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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-21-2020, 08:35 AM
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 Quote: Text message essay baffles British teacher
Monday, March 3, 2003 Posted: 10:17 AM EST (1517 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An English essay written by a British teenager in text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among teachers that literacy standards are under threat.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Monday that the 13-year-old's teacher could not decipher what the youngster had written.
"I could not believe what I was seeing. The page was riddled with hieroglyphics, many of which I simply could not translate," the teacher told the newspaper.
The girl's essay began: "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc."
Which in translation from text messaging shorthand would read: "My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It's a great place."
Judith Gillespie, of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, told the newspaper a decline in grammar and written English was partly linked to the text messaging craze.
"Pupils think orally and write phonetically," she said. .....
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-20-2020, 11:39 AM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-12-2019, 08:04 AM
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There would be much ridicule of Pentax if they were to release a rehashed 60-250 as a new "FF" lens.
Also, the 1:7 max magnification is unacceptable and would be embarassing for a "new" lens. It might also be an impediment to new future technologies Pentax may introduce.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-03-2019, 06:27 PM
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I have, on more than one occasion, referred to the DA15 as The Precious.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-03-2019, 02:32 PM
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I don't disagree with you. I think that eventually Pentax will have a streamlined lens catalog and a fairly basic decision tree will lead the user to the right lens.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-03-2019, 02:06 PM
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It is, but that's in part because we're in the transition period between SMC and HD. I doubt we're going to get another production run of the SMC lenses.
And, of course, some of those lenses are APS-C only.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-03-2019, 10:35 AM
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Typical Pentaxian, content with your Legacy Literature.
:lol:
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-03-2019, 08:22 AM
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Maybe, but then I wonder about how many potential buyers refrain from buying into a system they see as too limited? Even if the "limitation" doesn't directly affect them, the perception that there is not a complete, modern lens ecosystem gives people pause.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-02-2019, 03:11 PM
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Funny, you quoted me just before I deleted my post after realizing @Kunzite said they same thing 7 hours earlier than I did. :lol:
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-14-2019, 03:25 PM
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It seems like you are at least a little fixated on marketshare, and we have seen in recent financial disclosures and marketshare data that marketshare ≠ profitability. If Pentax is not losing money with ~ 2% marketshare then they are doing a nice job treading water during this period of ILC camera "market adjustment".
Pentax has made it clear, for years, that they have no intention of entering the APS-C/FF MILC market. They've indicated this in product releases - "MILC Fighter KP" - and in interviews. There is, of course, always a slight chance they may surprise us, and as a K-01 fan I would love a new Pentax MILC, but to expect such a thing is not living in reality.
As far as "...little effort and imagination they were willing to put into FF development"... it's difficult to take this seriously. The K-1 was groundbreaking, laden with features and innovation for such a bargain price. The MK II may be a tepid follow-up, but that tends to happen, and "marketshare leader" Canon has certainly fallen into that trap mulitple times, as have other brands.
From your posts it sounds as though you made a mistake choosing Pentax, so really the best solution is to sell or trade-in your Pentax gear and move to another brand. It's that simple.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
08-26-2019, 05:59 PM
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IDK about the Sony, but the Pentax K-S1 does not have an anti-aliasing filter. That's why it has Pentax's "AA Filter Simulator".
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
08-26-2019, 05:56 PM
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A few years ago there was a fiasco with DXOMark wrt their lens sharpness ratings involving a Panasonic m4/3 camera - I forget which one, IIRC it was a 16MP model. The issue was that lens sharpness ratings were surprisingly low, compared with similar m4/3 models. More than a few m4/3 users did their own comparisons and found the DXO ratings to be bunk. I don't know if DXO ever issued a mea culpa.
I like DXO's software; however their "lens softness" correction module bizarrely over-sharpens the corners of my DA 21 Ltd photos.
I wouldn't be surprised if new, premium macro lenses like the Sony FE 90/2.8 out-resolve the Pentax 100/2.8 Macro, but the difference is not going to be that great.
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