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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-16-2014, 10:06 AM
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Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited on Pentax K-5 IIs.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-16-2014, 09:27 AM
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Pentax-FA 31mm f/1.8 Limited on Pentax K-5 IIs
Sugar cane burning in northeast Thailand . . .
Fire - a set on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-12-2013, 06:19 PM
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It is indeed. I'm not keen on the colour plug in though. You're all making me tempted to push the button on the 43mm Limited.
31 on IIs, Silver Efex Pro 2
77 on IIs
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-27-2021, 12:25 PM
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Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 on K-1...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-27-2021, 01:41 PM
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From reading a lot before buying the 2/35.ZK .. so the 2/35. I'm actually about to sell it (selling nearly everything due to health and space and circumstances). But it is the most stellar lens of all time for me. It's the God lens.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-27-2021, 11:57 AM
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FA43 on K-1. f/4, iso 250, 1/500s, off camera flash handheld (Metz AF-1 64)...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-27-2021, 12:19 PM
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On K-1...
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Forum: General Photography
04-01-2021, 01:05 AM
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Do you notice anything about these images? Some of you may recognise it.
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Forum: General Photography
04-04-2021, 01:14 PM
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It's SketchUp Pro wih V-Ray Next. I might knock a model gallery together with lighting and seating etc to "exhbit" work. Virtual galleries.
That's a model of a bespoke residential conversion of a former buried reservoir tank in a village near Buxton I'm designing for a client. Gave me a kernel of an idea for showing photographic work.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-31-2021, 03:56 PM
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Time to hang some in the living room.
From left tto right; Somewhere over the Himalayas (K-3, FA77), Clovelly, Devon (K-1, FA31), Cheddar Gorge, Somerset (K-1, FA43)...
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-30-2021, 06:45 PM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-19-2021, 06:07 PM
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Takumar 17mm f4...
Youtu.be
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-08-2021, 01:50 PM
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Molam (it's a mini festival, but quite impressive) in our village, Northeast Thailand...
K-1, FA 43 Limited, f/2.5, 1/500s. ISO 6400.
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Forum: General Photography
03-05-2021, 06:42 PM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-05-2021, 03:05 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-28-2021, 02:43 PM
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I can send you the big size if you want it. Love to share.
You just made my year by the way. Cheered me right up so you have!
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-05-2021, 12:29 PM
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I don't care. No interest. Just commenting that the thing is ugly. Which it is.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-05-2021, 07:45 AM
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It's the "there's one born every minute" marketing strategy. I had a look at close ups of this sinister device and even the cheap looking screw heads don't match. We have reached peak parts bin special. Oh and is it special! Wow!
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-04-2021, 07:42 PM
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So did the designer of that horror.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-04-2021, 01:23 AM
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Nice one, Dan. I'll check UK prices and stick that lot in the cost model. I do like those three primes. 20, 35, 55 with the 70-180. For macro I'm keeping the Raynox DCR-150, 250 and MSN-505 as these seem to work well on both the 55 and the zoom. Anyone who thinks Sony's expensive needs to start adding up. Some lenses stand out, a bit, like the Sony 2.8/12-24, but the others are pretty competitive, especially considering both weight and optically quality. Third party dumped Pentax a long time ago, even Samyang.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-27-2021, 11:11 AM
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Doing this at the moment, a system changeover to a small, lighter weight kit.
In brief:
A7R IV (£2150) with Neewer (£48) or Meike grip (£99) (not he Sony due to cost)
Sony G 1.8/20 (£800)
Sony Zeiss 1.8/55 (£500), had one years ago, stellar lens
Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD (£900)
Pentax-FA Limited's, the 31, 43 and 77 (already have) on an AF Monster Adaptor (around £200) once it's available
Samyang 2.8/14 on Rayqual MF adaptor (already have)
NiSi 77mm macro conversion lens (£109)
Some filters, including the Singh-Ray Gold 'n Blue, MRC CPL's, ND's etc.
Cactus RF60 with V6IIs
And that's it, nothing other than that lot can be hauled or will ever be used. Total kit weight under 6 kilos. All told, including other bits and pieces, total comes to under £5,000. Dumping a ton of old gear which will leave this a zero cost exercise, possibly with a lot of change, but it'll take a long time to sell is my guess.
I have found that if you base your system on a maximum target of 6 kilos (hand baggage permissible weight), this really focuses the mind as to what you'll actually use and avoids needlessly fast (and therefore heavy and expensive) lenses.
Don't know if this is of any help.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-28-2021, 06:20 PM
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No rush. Going to take a while to shift existing gear. Discipline. I'm only spending what comes in, as it comes in and it's not as though most of us are going anywhere, any time soon.
Presently trapped in the dystopian hell that is the UK, 6,500 miles from home. Learnt 3D photo realism during this time in prison. Can't keep photographing the same pot plant and window box.🤣
What a nightmare.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-28-2021, 10:48 AM
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Falling off motorbikes years ago. UK NHS don't want to know.
It's about travel weight, hand baggage. I'm sick of hauling stuff. Since the advent of mirrorless and adaptors, there's no reason for brand (mount) loyalty anymore. You can mix it up to suit your needs, native lenses with adapted (MF and soon AF) third party. Another example might be the epic Samyang XP 2.4/14 in Nikon or Canon to E-mount via adaptor. I won't bother with that though.
Regards cameras, the only loyalty I have is to my bank account and my shoulder. Slightly slower (f/1.8 and above), lighter on full frame mirrorless suits me.
Different strokes for different folks.
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Good assessment, Dan. The Tamron can't take a teleconverter is the only thing. I never use anything much past 180 anyway. The DFA focus breathing means you don't get to 200mm anyway, or so I'm told.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-27-2021, 12:15 PM
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Honestly, whatever anyone thinks of the rest of Pentax stuff (I still love it, but it's too heavy for me now) you simply cannot beat the FA Limited's. These could be a roaring success across the mirrorless market. 43 on K-1...
If there's just three lenses I will forever keep, regardless of any particular World calamity (plenty to choose from right now), it's those three. I may even just do that and if the new one's shine even brighter, tempting.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-27-2021, 02:03 PM
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I won't use 200mm, doesn't make a huge difference, at least not enough to blow big money. Although it loses 20mm on the long end, the Tamron there is three lenses in one for me. Medium tele, portrait (it's that good) and a macro/close up with the NiSI 77mm macro attachment lens. Keeping the Raynox DCR-150, 250 and MSN-505 because they're small and light and already here.
200mm+ on FE is both money and very importantly, heavy. But... those three (20, 55, 70-180) lenses together come to 1.4 kilos. My DFA* 2.8/70-200 alone weighs 1.75 kilos. With the K-1 and grip, 3.2 kilos. Then I'm also lugging the DFA 15-30. Then more. It's too much. Lovely gear, lovely photos, too big and heavy for me. I can't haul it, I can't carry it, my rotator cuff shoulder won't even lift it, thus I don't use it.
This is a kit consolidation (from 24 lenses to 7) and serious lightening exercise, down to what I can reasonably haul and only what I would regularly use.
DFA* 70-200 on K-1 (I shall miss this big bag of primes)...
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