Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
1 Day Ago
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?? 15-30 has quite a bit of field curvature, edges not sharp when center focused, center not sharp when edge focused. Since I have the DFA21, I never used the DFA15-30 again. The DFA 21 is better optically, smaller, not more expensive and beautifully designed. The filters for the 15-30 are huge, expensive and require a special filter holder because the 15-30 has not filter thread. Filters for the DFA21 are circular 67mm, smaller and cheaper. I don't consider the 31 wide angle, not for astro at least.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
2 Days Ago
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To those who wish their camera had less buttons there is this suggestion.
Superglue. :lol:
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
4 Days Ago
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AI also stands for "Artificial Illiteracy"
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Forum: General Talk
03-20-2024, 06:04 AM
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2024, 12:51 PM
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E 80 L by xs4all Voigtländer 90mm F3.5 Apo-Lanthar SLII @ K-5 IIs
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Forum: General Talk
03-06-2024, 03:19 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-13-2024, 09:51 AM
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Feel very lucky as I'd been after it for some time now. It was very reasonably priced and I need something wide for my K-1 MKII. Used the Irix 30mm/f1.4 but have trouble nailing focus TBH. I'm going to put it throught its paces over the next few days. It neatly fills the gap I have in my FF glass with the FA43mmLtd, Sigma 85mm/f1.4 and Irix 150mm/f2.8
Side effect: it has a 49mm filter thread so I can use my 550nm filter on the full-spectrum K-3 with the trio of 28mm/f2.8, 35mm/f2.4 and 43mm/f1.9 now. Quite curious what the outcome of thàt will be...
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Forum: General Talk
03-12-2024, 03:49 PM
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Sorry to hear this, and sobering, he was only a year older than I am.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
03-13-2024, 01:51 AM
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New from Adox on Fotoimpex.com (or .de) : ADOX C-Tec C-41 Negativ Kit Rapid for 12-16 films to mix 1000 ml.
Marked currently sold out... Available on 24th of May
Link to fotoimpex.de
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
03-07-2024, 04:10 AM
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Chick (DFA *50 f1.4) Chick by Vincent1825, on Flickr
(trying for that one eye in focus look)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-07-2024, 04:41 AM
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under attack... :eek: Drama by xs4all Voigtländer 90mm F3.5 Apo-Lanthar SLII w. extension tube @ K-5 IIs
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-07-2024, 02:09 AM
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I certainly agree when you say, ". . . note that low-fi is not the same as low quality. . . "
It follows from this that in some cases a "low-fi" photograph with low sharpness and high grain can subjectively be considered better quality than a "hi-fi" photograph with high sharpness and low grain. In which case, it is indeed a fallacy to assume that photographs with "objectively better quality" are always better.
Your point seems to be that there is a hard upper limit to the objective technical standards that can be achieved with half frame, and that's certainly a valid point. Clearly you, like many others, would have preferred a full frame camera with more technical headroom in terms of the objectively measurable stuff, rather than a half frame that imposes technical limitations that you don't want. But the market that Pentax is aiming for with the half frame camera is younger photographers who are actively seeking out "lo-fi" technologies because they consider them more "authentic". They are also a market that's likely to prefer a camera that works out cheaper per frame in terms of film and developing.
You're not the intended market and you won't be buying one, and that's fine. I'm not the intended market either, although it's quite likely that I will buy one. My own point is that it's wrong for the older photographers who make up most of the membership if this forum to try to tell all those bright-eyed youngsters that their choices and preferences are objectively wrong.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-04-2024, 05:03 PM
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The trouble is that the phone camera users, whom this new half-frame is aimed at, generally don't for some reason. When my daughter shows me her holiday snaps on her phone they are all upright, even the scenic shots, and I want to scream "Why can't you turn the camera?". Similarly with video - vertical format clips now seem to be the majority on YouTube, with the user hosepiping right and left to get everything in while showing acres of blank sky up top, and YouTube (themselves I think) fills in the sides of my PC screen with some vague squirming mush. I won't watch those videos, they make my brain hurt.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-04-2024, 06:30 AM
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I was never interested in FF camera. I would like them concentrate on film and next generation of APS-C flagship. From my POV designing FF is waste of money.
Luckily for us both, Pentax will do what they think is best for business, not what single customer wants from them.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-04-2024, 03:45 PM
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Have you seen the pictures that come out of an Instax camera? Yet Fujifilm sells millions of them every year (sales exceeded 10 million units in fiscal 2019), mostly to young people.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-01-2024, 06:08 PM
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And apparently I (the mod in question) was wrong, proving that we are mere mortal men tasked with a sometimes difficult (volunteer) job, not all seeing gods.
