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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
05-02-2019, 08:45 AM
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A new kind of sled dog emerges as the climate keeps warming up.
Leaving behind the human propelled buggy in time and space.
Unless a gravity well suddenly appears...
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
05-02-2019, 08:51 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
04-14-2019, 01:39 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-23-2018, 12:20 PM
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Hmmm! Don’t tell anyone we’re having fun.
Terrible things, those unvoluntary subscriptions. 😎
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-22-2018, 12:51 PM
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Saab disappeared in 2012.
I still don’t understand why.
Numerous articles were written trying to explain the demise of a brand of cars that had proved its worth many times.
The only remaining truth was that the take over by General Motors turned out to be hostile and that Saab was sacrificed on the altar of mass production and mediocrity. One competitor less to deal with.
Pentax seems to have undergone its share of mergers and takeovers as well but at least there are no in house adversaries (correct me if I’m mistaken).
Pentax was probably in a lot more danger when Samsung tried to dabble in the DSLR market.
Anyways.
My Pentax SLR is still very much alive and I am sure my K5 will survive for quite a while.
I will quietly sit this one out and move on to the next Pentax when I feel like it.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
05-19-2017, 12:38 PM
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Thanks for the welcoming everyone.
I followed the advice of FreeSpirit and got myself a K5 at a very reasonable price.
Very recently.
I have to take it outside for some serious shooting but it already feels like a stellar distance away from my K100D super.
We'll see.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-29-2017, 01:46 PM
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Well!
What can I tell.
After an analog Voigtlander and a Yashica, I entered into the world of SLR through a second hand Pentax camera with a Konica 50 mm F2 lens.
Later on I bought a (yes! second hand) 70-200 mm zoom.
Life was complete.
My Yashica thought me to shoot in manual mode and then the possibilities of an SLR took me to where I had never gone before.
Raising four kids and a still ongoing professional career diluted my production of pictures to almost homeopathic concentrations.
Not to mention the price and abysmal quality of development and printing I witnessed.
Comes the era of the digital SLR.
After a very disappointing and shoot camera (I won't mention the brand, no) I just gave up.
Until I saw the pictures my friend had made with his DSLR.
Nikon and far too expensive but it piqued my interest.
I knew I could use m lenses on the Pentax DSLR's and off I went to eBay.
Another five months later I received my second hand K100D super.
From then on I started following a digital photography course (first of five years...).
My old zoom succumbed to fungus.
Another one from Sigma replaces it now (18-200).
I still use my 6.1 MP Pentax and I am trying to figure out where to go next.
But this post is becoming too long...
The point is I will need advice on where to go next, on lenses and bodies and as my financial resources are not inexhaustible I will gladly rummage in the second hand items.
Voilà!
One last word.
I like to write...
Asimov
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