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Forum: Sold Items 08-13-2013, 12:48 PM  
For Sale - Sold: Pentax *istD w/ D-BG1 grip. Working great.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame 06-01-2012, 01:45 AM  
Pentax Full Frame - An official statement from Pentax (they listened!)
Posted By Foma
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Nope. They are going mirrorless, just not as fast as Pana/Oly and Sony.
And so does Pentax. Sadly, Pentax decided to keep K-mount.




Thanks for the advice.
It is not a hate, it is a desire to stay with Pentax and have a decent modern camera at the same time.
OK, Pentax is going to keep making bulky cameras with huge flange focal distance, so it's all yours. Enjoy.
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 10-21-2011, 04:06 AM  
Pentax Full Frame - An official statement from Pentax (they listened!)
Posted By Foma
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Of course it doesn't, it is a Sony camera! It does for Alpha mount AF lenses.
Pentax mirrorless camera should and, I hope, will have such adapter for K mount lenses. My comment is about how it works in principle - "going mirrorless" doesn't mean trashing older lenses.
And for manual focus M42 and K lenses even 5n is a better "digital back" in some ways than Pentax DSLRs - compact end easy to focus. Have you seen those countless reviews of manual Pentax lenses "good glass but difficult to focus on my K-r"?
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 10-21-2011, 02:51 AM  
Pentax Full Frame - An official statement from Pentax (they listened!)
Posted By Foma
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Pentax was late to switch from screw mount to bayonet. And lost some market share - never again it was a leading SLR maker as in the days of Spotmatic. It is not a question of whether or not to go mirrorless, it is a question of when.
Suicide is to keep making cameras with obsolete construction, and SLR is becoming obsolete as we chat. Camera company producing DSLRs with M37 screwmount wouldn't survive today. Camera company producing SLRs won't survive tomorrow.

Did Pentax dropped M42 mount? No, at least not initially. But now it is much less convenient to use M42 lenses than it was with K1000.
It will be MORE convenient to use manual K, M42, 645 and 67 lenses with mirrorless camera than it is now with Pentax K-mount DSLRs. And for AF K lenses with adapter it will be same as now. Look here if you don't believe me:
Sony NEX-5n Field Review
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 10-21-2011, 01:45 AM  
Pentax Full Frame - An official statement from Pentax (they listened!)
Posted By Foma
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I wish Pentax to produce a mirrorless FF camera.

1. Large sensor cameras are going mirrorless as contrast detection AF catches up with the phase detection AF. No reason to invest in competitive FF DSLR and then switch to mirrorless in a few years.
The only niche left for bulky DSLRs will be action shooting with the fastest AF in existence, and Pentax is unlikely to beat AF performance of D3s and 1Dx anyways.

2. The only mirrorless FF camera on the market is the Leica M9, which does not have AF. Market is waiting for such camera, and Pentax could have a FF mirrorless market for itself for some time.
Pentax also could produce a first weatherproof mirrorless camera - for whatever reason other camera makers left weatherproof camera market for their DSLRs and compacts with smallish sensors.

3. Pentax Q is the smallest mirrorless (interchangeable lens) camera and won't compete with FF mirrorless camera.

4. FF mirrorless camera is also less likely to take users away from the 645D.

5. You could still have a phase detection AF with FA and DA lenses using adapter, as NEX users with LA-EA2 Lens Adapter. So it could be 2 cameras in 1 - DSLR(or DSLT) for those who need DSLR, mirrorless camera for the rest.

6. Using Focus Peaking in Live View and EVF, FF mirrorless camera could provide a better focus assistance with old manual leneses than current DSLRs do. Ricoh already has Focus Peaking technology in GXR A12 - why not to use it in Pentax?
You could even have AF confirmation with lenses that was designed as scale-focusing only, like Contax G Hologon 16mm or Zeiss Distagon T* ZM 15mm.

7. Mirrorless = short flange focal distance = ability to use lenses from any other brand/system with adapter = additional market for FF mirrorless camera.

8. Mirrorless = small and light camera body, even with SR

9. Mirrorless = small and optically good wide lenses = good for street shooting and landscape photography.

10. Small and light weatherproof FF camera with good wide lenses - a landscape photographer's dream come true.

I really I wish Pentax to produce a mirrorless FF camera.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-14-2011, 07:24 AM  
Zeiss lenses on an LX?
Posted By Foma
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The LX was officially in series production from 1980 to 1997, but there was also a commemorative Y2K set issued in 2000 with a stylized "2000" emblazoned on the front of the top plate n to the LX, and on the front ring of the matching 50mm f/1.2 Pentax lens. Limited editions in black-finished titanium and gold were also offered, the latter with crocodile leather coverings on the body and the focusing ring of the lens. The last of these limited production LX's was manufactured in 2001.



If Pentax would produce "LX 2020" - I would buy it;)
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-14-2011, 06:57 AM  
Zeiss lenses on an LX?
Posted By Foma
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Yep, here is from Wiki:
"Asahi Optical attempted to discontinue the K1000 several times over the years, but its continued good sales sustained it. Production was not ended until 1997 when manufacturing costs of its older design and supply of its mechanical and electronic parts (especially precision analogue microgalvanometers for the light meter) finally became untenable. It was replaced by the highly computerized Pentax ZX-M (in the USA, called MZ-M in the rest of the world) in 1998."

Looks like K1000 is the only Pentax film camera marketeer was aware of, so he went to Wiki to check when it was replaced with more advanced camera.:D
Well, Pentax is conservative company, but not that conservative.

Just out of curiosity I contacted B&H about that statement and what is so special about Pentax cameras since 1998. They have no idea.;)
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-14-2011, 06:36 AM  
Zeiss lenses on an LX?
Posted By Foma
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"1998" might have something to do with the fact that in 1997 Asahi discontinued LX and K1000 - two most famous Pentax cameras that were unable to control lens aperture from camera body and work in Shutter Priority mode.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 03-13-2011, 09:40 PM  
100mm f2.8 Macro - Fa or DFA?
Posted By Foma
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There is one more difference between D-FA and D-FA WR: later version have rounded aperture blades and very nice bokeh.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-13-2011, 08:02 PM  
Zeiss lenses on an LX?
Posted By Foma
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Pentax LX does not have Program mode and Shutter Priority mode - I guess that's what they mean. Using Zeiss any other lens on LX you will have to set aperture using aperture ring. With newer bodies you can set Zeiss ZK aperture ring to A and let the camera body to control aperture. Bottom line - ZK lens is perfectly fine for LX, just like Pentax-A lenses.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 02-06-2011, 10:25 PM  
Optically, what is the best Pentax Lens currently available new
Posted By Foma
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Simple question calls for a simple answer.

Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZK is it, film or digital.

Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZK and Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZK are great too, but first is hard to find and second will duplicate 100mm macro you already have.
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