Peter Alling wrote:
They'd have to redesign the electronics to handle it, the sensor
wouldn't/couldn't be just
a direct replacement.
That's not much of a problem considering all the effort they put into
designing the rest of the body. Tooling is expensive (so is development
time) and
Pål Jensen wrote:
Apparently, this years Pentax photokina delegation was among the largest
ever including the boss and heaps of engineers. Weird, considering they
had nothing to show. However, it turns out that they indeed showed a LOT
but behind closed doors locked in a large safe (no I'm
Bruce Dayton wrote:
Congrats! I love mine. I debated long and hard about the IF version but
couldn't justify the doubled cost. Although is doesn't focus too close,
it takes wonderful pics.
I have the Takumar version which I am 99% sure is the same optical
formula. Lovely lens - I'm sure
The yellowing of some of the old lenses is caused by the radiation of
the slightly radioactive materials (like thorium glass) which are used
to make these lenses. I would not worry about the radiation but about
the color shift on the pictures made with the lens. Some have said it is
the lens
I forgot to include the address to the 50/1.4 yellowing repair site ;-)
http://www.hermes.net.au/bayling/repair.html
Easy fixes with common tools!
Antti-Pekka
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Pal wrote: The Pentax booth was arranged by the German Pentax distributor, not Pentax
Japan, but a Pentax Japan delegation was present. This is of course a bit strange.
Not at all strange and no different than in years past: Pentax Germany has always (at
least for the last 12 years) made the
I knew I'd seen a table comparing Pentax compatible flashes:
http://www.photozone.de/2Equipment/pentaxflash.htm
Hope that helps,
Dan Scott
looks more like Maxxum7 to me (that big LCD panel)
mishka
- Original Message -
From: pz1p [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: Rebel Ti starts to copy MZ-S
not really, it doesn't have any displays there.
- Original
hi gang
I noticed (recently) a small circular hole in the mirror box chamber
on my Z1-p (bottom left of the box as you look at the camera )
It looks like a small cap/screw(?) is missing. Shaking the camera -
noting unusual, just the noises from AF and KAF mount contacts .
Local Pentax rep.
People are likely to believe what they want to.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-Alkuperäinen viesti-
Lähettäjä: Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Päivä: 01. lokakuuta 2002 23:32
Aihe: Re:
I have this irresistible image of a wedding of photographers where most
of the guests are also photographers. When something pivotal happens,
257 flashes go off and the entire church is blinded.
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540)
And the pro photographer who's been hired to shoot the wedding is using
Wein Pnut slaves on his flashes. . . .
Laughingly,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Steve Desjardins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: goin' to the
Congrats and best wishes!
-Sridhar
- Original Message -
From: Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: goin' to the chapel...
Tomorrow morning I'm going away for the weekend to get married.
Yeah, the fix is effective but there seems to be a large amount of distortion present
after the operation.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-Alkuperäinen viesti-
Lähettäjä: Antti-Pekka Virjonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vastaanottaja:
I don't doubt that they will come out with these products eventually, it's
just that they will miss the moment when they would be exciting,
state-of-the-art innovations, and wait until they are nice, but no better
than a lot of products the competition came out with 2 years earlier.
tom wrote:
Oh no. Not that again. The horror, the horror...
At 10:44 AM 10/2/2002 +0300, you wrote:
I forgot to include the address to the 50/1.4 yellowing repair site ;-)
http://www.hermes.net.au/bayling/repair.html
Easy fixes with common tools!
Antti-Pekka
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Thank you very much for the information, Antti-Pekka.
Tom
From: Antti-Pekka Virjonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:44:45 +0300
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Yellowing of screwmount Super-multicoated 50/1.4s
Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes that is true but all of the support circuitry would have to be
redesigned. I
think that one of the problems that Pentax had with the so called MZ-D was that
they planned to steal a 2 year jump on the competition with a 6 megapixel
full frame
design and realized they had a soon to
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:05:10PM -0500, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
In trying to cure my Photokina disappointment hangover, I went back and
noticed a few interesting things about the cancelled MZ-D:
5) Wonder what that little tiny hole is in the back, by the door:
Of course, the MZ-S with the BG-10 looks just like the MZ-D. I'm sure
one reason the BG-10 fits so well is that it was originally a big one
piece camera like the F5
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8873
FAX: (540) 458-8878
So I sent letters to James Leffel (sales and mktg) and Bob Bender
(president) at Pentax today, expressing my displeasure re: DSLR
availability.
