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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 12 Hours Ago  
Explain this statement about Pentax AW weather sealing to me.
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 63
Views: 1,556
I was thinking some sort of internal ducting in the lens to allow air exchange without pumping it through the body. It would complicate the design.
Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome 21 Hours Ago  
would the HD PENTAX-D FA★50mmF1.4 SDM AW be a big step up from the HD PENTAX DA 70mm
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 10
Views: 306
They are very different lenses. I don't really think one can replace the other. On APS-C I always found 50mm to be a little short for what I wanted a short telephoto for while the 70LTD was just about right for nearly all my short tele work.
For me, short telephoto = studio portraiture, so keep that in mind.
I wouldn't bother with the DFA*50/1.4 unless I was planning a format change. The DA*55/1.4 is an excellent lens. I think it's one that doesn't get as much attention as it deserves.
And it's a lot less expensive.
Forum: General Talk 21 Hours Ago  
Heads up about Ford wheel nuts.
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 71
Views: 1,517
My BMW had lug bolts like that.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 1 Day Ago  
Finding it tough going…
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 85
Views: 3,047
I think any time I've used live view I've been using manual focus. I've never seen the full operation.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 1 Day Ago  
Production of black Pentax K-3 Mark III stopped???!!!
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 88
Views: 4,665
My mistake. I don't know how I missed that. I'm going with I thought it was one of the limited release ones.:)
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 1 Day Ago  
Production of black Pentax K-3 Mark III stopped???!!!
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 88
Views: 4,665
Explore the implications of what was said rather than the implications of collective imaginations.

The OP was very clear that the K3III + 20-40 LTD package has been deleted, nothing was mentioned about the individual items.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 1 Day Ago  
Finding it tough going…
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 85
Views: 3,047
I'm pretty sure the mirror cycles to allow the metering sensor to have visibility if that is required and to allow the sensor to reset. The mirror cycle action in liveview is far to quick to allow AF.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 1 Day Ago  
Production of black Pentax K-3 Mark III stopped???!!!
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 88
Views: 4,665
From the OP:
K-3 Mark III + 20-40 (Black)
is listed as a discontinued SKU.

