The recent Nikon announcement of a 70-200 f/2.8
AF-S/VR G lens makes me furious. No more apeture
ring! How can they do that. Nikon is going backwards
technologically. What a shame.
I am switching to Pentax which is not going backwards.
Being also on the Nikon lists, I can offer another
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Anything else?
Meter accuracy. Includes not only the metering system but also the
ISO adjustment, exposure compensation setting, etc.
Cheers,
- Dave
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on 2/23/02 23:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined:
Besides, these measurement are always to the plane of the film, NOT the front
of the lens as some people assume and I don't think Pentax has ever issued a
camera with a film plane mark to measure at in any case.
I've seen it written that Pentax
Hi,
it's easy, I have done it couple of times to resolder battery
contacts (these are most suspectible). The prism housing is
separate unit, so y ou don't have to worry about misalignment.
1) by use of two screwdrivers or spanner wrench, remove the
retaining ring around the
Fred wrote:
Of course, Pentax has already released at least four green lenses
(the big A* lenses are not white, but actually are a light green).
?
Are you suffering from some kind of weird color blindness?
Pål
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Peter wrote:
It is conceivable that Pentax might choose to go the same way without a
lens with
aperture ring as an option as they now have no manual focus old tech
SLR in the
35mm range.
I don't think they will since most of their cameras currently sold is
dependent on an aperture
Peter wrote:
Being also on the Nikon lists, I can offer another perspective here. Pros are
welcoming this change as it means that they can no longer make occasional
errors with
the aperture ring (current Nikon AF lenses must be set to minimum aperture
for f-stop
control thru the control dial
Peter wrote:
But Alan would say it wasn't designed to be a professional camera as was
the Nikon F.
But back in the sixties there were no distinction between professional
cameras and the rest. In fact. all SLR equipment from major manufacturers
could be considered professional. It wasn't
Fred,
The FA24/2.0 is a modern lens, light and airy in feel. Unlike the A20/2.8,
you won't be able to put it on your LX and bash any potential muggers. g
I would guess the build quality might be less that you are used to. The
tulip hood is plastic. The window on the distance scale is
Dave, that Roman clock is a real hoot! Accurate, too. The
half past rather than XXX was amusing, too.
Len
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Hmm, a camera with roman numbers everywhere would be really
cool.
Check out the roman clock I did earlier this year as part of
a
bigger project (I just had to show this off!):
Relax, nobody said that it was needed, only that it worked.
Len
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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: MX question
In a message dated Sat, 23 Feb 2002 5:41:14 PM Eastern
Standard Time, Mark
Fred wrote:
So, how is the build quality? Good enough for us hard core manual
focus guys?
That depends of how you define built quality. If you think about feel I'll
say the older lenses are generally preferable to most FA* lenses. However,
in strength, most FA* lenses are the most solid
Sory to bother again.I just opened the baterry
door to see what to buy for a spare and noticed
on the top of the compartment is a small dial
with numbers on both sides and a dial in the
centre with a small scre driver type slot.Can
any one tell me what this is for and should i
be concerned
Unfortunately it is not gonig ahead, too...
Andreas Wirtz
Raul Lithgo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am switching to Pentax which is not going backwards.
Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games
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Perhaps Pentax isn't doing a great deal of body upgrading because they
can see the future better than us. Steven I were in Cord yesterday.
Not only is the RB/RZ section continuing to grow, but so is the Blad
section growing.
A 500c/m with A12, Chrome 80mm, prism for $899 -- in a retail store!
Andreas Wirtz wrote:
Unfortunately it is not gonig ahead, too...
Andreas Wirtz
Raul Lithgo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am switching to Pentax which is not going backwards.
If it is not going backwards or ahead, it must be going nowhere. Not
very confidence building. :)
Bob
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On 24 Feb 2002 at 8:24, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I'd warn about buying new film bodies in much of the future.
I'm not certain that we'll see a K lens-compatible digital body.
I'm fairly certain we will.
Pentax is, I suspect, working on digital for the 645nII.
I think we'll see that
Collin wrote:
I'd warn about buying new film bodies in much of the future.
I'm not certain that we'll see a K lens-compatible digital body.
Pentax has not generally considered, as we all know, the 35mm form factor
to be in their pro venue.
But was has the pro area to do with digital? As far
...and BTW the newly announced crop of digital slr's won't change the
picture much. Prices of 3000USD make them way off to be volume items.
Digital slr must go significantly below 2000USD to really take off.
