New Forum: Pentax Technical Troubleshooting

Forum category dedicated to getting help

By PF Staff in Site News on Dec 28, 2010

It has long been suggested that we create a dedicated beginners' section here on PentaxForums.com, and the time has now come for that change!  We've created a new forum category called "Pentax Help Central" which will be the home to all technical, beginner, and B&H shopping-related questions! 

This new category also brings with itself a new forum dedicated to Pentax technical troubleshooting.  Let's keep on getting all those questions answered!

Top forum posts

New forum feature to make finding the good stuff easier!

By PF Staff in Site News on Dec 28, 2010

We are very happy to announce a new forum enhancement which we hope will make it easier to find what you're looking for faster: the "Top 5 Likes" dropdown.

For more details on this system, please vist our news forum (login required).

We are back!

By PF Staff in Site News on Dec 2, 2010

Following recent server trouble, we are now back online!  Although we unfortunately suffered a loss of 24 hours of data, we expect the forthcoming months to yield 100% uptime and lots of exciting events for the Pentax community!

Looking for Kindred Spirits?

Join a Pentax Forum Social Group

By PF Staff in Site News on Nov 29, 2010

Interested in learning more about a specific aspect of photography? Or are you hoping to find like-minded Pentaxians near where you live? Then stop by Pentax Forum's Social Groups Index and join kindred spirits for help and tips, to discuss topics that interests you all, or simply to meet others who share your interests or geographic location. South Australia? We're here, mate. England? Those chaps are represented, too. States, regions, countries... there's probably a group for each, and if there isn't, start one!

Maybe it's technique that you want to concentrate on. Like, for instance, street photography. There's a social group for you, and it's called (surprise!) Street Photography. Perhaps it's macro photography which fascinates you. There's a group for you, too. Wildlife photography or railroad photography? We've got them.

Then again, maybe you love gear and want to talk about it. No problem. There are social groups for just about every Pentax camera, for example. So if you have a K200D and need help figuring something out about it, join the social group of others who own this workhorse.

There are plenty of other social groups, and if you can't find one in your particular area of interest, just start one up. One thing's for sure, though. The Pentax Forum has a friendly population of members, and there's certain to be folks like you.

Website Search Overhauled

PentaxForums.com's internal search engine greatly improved

By PF Staff in Site News on Nov 10, 2010

In the past, you may have noticed that our internal search engine had trouble with sorted terms as well as with terms containing symbols, such as "*ist", "k-7", or "k5".

Yesterday, we implemented a new intelligent system which checks search queries for such terms, and permits their use through a special algorithm which prioritizes relevance.  Thus, searches such as "pentax k5 review" will now yield friutful results, rather than simply outputting an error message!  Try it for yourself!

As a reminder, in addition to the navbar search menu, our forum features a search box in the upper-right corner of each page.  This field automatically searches only the section of the site you are currently viewing, so if you're in the lens reviews, a search for "50mm" will return all the Pentax 50mm lenses, while if you were in the forum, the search would return relevant threads.  We strongly recommend use of this quick search box!