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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-27-2024, 02:55 PM
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What this misses – and maybe I was too subtle about this point before – is that the Df was a clankingly bad camera; the joke was the name stood for "Design Failure". (And its lessons inspired the Nikon Fc, aka Fujifilm Copy.) Bad design, bad grip, bad controls, badly thought out (if at all) and conflicting control system. Nice sensor, though. I met a couple of people who liked that enough to put up with the rest of it.
Why would Pentax want to do that…?
The way you're framing it this becomes a fashion question, which is how Nikon approached it, too.
I'd love to see a monochrome K1iii. But if its control interface doesn't match my K3iii Monochrome then I'd consider that to be a design failure.
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Forum: Pentax KP
11-03-2023, 03:14 AM
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Hi Fogel70, looks like we are on the same page, thanks for your feedback. I see you are in Sweden, my great grandfather came from Klippan so maybe its genetic.
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Hi Des, I agree, most people think of it as a kit lens, but it is really very versatile and quite consistent in quality for its price. And it teams great with the KP.
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Forum: Pentax KP
07-22-2023, 02:59 AM
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Are you using a "proper" target for acquiring focus or are you trying to focus on the 30cm mark on that ruler? If the latter, the focus points are larger than shown on screen / in the viewfinder, and the camera may focus on anything outside of the shown focus point and you can't tell the camera to aim right on the mark you intended it to, it will choose anything with enough contrast.
Is the focus point far enough away from the sensor plane that you can be 100% sure the target is well out of minimum focus distance of the lens? There are recommendations for distance to target depending on the focal length, some multiple of the focal length usually.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
07-02-2023, 11:06 AM
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Welcome!
If you have activated highlight correction under the dynamic range settings, then the lowest the camera will set is ISO 200 to give the camera headroom to protect the highlights. If you turn this off, the camera will set ISO100 under auto ISO. (It's the same with the K-3II)
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-28-2023, 12:46 AM
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I have certainly never put the battery in the charger, left it there overnight, grabbed the battery when the light was off the day after, and went to a day trip.
Turns out the charger has to be plugged in to charge.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
06-02-2023, 10:04 AM
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In any of the auto modes the EV bar has no function. In M mode it shows the difference between what the meter sees and what settings you have made. In auto there should be no difference as the camera makes the settings to match the meter and obtain a zero deviation.
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Forum: General Photography
02-07-2023, 05:54 AM
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Yep, typical ChatGPT output: sounds authoritative, is mostly correct, but also is riddled with errors, half-truths, and missing items.
The central problem is that ChatGPT was trained from a huge body of text pulled from the internet and mimics the patterns of writings of people on the internet. Unfortunately people on the internet: sound authoritative, are mostly correct, but also are riddled with errors, half-truths, and missing items.
GIGO.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-30-2023, 10:11 PM
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From Amazon, or through Amazon? I'd be surprised if a card sold directly by Amazon was not genuine.
Is the SDXC card UHS-I or UHS-II? The K-70 is only compatible with UHS-I.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-20-2023, 04:59 AM
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Please quote a source for that outrageous claim. On both levels.
1) There is no possible reason not to recommend the DA 35/2.8 Macro Limited. It is one of the best APS-C lenses ever made.
2) It's not a Tokina. Any more than the DFA*50, or the DA*50-135, or the DA10-17. Get over it.
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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
12-21-2022, 03:33 AM
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Even the worst camera of the year in 2022 is still going to be a good camera overall. Release what is essentially a 2016 camera in 2022 (upping the price in the process) and you can't expect for people to celebrate.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
10-17-2022, 12:27 PM
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I tend to regard the K-1/K-1 II as a landscape/portrait/architectural camera rather than sports/wildlife, for which the K3 III is probably better suited.
But I used the K-1 II with the DFA 150-450 at a recent track event and had no problems with autofocus or buffer. This was typical of my results using TAv and AF-C. I would say less than 5% were not hitting focus.
 IMGP0179 by Peter Schluter, on Flickr
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
09-02-2022, 03:45 AM
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Simple desaturation of a colour image will always produce a very dull-looking image. At the very least it will need a contrast boost to make it look decent but genuine B&W films vary in the wavelengths that they absorb, so it depends on the film.
