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Forum: Vintage Cameras and Equipment
04-01-2024, 11:23 PM
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That's not a collection, that's just a bagful!
That's a collection ... the film stuff is in the other room ;)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-08-2009, 04:37 PM
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Great idea - gives me an excuse to show pics from the mid 80s, with ASA400 film I've long forgotten, the Oly OM2s and the Tamron 35-80 SP... Some of the best pictures I've ever taken were from that time.
Most of these are scans of prints...
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-11-2023, 08:08 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-10-2023, 11:11 AM
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Ellwood Mesa
Pentax K-1 Mark II SE
Pentax smc P-F 35-105mm f/4-5.6
f/11 1/250 ISO 200
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-08-2023, 11:39 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-08-2023, 11:07 AM
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FF Mode • 1600 ISO • Tamron SP AF Di 90mm F2.8 Macro
2x Kenko Pz-AF UniPlus Tube 25
FF Mode • 800 ISO • Pentax FA 43mm F1.9 Limited
Penne with Tomato Sauce
FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL
Topaz Labs Restyle
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-15-2023, 05:35 PM
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I mean, this just shows a lack of business sense.
They are mods to existing products, sound financial practice, because they are sold direct to the customer just like Ricoh said it was going to do - abandon bricks and mortar shops in the internet age as a waste of time and a 50% markup to us, the customers.
There is no effort to them making these, they are recoatings of an existing part, and they have no bearing on the spreadsheet modelling of future products, they don't even compete. There's no marketing cost, I didn't see a commercial during the Superbowl advertising them.
If larger companies don't learn how to cope with low volume sales models, they will join Olympus in exiting the market, and Nikon, Panasonic and Fuji pivoting away from cameras.
Kawauchi-san in his interview on future products did not even mention these things, they're accessories. The whole batch of 100 you're flustered over could have left the factory in the backpack of a bicycle courier.
You always have a higher markup on merch and add-ons and accessories than the original products in any industry, that's the idea of them. And it's outsourced, just like T-shirts for a band.
So that bloke from J-Limited (he has a good relationship with Pentax, he's reportedly an ex-employee) probably proposed turning a five euro part into a 250 euro product.
All 100 will sell to cashed up blingy Japanese collectors, it's taking candy from a baby, Eddie!
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-12-2023, 02:52 PM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-12-2023, 05:52 AM
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Pentax isn't the only manufacturer that "tarts their cameras up".
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Forum: General Photography
01-21-2023, 07:42 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-21-2022, 06:50 PM
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It's true, almost all of them are in Russia or Ukraine, but even if you don't want to take a chance there, they still come up in Poland, or even Kazakhstan (well, there's been some recent unrest there, too). Your friend should order one, forget about it, and get a happy surprise in two or four weeks. :)
Took mine out again yesterday morning. It's an early silver Industar-50, from 1959, not a -2. I'm not sure if it's any better or worse than the newer ones, but it's just as fun.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-14-2022, 06:03 PM
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I wouldn't consider myself an aficionado, I only have three Industars. :p A regular gallon milk jug cap can be persuaded to slip-fit over the aperture ring of my Industar-50, although this kind of thing is why I have a 3d-printer.
I have no idea on any differences between the English and Cyrillic. I would expect better build quality from Cyrillic ones, since they tend to be older, but not always. All the late-production Soviet lenses I've acquired had crap build quality, but optically, they were fine. Just poor fit-and-finish, gritty loose focus, etc.
I think your friend should stop thinking so long and hard about a ~$25 purchase. :D
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Helios-40 and the usual suspects on Sunday morning. I should never have paid as much as I did for this lens, but the madness passed years ago and the lens is still in the cupboard, so I might as well use it. :o
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Forum: General Photography
06-12-2022, 10:48 AM
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I quote the following from one of my photo books: 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation, by Todd Gustavson, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2011, page 224.
"Around 1913, Barnack, by then an employee in charge of the experimental department of the microscope maker Ernst Leitz Optical Works in Wetzlar, designed and hand-built several prototypes of a small precision camera that produced 24 x 36-mm images on leftover ends of 35mm motion picture film. Three of these prototypes survive."