Pål
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I've seen prices for some Leicas falling rather precipitously lately,
although there may be more of a correlation between that and the release
of the new M7 and the Voigtlander models and lenses, if there's any
correlation at all. Leica has come out with a digital camera of sorts:
William,
You're right, my screwmount has a metal focusing ring. Sounds as though
it's the K; get back to that store at opening time and nab it! $575 would
be the best price K-mount price I've seen; the K usually goes for above
$1000. Two pre-SMC Takumar 500/4.5s recently went on EBay for more
Well, this made me think about how much I paid for my MX. In 1979, I paid
just under a £100 for a body and a 50mm f1:1.7 lens. Looking at current
prices for a mint MX, as my original is, would £200 be a fair price today?
Now, I have had the pleasure of using it over the years, but had I decided
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:13 AM
Subject: : OT:Minolta IV battery compartment?
Sory to bother again.I just opened the baterry
door to see what to buy for a spare and noticed
on the top of the
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From: Pål Audun Jensen
Subject: Re: Switching to Pentax
Peter wrote:
Being also on the Nikon lists, I can offer another
perspective here. Pros are
welcoming this change as it means that they can no longer
make occasional
errors with
the aperture ring (current
Meter accuracy.
Accuracy of ISO adjustments.
Accuracy lens aperture set measurement.
Accuracy of lens aperture set (shutter priority and other programmed modes).
Flash sync operation and timing.
If you use fast lenses wide open at close range, or if you do macro work,
you may want better than
In a message dated 2/24/2002 1:40:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've seen it written that Pentax suggests using the back edge of the top or
bottom plate, minus a fat 2mm, to define the film plane.
Yeah, that sounds accurate enough. I bet that would would work fine.
I have the Non-SMC screw mount version of this lens, which I bought for
~$450.
It's a nice lens and delivers very good results. The manual aperture take
some getting used to but was less of a problem than I initially
expected. In my tests sharpness at f4.5 was not good, there was a big
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:50:08 -0500, Paul F. Stregevsky wrote:
[...] $575 would be the best price K-mount price I've seen; the K
usually goes for above $1000. [...]
Sheesh. To think I had the chance to get a K 500/4.5 in KEH EX
condition with case and caps for US$ 350 about two years ago.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, William Robb wrote:
That was one of those things I never did figure out. Minolta MD
lenses had an aperture lock, as did Canon FD lenses, and of
course Pentax A lenses.
Nikon, in their wisdom, never added this to their lenses.
Uh... yeah, they did. :) Here's a pic:
Of course, Pentax has already released at least four green lenses
(the big A* lenses are not white, but actually are a light
green).
? Are you suffering from some kind of weird color
blindness?
No, I don't believe so, Pål (g). I can say with certainty that
the lens barrel of my
All AF Nikkors have always had an aperture lock. And Nikon has great
compatibility amongst most of their bodies. I can use all my current AF
lenses on my 20 year old F3 with full function, and old AI lenses from
the 70's work fine on my F100. Sure, they have some issues with their
amateur line
Hi!
I just found a Pentax zoom F 70-210/4-5.6 on german ebay.
But I have already a Pentax SMC-M 80-200/4.5 (version 2) I bought last summer.
It has nice color rendition but it seems to be not very useful for handheld
photos with relative long shutter speeds.
And it is so long that my case almost
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Switching to Pentax
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, William Robb wrote:
That was one of those things I never did figure out. Minolta
MD
lenses had an
In a message dated 2/24/02 4:25:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
But was has the pro area to do with digital? As far as I'm concerned, I've
no doubt that digital slr's will be mass market damned soon. If Pentax will
continue making slr's, which I'm certain they are, they need to cater to
I would like to pass on my congratulations to our Canadian brothers and sisters for
ending a 50 year lapse in
the Olympics mens hockey.
Ya'll earned it!!
Congrats
Later,
Gary
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Thanks :-)
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I would like to pass on my congratulations to our
Canadian brothers and sisters for ending a 50 year
lapse in
the Olympics mens hockey.
Ya'll earned it!!
Congrats
Later,
Gary
I know Pentax Canada have a few +2 magnifiers , they
clip on and
increase the center by +2, I think Pentax USA can make
different
strengths according to what you need.
--- Nitin Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIRR, the diopter adjustment on the viewfinder in
zx-5n is +-2.5. Is
there any
I`ll second that. It was a great game. I wish Sakic was on our team, not
only the
Olympics, but on the Kings!
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:26 PM
My A* 400 f2.8 is pale green.
At 02:01 PM 2/24/02 -0500, you wrote:
Of course, Pentax has already released at least four green lenses
(the big A* lenses are not white, but actually are a light
green).
? Are you suffering from some kind of weird color
blindness?
