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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
01-06-2017, 03:59 PM
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Interesting find! I don't use Live View, as I'm more that traditional type of Photographer. But, after the Firmware Update, I remember checking the Live View Function and the Night Photography (Red) Screen.
I'm pretty confident this isn't a 1 off occurrence. It definitely felt like a vibration associated with Tamron's screw drive lenses...when it is hunting for focusing...except without the noise. If that makes any sense? LoL!
The carrier assembly that moves the lenses in and out from each other probably got damaged. It couldn't hold Focus and the K-1 kept changing focus after the Contrast Detection gave it's beep. And that's in AFS-Slow Mode.
Time will tell.
Thanks for your help!
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
01-05-2017, 06:34 PM
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Well, the Camera Shop Dealer talked to Pentax's 3rd Party Repair Center today and they say they don't feel equipped to do the repair. The Repair Centre sees the end result of the problem and has recommended I ship it to the US or back to Japan....for the repair (which I would take Japan as my first choice!)...OR...Ask Pentax for a Replacement Lens. Well, I am taking the 3rd Option because I need the lens back quick.
The more I think about it, it happened right after I updated the Pentax K-1's Firmware for the latest Version. It was the next day. Probably a coincidence. Thank G-D my other Pentax Lenses didn't get messed up including the 50mm f1/4, 85mm f1/4 and 24-70mm F/2.8. Maybe it's a Tamron thing. Most likely, it is. However, I'll stand behind Tamron over Nikkor and Sigma Lenses, ANYDAY.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
01-04-2017, 08:28 PM
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Well, I can't make a sound recording of it...now...as it has been sitting with Ricoh/Pentax on the other side of the Continent for 6 weeks.
Apparently, Pentax Japan haven't forwarded the Technical Manuals to the Canadian subsidiary. LoL!
I have the feeling they will just replace it to get me back on my way. I'm sure if there are any Tamron folks around here, they will want to know more what happened to it. Let's face it, Tamron is Superior to Sigma and the Competition, at large.
My Pentax 15-30mm f/2.8 was completely silent. Just like all the standard Pentax Lenses IF WR Lenses. Well, until the unfortunate binding that must have occurred. I assume it is the carrier assembly that moves the lenses. And now it's all out of whack and focusing is just too hard for contrast detection.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
01-03-2017, 04:53 PM
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Update:- Today, I received a call from the Dealer. He said, "The Tech Repair Centre has it...but, they don't know what to do with it." "Why?", you might ask... Because Pentax have not supplied the Technical Manuals for that Lens to them! LoL!
So, there you go.
My idea of Pentax sending a poor Tech, over here in a canoe across the Atlantic/Pacific (Service Centre is on the East Coast, so they have to go around "the Cape") isn't too far off.
At least they gave me something 6 weeks later.
Don't know what will happen. I tweeted back on a Ricoh/Pentax Tweet. We'll see if they take notice.
I won't toss the towel in, just yet, with Pentax. I held my Dad's K1000 in '77 as an 8 year old, so there ain't no going back in time.
LoL.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-03-2017, 04:46 PM
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Copyright Law, with respect to Images, has received a minor overhaul here in Canada. I make Prints. There's nothing one can do about somebody taking a snapshot of it on their own computer screen and making prints for their walls, or a friend's wall. It's no different than the music industry has experienced over the past 16 years with Digital Files. And long before that, when we were making Mix Tapes from the Vinyl Albums that we bought. What are you gonna do? Not much. Besides, there's so much competition out there, that it is difficult to make a living just selling Images to a Clearing House. You really just have to slog away at it the good old fashioned way; Doing Weddings and Corporate Events. ,And that's not a bad gig. As long as the people pay. :)
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-02-2017, 09:46 AM
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Tracking the Image is the first step.
Lawyers are the second step.
However, with the World being a smaller place via the Internet, people printing your images and using them for their own Exhibitions is another.
