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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
08-16-2008, 07:39 PM
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I'm finally back from the trip to Shizuoka. We climbed the Mt. Fuji there, and I've taken some pictures of the sunrise with K200D with SMC-K 28/3.5 attached. I'm still learning with DSLR, but still I hope you'll like it.
You can find some more pics here
Oh, and I will be very grateful for any comment on those pictures. It is very hard to get better without any feedback :). Thank you!
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
08-09-2008, 07:25 PM
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That will be a little problem, because most of my father's collection is still in Czech, and I am on the other side of the world. Anyway, I have SMC K 28/3.5 with me here, and this one of the pictures I took through it.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-09-2008, 08:13 AM
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Thanks to you all for all the supportive messages.
Yesterday I had a visit to a Pentax service center and they said it is a definitely a body malfunction and it will take 2 weeks to get it back to the shape. They lent me another camera though, so I won't miss the chance to take picture of a dawn at the peak of Mt. Fuji next week. I hope I'll manage to take a nice one to post it here :)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-07-2008, 07:41 AM
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Thanks for the idea. I checked contacts and cleaned them with cloth. I also checked the aperture acturator lever. When there is no lens mounted, it sticks out in about half of its hole. When I release the shutter, slides up and back slightly. When I mount the lens, it doesn't work.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-07-2008, 07:14 AM
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Hello Sinus007, Blue,
thanks for quick answers.
I tried to reset both camera settings and custom function settings, with no effect. After reset, not FA 50/1.4 nor kit lens doesn't work. Funny thing, I just found that they don't even autofocus, even though the switch is set on AF. When I set aperture ring as permitted, those lenses do AF, but I can still take pics only wide open.
So I guess there is really something wrong with either camera or firmware. There was no FW update yet, or was it?
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
08-07-2008, 02:23 AM
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Hello friends,
as a new member I'd like to introduce myself. Name's Martin, I'm from Czech but I live in Japan at the moment. I don't have much history of using DSLRs, actually I've always been that P&S type of guy. Recently I realized I'd like to try to make some nice pictures for a change, and give our old family glass (it's like family gold, you know) some use again, so I chose k200D as my backdoor to the world of DSLR.
So, here I am, a complete beginner, ready to learn and to meet interesting people. I have some pictures on flickr already, and I will welcome any commentary, I know I have lots to learn yet :).
Flickr: Ghengiskun's Photostream
よろしくお願いします！
Martin
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-06-2008, 11:53 PM
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Hello everyone, I am sorry to write my first post as a new thread, but I have this problem:
I bought k200d about month ago and was very happy with it. After playing with the kit lens that came with it, I put it to a drawer, changed the aperture ring setting in custom menu to permitted and used the camera with my old manual K and M series lenses. Yesterday I finally managed to buy FA 50/1.4, which has an automatic aperture setting on the ring, and after I put it on and changed the aperture setting from permitted back to forbidden, my camera stopped working with automatic lenses. I tried to put the kit lens on my body, and I have the same problem. Nothing happens. Camera does work without lens (mirror moves, picture is taken), with aperture ring permited, but in this case both FA lens and DA lens do fire wide open, even when I am using manual mode. IE, I can't control aperture settings by body, which is a problem especially with DA lenses, which do not have aperture rings.
Anyway, I think it is body defect. But because I am not familiar with this camera very much yet, I'd like to hear your opinion on this matter. Maybe I just overlooked something. Or did any one of you experienced similar problem, is a cure for it?
Sorry again to bother with problems in my first post. I am looking forward to your answers and I hope next time I'll be able to post something happier than this :).
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