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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-30-2016, 07:55 AM
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That was what got under my skin, especially in the all too widely known context of Canon users mutilating Taks and Pentax-branded lenses to fit them on full-frame DSLR cameras (and I've seen at least one Canon shooter on YT bemoan also the fact that some of the Taks he'd love to use are barred to his full-frame bodies because of rear-element intrusion into the mirror box at infinity). He can't possibly be ignorant of that, surely? Either way, it doesn't paint him in a good light.
Every other negative I could let slide, but that one just grated and IMO made the entire review about as useful and relevant as mammaries on a male bovine.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-30-2016, 06:11 AM
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No. LIke I said, there's always something better somewhere else, but sometimes, e.g. if I'm tired, hungry and just got off a fifteen-hour airplane flight, or if I want something - anything - in my stomach in a hurry so I can get on with other things, boring-but-familiar is a nice option to have.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-30-2016, 05:32 AM
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On that basis, you have a very good point. :)
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They make fast food that is predictable all around the world - you can always find the basic staples everywhere - and while there is always a better burger somewhere else, it's nice to know you can walk into any of their places and know in advance what you're getting. Everything in its right place, and in the right context. Yes, of course it's unhealthy - but I admit the fact to myself when I go in there, and I know that what I'm buying is a calorie and cholesterol-rich indulgence. Anyone who thinks it's the 24/7 basis for a healthy diet is deluding themselves.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 04:49 PM
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Mr Rockwell, IIRC, wrote his review straight off the spec sheet.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 10:09 AM
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LOL - I just saw this, and I thought "We appear to have struck a raw nerve."
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-26-2016, 02:40 AM
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I think Tony Northrup's full of it. I don't know why, but there's something just a hair "off" about many of his videos which sends me rushing almost anywhere else for photo advice. I'm not sure whether it's the style or the content, but something about him continually rubs me up the wrong way in a way that doesn't happen with almost anyone else I've watched, even though most of them are dedicated Nikonians (w.r.t. their SLR systems) and do nothing to hide the fact.
Perhaps it's because with him I feel like I'm watching a late night informercial. That's really odd, because I love the Adorama vids done by Gavin Hoey and Mark Wallace, for example, even though they pretty much ARE infomercials. Maybe it's because they're more about the technique than the brand of gear they're using? IDK
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-25-2016, 02:55 PM
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Frank Whittle's autobiography suggests the British were having their own problems, but the real issue was the dichotomy between centrifugal-flow on the British side and axial-flow on the German. Centrifugal flow jet engines were an evolutionary dead end for high performance fighters, but they were more reliable in the early days and the development benefited immensely from extensive British work (especially by Rolls Royce) with supercharger compressors. The Germans had the right long-term idea going for axial, but their research-development and metallurgy let them down.
Anyway, back to cameras...
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-25-2016, 01:21 AM
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I think your source is mistaken. He could IIRC have had the similar Heinkel 280 in '41 or so, but Nazi power politics being whaf they were, Ernst Heinkel was never really in favour and Willi Messerschmitt was. By the time Heinkel was allowed to bid for the last ditch Volksjager which became the He162, it was too late.
@clackers The problem was not the design team constantly changing the specs, it was the customer. And the old rule about the customer always being right carries ominous weight when said customer is Nazi Germany. :eek:
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-24-2016, 05:22 AM
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Yeah, I know, he's gone to the Dark Side (or one of them, anyway) - but back in the day he was singing Pentax's praises like no other.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-24-2016, 04:07 AM
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Subtext: one with heavy commercial and online clout. Photouniverse and David Hancock are excellent (Ed was pretty much the one who sold me on the K-5 and all the Limited DA primes), but with all due respect to them, they aren't in the same league of popularity and influence as Granger and the Northrups. I've seen a few of Blunty's Pentax reviews (digidirect), and he seems to be pretty fair and sometimes more than even handed when he's reviewed Pentax gear (he really seemed to enjoy the small-format compacts, for example), but he reviews across the board and isn't a Pentaxian per se.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-23-2016, 06:02 AM
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Sooner or later, you have to freeze the design or the thing never gets built. I have a very interesting book about German ultra-long-range bomber projects during WW2, and the one thing that becomes obvious about a lot of the proposals was that the specification was constantly being changed to ask for more performance, or new things were asked to be added in - so airplanes were constantly getting redesigned, but never built (certainly not in production numbers). The best became the enemy of good enough, and eventually the whole programme was overtaken by events. Getting back to photography, the K-1 was delayed enough as it was; to keep it an absolute secret to work on it at leisure would have been impossible, and to delay any longer in producing it would have been unacceptable.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-22-2016, 03:15 AM
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Which fifty? D-FA Macro? FA50/1.4? Or one of the manual focus 50/1.2's?
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It surprised me pleasantly to realise that I have six (not the 55*). If of course by 100 you mean the D-FA100 WR macro...
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-20-2016, 10:25 AM
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The Holy Trinity is UWA, wide-short tele and short to mid-tele zooms, all with constant f/2.8 throughout the zoom range. Nikon's is, IIRC, 14-24, 24-70, 70-200; Pentax's is 15-30, 24-70, 70-200. I might be a teensy bit off on the exact focal lengths of the two wide NIkons, but you get the picture.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-20-2016, 05:10 AM
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Oh yep. I can see why they didn’t too. I reckon they knew what was coming.
I have never held that opinion, and after this I never will.
Quantity in lieu of quality?
A lot of people don’t mind shooting this way. Leave them to their methods and you stick with yours.
I’m not the only one who feels this? Good.
And me. There is legitimate pointing out of flaws and then there is character assassination – this felt far more like the latter.
I feel the pain of your oversupply. Let me PM you my address and you can send me one to ease your suffering. I will even pay shipping :p
As far as the lens availability thing is concerned – he’d better hope he’s never caught with an adapted +/- mutilated Takumar or SMC-Pentax lens on any of his cameras, or he’s going to be given hell. I suspect he knows just how many full-frame Pentax lenses there are out there and that ALL OF THEM are usable on the K-1, so he restricted his terms of reference to digital-optimised lenses to wriggle around the fact that this is a door closed to Canon and only open to Nikon with interesting convolutions.
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