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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-12-2012, 06:58 AM
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Maybe that Pentax hired a funny-artsy advert agency?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-11-2012, 11:10 AM
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That one should be re-issued! Everywhere!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-07-2012, 01:10 PM
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I'm looking for the Kit Carson Pass group but it's mighty elusive.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-31-2012, 05:35 PM
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About being dissed: The point has been made previously that knowledgeable active toggers have better things to do than bad-mouth your gear. Thus those who dis you/us comprise a different class, the exclusion set: they ain't knowledgeable active toggers. Piss on'em. No, don't bother. Just ignore them and walk away. Haters gonna hate, eh?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-30-2012, 02:40 PM
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The Force is strong with you haha![/QUOTE]
Maybe it's because I'm 76in / 190cm tall and sometimes hang a machete on my belt.
Q: What do you call an 800-pound canary bird?
A: Sir!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-29-2012, 07:56 PM
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When pros see my K20D they say "nice camera". When Canoneers see my K20D they ask if I can fix problems with their cameras. When Nikonians see my K20D they ask me to shoot them with their cameras. Nobody sneers at my K20D. Maybe it's my presence...
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-18-2012, 09:21 AM
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I'm out of Arizona now so it's back down to 5. (My sisters there shoot Olympus.) I'll get up to Tahoe-Reno-Carson in a few days and see if any are visible.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-15-2012, 07:48 AM
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Over 1/2 hour to the nearest WalMart. :)
I'm at 3500 feet on the western slope of the Sierras Nevada about equidistant between the state capitols of California and Nevada, below Kit Carson Pass. I'm in Amateur Amador County, total population about 30k: 10k in prison, 10k in the Gold Rush towns at around 1000 feet elevation, and the other 10k scattered upcountry between the Mother Lode and the Sierra Crest. The nearest CostCos and Trader Joes and camera stores are about 1.5 hours away, towards either capitol city. Bears and pumas wander nearby. I'm not kidding; bears tear up my neighbor's trash, 200 feet from my front door, and pumas prowl my in-laws' property, 2 miles away. And coyote packs howl around the golf course just 1 mile away.
Mileages are deceiving. East-west (up- and down-country) routes are twisty but direct. North-south routes are almost non-existant, not crossing the high ridges and steep canyons. Stockton is 50 miles and 1.5 hours away, downhill; Fiddletown is 20 miles and 1.5 hours away, across the grain of the terrain. Another measure: Driving to that nearest WalMart, 35 miles round-trip, costs almost US$10 in fuel -- and this in a car (crossover) that gets 30mpg on the flats. Thus remoteness is a function not only of distance but also of economics: going anywhere ain't cheap.
We recently spent a 3-month sojourn on the US-MX border, at our old adobe (now sold) in vertical Bisbee Arizona. Driving 1000 miles there and back, and living in town with flatter terrain and closer resources, cost us less than staying here in the forest. THAT's why I'm remote. And rare. Oh, am I rare!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-15-2012, 06:08 AM
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Of course, there *is* a tremendous imbalance in lens availability in my vicinity -- very few excess lenses can be found within 40 miles of me -- but that's because I live in a remote mountain forest, not because I've siphoned-up everything in sight. Not really. I swear it. Honest.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-15-2012, 12:08 AM
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This is a classic case of a Photon Depletion Zone, where so many photos have been shot that the local photon level is seriously low. Other such sites are at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge; across the harbour from the Sydney Opera House; certain vantages of the Eiffel Tower, Mt Fuji, Giza Egypt, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado; much of NYC; and anywhere in the vicinities of Brangelina and any UK Royals.
Photon depletion raises serious environmental concerns. An anomaly would likely occur if photon levels become too imbalanced, and THEN where would we be?!?!? Deep trouble, for sure. I hate anomalies. The universe-birthing Big Bang was an anomaly. We don't need another of THOSE anytime soon, eh? Photographic conditions would be just awful.
How to deal with photon depletion? Whenever you see crowds of toggers peering in the same direction, walk the other way. Switch off your camera. Close your eyes. Capture as few photons as possible. The photosphere you save may be your own.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-13-2012, 12:47 PM
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Comixers are always cutting-edge, natch.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-07-2012, 09:05 PM
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It was rumored that SpAm meant Spanish-Americans -- ground-up Latinos! Just remember: Soylent Green is People!
But I digress. I was in the vertical mining town of Jerome Arizona a few days ago and spied an Oriental fellow with a red Kr. My first sighting! With the 645D I spotted at Ft Bowie a few weeks before, that makes at least two Pentaxians in the entire state of Arizona (not counting Adam and Interested Observer).