Protecting the Image via a Digital Watermark is about all one has.
Criminals don't care about Gun Laws, but you do.
So, what are you going to do?
LoL
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-01-2017, 09:21 PM
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Digimarc (.com) sell a plug in for Photoshop that will leave a digital watermark on your photos. $59 for 1000 images and $119 for 2000 images.
That's about the best you're going to get to protect your images.
You also have to do all the Inventory manually. Every time you export an Image out of Photoshop, you have to increment the number by 1 in your filing system.
Go investigate it.
Hope that helps.
Happy New Year!
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
01-01-2017, 05:46 AM
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Well, I heard our local Pentax Rep was let go. Over the past couple of years, I haven't been particularly impressed with Pentax's "Presence". That's 1 more reason why I might not be getting any updates from the place I bought it from.
Despite being "Made in Japan", factories still cheap out on parts (lots of plastic) and use imported labour. I still like my older Auto Focusing FA Lenses from 10+ years ago. They feel "real" and feel more reliable. They haven't skipped a beat and work incredibly well on the K-1!
I'm expecting it won't ever work again, properly, when I get it back.
That's what seems to happen when things get opened up and reassembled.
Anyways,
Happy New Year!
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
12-31-2016, 09:09 PM
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LoL!
Happy New Year!
---------- Post added 12-31-16 at 10:10 PM ----------
It is (in my case, "was") an Amazing Lens and the IQ is Fantastic.
Worth every penny... even if it was only for 3 months.
$2000 down the drain when the report comes back, "We found nothing wrong with the lens. It's your K-1" LoL!
Happy New Year!
---------- Post added 12-31-16 at 10:13 PM ----------
I have 7 Tamron Lenses, and I have yet to have a problem with their lenses. Figures, it would be the Pentax! The most expensive of them all! I had so much fun with it. The 14mm Rokinon just isn't quite the same.
At any rate, Happy New Year!
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Electronic motors / PM Magnet motors are usually pretty decent. I'm more worried about the lens being shipped to, and from, Pentax. I think the lens gear/carrier inside is the problem and that is where the "binding" vibration was coming from. Even if it was only for "that 1 time" it did it and then left me out of focus from thereon in...
At any rate,
Happy New Year!
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
12-31-2016, 01:11 AM
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My 24-70mm hasn't had any issues, and I bought that back with the release with the K-1.
Hopefully, it's just a 1 off. I haven't had any issues with my Pentax 50mm f/1.4...or other lenses... in the DA or FA Series.
Cheers! Have a Great New Year!
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
12-30-2016, 09:06 PM
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I bought the Pentax (rebranded Tamron 15-30mm with the Extra Disp. Coatings) back in mid Summer for my K-1. After 3 months of great use, and image quality, the USD made a 'binding noise'. This noise was akin to the screw drive on the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 hunting, when trying to lock, during focusing. Of course, it was much quieter on the Pentax 15-30mm, because of the design, but there was a vibration felt similar to screw driven lenses. Over the next week, I noticed the focusing getting softer. In Manual or Auto Focus, focusing at 30mm and then backing out to 15mm, everything would become out of focus. I took mine back to where I bought it and it was determined it better be sent back to Pentax.
It's been well over a month, and I haven't heard a peep nor has the camera shop where I purchased it from.
Anyhow, just wondering if any of you Pentax Die Hards have had a problem with that lens, or the Pentax 24-70mm f/2.8 (again, a rebranded Tamron)?
I'll let you know how I make out...
I am expecting to receive word, sometime in the next month, that a Pentax Tech was dispatched back in November and is now somewhere in the Pacific...but most likely the Atlantic...and is paddling his canoe as fast as he can.
At least I have my trusty Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 for those wide shots.
Happy New Year!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-26-2016, 02:09 PM
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Shot atop a building on West Broadway, during Sunrise.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-26-2016, 02:00 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-26-2016, 01:27 PM
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Shot with the K-1, using the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 at 108mm.
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