Forum: Ricoh GR
5 Hours Ago
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Just got an e-mail inviting me to a "GR Photo Walk" in Las Vegas on April 6. Anybody planning to join it?
Of course, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas", so photo sharing afterwards may be a problem. :)
Apparently they'll have a number of loaner "GR Cameras and Accessories available to sign out and use during the walk".
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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
03-05-2024, 05:53 PM
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Cosina tried producing 35mm film cameras for several years under the Voigtlaender Bessa brand, but gave up in 2015.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-05-2024, 05:37 PM
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There's a lot of truth in that. Since the aperture block on my KS-2 started misbehaving, that's where I've landed right now, with a K-5, a K-50, and three K-01s. And the K-1 models are just an extended 36 mp version of those beautiful 16 mp sensors.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
02-29-2024, 05:38 PM
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That's all that we who wandered far away can manage, Stiff:
"Video unavailable The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
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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
01-20-2024, 12:09 PM
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Because "K1iii talked about as being under development......maybe" is still as close as it gets!
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-25-2023, 10:33 AM
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The phone has particular needs for AI, like knowing that the "mokeh" is not supposed to blur the eyes.
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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
10-25-2023, 08:10 AM
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Thanks for the correction. Indeed, the first post in the link mentions LTM.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-24-2023, 07:13 AM
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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 SLR Lens Discussion
09-29-2023, 05:05 AM
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-29-2023, 05:41 PM
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Allow me to correct that:
The TOY lenses are those that lack a shutter.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-29-2023, 04:01 PM
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The Fisheye was not a toy lens, although its images might look like it was if you didn't focus carefully.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-29-2023, 08:38 AM
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You'd need to handle and use one to learn why. The buttery smooth zooming is a cut above the average, and makes the 06 Telephoto Zoom feel scratchy by comparison. Optically, the lens totally dominates the 12MP BSI sensor, and gives you IQ at around the level of a 35mm slide film. Back in the day, that was plenty good enough for most of us.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
08-10-2023, 01:10 PM
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They do put out "road maps".
An easy thing to do, when we recall "paper lenses" like the Telephoto Macro for the Q system.
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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
08-04-2023, 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: 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
08-03-2023, 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: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
08-02-2023, 07:23 PM
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Let me help you. I've found I, V, X, L, C, D and M.
Don't forget that much of the UK was once a Roman colony.
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