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-26-2012, 04:24 PM
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You seem to be a disease vector. Typhoid Mary and Pentax Glenn -- watch out!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-17-2012, 02:42 PM
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That's true for Canon, not Pentax. Pentax PK cameras can mount M42, M39, Leica R, some MF, and T-mount and Adaptall lenses, with appropriate adapters. Exakta-Topcon-mount lenses can be easily adapted. Nikon, OM, and C/Y lenses can be readily modified; some Nikons don't need modding. Petri bayonets can be modded with a bit more trouble. But Canon, Minolta, Konica, Sony, Leica M, 4/3, Pentacon and Fuji bayonets etc can't be used. Nikon is the universal donor. Canon is almost the universal recipient. Reality sucks, eh?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-13-2012, 08:32 PM
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Just saying "CANON RULEZ - PENTAX DROOLZ" won't be enough.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-11-2012, 06:34 PM
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I checked her profile before, and also just now, and I see nothing about banning. Nor about Banning (California) either. Lotsa McFood joints in Banning, and no dinosaurs. But I digress.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-11-2012, 02:09 AM
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Banned? What?
"Well, I'm watching my TV
And a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirt should be
Or that he can't be a man
'Cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarette as me
I can't get no, no no no...
No satisfaction"
--Sir M.Jagger
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-09-2012, 09:02 AM
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Ha. If I sold my lesser-used and -needed and -desired lenses at current market prices, I'd likely raise enough to buy a DA*50-135 -- which isn't on my wish-list anyway. And if I really went into DMF, I'd have to sell virtually *everything*. I'd get to keep a few longer enlarger lenses; they could be bellows-mounted on a 645D. All else: gone gone gone. [/me peers into the void, shudders, draws back...]
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-09-2012, 05:07 AM
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Not to turn this into a WHY I CHOSE PENTAX thread, but... to parallel your points:
(1) I'd been gifted with Minolta MD glass and one Alpha body and lens; and my P&S digicams were all Sony. I've accumulated much Sony gear since 1980. My research and analysis still showed that my first dSLR should be Pentax.
(2) Not relevant. I'd had zero contact with Pentax in past decades.
(3) ABSOLUTELY! I moved from an advanced P&S to dSLR because I wanted ultrawide, superzoom, and speed. Nobody else had anything like the DA10-17 at a reasonable price, and other-brand users bitched more about their cameras, so my first kit was K20D and DA10-17 and DA18-250 and FA50/1.4 and AF360 -- with the K20D out-spec'ing everything else in the price range. That whole package cost less than the body of the next-'better' camera. I'd handled Canikony dSLRs; but I went Pentax without ever fondling one, because the numbers worked out.
And with a bigger budget, I'd be a 645D owner like the guy I ran into a couple days ago.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-05-2012, 06:43 AM
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Yesterday we drove up from the border to Apache Pass and Fort Bowie National Historic Site, north of Chiricahua National Monument. We hiked across the high desert around the old fort. Along the trail we encountered a couple folks -- and one was carrying a 645D! My first sighting in the wild! Wow, that's an impressive camera! We chatted briefly. He's a new member here.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-01-2012, 08:32 AM
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Yesterday during a tourist influx here in Bisbee Arizona on the Sonora border, I spied an old gal with what looked like a black K7, but she moved into the Miners and Minerals Museum too fast for me to be sure.
I must say that in my drives across Mexico and Central America, most SLRs I've seen have been in the hands of obvious foreign tourists.
3.5 years ago I rode the Copper Canyon (Barrancas del Cobre) train from Creel to Los Mochis and back. On both runs, I was constantly on the passenger-car platforms with my K20D and DA18-250, leaning into the wind and shooting the spectacular terrain. An older Mexican gentleman in an immaculate white suit rode on the downhill run. He wore a big Canon FF dSLR around his neck. He sat in a comfortable seat the whole way, never moving, never pointing the camera out the window, nothing. I assume his Canon was merely symbolic.
Until tourism resumes, or Ricoh-Pentax ramps-up their marketing, you're likely to have the only blue dSLR in Mexico for some years to come. Too bad you can't get blue lenses to match it, ?si? |
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-28-2012, 09:59 PM
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I wandered around Las Vegas for a few days recently. SLR sightings: mostly Canon, including one huge FF; a few Nikons, including various folks asking me to shoot their portraits; zero Pentax, Sony, Oly, film. I didn't bother glancing at compacts nor phones. What I've noted in the past is that Canon owners ask me for technical help, Nikon owners ask me to shoot them, and other dSLRs are invisible.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-14-2012, 03:08 PM
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Where? Why? Details, details...
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-24-2011, 05:26 AM
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It's okay, you can say the N-word here.
I can sometimes be seen wandering the 49r Gold Rush country with a Praktica FX3 with waist-level viewfinder, usually with the Mir-1 BV 37/2.8 mounted. That plus my K20D make me the rarest bird in this region: the peripatetic Praktica-Pentax practitioner. And other Prakticas have been in my life recently. Sold the Super-TL, kept the L2. These Praktica SLRs and my Petri 7S rangefinder are my ultimate off-the-grid cameras: batteries not required!
Welcome to the forums! Be careful, we will try to infect you with LBA (Lens-Buying Addiction). You have been warned. Have fun!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-15-2011, 01:52 AM
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"I am Flatulus of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Pull my finger."
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