No, I don't
Interesting. I don't think the pound is worth as much compared to the dollar
as it was back then. I paid $320 in '78 for a black MX and 50/1.7 and that
was heavily discounted. Today I would estimate the cost at 3x that. If I put
the money in a bank account I still wouldn't be able to buy it, and
Hi Jos,
What you want is a 0.5 diopter close up lens (filter) on my Tokina 80-200
which only focuses down to 6 feet. It changes the focus range to from 3 feet
to 12 feet or so. Which is a great range for portraiture with that lens.
Ciao,
Graywolf
On 24 Feb 2002 at 13:03, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Last August I ordered (through my office) two MZ-S's from Camera World
with Pentax 4-year extended warranty.
As I understand it, the extended warranty on a MZ-S is two years, which is on top of
the normal one year warranty. The extended warranty
At one time the was the Nikon F. It was the only SLR Nikon made. The made
two RFs back in those days but the difference was features, not quality.
Nikon meant quality. Then Marketing looked around and said, Nikon means
quality, we will produce junk cameras with the Nikon name on them, the
In a couple of these postings There is talk about lens coatings changing
between the M's and A's. What changes did they make and how does it affect
the image quality?
Butch
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself.
Hermann Hess (Daemen)
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It allows the user to calibrate the meter without going back to the service
centre.
regards,
Alan Chan
Sory to bother again.I just opened the baterry
door to see what to buy for a spare and noticed
on the top of the compartment is a small dial
with numbers on both sides and a dial in the
speaking of quality cameras by lesser popular brands, the ricoh k-mount
cameras are amazing. The performance/price ratio one can hit on them due
to low demand is really cool. They are my preffered manual focus k-mount
bodies.
cheers,
nitin
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:19:55PM -0500, T
durability of surface wear. Another negative thing about the FA* lenses is
the way the focus (and zoom) scale windows are glued into place. They may
fall off, and Pentax have problem supplying new ones. The window to my
200/4 Macro lens, that falled off in the first week of ownership, is still
on
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Ciao,
Graywolf
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Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Event
Gianfranco Irlanda
Another winner from Italy. It takes a true artist to force
away from the
centre of attention and steal the reactions. Nice shot. That
the Vea
Veneto in 1957 ? ;-)
Hi Cotty,
Thanks a lot for the kind words!
I'm sorry for the
I'd second that - the XR-2 is a fantastic camera. All manual, mirror
pre-fire via the self timer, DOF preview, PC jack, and a little window in
the pentaprism to let you see the aperture setting (like the MX and
LX.) It also has a needle meter display, and the analog info is great.
- MCC
At
dont make me lust after it as well :) I have a xr-10 and a xr-10m. Been
hunting for a xr-m and lusting for xr-x3pf. I guess xr-2 wont be needed
once i have these :)
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:06:54PM -0500, Mark Cassino wrote:
I'd second that - the XR-2 is a fantastic camera. All manual,
on 2/25/02 1:06 AM, Mark Cassino at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd second that - the XR-2 is a fantastic camera. All manual, mirror
pre-fire via the self timer, DOF preview, PC jack, and a little window in
the pentaprism to let you see the aperture setting (like the MX and
LX.) It also has a
In case anyone was interested,
I took that film out reloaded it (again) and finished the frames without
incident. I've also gotten most of the way through the next roll with no
problems. Must have been a Friday Made cassette.
Crisis averted I guess.
Cory Waters
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I didn't notice any posts about members heading off to the Olympics...did
anyone make it to Utah?
Cory Waters
Wishes he'd had a better camera when the Games were here...
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I'm not saying this just to be a anti Pentax jerk, but I feel I need
to state it: My late father's one and only SLR was a new Nikon EM, and
I still have it, and my kids still use it when they want to shoot with
an SLR. It has NEVER seen a CLA, and I've replaced the battery only
twice. It
The current high bidders name sounds right. Ain't no way it's worth that
much
Bill
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Thanks all for the replies.
Tom, that's what the Pentax rep. told me. He also gave me a product number
for the Pentax MZ-S 2 year extended warranty as Product 80200.
He said the list price for the Pentax extended warranty is $149.99, but the
actual price charged by the discount mail order houses
While I personally can't take any credit for our win - Thanks anyway!!
It really was a great game, between two great teams. If only they could play that way
in the NHL. No vicious
stick-work, no fights. Just good, clean, skilled hockey.
It was fun to watch.
regards,
frank
Gary Murphy
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, frank theriault wrote:
It really was a great game, between two great teams. If only they
could play that way in the NHL. No vicious stick-work, no fights.
Just good, clean, skilled hockey.
