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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-26-2015, 08:33 PM
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I have a KR-5 Super II, a XR-10, a Sears KS Auto, a KR-10M, and just recently found a XR-P. The 50mm f2 Rikenon lens I have is fantastically sharp.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-24-2014, 07:00 PM
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Try working the mode dial back and forth throughout the range several times. I mean several times. This can often clean the oxidation from the contacts.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-19-2014, 04:06 AM
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I have used adhesive backed felt from a craft store and it worked fine.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-16-2013, 03:21 AM
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I bought my K200D because I liked the idea of a weather sealed camera and I already had some legacy lenses. I love my K200D, it's a brilliant landscape camera. My next camera will be a Pentax, I like the weather sealing and high ISO performance of the recent models.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-15-2013, 10:17 PM
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I found a K1000 in terrible shape at a flea market last year but it had a 8-element 50mm f1.4 Takumar in it on a genuine Pentax M42 adapter. So I gladly paid the $10 that the vendor was asking.
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Forum: Pentax K-r
03-22-2013, 11:33 PM
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The Tamron/Pentax 18-250 is one of the best walking-around lenses ever made.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
02-25-2013, 09:06 AM
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I have a E-PL1 and a bunch of adapters for manual lenses. IQ is quite good but I still prefer the output from my K200D. I use the accessory viewfinder and find the Oly to be far easier to focus with manual lenses than with the Katzeye screen in my K200D, especially at night.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-09-2013, 12:19 PM
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I am quite fond of the Ricoh KR 5 Super II and the XR-10. The former is a very small, black fully manual camera, sort of a sleeper MX clone and the latter is a aperture preferred mode camera with a manual mode that uses a shutter dial, not buttons. I had a CLA'd MX that I gave to my daughter and have two ME Supers but keep reaching for the Ricohs instead. Neither Ricoh needed new seals or mirror foam, a pleasant surprise.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-16-2013, 07:00 PM
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Yep, you want the Ricoh KR 5 Super II. It's a great little camera and actually a little smaller in height than the ME Super as well as a stealthy black. I have found two of these and neither one needed new seals or mirror foam. The Rikenon 50mm f2 lens is an excellent performer and very usable wide open. They are also often found with the excellent Rikenon or RKN 35-70 f3.5-4.5 zoom, both of mine are dual Ricoh P/Pentax-A mount lenses and as a bonus, work well with my Pentax dSLR.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-16-2012, 08:40 AM
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Minolta Hi-Matic AF2. This is a bombproof P&S with the original Honeywell infrared autofocus system. This early model has manual film transport. The 35mm lens is very sharp. There were several other similar cameras from other manufacturers built around the same Honeywell autofocus system and lens.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-17-2012, 09:10 PM
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Truly. I see 1.3 to 4 or 5 megapixel cameras all the time at the flea market. Little boat anchors, no one wants them.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-28-2012, 07:13 AM
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I have a couple of Ricoh-P lenses and the 'Ricoh' pin on these is a rounded contact like the contacts on a Pentax A-series lens or later. This won't get stuck. I use them on my Pentax dSLR and autofocus Pentax SLRs, no problem. Some third party lenses, like Vivitar, used an actual pin. This will get stuck. Check the shape of the 'pin' or contact before you go to the trouble of taking the lens apart.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-20-2012, 04:44 PM
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Let's see...so far I have had Eric do 2 Spotmatic Fs, a Spotmatic, 2 ME Supers, a Super Program, a Program Plus, a K1000 and a MX. Yep. Hey, has anyone had him do the conversion to metal film transport gears for a ZX-5n?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-11-2012, 09:02 PM
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With negative color film you shoot for the shadows and let the film take care of the highlights. The grain actually smooths out transitions and the smooth tonal curve at the high end makes for some special images that you can't get with digital, even now. It's analog chemistry versus a Bayer sensor. Even if the scanning is digital, there is information at the high end that can be captured by a decent scanner that would have been blown out in the image captured by the dSLR.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-01-2012, 06:20 PM
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Japanese producers and countries such as the US have been requiring monitoring of Japanese products at point of origin and the ports of arrival.
Japanese Exporters Screen Shipments for Radiation - WSJ.com
You're going to get more dosage from that 50mm f1.4 Takumar with the thorium element in it...
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-25-2012, 07:32 PM
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I have enough C41 film for 2-3 years of shooting.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-15-2012, 10:21 PM
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My K200D and I are sorry for your loss...
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-12-2012, 08:29 PM
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I have several Ricoh cameras but I would not say the K-mount models are constructed to the same standard as a Pentax LX or MX. The plastic used on these bodies is prone to cracking.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-06-2012, 11:49 PM
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Never use it. It is the last reason I would have for rejecting a camera.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-06-2012, 11:48 PM
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I have had Eric do a basket of cameras, a Super Program, a Program Plus, 2 ME Supers, 2 Spotmatic Fs, a Spotmatic, a MX and a K1000. I believe in backup.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-01-2012, 09:17 AM
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-01-2012, 09:04 AM
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Don't use Wein cells, waste of money since the silver oxide batteries work just fine with the Spotmatics circuitry. Based on advice on a Flickr forum, I tried Energizer E387s batteries, these are an exact fit and even come with their own plastic 'o-ring'. For my Spotmatic Fs, I use SR44 equivalent silver oxides with an o-ring. The metering is the same as zinc-air batteries.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-23-2012, 05:19 PM
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I really wonder if DxoMark folks are paying strictest attention to focusing during their tests. SLRGear made a special point of this a while back. The DXO tests seem out of sync with others.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-16-2012, 08:51 AM
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The link to the Photonet post on screen cleaning has some good stuff. My experience with trying to clean a focusing screen was that the fresnel surface is very delicate. For lenses, however, I just huff on them and clean with a clean microfiber cloth, never scratched one yet.
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