Looks like weird reflections on the screen to me. Glad you were able to take in another orphaned lens. Paul On Feb 27, 2007, at 8:57 PM, William Robb wrote:
> That poor DA70mm lens. There it was, sitting unloved and unused on a > camera > store shelf. > Lens purgatory. > The damnation of the unbought. > Terribly sad. > A poor little box, hiding shyly behind a bunch of other boxes on a > shelf, > nearly forgotten, wanting a home. > > I was at The Don's today to buy a replacement Extreme 3 SD card for > the one > that has gone AWOL, and a newer reader that would read it. > I found a Sandisk Extreme card reader which is very nice, and will do > both > CF and SD cards. > They had a deal on Ultra 2 cards, which are fast enough for my > purposes, so > I got 4 gigs or Ultra 2 for the price of 2.19634 gigs of Extreme 3. > And that poor 70mm lens found a home. > > It was so happy it flared. > Anyway, I am wondering if it is a flare or some sort of weird > phosphorescent > dream created by the picture tube? > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/flare70.html > > There was on hell of a hot spot on the screen in the center of the > blasted > out bit. > > K10D, DA 70mm LTD lens, f4.5, 1/125 second, iso 400 > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

