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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-03-2024, 12:46 AM
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I dun mean to be sarcastic....
It is 2024, all competitors have been doing viral marketing for a long time
This kind of survey is way too old fashioned dun you think ?
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
03-02-2024, 02:15 AM
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Thank you very much for the advice, I just gave a trial, switching to fast shutter speed does work out.
Guess I need to do few more trials to justify do I really want to buy the extender.
IMG10868_LAN by cosmos.man, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
02-20-2024, 08:48 AM
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Thanks for the advice, that definitely encourage me to buy one
Can you tell me what setting with the AFC ?
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Yes yes
I also noticed that, extender would narrow my view angle, thus make me easier to miss the shots
Therefore I also wonder may be it is just my skill not good enough
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
02-18-2024, 05:35 PM
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Very true, I found it difficult to predict when it would fly into the air
About half of the time I can catch it when it starts flying, but the AF system may fail to track as well
That's I thought it the bird is bigger in the OVF, could it be easier to track ?
Of course I know, the view angle of my view is narrower
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I wonder why not use high fps ?
5 fps is good enough?
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
02-18-2024, 06:58 AM
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Hi guys,
After purchasing the DFA150-450mm, I got good progress with my bird photography with the K-3III
But I still find it very very difficult to catch a bird in flight.
I wanted to shoot kingfishers, these cute tiny birds are just so fascinating.
If I buy a x1.4 extender, would it help a lot ?
According to Ricoh's official page, the viewfinder MAY not be displaying the the current focus point when the x1.4 extender HD is installed.
How often would this happen ?
Thanks for all your kind comments in advance
Here are also some of my shots, feel free to comment
IMGP5885_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMG10450_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMG10358_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP0040_RE by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP9816_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP9504_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP8904_LA by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP8018_LA by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP6119_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP5955_RE by cosmos.man, on Flickr
IMGP6071_VI by cosmos.man, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
12-11-2023, 06:14 PM
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My 16-50PLM K-3III pair does misfocus sometimes under low light condition, plus zone AF setting.
I suspect it is the camera's problem rather than the lens ?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-08-2023, 02:47 AM
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You got the answer already, KP's results won you over the K-3III.
But I wonder, you take jpg from cameras, or RAW with post editing ? This could differ the result a lot as well.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-16-2023, 12:38 AM
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I wonder if they got any new lenses to announce ?? Since they said their photography business is doing really good in their financial report
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-16-2023, 12:23 AM
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Would they do something to improve the performance of a discontinued lens ? I doubt that
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-09-2023, 06:47 AM
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I think K-3III monochrome is doing very well.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-09-2023, 12:35 AM
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I very much suspect that, the entire camera business of Ricoh is brought up by the still-selling-well GRIII series solely.
Anyone has the same feeling ?
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-15-2023, 01:55 AM
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I have the 55-300mm RE, it is actually very well built, always play with the retract-lock mechanism, never see any problem.
If that is the problem for 18-50mm RE, I understand why this lens doesn't sell a lot.
This is quite pity, the 18-50 RE is so small that even smaller than many mirrorless lenses.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-05-2023, 07:33 PM
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Same for me, why would Ricoh keep the obsolete old 18-55 lens, but not the modern and even unique 18-50 RE ?
May be they studied well about their customer, which is us.....
I did like the 18-50 RE, but the plastic mount stopped me from buying it.
The lenses closest to a KIT LENS I ever worked with, are 18-135 and 16-85.
And for those not considering 18-135 or 16-85 as a KIT LENS, they probably are still living with the old fossil 16-45.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-29-2023, 01:23 AM
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55-300 PLM or DA*300, both are affordable for their quality, while not as bulky as DFA150-450
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
08-28-2023, 11:23 PM
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Optically 18-50 and 18-55 is identical, looking at their diagrams you would be able to tell.
But of course, technologically, 18-50 is much more advanced.
When 18-50 came out back in 2014, I did hope to see the 18-55 (as the standard kit lens) would be faded out very soon.
Recently we can see K3III bundled with 16-85 and 18-135, I say "Wow, Ricoh/Pentax is finally getting smarter, no more outdated kit lens)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
08-28-2023, 10:59 PM
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HD 18-50mm RE is removed ??
I thought it is a very very good lens to replace the obsolete body motor driven 18-55mm.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-18-2023, 08:22 PM
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I think HD-DA21mm is the spiritual successor of FA-31mm, for APSC format.
Of course one may complain f3.2 is a kinda lack of aperture size, many didn't notice that there is 9 glasses stored in such a tiny barrel.
The DA-21mm is optically very well designed.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-17-2023, 12:00 AM
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I first had this lens on K-1, it is just nice, the bokeh is just too good.
But then I switched to K-3III, APSC couldn't make the most out of this lens
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
06-11-2023, 11:03 PM
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Yes Yes, very true.
At the first time I held my K-1 in 2016, it feels like a K-3.
It is a little bit taller than K-3 actually.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
06-11-2023, 08:01 PM
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Oh Sorry, I posted on the wrong thread :(
anyway, I took these by K-3III with HD55-300mm PLM, you can see even with a budget zoom lens, K-3III is still doing pretty well
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-11-2023, 07:59 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
06-11-2023, 01:22 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-10-2023, 09:32 PM
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Yes Yes, thank you for the demo, that's what I am looking for.
The heaviest setup I ever work with is DFA24-70mm + K1, so I honestly have no clue about how to carry and work with a super tele lens
You guys contribution really help a lot
Thank you very much !
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Very cool stuff, I especially like the Laughing kookaburra, adorable.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
06-08-2023, 01:08 AM
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Welcome back !
I had the K-1 DFA24-70 before, sold them to move to K-3III HD*16-50 PLM.
Nice choice !
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-08-2023, 12:53 AM
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Are you suggesting 560 ?
I dun think I can buy it since production ended up 2 years ago
Plus I can't afford it
I do agree that K-1 is a bigger K-5, the image is just crisp and clear thanks to the 36MP sensor
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There is 2 DA lenses, originally designed to be DFA lenses, these are DA*200mm and DA*300mm.
They were even named as DFA*200mm and DFA*300mm at the beginning, because Pentax was still planning the MZD Full frame digital at the time of 2003-2005.
DA560mm has a similar fate.
DA*300mm DA*200mm and DA560 are officially recognized as compatible with FF sensors in Pentax roadmap, as they were originally designed as DFA.
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