if you remove the grip?
Feroze
- Original Message -
From: Pat White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Autobellows
You can use the bellows unit with the
Mike,
Found myself using/mixing the PZ-1p with manual lenses and some autofocus at my
daughter's gym meets. This week I switched back to the LX with a winder. Two
advantages were apparent. 1. The shutter lag was shorter with the LX. This is not a
surprise, but I'm surprised that I
- Original Message -
From: Gleb Baida
Subject: Re: Party pics, Russian-style,
I personally thought that we lost that war because of wrong
ideology and economy and also because of huge losses in the
WWII.
Wasn't the cold war caused by wrong ideology?
William Robb
I don't think that staying with m42 helped Pentax much, in terms of losing the pro
35mm market. But I don't think that's the whole reason.
The Spotmatic may have been used by pros in the 60's, but it was, AFAIK, always a
distant second to the Nikon F series. I think that the F having features
On 17 Dec 2002 at 15:30, Mike Johnston wrote:
So let me ask a hypothetical question here. Asked of everyone. IF you have
to choose between EITHER the older, metal bodied, manual focus Pentax family
(Spotmatics, M series, A series, up to LX) ***OR*** the polycarbonate-bodied, AF
Pentax family
Autofocus? We don't need no stinkin' autofocus!
Give me an LX any day
Christian Skofteland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: Hypothetical Question
If
My Pentax bodies are an MX, and 3 Spotmatics. My bodies from other brands are
all metal, manual focus, and with the exception of my Yashica Electro 35,
mechanical shutter.
I can't see myself ever going plastic (sorry, polycarbonate g). There are
so many good old bodies out there for decent
Sorry Mike, I lean the other way! The conveniences of modern metering
systems and selective AF (when appropriate), together with the toughness
given by the use of a mix of modern plastics and alloys in cameras such as
the MZ-S would always draw me towards them. I have seen many Spotmatics
which
Too bad because your missing out on using a very nice camera. I have a
ZX-5n, and while it is a polycarbonate body, it has a very nice feel too it
and has great simple features that fall easily to hand. This camera has
produced time after time for me over the past 3 years. It's not a
On 17 Dec 2002 at 20:18, Alin Flaider wrote:
Strictly theoretically speaking, a 4800 dpi is only capable of
accurately sampling 47 lines per mm. This is derived from
Nyquist's sampling theorem, according to which you can only sample
half the frequency of the sampling machine:
On general principals I would have to say yes.
At 10:22 AM 12/14/2002 +1030, you wrote:
i have a tokina 80-200 and a kenko 2x convertor and was wondering if i would
get a better image with a 135-400mm sigma apo? any advice?
I have had AF in the past (SF1N Pz1P) and switched back to mechanical
cameras. The Spotmatic SP is still a favourite along with the LX. Note - I
am not afraid to use Takumars on my LX and do from time to time. I love the
SP as much as I do the LX.
Sorry Mike, I don't like auto anything.
Bob
Mark's comments:
If Asahi had offered the K bayonet mount at least 10
years earlier, Pentax would still be a brand of choice
for the professional user.
It would have helped to have come out with bayonnet mount 3 or 4
years earlier, but 10 years? I don't think so. Until the end of the
Many Spotmatics have died, that's true. But, considering that they are between
27 and 38 years old, a surprising number of them are still around. And, in my
experience, the overwhelming reason that they die is that the meter goes.
Mechanical failures are not that prevalent.
Even if the
Hi Frank,
There were about 1.75 million Spotmatic SP manufacturer and Pentax parts
are available in some parts of the world. I had 2 of my old SPs repaired
here in Australia (ASA resistors) and they keep right on clicking.
Bob
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL
I agree, Andre,
Canon only entered the serious pro market in '71 with it's F-1, so surely
one can't say that Pentax lost that much by staying with m42 throughout
the '60's.
Screwmount only became a problem with the advent of open-aperture
metering, as it became difficult of properly align the
Easy for me, the new stuff. I'm different because I didn't grow up with the
stuff many of you did. Next it'll be 'A' flash units vs cube flash, or cube
vs flash powder g I think it all depends on the generation, and nothing
to do with the quality (not saying one is better than another).
Hi, Bob,
Yup, same here. My repair shop has no problem fitting K1000 meters into Spots -
there's one in my silver SP! Other than that, nothing more than a CLA and seals
has been needed to keep mine going.
And, as you say, almost 2 million of them were sold, most to hobbyists. Many of
them
--- Rodelion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pentax is good value for the money, while Nikon or
Leica would make me a poor man.
The Minolta MD and Canon FD systems are also a good
value for the money. A equally competent Nikon AI
system can be put together at about the same
investment as a Pentax
Hi Lon,
I can think of this explanation:
difference of 1/2 stop at f/11 - 22 is so small in absolute
physical dimensions that they did feel that making halfstops
there would not be repeatable enough due to mechanical
nature of the aperture
After having owned and used a K1000, MV, ME, Me Super, LX, MX, z-10, z-1
, and now a z-1p, my favorites are still the LX and the z-1p. It's
horses for courses stuff though folks.
I love using the LX for ambient light stuff...and the z-1p with an
AF500FTZ kicks butt for TTL flash (especially
Mike wrote
So let me ask a hypothetical question here. Asked of everyone. IF you have
to choose between EITHER the older, metal bodied, manual focus Pentax family
(Spotmatics, M series, A series, up to LX) ***OR*** the
polycarbonate-bodied, AF Pentax family (P series, ZX series, up to
Mike Johnston wrote:
quoting someone else
If Pentax...would
have applied advances in autofocus, image
stabilization...how many of you would
be still shooting with Pentax (a majority brand)? Or
would you be shooting Canon FD and poking jealous fun
at Pentax snobs G?
Then MIke J
Brad, how old are you? I'm 34 and grew up with photography in the '80s
and '90s. Autofocus was newish when I received my first camera as a gift
(Ricoh KR5 Super) in the early '80s. I lusted after Nikon F4's, 5's and
N90's when I began to seriously learn photography. Never having actually
even
I like the polycarbonate bodies. AF, TTL, and other features.
Warrantees, service, availability of current accessories, etc.
Len
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So let me ask a hypothetical question here. Asked of
everyone. IF you have to choose between EITHER the older,
metal bodied, manual focus Pentax family
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