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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-12-2023, 09:33 PM
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Hi, it's been a while.
My K-5 IIs finally died. Bought in late-2012, it's the only DSLR I've ever owned.
Big trip coming up very soon. Thankfully, I have enough time to arrange an alternative.
The flagships are way out of my budget. Choice was between a K-3 II and a KP, both second-hand. Then I thought about maybe, just maybe, not lugging my lenses around.
I bought a GR III. :p
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-09-2014, 09:05 PM
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Distinct means neither unique nor unprecedented.
You lot are reading far too much into this. Z is just a letter.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-04-2014, 11:00 PM
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With apologies to James Coburn and Charles Bronson:
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-27-2014, 05:16 PM
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They may not have an aperture ring, but at least the DA Ltds have true, mechanical manual focus, as opposed to focus-by-wire. That counts for a lot in my book.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-29-2014, 08:32 AM
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Not happening.
His implication was that Ricoh's strategy is wholly and solely to ape their competitors and produce inferior but cheap "me too" products. Demonstrably false, but that's not the point.
This is no innocent mistake. This is malicious.
Malicious people get called out.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-22-2014, 07:43 AM
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Oh, begone. We're talking about the 645DII here.
Sick of this.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
12-26-2013, 08:47 PM
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Chome 丁目 is an allotment, an addressing subdivision.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-05-2013, 07:04 PM
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Third-party, but news for Pentax users all the same, as it is coming in K mount. :)
From DPR:
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
11-21-2013, 11:32 PM
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Just a thought:
What if, instead of 135 format, Pentax devised a 645DII with a handling performance comparable to the K-3? Even if it retained the 645D's current cropped sensor size, obviously with current-generation technology, but gained a derivative of the SAFOX 11 AF system, an 8 FPS burst mode with massive buffers to match, and the like.
Basically, what I'm proposing is a 44x33mm format (or larger) camera sans the deliberate, ponderous, slow operation people associate with medium format cameras. A 645DII that makes any 135 format entrant irrelevant. The lenses already exist.
And nothing mirrorless; rather, a traditional but supreme DSLR.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
01-09-2013, 03:59 AM
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As a non-US resident, seeing pricing like this on Amazon pisses me off just a little bit. Call it envy, I don't care.
Click here for K-01 prices as offered on Amazon Japan.
With the present exchange rate between US$ and the Japanese yen, we get the following:
(rounded to the nearest dollar for sensibility's sake)
BODY ONLY- black: $340
- white: $340 (actually costs five cents more than black!)
- yellow: $374
WITH 40XS- black: $523
- white: N/A as a bundle
- yellow: N/A as a bundle
The 40XS alone goes for US$247.
Even Pentax's home customer base subsidises the US market.
Would like a yellow one, but feeling a bit broke in the wake of Christmas
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-01-2012, 07:45 AM
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New owner of a 645N.
I don't have a real film scanner yet, so for now I'm making do with an HP Photosmart 5510 multifunction.
645N — Pentax-A 120mm macro — Velvia 50
It doesn't seem to realise that it's looking at colour film. For comparison, here's what happens when I rig up a makeshift backlight (yellow-tinged, sorry) and shoot the film with a Canon S95:
Likewise:
My scanner is weird. In its defense, though, I'm brand new to this.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-07-2012, 02:12 AM
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Seems Sigma lenses produce cows whereas Pentax glass tends toward horses.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-12-2012, 02:01 AM
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Aye, FF 645DII please Pentax! :D
35mm is for plebs.
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