From: Bong Manayon
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, ?but consistent multiple
failures is a serious issue. ?Is there anyone at Pentax I could point him to? ?At the
very least, they might find his class a good source o
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
>
> I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, but consistent
> multiple failures is a serious issue. Is there anyone at Pentax I could
> point him to? At the very least, they might find his class a good source of
> "torture t
You pretty much build a new car for every race.
On 4/24/2012 10:43 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: John Francis
I've often heard a very similar story attributed to Colin Chapman
(who was
the lead designer of the notoriously fragile Lotus Formula One cars
driven
by such luminaries as Jim Clark).
The E1's are great bodies, but the Oly kit lenses aren't any better
than anyone else's. The advantage of Pentax bodies (we use them here
at W&L) is the low cost and quality of the used prime lenses,
especially the 50's. Of course, our film course uses only Pentax.
The digital course uses whateve
On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:43 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: John Francis
>
>> I've often heard a very similar story attributed to Colin Chapman (who was
>> the lead designer of the notoriously fragile Lotus Formula One cars driven
>> by such luminaries as Jim Clark). He (Chapman) was reputed to hav
From: John Francis
I've often heard a very similar story attributed to Colin Chapman (who was
the lead designer of the notoriously fragile Lotus Formula One cars driven
by such luminaries as Jim Clark). He (Chapman) was reputed to have said that
the ideal Formula One car would fall apart as it c
His problems are kind of a shame, because I think that a big part of the
reason that the K1000 was such an iconic student camera was its
robustness.
Yeah, we had a stable of K1000s and some Ricoh K mount equivalent (no idea
what model now) in our school; While there always seemed to be a few
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Larry Colen
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I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, but
consistent multiple fai
See this:
http://www.grg.org/OneHossShay.htm
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:46:32PM +0100, Bob W wrote:
>
> there's a story, probably apocryphal, about Henry Ford asking which part of
> the Model Z, or whatever, lasted longest. On being told that it was the
> widget flange he ordered the engineers to make it weaker, and therefore
> cheaper, sinc
The kit lenses /are/ a bit flimsy, on the other hand they're more robust
than the kit lenses from Canon and Nikon, though that's not saying much,
and from all accounts much better optically to boot. I wouldn't give
them to kids who have no particular attachment to them as they will do
what kid
> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
> Larry Colen
[...]
>
> I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, but
> consistent multiple failures is a serious issue. Is there anyone at
> Pentax I could point him to? At the very least, they might find
On 4/23/2012 2:09 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Apr 23, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
Strange. I've dropped K-x once and completely destroyed my beloved A50/1.7
lens, and my cat has knocked it off the top of a dresser about 4 feet high
once, directly onto the mounted M 50/2 and the camer
On Apr 23, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
> Strange. I've dropped K-x once and completely destroyed my beloved A50/1.7
> lens, and my cat has knocked it off the top of a dresser about 4 feet high
> once, directly onto the mounted M 50/2 and the camera has come out better
> than the len
Strange. I've dropped K-x once and completely destroyed my beloved
A50/1.7 lens, and my cat has knocked it off the top of a dresser about 4
feet high once, directly onto the mounted M 50/2 and the camera has come
out better than the lenses both times.
I guess I can feel a little lucky now that
I had a chance to visit with my friend Tom this weekend. I mentioned him
recently, he is using several K-xs in the high school photo classes that he
teaches.
He mentioned that the reliability of the kit lenses is horrible. They break
very easily. I didn't find the exact failure mode, other than
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