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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-31-2018, 09:12 AM
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Our TV just showed fireworks in North Korea celebrating the New Year - must be 2019 in Japan now also ..... so any day now, these rumors will become news.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-22-2018, 07:52 AM
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People complained, and still complain, about design of the camera - but in all honesty, I don't believe design was its downfall.
K-01 didn't have EVF and failed to succeed
"Q" didn't have EVF and never "caught on" in the west
EOS-M didn't have EVF and never "caught on" in the west - Canon persisted and later "M"s did better - with EVF
NEX didn't have EVF and never "caught on" in the west - A6000 was first true success in that line and it did have an EVF
I believe there is a definite pattern here. Even with Newson design, a later K-0n could have succeeded, a later "Q" could have succeeded, but Pentax was unable/unwilling to persist the way Canon and Sony did.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-21-2018, 07:07 PM
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Pentax learned the wrong lesson from the K-01.
They should have learned "MILC needs EVF".
They seem to have learned "MILC not for us."
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-21-2018, 06:52 PM
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I have a WR KP - I am happy. :D:D:D
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-21-2018, 05:20 PM
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After 6 months of using my Q-7, I wasn't willing to have another primary camera lacking a viewfinder.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-21-2018, 07:18 AM
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10 years does seem like a long time for a digital body. In the age of film, I used my Super Program for over 12 years, and the Canon Elan that followed it for over 11 years, but a film camera allowed me to upgrade the sensor by changing the yellow box I took it from. Incidentally, the 'plastic' Canon EF lens kitted with the Elan was still serving as my "walk around" lens when I retired the Elan .... unfortunately I lost it a few years later in an embarrassing mishap that started with my tripping over a root ..... I hope the squirrels at the bottom of the nearby ravine found a good use for it.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-21-2018, 07:09 AM
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I have been using my KP + PLM lens with the smallest grip available for the KP. I don't "balance" the system - I hold the body in the right hand and the lens in the left hand, just as I was taught to do forty years ago with my Pentax ME/SE, my first SLR. I don't hold the camera firmly ever - I cradle it gently in my hands {I also always have the strap over my neck for security}. I guess I'm just an "old timer"
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-21-2018, 07:02 AM
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I had a battery grip for my second Canon Rebel. The Rebel died after 1-1/2 years - long after I jettisoned the battery grip ..... it handled larger that it looked, and it looked roughly that size. I speak from experience when I say that the Super Program is the right size for me.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-20-2018, 07:56 PM
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The past that matters, IMHO, is that Pentax users of FF systems have lots of lenses to choose from, but most of them are over dozen years old and many don't support AF, while Pentax users of APS-C systems have more modern lenses.Thus, although the lens they're interested in talking about is marked "DA*", I'm expecting to see more lenses marked "DFA" or "DFA*" released in the next year.
added: I believe "Glass is forever" is basically a myth, because although old lenses are still usable on Pentax cameras, they lack so much that most of us don't want to depend on them.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-19-2018, 08:03 PM
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Back to the subject of this thread - we should be getting some real news in another month or so.
Then we can talk about the future instead of reminiscing about the past.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-18-2018, 09:35 AM
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certainly
People sometimes make the comparison between cell phones and 'instant film', but personally I don't believe that comparison works very well - personally I believe that a cell phone camera is more like an Instamatic. For years I had some kind of Instamatic .... in 1976 I even purchased a 110 Instamatic (*) that I carried everywhere with me for five years until I purchased an Olympus 'clamshell' camera. I did keep the negatives, some of which I scanned as part of my nine-year 'turn everything into digital' project'. I have no idea what my daughters will do with my photography, but I have documented everything as well as I can, and they get to decide, just as they get to decide what to do with the sculpture in wax I made in the 8th grade and was at my mother's bedside until the day she died. My father-in-law had kept a New York Times from the day my wife was born, but we recycled it because of the way it was deteriorating, and each generation will make decisions like that - because of space if nothing else - but digital photographs have the possibility of lasting many years because they take up very little space and have the potential of being continually renewed.
(*) Yes, 110 film photos are worse than 35mm film photos, but 35mm film photos are 'worse than' what is produced by almost any modern digital camera. My photography is motivated by an understanding that my world is constantly changing, so I "photograph today before tomorrow comes and everything changes", and I don't have a 'way back' machine.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-18-2018, 07:55 AM
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I don't understand your point. Depending on your definition of "short time". you could equally make that claim about people and virtually anything they make .... but this is not a philosophy forum.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 05:12 PM
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In the old days they were metal, with black leather (*) wrapped around part of it; my KP has the same look-and-feel. As I have recounted several times here, when the KP arrived, my wife thought I was showing her the Super Program for some reason - I had to show her both cameras at the same time before she actually understood that they were different.
(*) My first Pentax, an ME/SE, had brown leather. It stopped being reliable after being exposed to spray at Niagara Fall, so I dumped it when we moved; now I wish I had paid for moving those few pounds.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 04:58 PM
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and some of us easily tire of solid black and yearn for the time when metal parts of a camera showed and were allowed to be 'metal colored';
I think my old Super Program and my new 'silver' KP make nice 'related' ends on my signature photo.
Note: I had hoped to get a silver/black Q-7 and a white/black K-50, but the practicalities of purchasing used put a yellow/black Q-7 and a blue/black K-30 in the middle.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 03:53 PM
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Yes! DSLRs don't have to cede SMALL to other designs!!
added: Battery grips allow them to make both of us happy.
Back when I was a Canon user, I got a battery grip for my second Rebel. When the Rebel died twenty months after I got it, I had already abandoned the grip.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 02:19 PM
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Yeah, it worked. @Docwrn posted a photo here of the controls all lit up. That is not the issue .... I would hate to lug something that size around with me - the Super Program is the "perfect camera" from my perspective.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 10:04 AM
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@Asahi man has implied that a lot more than just APS-C camera and lens are in the pipeline - he saw a lot of FF development on the part of the internal roadmap he's seen.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 09:48 AM
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That body is way, way too large for me.
My Super Program {left side of my signature photo} remains the camera I measure all others against.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 09:34 AM
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I'm fairly sure Pentax understands that their regular users are unwilling to give up the upper panel LCD, twin SD slots, larger buffer, etc. With my prior experience in using film cameras, the KP has been great for me, even with the 55-300mm PLM lens; I have my finger on the shutter button as I lift the camera to my eye, so I didn't even know that placement was "an issue".
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 05:22 AM
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The current rounded all-black body style was introduced by Canon with their T90 .... just before Pentax started their long 'downhill' slide from prominence. To me, the 'silver' editions - especially with the new squared-off body style introduced with the K-1 - evokes memories of the cameras back when Pentax was at the top.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2018, 05:12 AM
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You forgot the smiley face.
I've never understood why so many people were enamored with the K-1000. To me, it was a large 'clunky' camera more appropriate for Praktica .... my svelte 1983 Super Program is a much better example of what Pentax could do.
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