RE: Has anyone else been having trouble uploading to flickr?
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RE: The ist D
Fascinating. I have one in its box somewhere. I can still remember the excitement of receiving it, my first insight into the world of digital photography. How quickly the future becomes the past. Malcolm Juan Buhler wrote: Hi PDML, I uploaded a little video "review" of the old ist D: https://youtu.be/D7AppzyiFII "Review" between quotes because I'm not talking specs or anything, nobody should care about that by now. It's more about my history with it and about the photos I took. Planning to do the K10D next and the K5 after that. Comments welcome! j -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Covid
Thanks, Ann, Brian, Dave, Mike & Stan, I had the loss of taste for a while, nothing really foul tasting but really only texture. The second Covid jab has helped a little I think, but it's long term tiredness and lack of sleep that are the real issues. I have follow up X-Rays, blood tests etc all planned out, so my social diary is full. I know someone locally who thinks (thought) the virus is all nonsense made to scare the public, a view that changed when a relative died of it. However, photography has been a help and a distraction, as it's got me out and about, although I can't manage hills yet. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Covid
From: Alan C wrote: Ann & I have had our first Pfizer jabs. No.2 in 6 weeks. +++ I had my first one in Feb, and the second a couple of weeks ago. It appears that I caught it shortly after the first and spent many weeks either by the open back door trying to breathe or in bed. I've now got a raft of problems as a result and I can walk a mile again slowly. At one point is was a 20 minute sit down gasping for breath having gone as far as the front door. Long Covid - I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Have the jabs! Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Video review - K3iii
Bill wrote: The interesting thing about computers that take pictures is that the people who write the software can program in the characteristic curve of, in this case, infrared film, and how it translates the invisible to the eye into something visible and have the camera emulate the result from that characteristic curve. The result should be a very accurate facsimile of what IR fm does. The smart person would look at the results with an open mind prior to labeling them "silly". ++ No idea how well it works with these features but I've been mightily impressed so far. I'll certainly try those modes out and see how they perform. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: The new K3 iii
Bill wrote: Check this out. Shot with the D FA*50/1.4 https://flic.kr/p/2kJFZ77 = Very nice Bill, just confirms my opinion of it. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: The new K3 iii
Bill wrote: I had the DFA*50/1.4 for several days prior to it's official release. Apparently someone at Ricoh still loves me for being a one man profit center for Pentax. You won't regret it if standard lenses on full frame or short teles on APS-C are your thing. The DA20-40 was the best lens I never liked. I had one, more because it said Pentax on it than for any pressing need, but I never really fell for it. It is an excellent lens though, it just wasn't for me. == I tried it on a K3ii & a K1. Loved it on the K1 despite (or perhaps because of) the combination weighing 2Kg as near as could be. It felt a really solid combination as well it should. I do a lot of 'walkabout' photography and the 20-40mm would be useful. The K3iii on arrival will be matched with a 16-85mm WR to begin with. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: The new K3 iii
Bill wrote: The DFA* 50/1.4 was apparently too expensive, but the first 2 runs presold prior to release. As was, and did, the DFA* 85/1.4, and it was goofy expensive. I'm not sure about the 70-210/4. It certainly didn't generate the buzz, but it also isn't really a Pentax lens. I agree that this will be tha fate of a K1III. I expect the 21Ltd will also presell its first run, and quite possibly its second. Not a bad fate. I'm not so hopeful about the updated 31, 43 and 77, though if they had put them in new bodies with PLM autofocus motors they might have been onto something. I'm not sure if new coatings and curved aperture blades are quite enough. I really think they should have waited until after the 21Ltd, and then given the legacy trio more than new lipstick. === I had a demonstration of the DFA*50/1.4 just before lockdown. From time to time it gets discounted and the next time it does, I'll have one. I very nearly walked out of the shop with one at the time. My Limited collection is all under 4 years old and they will have to last for many years. I would like to add the 20-40mm lens to the set. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: The new K3 iii
Bill wrote: >As am I, but if it's another kitchen sink camera like the K1, and I don't >think there is any reason to think it won't be, I suspect it is going to be >quite pricey. I saw a message on my camera dealers website, which said that the first batch of the new K3 were due, and would go straight out to those who pre-ordered them. It won't be enough, so the next batch in next week will go out the same way - and anyone who ordered in the last week or from now it will be later in May when they see it arrive. I might have made the second batch to be sent. The point is that a DSLR which supposedly is missing features and is very expensive is not so much flying off the shelves, but flying off before they make the shelves. I see the future K1 iii selling as well as this. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: The new K3 iii
Bill wrote: >Everyone is bitching about the price. Wait for their heads to explode when the >K1III comes along priced at £2600, or it's equivalent in whatever local >currency you adhere to. >Apparently the viewfinder on the new K3 is a thing of wonder, as large as the >K1 viewfinder. I'm looking forward to the K1 iii. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
The new K3 iii
I don't post often now, but this caught my attention. In my inbox on the 1st of the month came a notification of the pending arrival of the new K3 from my friendly camera dealer. Given it was the 1st of April, I dismissed it as a joke, but no, there really was a new K3! I looked at a few initial pre-production firmware reviews (one or two of which didn't even have the camera) which I'm sure many of you have seen. Lots of criticism to be found about it, the first easily dismissed about it not being a mirrorless design. If you want a mirrorless camera there are plenty out there. The next was the lack of a tilt screen. They are useful, but for me I rarely use it other than when on a tripod for landscape images, and in such cases the K1 will be on top of it. The K3 I use for recording street scenes and the new touch screen looks more useful to me. It's heavy too they say, but I don't like a light camera. Over here it's £1899 and that appears to be the killer blow. At this price who is it for at full frame DSLR money? Well, I'd imagine it's for folk with a collection of K & M42 lenses who like the features of the new camera! I'm certainly one of them and I put my order in some days ago and look forward to it arriving on release. As an aside, I bought my KP before release which was generally slammed in reviews. A quite wonderful camera that's turned out to be. On the occasions where a smaller camera is needed in situations where I might not have taken a camera at all, I've taken photos in low light of friends on great nights out that I could share (remember them, in olden times we went out and saw people close up) which wouldn't win any prizes but recorded memories. That surely is what photography is about. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT: SA Lockdown
Steve Cottrell wrote: Bloody hell - Malcolm pops up as a lockdown is announced ;-) Hope you're well mate ++ Still here, just not posting much. Still taking photos. I trust you and everyone else here is well and staying safe. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- 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.
RE: OT: SA Lockdown
Bob Pdml wrote: I think that’s coming our way too, possibly in the next hour... ...and indeed it has Malcolm . -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- 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.