I don't think there's a right answer. Experiment and see what you like. Some images will look better with one film or colour to B&W conversion method, some will look better with another. It all depends on the light, subject and photographer's intent.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
06-22-2022, 08:19 AM
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It still seems to imply that a woman wouldn't be able to cope with a more advanced camera. It might have been wiser to leave it at beginners.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
05-21-2022, 12:19 AM
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yeah i'm with you on that. There would be considerable wear on the lensmount after years or decades of use. No thanks, Plastic is softer and deforms when subjected to impacts: rather than breaking the lens cap you would run the risk of breaking something far more expensive and tedious to replace.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
05-09-2022, 04:35 AM
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With extension tubes, the focus distance and magnification depend on the focal length. With a short focal length lens on a set of tubes, the focus distance will be extremely close and the magnification will be high. With a long focal length lens on the same set of tubes, the focus distance will be further away and the magnification will be less.
Zoom lenses only keep their focus when zooming because they adjust internally adjust the extension as the focal length change. But with a set of fixed external extension tubes, the zoom mechanism cannot adjust or control that extension to correct for the interaction between extension, focal length and focus distance. Thus, the focus distance changes with extension tubes on zoom lenses.
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Forum: General Photography
03-26-2022, 08:21 AM
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For me, camera operation had always been two handed.
The left hand sits under the front of the body and lens. It supports the camera, does most of the pointing, controls focal length (on zooms), focus (for manual focus lenses), and aperture (for some manual lenses). As needed, the left hand also changes the mode switch, AF/MF switch, and the RAW button. Buttons on the back of that side of the camera would be unreachable.
The right hand grips the camera but seldom carries any weight. That gives the thumb and fingers the freedom to range over all the buttons on the back, e-dials, top buttons, on/off/preview switch, and shutter button.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-17-2022, 07:19 PM
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Forum: General Photography
12-02-2021, 07:48 AM
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Thanks. I’m declining to vote as I have almost no experience with any of the candidate equipment. However I doubt most people who vote will do that. Lol.
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Forum: General Photography
11-20-2021, 09:53 AM
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I voted for the largest print size because I'm shooting to get that level of quality/capability irrespective of when I get around to printing that size. I also now have in mind monitors for display, OTOH.
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Forum: General Photography
11-02-2021, 08:39 AM
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Actually, I'll go with "intelligent design" here!
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
10-20-2021, 10:59 AM
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Damn, people body-shaming the K-1?
Some of us like bodies a little thicc, gives us somethin' to hang on to...
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Forum: General Photography
10-11-2021, 11:04 PM
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Seems to be dangerous to take an idiot on a flight.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-05-2021, 05:13 AM
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I would say focal equivalence is a very handy and essential information about a lens if talking about camera systems beside APS-C and 35mm (FF). And it is essential when one is starting to use a new camera system or is going to buy a new compact camera or a new smartphone.
If I tell you that I have been using a 45 mm for a picture. What do you make out of this piece of information? A wrong guess, if I want to.
If I show you the picture and tell you I took it with my Mamiya 645 or with my Nikon S1, you will in the first case see it is a picture taken wit a wide angle and in the second a telephoto picture. In the first case you will see it is quite a wide angle (28 mm equivalent) and in the second you will hardly guess right that it is a 122 mm equivalent.
When I bought my second lens for the Nikon S1 I did not screw it onto the camera first and had a look through it to get it's field of view or took the angel of view from it's data sheet. I just looked into the description an read the euqivalent focal length (80mm - 300mm).
For years I have been using compact cameras on vaction. For this piece of text I had to look onto my Olympus and my Casio for telling you, that the first has a zoom range of 6-24 mm and the second of whooping 4.3 mm - 43 mm. I even didn't know up until now, but I could have told you their FF equivalent, which would have made a lot more sense to you.
Off course I do not put my 26mm - 75mm eqivalent lens onto my K-70. For me it is my f2.8 all the day lens, which goes from quite a wide angle to a short portrait lens and therefore is quite versatile. That is the way I'am thinking of my 17-50 if I grab it out of my bag for a certain use. Nevertheless it is my 17-50 if I adress it and every one using APS-C knows, what I am talking about.
What I wanted to show is, just because you do not need a key figure for your daily work, it does not mean it is useless at all.
It might even be a very handy piece of information under the right circumstances.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-19-2021, 09:51 AM
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Nope. I once ruined an entire day of shooting inside Crater Lake after hiking down to the water by using a CP on a wide angle lens. Never again. I won't use one on anything shorter than maybe 40mm.
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