21mm Lens Giveaway Contest Winner Announced

"Shoot the Boring/Mundane/Everyday in a Creative Way" contest winner has been selected

By wadge22 in Giveaways and Events on Jul 22, 2022

We are pleased to announce Pentax Forums user avcb has been voted the winner of our special photo contest from May through June 2022, and the recipient of the DA 21mm Limited lens prize! The theme of the contest was "Shoot the Boring/Mundane/Everyday in a Creative Way,"

This imaginative shot, titled "A Break in the Continuum," was chosen as a finalist by the contest judge (and generous prize donor) @ebhale, and voted winner by Pentax Forums members:

2022 Pentax Forums T-shirts Now Available

More styles and colors than ever before

By PF Staff in Giveaways and Events on Nov 6, 2022

The wait is finally over, and the new 2022 Pentax Forums T-shirt designs from our annual shirt design contest are now available in our Teespring store! 

New this year, both 2022 designs are available in hoodie, sweatshirt, and V-neck styles, in addition to the traditional T-shirt, long sleeve T-shirt, and womens' T-shirt.  Each of these 6 styles is further available in a variety of colors (not limited to those depicted below), affording a greater deal of customization than ever before!

Though base prices from our T-shirt printer have increased this year, fulfillment from either the US and EU will help minimize shipping costs for users worldwide.

Click on any thumbnail to view more options within each category:

Dozens more designs from prior years are also available.  Click here to view all available shirts!

Announcing our March 2024 Photo Contest

Flowers Up Close

By PF Staff in Giveaways and Events on Mar 1, 2024

We're happy to announce our monthly photo contest theme for March: Flowers Up Close.

This month we're keeping it simple, and encourage you to use tight crops or macro lenses to capture those beautiful flowers!

Click here to submit a photo for the contest.

First prize is a $50 gift card to B&H Photo, second prize is a one year forum account upgrade, and third prize is a box of photo paper form Red River.

The official contest rules are found here.

If you haven't done so already we invite you to browse our special gallery of last month's photo contest submissions and nominate your favorites.

World Pentax Day Ended

Event gallery has 869 photos!

By PF Staff in Giveaways and Events on Sep 3, 2010

As of the start of the month, our World Pentax Day event gallery for the August 15th event is closed.  With a total of 869 submissions, this was the LARGEST such event to date!

We invite eveyone to browse the August 15th event gallery, as well the remainder of over 3,000 World Pentax Day photos.

Thanks to everyone for participating!  We hope you enjoyed the event, and are looking forward to presenting you with the next event in either November or December.

Workshop: Getting Started In Adventure Photography

Boulder, Colorado - September 25th and 26th

By PF Staff in Giveaways and Events on Sep 18, 2010

If you're an outdoor, nature and adventure shooters, and are considering turning your passion into a career or part-time source of addition income, come join pro adventure photographer and dedicated Pentax user Ben Fullerton, as well as fellow pro adventure photographer Lucas Gilman, and Photo Editor of Backpacker Magazine Julia Vandenoever for an Adventure Photography Workshop in the beautiful and iconic Chautauqua Park of Boulder, CO. This workshop will be aim at advanced amateurs and aspiring pros, and will be focusing on the skills, techniques and knowledge that one needs to move up into the semi-pro or pro fields. Workshop will be a mix of hands-on, field time and classroom style segments. For more info go to the event forum post. Thanks for looking, it would be awesome to have a strong contingent of Pentaxians attending!

Day 1 will be taught by Lucas and will be and will be a mix of classroom and hands on discussion about technique. This day is all about the camera and using to capture images. Topics like, various exposure modes, and how and when to use each, lens selection and camera angles, use of natural light and location selection and so on will be covered.

Day 2 will be co-taught with Ben and Julia, and they will be focusing on what to do after the capture. They will be talking about workflow such as backing up images, sorting and selecting favorites, editing, and finalizing images. Ben and Julia will be talking about this all in as much of an non-platform-specific way, and focusing more on concepts and strategies, so that users of all editing/computer platforms can benefit (although they are both Lightroom/Photoshop users). After that they will talk about the business side of adventure photography. How to market yourself and to who, how to sell images, licensing, contract negotiating and copyright.