K-7 gathering at Pentax Europe

*falconeye* · 06-01-2009, 10:23 AM

This weekend, Raimund Schuster (famous owner of TeKaDe, the Pentax shop) and Wolfgang Baus (from Pentax Europe) organized a hands-on day in Hamburg, still location of Pentax Europe HQ.

This gave a number of customers the opportunity to gather first level experience with the camera, incl. blende8 from this forum. I for myself couldn't make it as Hamburg is the other side of Germany...

The overall feedback is quite enthusiastic. blende8 himself wrote "K-7 is great". In particular, a couple of experiments to track moving objects (a running Pentaxian, a biker, a car driving by) have been successful. One has written: The predictive AF now actually is it: predictive ...

You may want to read more about it here (warning, contains German language

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- phototalk24.eu :: Thema anzeigen - Bilder/Videos/Lob/Kritik K-7
- phototalk24.eu :: Thema anzeigen - Meine Anmerkungen zur K-7
- http://s215846244.online.de/wsb46271...entax%20K7.pdf

(All images (c) blende8 and cross-linked from his photo group site -> http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/...9-UT/index.htm!)

Others may add to the information, or ask blende8 directly (as I didn't attend the meeting).

*NorrisTudor* · 06-01-2009, 11:07 AM

I love the way you guys do your pentax days...including Beers on the table
TeKaDe Usertreffen

yemble · 06-03-2009, 04:33 AM

I don't suppose anyone knows of somewhere in Paris, France to fondle a K-7? I'm away from London for this weekend so won't make the SRS event.

Enc0der · 06-03-2009, 04:52 AM

ohhh what a sweet lens....
I don't get it, why Pentax stopped producing these wonderful lenses??

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celetron · 06-03-2009, 04:53 AM

Pentax Greece with some photo store owners are preparing a similar event in Athens...

and · 06-03-2009, 04:59 AM

hehe I like this guy