Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-19-2024, 06:19 PM
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You are fortunate. It is illegal in many places.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-11-2024, 05:50 PM
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I used to buy a lot from KEH ten years ago, mostly in their "excellent" category, but gave up using them about five years later after a number of bad experiences with them. For example, a 28 mm shift lens came with a "front lens cap" that was more like the top of a pot of yogurt, and pressed down enough to start scratching the front lens element. No less than three lenses I bought from them, in the K and A series, had apertures that misbehaved, and two of those even failed again after a CLA. YMMV.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-05-2024, 06:46 PM
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B&H has them selling for $100, which probably represents a good contribution to the cause. I believe they are now produced in the Philippines, maybe as a way of saving some of the jobs that used to be needed for camera production.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-28-2024, 06:30 PM
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The survey worked fine in Firefox.
After I made the mistake of expressing a slight interest in a waterproof compact camera, a whole bunch of new questions about features of such a camera suddenly appeared. I went back and changed that slight interest into a lack of interest, and all those questions went away. So the survey is interactive.
I did take the opportunity of the open question at the end to place my Q system requests: updated lenses with HD coating, production of the 09 Telephoto Macro, and an update of a "serious" body like the Q7. I figure it's like the lottery. If you don't buy a ticket, you won't win. And even if you do, you probably won't, anyway.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-25-2023, 08:11 AM
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On the contrary: AI and other computational tricks are needed to help a phone picture fake the superior native output of an ILC.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-17-2023, 09:43 AM
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That depends on the strength of the liquid that you drank from the glass.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-03-2023, 01:30 PM
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Unless it's reversal film, it's going to be negative.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-24-2023, 07:13 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-29-2023, 05:05 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-01
08-03-2023, 04:50 PM
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No, the K-01 is a big chunk of aluminum heat sink, designed to absorb the effects of continual live view, and a full-size battery to keep all the lights on. Internally, the K-30 was a regular DSLR, with a skinny battery for when it wasn't being run on AAs.
I do not see these as benefits. They lead to extreme ray angles at the edge of the image field, which lowers the IQ and has to be camouflaged by the software. Digital sensors really need retrofocus wide angle lenses for good raw edge IQ, and they may as well sit on a K mount at 45.46 mm from the sensor.
Pentax knew what they were doing when they engineered the K-01. And the high-price, "designer" approach to the initial marketing is very close to what Ricoh is now doing with the brand.
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Forum: General Talk
08-07-2023, 09:25 AM
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This experience was no worse than the time I got flamed for daring to suggest (a) that Pentax could produce an APS-C camera that improved on the KP and that (b) the K3-iii would do exactly that by using a BSI sensor.
One of the flamers in that case was a well-respected PF member who, it turned out, was suffering from a terminal illness. This is the internet, and we need to be ready to cut folks some slack.
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Forum: General Talk
08-03-2023, 04:23 PM
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Please check the first post in the thread. As of right now, there's a field in the "About Me" section of the site entitled "Twitter Username". Since, according to most reports, that "Twitter" brand is disappearing, this field is going to need changing, or maybe even deleted if all the PF users are abandoning Musk's ship.
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Forum: General Talk
08-04-2023, 08:04 AM
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Thanks, that should let him monitor the fate of the notorious platform, and take whatever PF action he considers to be appropriate.
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Forum: General Talk
08-04-2023, 07:02 AM
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It is a simple question about the impending need to change a heading in the "About Me" section of the User Profile:
Does "Twitter Username" now need to become "X Username"?
And to me, but:
Indeed. Curiously enough, the somewhat off-topic comment
was followed by what I presume was the moderator's announcement of the move:
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
07-31-2023, 03:15 PM
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I reformat freshly inserted cards in the camera before using them.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
06-11-2023, 01:47 AM
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What hasn't been talked about yet in this thread, or the other rumor mills, is that Zeiss' "photographic" lenses are also sold for industrial use. The good news for Pentax users who really care, and missed out on the ZK line when it was still around, is that the industrial lenses are available in M42 screwmount.
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Forum: Pentax Q
04-10-2023, 08:15 AM
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No problem! For me, the 03 Fish-eye is one of the major attractions of the Q system, for photography, not lomography.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-28-2023, 04:47 PM
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Nah, a DA 20 XS would not be wild enough. More like a DA 12 XS that can only be used on the K-01, because it protrudes into the place where there isn't a mirror, along the lines of the old Voigtlaender 12 f/5.6: |
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-13-2023, 06:12 PM
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For the many fans of the "flat wonder", the IQ of the 40mm XS was actually better than the IQ of the original 40mm LTD, thanks to its curved aperture blades which were later copied by the HD version of the 40mm LTD.
The XS is ideal for catching candid shots, especially when your subjects think you've forgotten to take off the body cap and put a lens on your camera!
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-26-2023, 07:50 AM
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Forum: Pentax Q
02-02-2023, 11:53 AM
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Phone pictures are computational photography. Q pictures are pocket art!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-06-2017, 11:04 AM
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Mods, this thread needs relocating to PentarForums.com! :)
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Forum: Pentax Q
01-27-2023, 11:03 AM
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Interesting, but not much wider than the 02 zoom.
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Forum: Pentax Q
01-16-2023, 07:50 AM
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Back before the pandemic, the B&H rep was ready to negotiate with Metabones if 12 Pentaxians had clearly expressed their interest. But instead, the usual apathy prevailed.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
11-21-2022, 06:23 PM
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That's the optimistic scenario. The pessimistic one is stock-clearing for an exit through the same door that the Q system went out, leaving Pentax to concentrate its efforts exclusively on the K mount.
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