RE: Best high speed short telephoto?
How about the performance of M 100/2.8? ** There's not much choice in the 70mm~90mm range except for the various 85mm lenses, both in screw mount and in K mount. They all tend to be a bit spendy, more or less. If you can live with it, a Super Takumar 105/2.8 may be just the thing. Comes in a K-mount as well. There's also the M 100/2.8. Shel [Original Message] From: Charles Robinson I'm looking for something that may not exist. Back in my film days when I shot a lot of concerts, I was quite fond of my 135mm f2.5 zoom. Not the sharpest lens on the planet, but the combination of reach and speed seemed to work well in combination with the 28 and 50mm lenses. These days, I have found that when shooting with my DS, I still like my old manual-focus lenses because they are faster (f5.6 just doesn't cut it on a dark stage). However, the 135mm lens tends to get me TOO CLOSE to my subjects. Seems like I want something in the 70-90mm range, that is no slower than about f/4. Doesn't have to be autofocus, or even an A lens as I tend to use them wide open in these situations anyways. Is there something reasonably-priced out there that would fill this void? I just don't have a clue. And, as you can probably guess, since I am already using the Takumar 135mm f2.5, I'm not hugely critical about sharpness and contrast. I mean, I like a well-focused clear image, but again - concert photography isn't exactly high art. Suggestions, anyone? -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.asiamail.com Send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
Mirror prism
Please advise which camera in MZ/ZX series consist of mirror prism instead of glass prism in viewfinder? Thanks. -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.asiamail.com Send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
Re: MZ-5
Are their viewfinder is bright enough in focusing manual lens? Are they durable in heavy usage? === MZ5 No DOF, 100 X sync, 1/2000 top shutter speed. MZ3 DOF, 125 X sync, 1/4000 top shutter speed. Everything else is essentially the same. The MZ5n has DOF preview by the way. -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.asiamail.com Send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
SMC-F 35-80mm is good?
Is it good although it is for entry level? http://www.ucatv.ne.jp/~tweety/Zoom/F3580_456/F3580_456Samp.htm -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.asiamail.com Send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
MZ-5
Hi Anyone could tell me the major functional difference between MZ-5 and MZ-3? I may choose one of them. Thanks. -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.asiamail.com Send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
Re: question about primes: 100/2.8 and 135/2.8 FA (D)
Hi How about the performance of M100/2.8? -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.asiamail.com Send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
F or FA28/2.8 + istDL any good?
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Marketing
Just looked at a N FM3A catalogue. At the last page, it said 'We take the world's greatest pictures' which is also a registered statement (Is it a registered trademark?). Not challenge the validity of this statement. But what Pentax could say if they make similar words!? _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
What toys you have in 2002?
Happy new year all of you! Just looked at plastic boxes containing my photographic gear. Recalled that I bought a long-time-ago Spotmatic SPII, SMCT 55/1.8 and SMCT 135/2.5 (2nd version) in 2002. Although not having any newly released product, I use them with other gear to catch many unforgettable images in 2002. What gear (Pentax or not) you have added in 2002? _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
Z1P flash question
I have two questions on my Z1P built-in flash. 1. How long would be the battery life if all exposure need the full output of the flash? 2. If I use an external TTL flash together with the built-in flash, how does the camera divide the output of the two flashes? Please advise. _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
Sigma lens
I visited a camera exhibition show two days ago. When I walked to the Sigma area, I have chance to play some of the high-end lenses. What impressed me came from two new products which not yet released in Hong Kong market. They are 135-300mm f2.8 HSM and 80-400mm f4.5-5.6 with IS function. If the 80-400 is available for KAF mount, it would be the first IS lens used with Pentax AF camera. It would be great if the IS function is also valid for Pentax manual body. The 135-300 is very heavy but the focusing speed appeared reasonably fast with EOS body. The f2.8 constant aperture is great for such tele zoom but uses 90mm front filter (if memory correct). Sigma now offers Pentax users some products which are not available in Pentax line (at least in near future). _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
Making money
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Re: Making money
I mean if you are using Pentax gear in your full-time or freelance job, would you tell more about your work with Pentax equipment? Any comment on your gear? Any improvement needed? Any product you want pentax to offer for your job? etc. * Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just for curiosity, any one of you is making money from your Pentax gear (full-time or freelance)? how much money? Herb... _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
Digital Stuff
Similar to Pentax, there are still many Nikon fans supporting the Nikon manual gear. The following is some discussion from a egroup for the possible impact of Nikon digital development on manual users. Any opinion from you?? Message: 3 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:31:03 -0500 Subject: OT: DX Lenses and other Digital Stuff There's been a lot of digital traffic on the list lately, and some of it needs comment. Well, I heard an opinion worth to consider (the guy used to be a member of the list, I don't know if he's around). As CMOS's are not, and might not ever will be, up (or down) to the resolution of photographic film, it would be a waste of money, time and effort for any manufacturer to design a lens with improved resolution compared to old designs. I guess Nikon is wasting money, then. Nikon is claiming that the new DX lenses are actually designed to a higher resolution standard (200 lppm) than the 35mm lenses. As for the rest of the guy's statements, well, let's just be friendly and say that they are naive. CCD resolution would top out at about the 1 micron level under current designs, but any