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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-26-2012, 06:17 PM
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Oh heck no I'm not offended :) just the opposite in fact I was pleasantly surprised. Its nice to know there are others out there that have to deal with it as I do. Also, despite that I've only had a few posts over the years and am not known on here, people took the time to go into detail about it all and urge me to get medical treatment for it. To me, it is a great demonstration of the awesome people and wonderful community I've found here to be willing to help someone in that position. It was my fault actually, and my apologies go out for my lack of clarity. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-25-2012, 05:40 PM
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"Why you think diabetes is not treatable is unclear - as I said above, getting some other medical advice would be advisable.
But please DO something positive about your condition - now....! "
Regards, Dave.
I think may have come across the wrong way about this earlier...I do take insulin, both fast acting and long acting as well as medication for it. Its at night when I get up and eat while sleep walking without realizing it that is the problem . I found this on the net on web md:
"Although it is not as common as sleepwalking, nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED) can occur during sleepwalking. People with this disorder eat while they are asleep. They often walk into the kitchen and prepare food without a recollection for having done so. If NS-RED occurs often enough, a person can experience weight gain and increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes."
Thanks for your input though, not treating diabetes is an extremely early death sentence thats for sure
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-19-2012, 07:51 AM
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Thanks to everyone for the continued input. Exwintech has got me thinking I better go do something about this and go back to the doctor. I_trax I think has convinced me the k30 would be the best call. It looks like he/she has owned evey Pentax known to man and the most experience with each. If Exwintech is still reading, believe it or not and I swear on this....my biggest problem is sleepwalking...but the really weird part is I eat and am not at all fully awake and dont remember it at all the next morning. I dont make a full meal in my sleep or whatever, but its usually whatever I see that is left out...say if there is a box of cereal not put away, I'll eat a big bowl of this and get up in the morning not remembering it and barely able to function b/c my blood sugar is so damn high it wont register on my meter (over 600). Thank god I dont know how to cook so I dont think I would ever turn the stove on to use it and burn the house down. I didnt know this was happening for a long time until one night my wife woke me up and I was so disorientated b/c next thing I know I'm sitting on the couch eating something and didnt recall how i got there. I've learned to compensate and we actually have to hide things, say if she got a dozen doughnuts that morning we would either have to throw them out, or put the box in a cabinet out of site. If I dont see it out, I've found I wont touch it. I told my doc about this and at first he thought I was joking with him, until one night on my birthday actually we forgot to put the cake up and it was under a glass top. Needless to say I finished off in the night, didnt remember it, got up for work and started driving to work...my blood sugar wasnt high b/c I must have did this just before my alarm went off and it wasnt in my system yet. I always stop at speedway for a coffee and on my way out my hands started going numb and I started to become disorientated. I went back in and started to tell the cashier to call an ambulance and I could barely get it out...so I ended up in the hospital and after that I think he finally took me seriously...This type of thing does have a diagnosis, but there isnt much you can do about it other than taking precautionary measures and not leave anything out. I found I have to leave something out b/c if I dont, I go looking for something and start going through the cabinets ( found this out b/c some mornings I would get up and just about every door was left open) so if I leave say a jar of peanut butter out, I'll end up eating that instead of looking for something and finding something with alot of sugar in it.
I wish I could be doing something that was productive in my sleep, say cleaning the house instead of eating...lol..but at least I'm not going outside and standing in the street in nothing but my boxers. Ive finally got around to getting a few webcams and for a few days I'm going to set them up in the kitchen and living room and have them turn on with motion detection. My wife has told me some nights I stay in bed, other nights I do this a few times a night so it will be interesting to see what I come up with.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-18-2012, 03:30 PM
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Thank you for the link to the database, very informative. As for the focusing screens, I dont know why I didnt think of that before. I think if I did that I've read the katzeye company will install it, but it makes me nervous knowing someone else other than Pentax or myself would be messing with it so I would give it a shot to install it myself. I'm sure there are alot of youtube vids showing an install. Thanks for the input so far everyone
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-18-2012, 11:39 AM
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Its been almost two years since I posted anything...about a month after my last post I was in a severe car accident and in ICU for three months and coded twice having to be revived. It has taken me this long to feel almost 100% however I am now diabetic after losing my pancreas due to internal damage from the impact. If you are diabetic, you know like I do now it can affect your vision both chronically and acutely. The acute problems are due to the lens in your eyes becoming inflamed as a consequence of high glucose levels in the blood and from time to time I get this where as before I had 20/20 vision.
and so for the question...I wanted a k5 even way back then and now with the price drop I can afford it...and then...out comes the k30. I'm concerned about the mirror flop issue first off and wonder how many people out there have ran into this and those that haven't. Everyone knows when something goes wrong they make it well known, however if everything is right nothing is said. I just wonder about the percentage of k5s out there have this, or maybe all will at some point?
Second question...I know the k30 has focus peaking and this may help with the visual problems I have intermittently, however I'm still drawn towards the k5 for the benefits it offers over the k30 (both have pros and cons of course). How hard is it to use a manual lens and achieve good focus on the k5 without focus peaking?
To sum it up:
how many out there have good k5's and have not had the dreaded mirror flop issue?
How hard is it to focus manual lenses on the k5?
Thanks to everyone
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