One of the best games I've ever seen! The gold has finally come home to
where
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:14:09 -0600 (CST), Chris Brogden wrote:
One of the best games I've ever seen!
That it was...
The gold has finally come home to where it belongs... yeeha!
Don't push it! :-))
Later,
Gary
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Gary Murphy wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:14:09 -0600 (CST), Chris Brogden wrote:
One of the best games I've ever seen!
That it was...
All us/them rivalries aside, that game was incredible... fantastic goals,
spectacular saves (including one where the goalie fell
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:23:52 -0600 (CST), Chris Brogden wrote:
All us/them rivalries aside, that game was incredible... fantastic goals,
spectacular saves (including one where the goalie fell backwards on the
puck)... and did you see that camera shot with the close-up of the puck
stopped in the
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From: Ed Mathews
Subject: RE: Switching to Pentax
I'm not saying this just to be a anti Pentax jerk, but I
feel I need
to state it: My late father's one and only SLR was a new
Nikon EM, and
I still have it, and my kids still use it when they want to
shoot with
I have just read an article for the introduction of a super rare SMC Reflex
Zoom 600-800mm. The photo samples shows that it seems to be an excellent
lens for flower photo. Any list member owns this lens? Is it the only
reflex zoom in the world?
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In a couple of these postings There is talk about lens coatings
changing between the M's and A's. What changes did they make and
how does it affect the image quality?
Well, Butch, it is difficult to say exactly what the changes in SMC
treatments were, since Pentax has never really provided
Pentax USA doesn't list the LX or any of it's accessories as items no
longer serviced. You might want to try there. (Then again based on
past experiences with Pentax Repair in CO you might not).
At 12:49 PM 2/23/2002 -0800, you wrote:
That's a shame, and doesn't bode well for other LX users,
I have just read an article for the introduction of a super rare
SMC Reflex Zoom 600-800mm. The photo samples shows that it seems
to be an excellent lens for flower photo. Any list member owns
this lens? Is it the only reflex zoom in the world?
I am confused a little about your mention of an
I'll second that. Those Detroit Red Wings were great!
Brother Paul
Gary Murphy wrote:
I would like to pass on my congratulations to our Canadian brothers and sisters for
ending a 50 year lapse in
the Olympics mens hockey.
Ya'll earned it!!
Congrats
Later,
Gary
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My sister Stacey worked on all the costumes for the opening/closing
ceremonies.
She got to fit Steven Spielberg, Desmin Tutu, John Glen, Peggy Flemming,
Dorothy Hamill, etc...
She met the Dixie Chicks and Sting...
Tonight I hear she was supposed to be working with KISS...
She's having the
Congrats Canada!
Brendan MacRae
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My A* 400 f2.8 is pale green.
Thanks for the green report, Mark. Knowing that there is at least
one other pale green big A* lens out there helps show that I am not
crazy just because I mentioned that mine is green. (Of course, I
still might be crazy, but proof of same will require some other
Chris Brogden wrote:
One of the best games I've ever seen! The gold has finally come home to
where it belongs... yeeha!
I suppose it is only fair for us to let it go north every 50 years or so. :)
Bob
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Fred wrote:
Perhaps, based upon your mention of being an excellent lens for
flower photo, it is indeed a new lens, because the 400-600/8-12 had
(like most long telephotos) a rather long close-focus distance
(about 10 feet), which is a little far for the usual flower
Still looks like a pretty good deal to me.
At 12:29 PM 2/23/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Sorry.
Just enlarged the image on PhotoShop 5, and it looks like a Telephoto and a
set of Extension Rings.
James
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If it's in good condition you'll love it.
At 11:51 PM 2/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
In a message dated 2/23/2002 10:20:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone else noticed that when you set your heart on buying a certain
lens or body, you are suddenly afflicted with
That's one of the joys of the Internet, every pissant has an ant hill to
piss off of.
At 10:01 PM 2/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:58:03 -0600
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dumb camera strap question
Hi;
The ME Super that I aquired a couple of
I wasn't doing a direct comparison however from what I remember I was
favorably impressed
with the Nikon view finder thinking it was more like an MX/ME or LX
viewfinder rather than
the ZX-M finder. Then again as I said you're paying 4X as much for the
Nikon over the ZX-M.
At 09:07 AM
Hey I was putting words into Alan's mouth. I actually agree with you.
At 11:29 AM 2/24/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Peter wrote:
But Alan would say it wasn't designed to be a professional camera as was
the Nikon F.
But back in the sixties there were no distinction between professional
cameras
It was a St. Patricks Limited Edition.
Fred wrote:
I am curious as to the significance/advantage
of the green barrel coloring. Hmmm...
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