smaller would have diffraction issues to deal with. CCD resolution will likely always be a little bit different than film resolution due to the overlap vs non-overlap designs, but I think you need to define resolution. Digital camera/printer already exceeds what I was able to achieve with slides and wet process darkroom printing, and it's fast approaching slides scanned with drum scan and printed digitally. Curiously, the Bible of photographic information, The Manual of Photography 9th Edition, has an interesting aside in it where it is stated that digital has already equaled film in terms of the amount of information that can be stored. Is the DX lens development bad news to film photographers? Probably. At least at the wide angle end. Nikon has limited development and production capability. The development of DX wide angles comes at the expense of potential new 35mm wide angle lenses. Moreover, as digital production heats up, we'll see more discontinuance of current marginal lenses, and the MF lineup is certainly one of the possibilities to stop production on. On the other hand, it says nothing about whether Nikon is developing a full-frame DSLR. Perhaps Nikon is covering all it's bases. Perhaps, but I made a written prediction back in September that Nikon would likely continue with APS-sized sensors on digital SLRs. The DX lens line seems to support this, especially when you consider that the statement tells us that the DX lens is designed for at least 3x the line pair resolution the current digital bodies are capable of. The sensor in the D1X is really 4018 X 1312, a very odd shape. Not anywhere near the typical 3/2 format of the 35mm frame. Just to be clear, the 4018x1312 doesn't define the shape, as the photosites are not square. Moreover, there's space between photosites, so knowing the size, number and orientation of the photosites doesn't tell you much about the aspect ratio of the frame. I don't think it's fair to claim the D1X is a 10MP camera just because you can use digital manipulation...but the final resolution that the image from the camera contains is a maximum of 3008 x 1960 pixels in any format...You can't honestly claim you can increase the ultimate resolution by changing the decoding algorithms in an outboard program to interpolate to a bigger image by adding pixels that weren't in the original image as the camera would have decoded it. Actually, the camera manipulates data in ANY format it's capable of saving in. With a D1x there simply is no one-to-one correspondence between photosite and pixel, period. Thus, the 10MP interpretation pioneered by Bibble and QImage is just as valid as the downsize/upsize JPG interpretation the camera does. Short of the Foveon-based Sigma SD9, no current digital SLR can be said to have a native RGB resolution (well, okay, technically the small JPEG out of the S2 Pro has a one-to-one correspondence between four photosites and a pixel). Rather than continue to polluting the MF list with digital talk, I suggest that, if you're interested in continuing the digital side of this discussion you visit the NikonSLR forum at dpreview.com, where these topics and more have been discussed to death. I do think the original query was quite on the mark for this list, though, and I'll repeat my answer: yes, the DX lens introduction probably has implications on 35mm lenses. Reading both between the lines of the press release and Nikon's recent patent activity, wide angle activity at Nikon is centered on DX designs. That's a shame, as there are several 35mm WA lenses that could use a redesign (18mm f/2.8 is one of them). Message: 5 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:26:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: OT: DX Lenses and other Digital Stuff Hi Thom, Yet again i find myself drawn into this digital dilemma business. I
SMC Takumar 135/2.5
Just received a SMCT 135/2.5 (later version with same quality with SMC 135/2.5). I got it for portrait because it has good quality at wide open aperture (no test it yet, just based on other user reviews) and it is in near new condition as well as at a very good price. One question: There is a half f-stop click evenly between f2.5 and f4. Is it f3.5 or f2.8? Thanks for advice. _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
To get K30/2.8 ?
I am thinking about getting a K30/2.8. But its price could let me have also-good K35/3.5 and K28/3.5 plus remaining money in my pocket. I am not a collector. Is it still reasonable to have K30? _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
FA 35/2 and K 35/3.5
I already have the K 28/3.5 and F 50/1.4. I am thinking to get a walk-around lens. So K 35/3.5 and FA 35/2 would be my choices. I would like to seek opinion on the followings: Any difference in optical performance provided that the speed and auto focus are not essential? The durability of plastic FA 35/2 for travel photography? Thanks. _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
Camera and lens catalog
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Is SMCT 135/3.5 a good lens?
Is SMCT 135/3.5 a good lens? Is it the same as K 135/3.5? _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
photo sample
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Flash for P30 and SPII
I have a third party brand (TUMAX) AF flash for my Z1P. Could I use it with P30 and old Spotmatic SPII? Thanks. _ Weight Loss products, Herbal Viagra, and much more!http://www.VitaDepot.com _ Promote your group and strengthen ties to your members with [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net/?btn=tag
World Cup
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KINOPTIK 75MM
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Gallery
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Re: Favorite wide lens?
My favorite wide lens is surely K 28/3.5 if I want to bring only one or two lenses. I
used it mainly (together with F 50/1.4) during my walk-around tour in England and
Scotland last year.
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How much money spent on photography?
Hi
Just a curiosity. How much money you have spent on photography (equipment,
accessories, film, etc.) since it became your hobby?
I am a budget person and spent less than equivalent US$1500 on my gears in past few
years. But I cannot estimate the large amount for print and slide films.
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Epson scanner
Hi
Anyone know the quality of Epson Perfection 1650 Photo scanner? I just want to scan
some slides to a web albums and no intention to print the photo. Thanks.
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Mamiya/Sekor
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