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Forum: General Photography
03-29-2022, 07:43 AM
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Would depend on *how* the gear was insured. My policy has a "replacement value" rider. And that means getting whatever is current at the time (had some tools stolen and they were fantastic about it).
So...if I lost my bodies and lenses, I probably could afford several different systems (of varying brands - bought gently used).
But...at the end of it all, I'd stick with Pentax. I'm already past the steepest part of the learning curve with most of my gear. And I shoot to shoot. I shoot because I enjoy it. Because shooting takes me somewhere good.
And I'm getting older. I want to shoot...not to spend several years mastering the nuances of new systems and UIs. Figuring out the quirks and how to make them work for me.
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Forum: General Talk
04-29-2021, 07:55 AM
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Will pass the 200,000 mile mark on an '05 WRX sometime this month. Some of the roads it's seen... Other vehicle is a Saabaru. Fun little monster.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
01-18-2022, 09:47 AM
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In reading this thread, it's amazing how much of it I find irrelevant. Not the comments. I've enjoyed those. Very insightful people on this forum and in this thread.
But more at the notion of photography being "dead". It may be for most others in the world. Dunno. Strange space to be in when everyone has a camera in his pocket. But for me...the way I live my life...if a day goes by when I'm not shooting and learning more, I really regret it (and the winter's rough for me that way). This is the only 2022 that I'll ever have...and I've got a few cameras and a pile of lenses. And it's going to be a great year for photography for me - dead or not. (Just got back from a winter Yellowstone trip.)
And the other thing...a certification? I need someone else to tell me whether I'm adjudicated worthy to shoot? And I've got to be a master of Photoshop to be a shooter?
Maybe I'm getting old. But I just don't give much of a darn what others think any more. I care lots if I'm getting more and more keepers...and that the keepers are getting better and better. But the rest of it? Nope. Not a bit.
YMMV. But you all have cameras and lenses. You've all taken remarkable shots. You've all improved with time and work. That matters. Not much else does.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-11-2021, 08:43 PM
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Love, love, love this lens. Handheld at 450mm on a K3. One of thousands I could post.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-12-2021, 05:09 AM
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That's ice the one is standing on. And there's ice in the foreground. They're fishing through the ice.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-11-2021, 03:19 PM
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The thing that keeps me in Pentax is my library of lenses (started in 1985). I couldn't switch if I wanted to.
So...if I were Pentax and thinking about the next generation, I'd come up with something unique at the entry level...and get the next generation hooked into the brand that way.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
04-30-2021, 06:31 AM
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Thanks so much for the replies. I think, for now (after having read a number of threads here and elsewhere), I'm going to go with the Kingston React Plus. It's a v90 that's supposed to have very fast write speed as well as be very reliable. I've shot SanDisk nearly exclusively for a while and liked those. But the price point and performance on the Kingston makes the most sense to me for this purchase. Can't wait to see how the combo does!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-27-2019, 08:01 PM
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Tamron 90mm macro on my K-3:
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
12-27-2019, 07:58 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-11-2019, 08:44 AM
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Yes, way more value than 1.8K on the Subaru. In fact, my last service was about $1,500 U.S. (including a set of new tires) and I was happy to pay it.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-10-2019, 09:01 PM
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So there might be a compromise thought here:
Used to be that 100K miles on a car and it really didn't owe you any money. It was "worn out". You can argue about that, but the notion of "duty cycles" is real.
With that in mind, a couple of my K-x bodies have more than 150K actuations (I think - ballpark/close). I think four of the six are at or over 100K. That's lots of camera miles.
So, if I have a K-3 that's at 120K or so and gets silly, do I get a shutter rebuild (no idea about the cost)? Or find a "low mileage" one and replace it?
The difference that I'm seeing here isn't the idea of "too expensive to fix" but, instead "worn out" - doesn't owe me any money - have extracted the value from it in a way that satisfies me.
(And, of course, there's the notion of "obsolete". My K-x bodies, when compared (if only by MP) to the K-3s or K-1 are, effectively, "obsolete". Mechanically sound, perhaps - but by many standards obsolete (in a way that a '77 John Deere tractor may not be).
Lenses, on the other hand, don't have "duty cycles" (well, the AF may...and the zoom mechanism). They don't "wear out" nor do they become "obsolete". My 50mm M 1.2 takes stunning shots when I get lucky with the focus (obsolete?? maybe?).
I'm yammering now. But the point that I'm trying to make is that if I get a prosumer body past 100K clicks, it's returned its value and then some. Not "disposable" but "spent".
(in other news, my '05 WRX has 180K on it...still blasting along...)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-09-2019, 01:47 PM
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I don't mind at all. I hate swapping lenses.
I think I had/have six K-x bodies before finally making the jump to K-3. I have four of those, all of which I got used (inexpensively). I'd rather be a generation or so behind with four or so bodies - so I don't have to swap lenses.
Not sure what will become of the K-x fleet. Gave one to a neighbor who was interested in getting started.
Think it's time, finally, for me to be getting into some K-1s. As I can manage.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
08-28-2018, 11:20 AM
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You all are confirming what we all already know: it's not the camera.
Really excellent work in here. A pleasure to look at what people have posted.
You all could make good art with a Brownie with a light leak ;)
(and that's not to take a THING away from the K-50...love mine and wasn't in the same universe as the intent of this post)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
04-13-2018, 01:12 PM
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Just received a new-to-me K-50 in the mail today. Couple of quick and dirty test shots with the 50-200mm kit lens at 200mm and wide open.
I think I'm going to be pleased...
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-08-2018, 05:18 AM
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Thanks for the help, Maw. I ended up printing out a sheet linked elsewhere - served better than the one I'd made myself. Biggest question was how to get it into debug mode, but that thread I linked had the info in it. I had read too hastily.
It's still a little squirley on being dialed in 100 percent. Even on a tripod, each shot (100mm pentax 2.8 macro lens @ 2.8) is just slightly different when I refocus. Only minimally, but there's 1/2 line or so variation. I suspect that has to be normal, though. It's performing way better than it did.
Thanks again.
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