March Photo Contest Winner

Stunning "Spring" Photograph

By PF Staff in Photo Contests on Apr 22, 2011

Voting for the March "Spring" photo contest has now ended, and we've announced a winner: "Dreamer" by ogunturkay!

(Click to view full-size photo)

The winning photo is now being features in our Premier Gallery. It's not too late to enter in this month's "Parks" contest if you'd like to take a shot at that too!

T-Shirt Contest

Design a T-shirt, Win a T-shirt!

By PF Staff in Giveaways and Events on Apr 22, 2011

Forum member SlickYamaha is hosting a T-shirt contest: the forum member who designs the best T-shirt will receive a free t-shirt featuring their design!  Furthermore, the shirt will be made available to everyone, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated back to the forum by the host.

Check it out!

New colors for K-r

Camoflauge designs and more!

By PF Staff in Pentax Announcements on Apr 20, 2011

Pentax has done it again!  The K-r will soon be available in 5 new colors, complete with camoflauge designs, as announced by Pentax Japan today.  The targeted availability date (at least for Japan) is May 16th.

The new colors include:

• "Khaki" Green
• Marble Red
• Brown
• Blue
• Navy

Discuss this story on the forum

Sigma 85mm F1.4 Review

Sigma's Latest Portrait Prime for Pentax

By PF Staff in Review Announcements on Apr 18, 2011

We're happy to announce our latest review of the Sigma 85mm F1.4 HSM lens!  At last, an affordable autofocus F1.4 portrait lens has arrived in the Pentax mount.  Check out the review to see how it matches up against the older, out-of-production Pentax FA* 85mm.

More is coming soon: we'll be posting a review of the Bower 85mm F1.4 lens as well.

Discuss here

Tommy Evans

Pentax Videographer

By PF Staff in Pentaxian Profiles on Apr 17, 2011

Our third Pentaxian profile is about a Pentax videographer, Tommy Evans.

In college, I saw my first SLR camera. It was a Canon Tlb that belonged to an art major friend of mine. Up until that point, the nicest camera I’d ever held was my dad’s old Argus C3…a decent camera, but nothing like this Canon. There was something magical about looking at the world through that camera and the pictures it turned out were extraordinary! I had to have one! I began reading everything I could find about photography. As a result, I knew about film, filters, and lenses long before I even owned a camera of my own. I didn’t have enough money to buy a Canon like my friend’s, so I had to settle for a used Yashica SLR that I bought from a pawnshop. I always tried to get the best lenses I could afford for my camera, and since my Yashica took thread-mount lenses, that meant putting Pentax Takumar lenses on it. I’ve been a Pentax guy ever since.