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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-04-2020, 11:35 AM
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We bumped into Luna's friend Kirby on last night's walk. So fun!
 IMGP0260 by Matt Burt, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-03-2020, 09:39 AM
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This afternoon I took the FA* 300 f/4.5 paired with the DA 1.4 rear converter out. I'm soooooo pleased wih the results. The pictures are tack sharp, the bokeh is lovely - this combo is everything I could wish for. Happy!:):):)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-29-2020, 05:18 PM
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Seems like saying: Hey... Human, take your time, I'll be here waiting for the walk
(Pentax 6x7 165mm f2.8 @ f2.8)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-26-2019, 04:48 AM
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"Teddy bear?! Nope...I haven't seen any teddy bears around here"
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-15-2019, 07:28 AM
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we dont need a new camera. We need new FF lenses.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-09-2019, 12:43 PM
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On the one hand, I feel bad for Ricoh and the Pentax K-mount ecosystem. Less advanced lenses will mean the system as a whole will begin to stagnate. Sigma recently recently a 40mm f/1.4 which is probably one of the sharpest consumer lenses on the planet. It's a huge barrel of glass. The lens is seemingly so awesome that Sigma welded an extension tube on the mount end so it would work natively with Sony's FE mount ... which makes the lenses even bigger. We will probably never see a lens like that in K-mount. If anyone is going to make some super-duper lenses for K-mount it will probably be Ricoh and we know how quickly they churn them out. Not very fast.
On the other hand, I don't feel bad for Ricoh. They made a conscious decision not to enter the mirrorless market at a time when the market was seriously taking off. In fact, they withdrew from it. They started with the Q and let it die. Ok, fine ... it was a tiny format doomed from the start. But, they did have the K-01. It was chunky, clunky, and weird but it was the right camera. They could have gone further in a K-02 of sorts to advance focusing, add a EVF, better ergonomics, etc. Instead of advancing it they let it go. They noted mirrorless was taking off and simply said they will watch market trends. Well, here's your market trend. It's frustrating for me to see that opportunity squandered. Instead of a super powerful, super slick K-1 that would rival a Sony A7R in resolution/noise/dynamic range and rival the Fuji X-T3 in AF and buffer performance we have a studio camera.
Maybe in the end it really doesn't matter. Lenses don't decay or rot like food. A 20 year old FA 31mm today ought to work just as well in 20 years when it turns 40. That lens is pretty darn good. Just know that lens, and whatever Ricoh trickles out, is it.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-02-2019, 05:14 PM
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Or this one...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-01-2019, 04:10 PM
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Old therapy dog getting some therapy of her own at the park this morning. For a dog, that means sun, cool grass, and a ball to chase. Super-Takumar 50/1.4.
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