Thank you all for the good wishes! I appreciate it. This is essentially a new camera, intended for the Japanese market; the included manual and paperwork are all in Japanese. I hunted up the K-01 pages on the Ricoh-Pentax site and downloaded English manuals and firmware updates, etc. That will be installed today, and I'll read the manual through as I always do.
In truth, however, it's all pretty easy to figure out based on what I know of Pentax already. The DA21 and FA43 were the two lenses I was most reluctant to let go of when I sold out of Pentax gear. I almost kept my K10D body just so that I could use these lenses. I tried them with a mount adapter on the Ricoh GXR-M but, sadly, they didn't have the same magic there that they did on the *ist DS or K10D. When I saw the K-01 at its first release, I nearly went for one and re-bought these two lenses, but decided it was just a bit more money than was sensible (over $3000 at new prices!). Now, with the bodies at $200-250 easily, and some used lenses available, it made good sense. I like having an eye-level finder available; an LCD isn't ideal for that. The Voigtländer 35 and 75 mm optical viewfinders are each showing a bit less than their respective lens covers; they're like having a 75-80% coverage SLR finder. Just right: frame pretty tight with the viewfinder, and the captured image has enough more space to allow precision cropping when doing a finish rendering. And they look cool… All in all, I'm very pleased with what Pentax and Marc Newsom hath wrought. And I look forward to using it. Soon as my hip finishes healing up and I can get around a bit more easily, they'll be with me on a photo walk. :-) G "Mars is the only known planet inhabited entirely by robots." > From: Stephen Esposito > > For the photographer who's had everything... > ;-) > From: Donald Guthrie > > Welcome to the K-01 clique. Those lenses should work very well. Looking > forward to photos. > From: Bulent Celasun > > I am anxious to see what you'll offer us using this awesome kit. > From: Darren Addy > > Welcome back, o' Prodigal Pentaxian. > :) > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi > <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: >> It's all arrived and tested. After years of playing with so many Pentax >> bodies and lenses, this is my favorite Pentax kit of all: >> >> https://flic.kr/p/AfvZpS >> >> Pentax K-01 Marc Newsom in Yellow >> FA43mm f/1.9 Limited in Pewter with Voigtländer 75mm optical finder >> DA21mm f/3.4 Limited in Black with Voigtländer 35mm optical finder >> >> It's exactly what I like to shoot with, fits in a tiny bag, weighs almost >> nothing, and makes very very nice photos! >> >> All Hail the Pentaxian! >> >> G >> >> Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
