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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-02-2024, 03:56 AM
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Knutsford May Day sees over 600 children parade in costume - a delight for photographers.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-02-2023, 03:50 AM
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Hartley Bridge, Liverpool, 1843. Ilford HP5.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-07-2022, 01:14 PM
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The SMC Pentax FA Macro 100mm f2.8 was certainly quite prone to purple fringing. I took this at f 2.8. I look forward to getting the new lens.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-02-2021, 08:27 AM
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I am happy to pay around £10 a month for LightRoom. This seems a cheap price to pay for my photography when I think what I used to spend on film, paper, chemicals, darkroom equipment or external film labs.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
04-08-2021, 12:52 PM
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Well you live in a good place for skiing!
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
04-01-2021, 04:06 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-08-2021, 10:48 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
03-08-2021, 10:47 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-03-2021, 12:38 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-01-2021, 09:41 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-01-2021, 09:38 AM
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Velvia - shot on the Albert Icefield, Canada.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-16-2021, 09:27 AM
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I found a second floor elevation gave a better view of the river and foreground than shooting from bank level. Rather a hackneyed view all the same.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
11-16-2020, 05:12 AM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-09-2019, 09:33 AM
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Centre spot for me 9 times out of 10.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-20-2019, 12:57 AM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-30-2018, 10:28 AM
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Hi Norm,
It is not a case of believing DPR, but agreeing with them concerning the K1 Mark II.
I have been a Pentaxian for 38 years, but I do not blindly endorse everything Pentax.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-29-2018, 06:42 AM
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The DPR comments seem fair to me.
I chose not to upgrade my K1 to a Mark II for the same reasons as given by DPR.
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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
11-18-2018, 10:47 AM
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If I need to move around I use a Lastolite flash bracket with a Pentax 545 fired wirelessly, and fitted with a 22cm square diffuser. If I don’t need to move around I put the Pentax 545 fired wirelessly, and fitted with a 22cm square diffuser on a lighting stand. To my mind an on-camera flash is too direct, with or without a diffuser.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
04-04-2018, 04:00 AM
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The Barque Europa off Paulet Island, Antarctica during a 52 day cruise to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica as trainee crew on this beautiful craft. I took this hand held at 130mm using the K3 shake reduction. The original included penguins on the shore, but I could not position myself to eliminate an ugly intrusion of a snow bank, so I have cropped the original image by about a third.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-22-2018, 02:55 AM
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An incremental improvement is not the same as an innovation.
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Forum: Repairs and Warranty Service
01-15-2017, 03:35 AM
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JPS repaired a Pentax DA 18-250mm zoom lens for me, after the lock switch jammed. Very happy with the service.
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Forum: Photo Critique
03-30-2016, 01:32 AM
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I like this, and think you did right to do it in monochrome, especially as you have captured a good sky.
I did a double take on the boat, as I have sailed on another boat a similar name - Vigilance - which is a Brixham gaff rigged ketch trawler.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-09-2016, 06:19 AM
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My first Pentax was I think a MX, which replaced a Petriflex which had limited lens availability. I graduated through various Pentax film SLRs. In 1996 my local photographic dealer advised me to switch to Nikon or Canon, as he said Pentax was finished, but I bought an LX, which was already dated, as I wanted a robust camera for polar trips to augment my MZ 5.
As digital came in, with no response from Pentax, I came to regret my decision to stick with Pentax, and I succumbed to the convenience of digital photography with a series of digital compact cameras, rarely using my Pentax film SLRs. Finally as reasonable Pentax DSLRs emerged I have progressed through K7, K5 to K3, and updated my array of lenses. 3 years or so ago on this forum I posted that I could not see why anyone would want FF. I now admit I was wrong. I want FF. I want better DR, I want to use my lenses at the focal lengths they were designed for, I want better control of depth of field, and I want better performance at high ISO.
Looking now at my images from earlyish digital compacts I realise just how much quality I lost in abandoning film so soon.
While we still await full tests, it is clear that the K1 is an awesome camera, in which Pentax has maintained its reputation for both innovation, and for robustness (WR harking back to the LX).
I want a K1.
Many thanks to the guys at Ricoh/Pentax for bringing this about, and to Adam for maintaining this forum.
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Forum: Pentax Mirrorless Cameras
02-20-2016, 11:03 PM
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"Eye level viewfinders are evil"?
That is rather an extreme statement for the normally civil comments on this forum.
Let's see why it is also wrong.
An eye level finder has the following advantages over a rear LCD screen:
1. The user can adopt a strong braced position with far less camera shake than holding a camera with partially outstretched arms.
2. Eye level view finders can be used in bright sunlight without emulating 19th century photographers by placing a black cloth over one' head.
3. Optical eye level finders unlike LCD screens are nor vulnerable to changes in atmospheric pressure, as I found to my cost in the Himalayas. Once my screen had failed I was shooting blind.
Evil? No!
The only advantage I can see of a screen is saving cost and weight. The technology of mirror less belongs to smartphones, not semi pro cameras.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
12-10-2015, 07:04 AM
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Great timing, sharp and animated.
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