I played around with the Laowa (Venus Optics) 60mm macro I got
recently, handheld. The weather here has spring coming at least a
month early, all the bugs are out sans mosquitoes (thank goodness).
Was gonna take a pic of these plants we have in the garden that are
like velvety white and saw this
Also link.not . :)
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> I am still struggling with Photo.not. The new site is quite attractive,
> but so far I find it more cumbersome to upload images and provide links to
> images. The is therefore partly in the
Fabulous colour!
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> SIGH!
>
> https://www.photo.net/photo/18355681/Orchid
>
> Dan Matyola
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Bruce Walker
Nice pic. Beautiful color. I've found the only practical way to show a
photo.net pic is one at a time, as you have done here.
Paul via phone
> On Feb 21, 2017, at 9:26 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
>
> SIGH!
>
> https://www.photo.net/photo/18355681/Orchid
>
> Dan
Thank, Bruce and Paul
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> Nice pic. Beautiful color. I've found the only practical way to show a
> photo.net pic is one at a time, as you have done here.
>
>
SIGH!
https://www.photo.net/photo/18355681/Orchid
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Bruce Walker
wrote:
> Also link.not . :)
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Daniel J. Matyola
>
I am still struggling with Photo.not. The new site is quite attractive,
but so far I find it more cumbersome to upload images and provide links to
images. The is therefore partly in the nature of a test of my ability to
complete those seemingly simple tasks.
The condo resort at which was stay
> On 21 February 2017 at 21:52 Bill wrote:
>
>
> On 2/21/2017 3:10 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
> > I just found this article.
> >
> > A bit of nostalgia for the LX cognoscenti
> >
> >
Sunday morning donuts at the local farmers market
https://flic.kr/p/RReMeR
Pentax K1 and Sigma 35mm f1.4 art lens. (doing my bit to encourage Sigma
to make more versions for the K mount)
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Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
SIGH!
https://www.photo.net/photo/18355681/Orchid
That's a lovely image. It looks like you even managed to avoid blowing
out any of the color channels, which can be a real challenge with
something like that.
Dan Matyola
Why? Because pentax decided to make cameras that Sigma lenses do not
fit on anymore which cost sigma money to fix. I would say there is bad
blood. The small market share isn't likely enough to convince them
that kmount is worth their time.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Darren Addy
The 85 art has already been released. Time to catch up. ;)
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> Sigma hasn't announced an 85mm lens, at least not according to this article.
>
>> On Feb 21, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
>>
>> A
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Of the four new lenses Pentax already offers two of them, a 24-70/2.8 and the
150-450 (which is faster than the Sigma 100-400). The 14mm and 135mm would be
nice additions, but perhaps Pentax is already planning to fill that gap. I
probably wouldn’t want the 14mm,
Zos Xavius wrote:
Why? Because pentax decided to make cameras that Sigma lenses do not
fit on anymore which cost sigma money to fix. I would say there is bad
blood. The small market share isn't likely enough to convince them
that kmount is worth their time.
There was an interview in the past
A bunch of people want an 85..
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> Of the four new lenses Pentax already offers two of them, a 24-70/2.8 and the
> 150-450 (which is faster than the Sigma 100-400). The 14mm and 135mm would be
> nice additions,
Sigma hasn't announced an 85mm lens, at least not according to this article.
> On Feb 21, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
>
> A bunch of people want an 85..
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Paul Stenquist
> wrote:
>> Of the four new
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Sigma hasn't announced an 85mm lens, at least not according to this article.
You mean like this one?
https://petapixel.com/2016/10/17/review-sigmas-85mm-f1-4-art-lens-exceeds-expectations/
On Feb 21, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
A bunch
I don't know if the problem is a Pentax/Ricoh problem.
It's a volume sales question and that old, vicious cycle.
They probably would produce the lenses if the body sales were up ... you
know how that goes.
Escaping the cycle requires lots of marketing media dollars.
I don't foresee that coming.
I'm thinking maybe something wonky in the digital process bringing the
image to the screen in that article.
Resolution wise it looks fantastic. Better than the otus even. Is
resolution everything in portraits though? I find the focus rolloff
and bokeh a bit clinical but that's me. I just doesn't have enough
feels if you get what I mean. Its also really large and heavy. It
almost pains me to say, but I
They stopped making new ones though. They brought over the 18-35 but
not the 50-100. So as they slowly phase out lenses they will
eventually make no pentax lenses at all. I like the bigma at least.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:16 PM, P. J. Alling
wrote:
> Sigma does make
You know Sigma has the tooling/technology. I have three Sigma EX AF
lenses and they are all wonderful (50-500mm, 10-20mm, and 28mm f1.8).
This announcement does not include a Pentax mount:
Ricoh probably doesn’t want Sigma to make lenses for Pentax cameras. Pentax
volume is small enough as it is. Why would they want to lose some of the lens
biz to a competitor?
> On Feb 21, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
>
> You know Sigma has the tooling/technology.
But some of those lenses fill a niche unfilled by current offerings
(new) from Ricoh. I guess they are hoping to fill those gaps at some
point? I.e. there are no (new) extreme telephoto primes (600/4 for
example, 400/2.8) in full frame. Or tilt-shift (they prolly expect
software to this), or
I would argue that it is the same reason why Apple doesn't want Adobe
to stop developing software for the Mac - even when Apple has a
competing product. Considering that these are all lenses in focal
ratios that Pentax is probably not going to make a directly competing
lens for, it helps sell more
Sigma does make Pentax K mount lenses, but Sigma is going to make lenses
they can sell. Pentax has to convince Sigma the their user base will
buy their lenses to make it worth their while. Seriously, remembering
the Sig[nificant] Ma[lfunctions] period. I'm always skittish of buying a
Sigma
Yes, Im hopelessly behind. If I were shooting a lot of studio portraits I would
want that.
Paul via phone
> On Feb 21, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
>
> The 85 art has already been released. Time to catch up. ;)
>
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Paul Stenquist
I just found this article.
A bit of nostalgia for the LX cognoscenti
https://www.casualphotophile.com/2017/02/19/pentax-lx-camera-review-the-best-professional-35mm-slr-around/
Cheers
Brian
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On 2/21/2017 3:10 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
I just found this article.
A bit of nostalgia for the LX cognoscenti
https://www.casualphotophile.com/2017/02/19/pentax-lx-camera-review-the-best-professional-35mm-slr-around/
Nice.
I'm in the process of moving from a storage lock-up that I've
I was lucky enough to get an FA 85 1.4 in the bad ole days of ebay
when things could be had for a lot less than market if you were
patient enough. Now they cost more than many new lenses since Pentax
did not make a replacement for this in full frame.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Paul
That would be suicidal and here is why: plenty of pentax users are
leaving for canikon because they want the new sigma lenses. Pentax
would be utterly foolish to discourage 3rd party options on their
mount.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> Ricoh
Of the four new lenses Pentax already offers two of them, a 24-70/2.8 and the
150-450 (which is faster than the Sigma 100-400). The 14mm and 135mm would be
nice additions, but perhaps Pentax is already planning to fill that gap. I
probably wouldn’t want the 14mm, because the Pentax 15-30 pretty
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