"Barnack used one of his cameras in 1914 to take reportage-type pictures of a local flood and of the mobilization for World War I. That same year, his boss, Ernst Leitz II, used one on a trip to the United States. However, no further development of the small camera took place until 1924, when Leitz decided to make a pilot run of twenty-five cameras, serial numbered 101 through 125. Still referred to as the Barnack camera, these prototypes were loaned to Leitz managers, distributors, and professional photographers for field testing. The evaluations were not enthusiastic, as the testers thought the format too small and the controls too fiddly, which they were. ... In spite of its reviews, Leitz authorized the camera's production, basing his decision largely on a desire to keep his workers employed during the post-World War economic depression."
This early production run of the so-called "0 Series" [or "null" series] preceded the improved Leica I Model A of 1925.
Gustavson highlights the beginning of the 35-mm format thusly: "The genesis of 35mm photography can be traced to George Eastman's Kodak camera, the first to use nitrocellulose roll film. In July 1891, W.K.L. Dickson, an employee of Thomas Edison's New Jersey laboratory, visited Eastman's Rochester manufactory and ordered four fifty-foot lengths of 1-inch wide film, a size half the width and twice the length of that used in Eastman's No. 1 Kodak. Rectangular perforations were made on each edge of the film, four per 1-3/4 inch image frame, matching those used on Edison's Kinetograph, to evenly advance the film. These dimensions became the standard for 35mm film"
The book also describes two early commercially-available cameras -- the 1914 Simplex camera as "one of the earliest" to use the 35mm film format, and a 1914 Tourist Multiple model, "one of the first still cameras designed to use 35mm film."
Although Leitz wasn't the first to offer a 35mm camera to the public, Barnack has been called the "Father of 35mm Photography," and the camera at auction -- Serial No. 105, stamped with Barnack's name -- holds a special place in the history of photography.
- Craig
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
06-06-2022, 02:33 AM
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I found a couple more renders from different angles on Twitter.
It does look like a nicer space than the old one from these images, especially since the greenery you can see out the windows that it is not in a basement like the old one was.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-30-2022, 05:27 PM
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I view it slightly differently.
I'd plagiarize that sentence of yours and change it to:
A company that buys them is buying a company that sells LPs after Phillips and Sony has come out with the CD.
As time has shown, CDs are dead, records are making a comeback and streaming is all the rage. Maybe, when looking at photography, "streaming" is mobile phone cameras which are everywhere and used by almost everyone. I predict that it's entirely possible that mirrorless may be CDs and that the SLR format may remain, when much else is gone.
Pipe dream? Perhaps! But I'd like to think it's possible. :)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-30-2022, 07:58 AM
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I'm not sure how this thread got mired in discussion of restructuring and divesting Pentax (again). It's part of a new strategy that they have already announced. Nothing is new in that regard.
The point is that since the Pentax Statement was publicized, Ricoh has sought to present Pentax more like an entity in its own right. I think this is because they realized the value of the brand, and they don't just want it to be a name they put on their cameras, like Panasonic putting "Lumix" on their cameras. It has more meaning. This new location is part of that strengthening of the brand.
I'm sure they also feel GR is a strong brand too, but they are going to promote it differently. In fact they have been doing quite a lot of GR events as well recently, and they have a store and websites for that too.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-11-2022, 03:02 AM
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A left-behind kettle reappearing through melting snow at the end of winter.
K-1 & F 35-70, @70mm f/4.5
 Cold kettle by -savoche-, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-05-2022, 08:09 AM
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A quick snapshot while being dragged along by the ski lift.
K-3 + F 35-70mm
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-21-2022, 08:47 AM
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Be careful: it was a metering impact what killed the dinosaurs wasn't it?
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-31-2022, 10:17 AM
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Why not the 28-105? I’ve also used the DA 18-135mm on a K-1 with great results.
Edit: I missed the need for aperture ring. That said I do have a gently used SMC-A 28-135mm Macro that served me well on a coast to coast family trip I am willing to part with.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-31-2022, 09:34 PM
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I've had some good results from the Pentax 24-90mm. Its a film era lens so it covers fullframe and has an aperture ring. I also have a Tamron 28-200, also film era. The Tamron feels a little better built than the Pentax, but optically not as good. Both can easily be found for under $200.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-31-2022, 06:43 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-31-2022, 07:52 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-20-2022, 02:46 PM
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A camera that exists and doesn't exist. One must attempt to take a picture of a cat to find out the camera's true state.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-20-2022, 02:08 PM
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I was thinking of photographing my lottery ticket.
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