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Forum: General Photography
02-01-2022, 12:05 PM
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Still got my K-7 and use all the time.
Love that little thing despite what everyone said about it :)
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
05-05-2016, 05:29 AM
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Why don't you get drunk again - only this time go shopping online and buy a replacement lens
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-14-2017, 07:20 PM
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still !!
nice piccies though
:)
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-24-2016, 03:39 PM
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Hi,
It won't fix your actual question but you could also try an Hoya intensifier filter.
I am sure that people have pros and cons about such things but it is a cheap way to reduce some of that yellow/pinky background haze from city lights and to see the stars more clearly.
cheers
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
10-20-2016, 07:29 PM
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Hi,
there is a site pentaxcamerarepair.com - in pine grove CA that offers a $100 modification that they say fixes the problem. I have never used them but it seems like a reasonable idea.
Anyone have any experience with these guys. Just for future reference as I have a K-30 and am dreading it not working one day.
Cheers
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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
08-30-2016, 03:12 PM
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Just like the American Constitution is really just the Magna Carta with a couple of new things under the hood - like prohibition and then not prohibition
:)
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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
08-10-2016, 08:50 AM
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Very nice picture for such a high ISO straight out of the camera. I assume it is cropped. What lens are you using.
My hummers are really shy so I have to stand quite a way off and use a 55-300 to get close but I use an aging K7 which only goes to "cough" iso6400 but is pretty noisy up there but here in CA we get way too much of the solar rays so it is easy to use low ISOs
cheers
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
07-11-2016, 05:06 AM
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I thought that this could be cured by exposure to UV. Alternatively he could have just asked the seller for a refund :)
Mind you It is a terrific tribute to the construction of these old Takumars, It actually seemed to hold up pretty well. I have a broken nikkor 18-55mm - I doubt that there would be anything left of it after such a beating!
Does seem like a terrible waste though.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-09-2016, 06:41 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-06-2016, 07:25 PM
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If you want to get rid of the K3II cheap
:-)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
04-28-2016, 06:20 PM
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Just tested my K30 and it does exactly the same thing
Dial turned to M mode - hit the iso button and select auto ISO and lo and behold the camera switches to TAv mode (which in all fairness is M mode with auto ISO selected). Dial still in M mode hit the ISO button and select the manual ISO an the camera switches back to M mode - TADA!! never noticed that before; cool feature really !!
Seems like your camera is good and unfortunately you spent money needlessly on the NIKON - but if you like the NIKON then you have a pentax backup which you now know how to operate.
cheers
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-27-2016, 04:45 AM
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Not sure about the reversal of the alcohol burn but as for the cleaning I have been using a kinetronics speck grabber. Cost about $5 I think and it seems to be pretty good at getting those individual fibres. Of course I think it is most useful with the screen in place and not fibre on the camera (prism) side of things.
Might be worth a try - it's pretty cheap so you don't stand to lose much and it is useful for those specks that a blower won't shift off the mirror also.
cheers
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
04-25-2016, 01:52 PM
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I've found that removing the lens cap first lets you use lower ISO values
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-08-2016, 01:11 PM
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All I heard was
"blah blah blah... - time to buy a K1
:)
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