Anyone else do this?
R
Test to see if anyone reads this!
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Rob Brigham wrote:
Test to see if anyone reads this!
I'd say no, but I think that joke's been beaten into the ground.. so..
uhm.. maybe?
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Not me, no.
I never read those silly testposts.
What do you take me for?!?
Humph.
Jostein
- Original Message -
From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: test
Test to see if anyone reads this!
Sounds like a personal problem to me.
At 09:28 PM 10/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Test to see if anyone reads this!
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Jostein wrote:
Not me, no.
I never read those silly testposts.
What do you take me for?!?
Humph.
Well, I think for responding you become a teste
Har!
-g.
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Yep..
I read it..
Is the list having problems again ?
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Rob Brigham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test
Test to see if anyone reads this!
Can't accuse me of going there, I don't have the time.
Bob
- Original Message -
From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: test
Test to see if anyone reads this!
Hi Guys and gals,
in case anyone's the slightest bit interested, I have posted a new area
on my website that attempts to explain my motives and reasoning in not
waiting any longer for a Pentax DSLR...
http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/misc/miscmain.html
Also linked there is a 'Digital Diary'
Hi, Raimo,
As a general statement, I'd agree that multi-coated lenses flare much less
than non-coated or single-coated ones. But the 40mm Summicron C on my Leica
CL is not multi-coated, and seems not to be affected much by flare. In fact,
the only shot that's flared so far is one (of over a
on 10/01/02 9:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WHAT ABOUT THE FOOT POWDER?
Cameron
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:00:11 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Jensen?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pentax at Photokina
Message-ID:
on 10/01/02 9:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would it take them so much time to revamp their product after the demise
of the MZ-D? Canon and Nikon are coming out with new cameras with new
sensors at a phenominal rate in order to capture the market, and they may be
Hi Frank,
With single coated / non coated lenses, the flare is a function of lens
groups. The Tessar has 3 groups and the flare is minimal even with an
uncoated lens. However, as the groups increase with zooms and IF lenses,
multi-coating becomes even more important.
Bob
- Original
I didn't read the test, only the replies g
-frank
Jostein wrote:
Not me, no.
I never read those silly testposts.
What do you take me for?!?
Humph.
Jostein
- Original Message -
From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:28
Amita - Congratulations and all the best!
Glad to hear that you've found photographers to cover your wedding.. I was the
photographer at my wedding guess who's not in the pictures.. ;)
Pat Temmerman
[MZ3_fella]
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Congatulations Amita!
Best of luck.
Lukasz
-Original Message-
From: P Temmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: goin to the chapel
Amita - Congratulations and all the best!
Glad to hear that you've found
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 10:56 AM, Amita Guha wrote:
Tomorrow morning I'm going away for the weekend to get married. I'd like
to thank everyone for helping me find a wedding photographer.
Congratulations, Amita. May you have a long and prosperous union.
Dan Scott
Let me see, I think I have some spare change in my OTHER wallet . . .
ukasz Kacperczyk wrote:
Sorry for the first htmls message.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1385251371
Happy bidding :
ukasz
Subject: FS PENTAX 135mm f1.8
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:11:03 -0400
From: Isaac Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace.35mm
This is one of the hardest regular production lenses to get a hold of,
not just in Pentax, but of any Japanese brand. It is infamous for its razor
Finally got a really compact ps for a pocket camera.
Olympus Infinity Mini (weatherproof).
Nice little camera. 35/3.5 lens. Slow but sharp.
Test roll looks good, but I'd forgotten
about corner light fall-off on these little babies.
Really bad, dark corners.
Makes me appreciate good lenses.
Congratulations! I hope you have a wonderful start to your marriage.
-Original Message-
From: Amita Guha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: goin' to the chapel...
