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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-13-2015, 07:18 PM
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Thanks I'll take my chances.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
08-13-2015, 06:43 PM
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Just picked one up for $261.63 shipped at Amazon.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-25-2013, 09:59 AM
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Ice storm followed a snow storm here in Michigan. Many people remain without power but it certainly has provided some unique photo opportunities!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-04-2013, 10:28 AM
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Thanks for your kind comments everyone!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-01-2013, 06:47 PM
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Final days of fall colors.
Since this was taken it has rained about every day, taking with it most of the leaves!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-06-2013, 05:41 PM
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My K-5 is giving new life to my old lenses. Here's one from my M -28 mm f/2.8 at 1/30, ISO 800.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-17-2013, 08:36 PM
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Right, the focus screen is still needed for composition of course.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-17-2013, 08:30 PM
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Looks nice and sharp. My post was directed more in circumstances where items being photographed such as a skyline is no where near the minimum focus distance .
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-17-2013, 05:55 PM
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I often read about focusing difficulties with wide angles in low light levels with manual lenses and am a bit puzzled with these statements.
For instance, if my desired subject are buildings at night like a skyline shot, my DOF android app says if shooting with a 14mm at f/5.6 then anything over 5.5 feet should be in focus to infinity. With a 28mm at the same f-stop, near focus limit is 15.7 and hyperfocal is 22.86 feet so anything of greater distance will be in focus. So I guess the question is why fool around eyeballing through the focus screen at all so long as the focus ring is turned to a distance somewhat greater than the minimum?
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
02-16-2013, 02:25 PM
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This is a tough call. I really like Samyang, having purchased their 14mm and 35mm. The rub is I already have a SMC Pentax-M 28mm F2.8 and while it doesn't have quite the glass and speed it is portable, offers decent IQ, and used ones can be had for pretty cheap. Anyone see compelling reasons to get this in light of my current ownership?
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
02-13-2013, 01:54 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-10-2013, 07:33 AM
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Bower (Samyang) 35mm f/1.4
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-07-2013, 11:08 AM
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Sell the body, keep the lenses. To this day I wish I had sold my old film camera bodies earlier during the time I was out of photography. Now they're basically worthless. The tech improvements in digital cameras will make today's models obsolete, no different than what happened with film. At least you can still salvage some resale.
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Forum: Pentax K-r
02-05-2013, 02:11 PM
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I'm curious how the OP took a screenshot of the camera display?
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-04-2013, 06:10 PM
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I'm still trying to grasp the concept here. Is exposure bracketing the same as EV bracketing?
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-27-2013, 03:54 PM
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More often than not I find M lenses underexpose somewhat, even if there's uniform lighting in the subject field.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-18-2013, 09:19 AM
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Could you define 'buoyant'? I have 2 Olympus OM1n's that would seem to fall into that category yet in looking at eBay it seems you can hardly give them away (bodies only).
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-16-2013, 07:12 PM
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I'm not talking just Pentax but just about any brand where they weren't manufactured in limited quantities.
You look on eBay and I swear 90% of the film SLR camera bodies never sell, or go for next to nothing, and that's only if a lens is thrown in. Guess it's a sign of the times.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-16-2013, 07:01 PM
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Guess I'll buy a few metals caps and try to flip them here considering all those who say it's a reasonable price.
On second thought ...
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-16-2013, 06:57 PM
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A couple weeks? Try months. Yes, that's the standard with them. Don't believe what they state about delivery estimates.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
01-10-2013, 09:05 PM
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-10-2013, 07:43 PM
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You must live in a larger market. In my CL area it's rare to find anything 'Pentax' at all.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-06-2013, 06:51 PM
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Ok thanks. Guess I'll stick with jpeg for now. Wish I had the time like so many others seem to have.
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