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50-200 versus 18-55
GARTMORE: exactly, I find it bit daunting to see the back screen in bright sunlight, hence the few mistakes, I guess...
Posted by karlh on 22/08/2009 - 12:07
A strapping query
I always carry my camera on a strap so I'm usually in the market for a new strap. I considered the R-Strap and how I shoot and decided it wouldn't work. I carry my camera with the strap diagonally across my body. I'm left-handed and the camera rides on my left hip when I'm walking down the street. I...
Posted by patrickt on 21/08/2009 - 13:24
A strapping query
I use a rather different kind of strap. I first bought it over a year ago, and initially didn't care for it. Then I tried it again, and have recently bought one for the second body. It clasps the camera to your hand as you are walking around, and it is perfect for shoots like my recent one phot...
Posted by ChrisA on 21/08/2009 - 22:26
Enabling debug menu on Pentax DSLRs
Anyone brave enough to try this???:shock: Here the new excellent Russian Pentax DSLR hack site strikes again! They have posted the simplest method/hack (ever!) to enter the debug mode of various Pentax and Samsung DSLRs, namely, the K10D/GX-10 (FW 1.10), K20D/GX-20, K200D, K-m and K-7! http:...
Posted by Goliath_UK on 20/08/2009 - 21:31
DOOM and GLOOM!
If we turned the clock back to 1975 and asked, "What would we do if the Spotmatic stopped being made?" then the answer with all these years of hindsight would be that we would continue using our Spotmatics. Eventually we would repair them, maybe replace them with mint examples, even now we could ...
Posted by johnriley on 21/08/2009 - 00:40
A Request for K20 owners that use Photome
John I will be contacting them for sure if my 2 month old K20 comes back from them again not fixed. I had a dark line show up on images after only 140 shots I would have said faulty sensor it was return to supplier who sent it for repair it was returned to me 10 Days later and the first shot had...
Posted by smallman on 28/08/2009 - 21:02
k7 v k20
Not really had my K7 long enough to comment, it is much quicker to focus and I have the feeling it saves quicker but that could be the card. I am happy with the results but do have a problem with the view finder, which may be my spectacles that need replacing. Still have and use my K20 and purcha...
Posted by Thordell on 23/08/2009 - 09:50
k7 v k20
I have been using my new K-7 for 6 weeks now and have sold my K20D. If money is tight then the K-7 is a bit of a luxury being at about twice the price of a K20D. However I have no regrets about the extra cost as while I liked my K20D I love my K-7. It seems to handle so much better. It feels a l...
Posted by helios on 23/08/2009 - 16:04
k7 v k20
I missed the K20 so jumping from K10D to K7 was a huge leap in capability, If you own DA* lenses then it is a truly classy camera. I did not want video and i would certainly not buy a dedicated video camera,However i do use the capability of the K7 really often as it is only a turn of the dial away,...
Posted by PeteL on 23/08/2009 - 19:33
Use of old lenses on Pentax Km
I have just bought a new Pentax Km, which came with the 18-55mm lens. I still have my old P30t which has 2 lenses, a Pentax A 28-80mm and a Pentax A 70-200mm. I would like to be able to use these lenses with the Km, and have searched the forum and Bojidar Dimitrov's site. From what I have read I c...
Posted by Crispybacon on 23/08/2009 - 07:09
Use of old lenses on Pentax Km
As I understand it the "A" lenses will work provided I leave the aperature set to Auto on the lens aperature ring. Clearly focus will be a manual operation! Because the sensor is APS-C sized the effective focal length of the lenses (which were designed for 35mm film) will become 42-120 and 105-300, ...
Posted by stevejcoe on 23/08/2009 - 07:58
Use of old lenses on Pentax Km
Just go into the menus, enable 'allow aperture ring', find 'catch in focus' and enable that too and start using your 'A' lenses. The lenses you have with an 'A' setting are post 1985, anything prior to this won't have an 'A' setting.:wink: When set to 'A' the aperture can be set by the body, a...
Posted by Hardgravity on 23/08/2009 - 08:22
Use of old lenses on Pentax Km
The summary is: set the aperture ring to "A" and you will have all exposure functions as normal, apart from having to manually focus. The SR system may ask you to input a focal length when you switch on.
Posted by johnriley on 23/08/2009 - 09:35
Use of old lenses on Pentax Km
Wow, they were some quick replies. Many thanks for getting back so quickly. I'm really pleased I kept my old P30T kit now!. I have also tried my AF260SA flashgun, and that seems to work fine in auto mode (Some of the reviews thought that the built in flash in the Km was a bit "flimsy" . The only ot...
Posted by Crispybacon on 23/08/2009 - 09:57
Battery problems with Ist DL2
Does anyone else have the same problem as I experience with AA rechargeable batteries in the Ist DL2? Even after newly charging a set of batteries (Ansmann - not recharged too many times) when I put them in the camera it records them as not being charged. HAve tried many different types of recharg...
Posted by Gillyflower on 24/08/2009 - 14:50
Battery problems with Ist DL2
gillyflower I have a DL2 and a Samsung GX10 (K10D clone). The DL2 was unused for a while after I got the GX10. When I went back to it I had a problem that neither rechargeables, nor alkaline would work, got the empty battery flashing icon. Following advice on this and other forums I tried Ener...
Posted by TheVicar on 25/08/2009 - 22:22
Battery problems with Ist DL2
I had this issue with my 2006 *ist DL2 - brand new batteries simply resulted in the flashing empty battery symbol and the camera failing to switch on - tried alkaline, NIMH and Lithium. Strangely, replacing the previous (partially depleted set of batteries) and the camera would switch on fine. Ev...
Posted by kudjusi on 05/11/2016 - 00:21
Future problem with the K7
Thinking back, we are missing at the moment the K30D, K50D and K60D and also the K6, K5, K3 and K-S.... That is, if the number sequence were to follow the same pattern as previous Pentax ranges. There's time yet!
Posted by johnriley on 26/08/2009 - 08:34
Broken Pentax wow - a few questions!
Hi - New user with a lot of questions that I hope you will be able to answer. A bit of a long story... While on holiday to Orlando, I took my K100D super on the 'Jaws' ride at Univeral Studios - Stupid I know. This was fine until the last moment when jaws reared out of the water and set a HUGE w...
Posted by nigelp on 28/08/2009 - 20:55
Broken Pentax wow - a few questions!
To add to your downheartedness,I did a very silly thing to my K10D (I won`t elaborate but neadless to say,i won`t be doing that again).I took it back to LCE (the original vendor) and,for £10,they passed it to their favoured camera repairers...that was the end of July and I`m still waiting....the rea...
Posted by alfiemooon on 15/09/2009 - 13:21
