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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
18 Hours Ago
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and this brings us back to the question of how many people would pay what such a thing would cost? A company like Ricoh which has such a thin product line must be very careful in their decision-making.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
1 Day Ago
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I believe the question is more of marketing than of technical issues - whether there are enough of you guys to purchase a K-1iii at the price they would have to charge {I haven’t even purchased a K-1 or a K-3}.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
1 Day Ago
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In my grad student days, I carried a Canon rangefinder camera {a “QL19”} almost everywhere with me - that wasn’t as inconvenient as it sounds because my briefcase was my constant companion - but around the time I got a job, I got a ‘pocketable’ camera.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
1 Day Ago
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I believe that the K-1’s market is unclear right now. I don’t know how much of on upgrade potential customers would expect from a K-1iii …… what they expect may even depend on which customer you talk to. Ricoh’s marketing people may even be exploring this issue. The ‘mission’ of the K-1 may even be unclear now.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
3 Days Ago
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I don’t know if they would gain sales to you - they would definitely lose sales to me. As things stand, I have already said I will purchase their first camera as soon as it comes out; when the Film Project was first announced, I was using a {digital} KP for color pictures - now I am using a “ME” with color film. I may purchase and use a SLR with color film once they get that far. I am using that “ME” with color film and a “Super Program” with B&W film, and both of them are giving satisfactory results right now.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
4 Days Ago
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I purchased used “Spotmatic” and “ME” bodies, and I have a “Super Program”’which I purchased new in 1983 and has never received ‘spa’ service. Neither used camera talked about doing work on the camera. I ran a roll of film thru the “Spotmatic” and are using the other two regularly. Do you know you need camera-seal, or merely guess you might.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
4 Days Ago
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Robert’s Camera is having another ‘Fun Film Friday’ - selling film at a discount as a part of their own Film Project.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
4 Days Ago
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In the spirit of ‘be there’ I have always carried a “pocketable camera”, and in the spirit of ‘F8’, having deep DoF, or AF is important to me. In the Digital Age, I first carried a Canon Elph, then a Pentax Q-7 kit in a small messager bag. Now I’m using my all-auto Olympus “Infinity” {film} camera again, and I’m trying to be patient as I wait for Pentax’s new Film Compact Camera.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
5 Days Ago
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My first Pentax was a “ME”, purchased in 1979; it got damp at Niagara Falls, so I purchased a “Super Program” in 1983. Both were fairly quiet cameras - electronic - unlike the “K1000”, which I considered to be ‘clunky’ …… I recently purchased another “ME” - which I’m using with color film {I am using the “Super Program” again with B&W film}. I would think they would be candidates for the “Camera3” design.
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Forum: Pentax K-01
6 Days Ago
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How many times have you moved that back screen? I used the KP over five years, and moved the back screen only a few times!!!
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Forum: Pentax K-01
6 Days Ago
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I’ve never heard of the KP having solenoid problems!!
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Forum: General Talk
04-09-2024, 09:20 AM
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My Dad purchased a ‘lifetime membership’ to AARP - sometime later they wanted more money, and he replied “l’m still alive”. Sometime after he died he got another request from them, and I replied with something like “He’s no longer alive - what will you do for him???”
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-09-2024, 06:48 AM
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I knew all that - I also know that he experimented a lot, so he may have used 35mm in his last days. You’ll notice I said at the first “it is attributed to” - then had the important stuff. People also use the name Ansel Adams when taking wide aperture artistic shots, even though he used large view cameras and was a founder of the “F/64 group”, which favored overall sharpness. I won’t argue about details - the principals stand.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-08-2024, 03:15 PM
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Of course the genesis of “F8 and be there” is said to be the fact that with a 35mm lens, the DoF will include just about everything beyond 6ft or so, so setting the aperture at F/8, focusing so that everything beyond 6’ will be in focus, and an appropriate shutter speed meant that the photographer was free to look only at what was happening. I would expect to try ISO 400 film, because under the ‘sunny 16 rule’, that would result in a shutter speed of 1/500 and result in even closer focusing than “F8 and be there rule” would, and still be a fairly good film.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-08-2024, 01:45 PM
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As long as you stay out of our way.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-08-2024, 12:25 PM
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The results still aren’t ’Digital perfect’, and the process of getting there still is using film methods - not at all the same thing. You can still use Digital, and not be affected.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-08-2024, 06:25 AM
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Part of the attraction of film is that the mindset is completely different than digital - none of this firing a burst and then looking through the results for a good one.
I’ll use the Pentax Film Camera as I currently use my Olympus “Infinity” - as a ‘secondary camera’ - so most times I won’t mind waiting for a complete roll to be done.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-08-2024, 06:19 AM
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I do question it, continually. The K-1 was the first Digital Pentax Camera that ‘allowed 50mm lens to be a 50mm lens’. A K-1iii would have to be better than its predecessors - not the same thing - and probably at a higher cost.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-06-2024, 05:06 AM
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Not at all. When the body’s control of aperture failed on my K-30, I began using old film lenses so I could control aperture at the lens. I found my Takumar and Pentax-M 28mm lenses worked just fine as “standard” lenses.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-05-2024, 03:22 PM
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“More useful “ and “nicer” than what?? I use Pentax legacy lenses on my Pentax SLRs, and like the effect as compared to any digital camera.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-05-2024, 01:37 PM
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Regardless of where they are now, they will expect to receive Yen for every minute they spend on the 70-135, which will be added to the cost preparing it for another production run. We keep coming back to ‘expected profit’.
Each new lens is a new ‘engineering adventure’. They will have to decide which motor is best for each lens, and then how to do it. In the case of the 55-300, they ended up with a slightly smaller {physically} aperture. It takes a lens designer to do that - people who seem to be in low supply now at Pentax.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-05-2024, 11:08 AM
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I asked mainly because redesign requires a redesigner - someone apparently in short supply at Pentax - so you may have to wait awhile.
This is also when my ‘profitability question’ becomes more relevant. The less profitable a project is seen to be, the longer it may have to wait.,,,
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-05-2024, 10:33 AM
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I’m retired also, but I’ve always had professionals develop my film. My ‘contribution’ has always been ‘setting up the shot’. “Playing with” - “having fun with” - cameras has been one of the goals of Pentax, at least in recent times. People who take the activity too seriously miss out.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-05-2024, 07:20 AM
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When we lived in Kansas we had tumbleweed in our yard. Mostly air - but strong. I had to “hack” it out, then burn it.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-05-2024, 06:47 AM
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I don’t see any point to film ‘simulations’.
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