Tomorrow morning I'm going away for the weekend to get
Yes,
Let us travel to Photokina. Let us pay exspenses for shipping
people, materials, security and supplies. Let us put it in a locked
safe and show no one outside of our own company. Let us waste more
money that could be used to turn around this bloated wasteball of a
company that
Good luck on your journey! I am anxious to see how it works out for you. For
me, digital is awfully tempting, but giving a choice of where to invest a
couple of grands... now it would have probably been a rollei 600x kit.
Mishka
- Original Message -
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Best wishes Amita
- Original Message -
From: Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: goin' to the chapel...
Tomorrow morning I'm going away for the weekend to get married. I'd like
to thank everyone for helping me find a
I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume that if it made
business sense, they'd produce one. I suspect their assessment of the
market potential based on what they can afford to invest just doesn't
stack up against other opportunities. Hard to fault them for that. I
have the
Go for it, Cotty. I am glad you decided to move over to a company that is
producing a DSLR. I, for one, am tiring about all the speculation about
Pentax and a dslr. If those PDMlers who have lots of Pentax stuff which
keeps them from going to Kodak, Canon,Nikon, or Fuji, sell it and go for the
Otis Wright, Jr. wrote:
I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume that if it made
business sense, they'd produce one. I suspect their assessment of the
market potential based on what they can afford to invest just doesn't
stack up against other opportunities. Hard to fault
Pentax does produce the Optio digitals.
That doesn't sound like Pentax is turning its back to its subscribers in the
digital community. Need a DSLR check out Nikon, Canon, Fuji, or Kodak.
Lots to choose from. Sell your Pentax stuff. I might be interested.
Jim A.
From: William Kane [EMAIL
With all the threats of jumping ship, I have one simple question.
Of those with digital cameras, how many have you bought to get to the one
you have?
Are you in the market for another?
How much have you invested so far?
Bob Rapp
On 3 Oct 2002 at 10:41, Bob Rapp wrote:
With all the threats of jumping ship, I have one simple question.
Of those with digital cameras, how many have you bought to get to the one
you have?
One but borrowed nearly 10 along the way before it became necessary to purchase
one.
Are you in
Congratulations, Amita, and my best wishes to you and your betrothed.
Where's the wedding going to be? And the honeymoon? And what type of
system will the wedding photog be using?
I'll have a drink for you on the weekend (I'll be having a drink anyway, so
I might as well toast one for you...
Congratulations Amita, I wish you every happiness!
I don't seriously expect you to have time to take photos on your
wedding day, but who knows?
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
On Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:57 AM, Amita Guha
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Tomorrow morning I'm going away
- Original Message -
From: Bob Rapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Questions was Re: Why I am going digital, and have forsaken a
Pentax DSLR
With all the threats of jumping ship, I have one simple question.
Of those with
- Original Message -
From: Collin Brendemuehl
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: FONG
Subject: FS PENTAX 135mm f1.8
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:11:03 -0400
From: Isaac Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace.35mm
, will ship worldwide
Hold me back.
Must... not... click... Must... be... strong...
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On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 08:26 PM, frank theriault wrote:
So my question is: when you guys lose negatives, where do you usually
find them?
thanks,
frank
So far, under the computer, under the scanner, under the desk, under my
shoe, under a stack of magazines... not a pretty
Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
There's no need for in house fab to build a DSLR. eg. Nikon?
Agree, I didn't make my point very well and I'm too tired at this point to
work on it :-)
I fear that we've just gotten away from Pentax's competencies.
In what areas?
-R
Hi, Bob,
If I had an enlarger, that's where I'd look g.
Actually, I had the print done at a lab (that's why the negs are in the
envelope with the print). I know I brought the envelope back home. Problem
is, last weekend, I cleaned up my apartment, because I had visitors.
That's what comes of
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem
is, last weekend, I cleaned up my apartment, because I had visitors.
That's what comes of cleaning up. I never know where things are
afterwards.
Don't ever do that again - surest way to loose organization is to
Where I left them right after I give up looking for them and start some
other project :-).
frank theriault wrote:
RRRGGHH!!
Last week I got an enlargement done on a piece of crap photo that I took
back in the spring. Someone actually liked it (I didn't), and asked me
I have a digital camera (not DSLR); a canon G1.
This is my 3rd digital camera in 5 years. The current G1 has been with me
for 2 of those years.