We can now return to our regular programming.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-24-2024, 06:57 PM
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Trying to find my photography spark again.
FA31 Limited on K1:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-18-2024, 09:15 AM
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It's a stunning shot, but my eyes also go immediately to the vertical ray of light. It does remind me of a film light leak.
FA* 28-70 on MZ-S and Fujifilm 400
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Forum: General Talk
02-22-2024, 10:57 AM
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At a PC User's Group meeting (many years ago) a company was demonstrating its latest speech-recognition software. A representative from the company was just about ready to start the demonstration and asked everyone in the room to quiet down.
Just then someone in the back of the room yelled, "Format C: Return."
Someone else chimed in: "Yes, Return."
Unfortunately, the software worked.
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Forum: General Talk
02-18-2024, 02:42 AM
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Had the second cataract surgery, the right eye, on Valentine's Day. As with the left one last month, it is settling in, a little better each day. For the first time in about 25 years I can see just about everything without eyeglasses.
I feel naked without them.
Also, my original lenses had yellowed, and a warm cast similar to the golden hour. Now everything is bright, ultra white, the color of LED lighting (better than the green of fluorescent, eh?). I can see a range of ultraviolet now I couldn't before, black light. I have a black light in the knee hole of my desk, indirectly illuminating the space. Before the eye lens implants the area was dark when the room was dark or dimly lit, now the area is a pool of purple glow.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-24-2024, 09:57 AM
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When I bought my new *ist film camera I purchased a Ref A right-angle finder because I like making low-angle exposures.
With the K-70 and the KP it became rather less used, given the tilting screens on those models, but with my K-3iii it's back in the bag (when I'm not "playing" with film) and earning it's keep.
Expensive, but highly recommended ... and you get the OVF speed of focus, not the pedestrian attempt in LiveView ;)
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Forum: Pentax Q
02-15-2024, 10:45 AM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-24-2024, 09:23 PM
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So as I mentioned, I attended the GR Live event on Friday. I was hoping to get some inspiration, because despite loving the GR III, I have not been using it a lot recently. I wanted to see what kind of work more experienced photographers and what I should aspire to myself.
The event was very well attended. I think there must have been at least 200 people there. There were a few non-Japanese like me, but I assume they are residents who speak Japanese. There was quite a nice cross-section of ages and more women that at most typical photography events. They have done this kind of event before, but this specific “Live” event was last done a couple of years ago.
The program consisted of some music, presentations from photographers and the amateur “fan” presentations. I won’t go into the fan presentations, but they were actually quite well done. Some of them were really humorous in the way they presented. Most of these fans were chosen after attending one of the GR Meet events around the country.
The pro photographers were as follows. They each spoke for about 10 minutes. I personally liked Suzuki-san’s, Ohwada-san’s and Adachi-san’s best. Kyosuke Hamao ?GRist?Vol.63 Kyosuke Hamao | GR official | RICOH official community site
A former actor who quit to pursue design as a career. Tatsuo Suzuki tatsuosuzuki – VoidTokyo
A street photographer, who shares some ground with Daido Moriyama, but his work contains more of an element of portraiture. Ryo Ohwada ? ???
Seems to have a lot of snap photography in his portfolio, but this time he was showing mainly snow landscapes taken with the GR IIIx. Robert Adachi Robert Adachi Official Website
Seems to do abstract, still life, cityscapes and landscapes. He is also a musician and was the MC and DJ for the event. Yusuke Okawa YUSUKE OKAWA - Portfolio
A Youtuber who uses a GR III for stills. Takahiko Nakafuji TAKEHIKO NAKAFUJI | photographer
A seasoned street photographer. This time he was presenting images of a rock band which seems to be where his career started.
After that there was a discussion between photographer Satoru Watanabe and two other people who work related to the animation house Studio Ghibli. One of them worked with the famous anime director Hayao Miyazaki on his latest film “The Boy and the Heron”. He had used the GR to take candid shots of Miyazaki-san at work during production, some of which he showed.
In addition to this, at various points, there were comments from Ricoh staff. It does seem that the cameras are genuinely very popular at the moment, and the main challenge is just meeting demand. They were quite clear that no new products would be release at the event.
One interesting part was the global marketing guy who showed the scale of events being done outside Japan. In particular, they have tons of events in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea. They also showed photos of well-attended events in the US and Europe.
It seems that the way they decide where to hold events based on the number of GR photos tagged with the specified city hashtag. That would be (for example) #shootGR_Helsinki . So if you are interested in having Ricoh events in your city, that is a way to register your interest in a way Ricoh will notice.
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