So that package won't be available any longer, but really, nothing is being said about discontinuing either the K3-3 or the 20-40LTD, only that the package has been deleted.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 1 Day Ago  
D FA21/2.4 on PZ-1p film camera - allegedly controlling the diaphragm? How?
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 45
Views: 1,041
That's because that lens has an aperture control lever. We lost lens backwards compatibility when they started making lenses with no aperture rings and lost it entirely when they started making lenses that didn't have a mechanical aperture coupler.
Well, really, we lost lens backwards compatability when they introduced the K-mount.
It's just the way it is.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 1 Day Ago  
When 150mp isnt enough
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 4
Views: 240
So much for cheap data storage.....
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 1 Day Ago  
Pentax Monochrome Autofocus Problem
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 13
Views: 693
The older you get the more self deprecating humor is needed.
Forum: General Talk 1 Day Ago  
Adventures with the USPS
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 13
Views: 502
A couple of years ago I ordered some calibration tools for my table saw from a gent in Utah. The USPS tracking on that package showed it coming to Canada via China for some reason. Eventually it showed up, but not until about 5 months after the guy had sent me out a new set of tools which didn't get misdirected.
These things happen from time to time.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 1 Day Ago  
Explain this statement about Pentax AW weather sealing to me.
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 63
Views: 1,556
On a lens like the 150-450 it probably would have made sense to put some internal valves in the lens to prevent excessive air from being drawn into and out of the body, but they chose not to.
It is what it is.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 1 Day Ago  
D FA21/2.4 on PZ-1p film camera - allegedly controlling the diaphragm? How?
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 45
Views: 1,041
Pentax didn't change the communication protocol. The DFA21LTD is the same old A series protocol that has been in use since the mid 1980s. What has changed is the way the lenses are operated. Mechanical AF control from the body is gone and now in lens motors are being used.
The same holds for aperture control. The mechanical interface is gone, so bodies that depend on it can no longer control the aperture.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 3 Days Ago  
Finding it tough going…
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 85
Views: 3,047
BIF photography has a lot in common with sports photography in that you need to know what behaviours the subject is likely to manifest. If you don't you can have the fastest and most reactive camera in the world and all you will get is the south end of a northbound bird in perfect focus.
All photographic endeavors will be improved by learning something about the nature of the subject. When I was making my income shooting portraits I found it handy to know something about how to relate to people for example.
I think sometimes that the technology we use gets in the way because it allows people to think (at least until cold hard reality slaps them upside the head) that they don't need to know anything, that the camera will do it all for them.
And it's not like as if the camera manufactures are doing anything to dissuade people of this foolishness.
Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups 3 Days Ago  
Canadian Rockies (Banff, Lake Louise, etc) and Seattle (only one day)
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 21
Views: 662
There was some guy in Ontario who started a bunch of fires deliberately last year. Apparently he wanted to see if a forest would burn if he put a match to it.
Some wildfires are always started by people. Carelessly tossing a cigarette butt out the window, letting a campfire get away, things like that, as well as some arson, but the majority are lightning strikes.
The problem Alberta is going to have this year is that they still have fires burning from last season just waiting to flare up again, and this will be in addition to any new fires. They aren't being helped by the fact they have annihilated their firefighting budget and don't have the manpower on the ground to fight the number of fires they can expect this year.
BC does a better job of fire prevention, but there are a lot of places that are not accessible by overland which makes it harder to fight wildfires.
You are going early enough that wildfires shouldn't be too much of a concern.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 3 Days Ago  
Finding it tough going…
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 85
Views: 3,047
When I was in high school in the 1970s I was, for a couple of years, the defacto student photographer for most of the school events. A lot of this was football. Back then it was all manual focus and manual exposure.
What I found was that to be good at what I was doing I needed to know something about what I was photographing, and I think that still holds true today.
People think that field sports are unpredictable, and they certainly can be, but they aren't as unpredictable as people like to think.
Learn your sport and you will be able to predict with a greater degree of success where the camera needs to be pointed.
Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups 4 Days Ago  
More Canadian Trip Q: (or more generally, money exchange best practices)
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 27
Views: 489
The point is how the institution deals with the exchange, not the comparative face value.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 4 Days Ago  
Does K-1 write to two SD cards simultaneously?
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 35
Views: 1,187
The point is, it doesn't matter. If the write time doubles when saving to two cards all that matters is the write time has doubled. Whether this is caused by sequential writing or because a Gypsy inside the camera has to go get another pencil because one wore out, the net result is the same.

It might matter to the nerds, but they don't seem to know what they are talking about either and are just batting around Star Trek style technobabble.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 4 Days Ago  
I want to support Pentax, but…
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 250
Views: 8,172
Yup. I've found the best seasoning to be frozen hash browns and grapeseed oil for carbon steel, and for cast iron I use butter in place of the oil. For some reason the carbon steel works better with oil than fat.
Forum: General Photography 5 Days Ago  
Black and White Question
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 21
Views: 877
A monochrome camera doesn't have a colour matrix filter (Bayer filter) over the sensor, so it is only recording in B&W.
A regular camera has a colour filter, so it is recording in colour and then that is being converted to monochrome via best guess software.
Apparently the monochrome camera gives a truer monochrome rendition.
Also, the monochrome camera might have better sharpness because of the lack of the colour filter.
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 5 Days Ago  
Pentax K-1 III specs discussion
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 153
Views: 10,100
I've spent the past couple of years predicting a fall 2024 (spring 2024 if you are on the south side of the planet) release for a K1-3. I'm still hopeful this will come to pass, but I won't be terribly surprised if it doesn't.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 5 Days Ago  
I want to support Pentax, but…
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 250
Views: 8,172
When was the last time you were on a cooking forum and watched the fur fly over brands of pans?
Doesn't everyone know that Made In carbon steel pans are the best?
Forum: Pentax Full Frame 5 Days Ago  
Pentax K-1 III specs discussion
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 153
Views: 10,100
Not at the moment.
Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups 5 Days Ago  
More Canadian Trip Q: (or more generally, money exchange best practices)
Posted By Wheatfield
Replies: 27
Views: 489
He wasn't a jerk about it, just matter of fact. I didn't give him the opportunity to be a jerk about it either.
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