I'm not currently in the market for another - not at this time as I'm having
a much better time with film and re-learning the basics.
Invested??
Rob, sounds like a really good camera! What brand? If you know anything
about the Optios, esp. the 230, they are very very basic. They have a FULL
mode on the dial. But it just lets you choose 100 or 200 ISO, flash options.
No aperature or shutters speeds. I think the aperature goes as low as
Cesar,
I don't have your email address! I unsubscribed after my last few
messages, and the messages weren't coming thru to the web archives until
now. Hence, I missed you message (and also your email address). I'll be
unsubscribing again once I post this message, so write me off list so that
I
At the last place I look ;-)
Maris
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: OT - Lost Negative
RRRGGHH!!
Last week I got an enlargement done on a piece of crap photo that
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Brad Dobo wrote:
Rob, sounds like a really good camera! What brand? If you know
anything about the Optios, esp. the 230, they are very very basic.
They have a FULL mode on the dial. But it just lets you choose 100 or
200 ISO, flash options. No aperature or shutters
My local shop has the following used flashes -
AF 160SAcracked bulb cover $10 US
AF 200SAVG $20 US
AF 210SAVG $50 US
I am looking at carrying something smaller than my 280T and definitely my
400T. I
Invested? Altogether a couple of grands in 35mm gear (bodies + lenses +
accessories, mostly for LX)
I am a strong believer in digital being just a different format, so
jumping ship is not really a question.
Tempted? You bet! But if someone stuck a gun to my head forcing me to invest
another
...just came in this morning. Straight from Ukraine (ebay'ed a couple of
weeks ago). Looks truly great (I hate to say for the money, but, yes, $110
is a very good price, and although mechanically it's a far cry from
K-anything, the build is good). One gripe at the moment is that the filters
are
Hold out for an AF200T. They seem to be small and relatively inexpensive
and have TTL ability with your LXen.
Christian Skofteland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Cesar Matamoros II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax-Discuss (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October
Mishka, I can't agree with you more. All this discussion about digital
cameras is driving me up the wall. You guys don't need a digital camera.
Okay, Pentax makes a digital camera for you to stick your lenses on. Great.
Go out and shoot with them. It'll be great for the first week and then
Digital makes EVERYTHING better!
I am native I know. But digital does not make things better. Just look at
the unemployment rate all over the world due to computing automation. As far
as I can see, computers are here to take over our jobs. :(
regards,
Alan Chan
Hi Alan,
In my industry and business in general, the computer revolution has
created more jobs. If there is a shift, like on-line banking or buying on
line, it is where the customer replaces the clerk.
I wonder what the employment numbers in IT are now? Considering there
was no such
Yes, sorry for the generalization. I played with the 330RS but not enough
to learn it had those available options. Just for the record, the 230 also
has manual focus. I really cannot help to think why the cameras higher than
the 230 have such controls, and like the 230, manual focus. My guess
On 2 Oct 2002 at 23:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mishka, I can't agree with you more. All this discussion about digital
cameras is driving me up the wall. You guys don't need a digital camera.
Okay, Pentax makes a digital camera for you to stick your lenses on. Great. Go
out and shoot
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote:
He finds that the time it takes to transfer images from camera to
computer (15 to 20 seconds, according to the article) is too slow
And how long does it take to develop film?
and he finds digital to be limiting because he's not able to line
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, gfen wrote:
Again, who else has AF 645 cameras? Quite a few.. but who has a
silent, quick focus 645? No one. Its a wide open market.
Yup. If Pentax came out with USM and IS lenses for their 645 camera, and
with a $1000 DSLR based on an MZ body, their stock would shoot up
- Original Message -
From: Mishka
Subject: 16mm/2.8 zenitar
...just came in this morning. Straight from Ukraine (ebay'ed a
couple of
weeks ago). Looks truly great (I hate to say for the money,
but, yes, $110
is a very good price, and although mechanically it's a far cry
from
Dan Scott wrote:
Guess whose latest slr has a tilted top plate?
Hard to keep a good idea down, I guess.
That was my first impression of new Canon too! Sheap copy of Mz-S layout
ideas. It not just tilted top, look at the placement of main dial (moved
form left to rigth) and form of the grip.
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