[normhead]

Easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

The "Skin softening" brush is a wonderful thing. Like applying makeup after the shoot.

[Zygonyx]

GR3 Limited is coming.

Wow, good news !
Any idea on the colour(s) ?

[Wheatfield]

Ricoh website now displays the new 85mm:

Product Overview | HD PENTAX-D FA 85mmF1.4ED SDM AW | PENTAX STAR LENS | RICOH IMAGING

HD PENTAX-D FA 85mmF1.4ED SDM AW / Telephoto Lenses / K-mount Lenses / Lenses / Products | RICOH IMAGING

In other news, DPReview has closed two threads about the D FA* 85/1.4, making discussion about the new lens decidedly difficult on their website.

[normhead]

In other news, DPReview has closed two threads about the D FA* 85/1.4, making discussion about the new lens decidedly difficult on their website.

Not for me it doesn't. I occasionally have to go there for bridge cameras and small sensor camera information, but their attitudes regarding DSLRs do not align with my own.

[Parallax]

In other news, DPReview has closed two threads about the D FA* 85/1.4, making discussion about the new lens decidedly difficult on their website.

Maybe their threads went the way this one has gone.
Of the last 60 or so posts there are about ten that relate to the D FA 85.

[Wheatfield]

Maybe their threads went the way this one has gone.
Of the last 60 or so posts there are about ten that relate to the D FA 85.

The threads were being very heavily trolled by the anti Pentax crowd.
What is telling is that rather than moderate the threads to exclude the trolls and allow the discussion to continue, they just closed down the discussion entirely.
It somewhat confirms the anti Pentax bias that seems to exist there.

[Parallax]

What is telling is that rather than moderate the threads to exclude the trolls and allow the discussion to continue, they just closed down the discussion entirely.

We try to avoid doing that as much as possible.

It somewhat confirms the anti Pentax bias that seems to exist there.

Was that ever in question?

[Larrymc]

Easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Amen!! Works for me all the time!!

[c.a.m]

I think the big thing is not time, but actual loss of photos. My wife has ended up shooting more with the DFA *70-200 because she likes back lit shots and the FA 77 loses images. There is a glowing purple line around a couple and when you fix it there is a gray line surrounding them. The only options are to pitch the images or to convert to black and white. She would like to be able to use a prime for couple shots and save the 70-200 for ceremony and shots like that, mainly due to size.

I don't know that there is a magic number that pops out, but if you have income from photography and it makes your life easier to get a certain lens, it probably makes sense to do so.

@Rondec, thanks for the insight. I don't have paying clients, so my post-processing efforts are directed only towards my own satisfaction. I have spent considerable time to clean up several images, though, so I can understand the time involved.

- Craig

[Wheatfield]

@Rondec, thanks for the insight. I don't have paying clients, so my post-processing efforts are directed only towards my own satisfaction. I have spent considerable time to clean up several images, though, so I can understand the time involved.

- Craig

I'm in a similar situation. I have no intention of shooting for money ever again. It's just too tedious. I do take a great deal of pride in my photography, and have always been a bit of a chaser of high technical quality. I suppose I can blame this on my finding photography through the back door. I took up photography to feed raw material into my darkroom, which was actually what i wanted to do. The picture taking was a necessary evil to allow the picture making.
In the darkroom, sharpness is everything. The best lenses, being OCD about enlarger alignment, grain focusers to ensure the image is perfectly sharp.
Did you know that in order for a grain focuser to work, it needs to be put on the same paper as will be printed on? If you miss that step, your focus will be on the bottom of the paper, not the emulsion.
But I digress.
Working in the darkroom as my prime motivation, I quickly came to appreciate well exposed and focused negatives that were made by excellent quality equipment. I milked 35mm for all that I could, ending up shooting Panatomic-X and Technical Pan film to get the highest acutance as I could.
Moving to the 6x7 format was an incredible eye opener for me, but the camera didn't lend itself well to the deep depth of field landscape work that I favoured. Hence my move to 4x5, where available DOF was much greater.
This background has made me a natural born pixel peeper, something of a character flaw that I try to tamp down. This background has also made me an appreciator of great glass, which is why I am so very enthusiastic about this new lens.

[normhead]

Maybe their threads went the way this one has gone.
Of the last 60 or so posts there are about ten that relate to the D FA 85.

Hey... but who's counting?
18 days to go now , before we can expect some DFA 85 news.

[Kunzite]

Maybe their threads went the way this one has gone.
Of the last 60 or so posts there are about ten that relate to the D FA 85.

It was mostly people trying to drag Pentax down to their budget levels.

[house]

Interesting to compare the new Pentax mtf with the new Samyang autofocus 85mm.

1.4/85

8/85

[luftfluss]

Interesting to compare the new Pentax mtf with the new Samyang autofocus 85mm.

1.4/85

8/85

Pentax is like...

[bertwert]

Pentax is like...

All the way to 11!