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Farewell to Pentax
The number of photographers with a 600mm f4 lens has never been more than a handful, almost all professionals. They were (are?) made to special order and had a very special price tag! Thank you John, it was probably the high price that stopped most of getting one though :? @Gary you forget about ...
Posted by Anvh on 01/05/2010 - 21:36
Farewell to Pentax
I thought the lower level of hell was full of fast primes and no camera! No wonder I keep visualising Mike-P at the gates of Hell. I see him approach and then when he is just about to cross it something pulls him back. Its just a matter of time Mike, you can't forever escape the temptation. Fire can...
Posted by aminstar on 02/05/2010 - 20:21
Revamped Pentax UK web site
Polchraine: For 0870 numbers just go to saynoto0870.com and you can type in the 0870 number and get a normal landline number. I know all about saynoto0870 ... They had their uses a few years back when BT could manage distribution of calls to more than one call centre, now they are just a cost, to...
Posted by polchraine on 01/05/2010 - 22:37
Revamped Pentax UK web site
Getting back to where this started, I hadn't realised that Pentax had revamped their site, but have to say that regardless of the comments above, it looks quite good - and a nice indication that may be life in this doomed company yet!
Posted by JonSchick on 02/05/2010 - 09:50
Using laptop as viewfinder
Does anyone know if this is possible? I have to do a pile of newspaper copying and bending over to look down the viewfinder is breaking my back! If I could connect the Pentax ist to my Macbook Pro, get the image I need and fire away, life would be easier... Yours, Jolyon.
Posted by jolyonsykes on 03/05/2010 - 04:05
Using laptop as viewfinder
No, I'm afraid it's a no go. I got the following reply from Pentax Australia: Dear Customer, Remote Assistant does not support ist DS. Kind regards, Consumer Support So, unless anyone knows of an alternative, it's back to the newspaper copying for me. Thanks anyway, Jolyon
Posted by jolyonsykes on 19/05/2010 - 03:08
What do you own?
I have a battered Olympus OM10, bought it on ebay cheap because the last owner thought it was broken (just needed new batteries). A brief play with that showed that it wasn't a patch on the Pentax equivalents of the era, it just felt cheap and flimsy. I also have an old Lubitel 166U that I bought ba...
Posted by Dangermouse on 03/05/2010 - 09:57
a little bit of help needed.
if you mean what i think you mean then no, its just a paper envelope that you put a pile of pictures into and the top flaps over, like when you used to send films off to be developed they would come back in one and the negatives would be in a little flap at the front too.
Posted by Glover on 03/05/2010 - 15:54
ruddy Flickr awards: rant
Rant on: I follow a few people on flickr. And it sticks in my craw when they post a mediocre image and then they get a flurry (= flickr & slurry) of meaningless awards. Also is it me or is the worth of the award/comment inversely proportional to the size it takes up. Also, also "post one a...
Posted by dougf8 on 03/05/2010 - 22:34
Royal Society for the Prevension of Cruelty to Images
Yes, George, they were good times! sent from selfridges display & exhibition dept. to Outward bound Sea School, in Wales, at 17: I'd really got it made! Sailing, manning a cutter & an inflatable in-shore rescue boat, rock-climbing behind the beach at Ton fanau, a 5day / 4 night expedition walk fro...
Posted by coker on 08/05/2010 - 20:30
Decisions, decisions. What would you do?
I'd sell them all except the 500mm - if you already have the other focal lengths covered by lenses you prefer using then they're unlikely to find their way back to your camera bag. With the 500 though, if you sell it you can almost guarantee a situation will arise shortly after where you'll think "I...
Posted by hefty1 on 05/05/2010 - 11:35
Getting so politically correct!
Who did Ancient Greek at school? The Odes of Horace and all that stuff? Anyone? One of the few fragments I remember is about ostracism. That came from the Greek word for the potshards the people inscribed with the names of those they wished to banish for a finite period, for reasons real or imag...
Posted by i-Berg on 06/05/2010 - 10:02
Getting so politically correct!
Lense didn't exist in Photographic magazines and books until it started getting mis-spelt on the internet a year or two back. One lens. Two or more lenses.
Posted by johnriley on 06/05/2010 - 11:53
Getting so politically correct!
Surely that would have been worse without the apostrophe. Our drive was blocked by a van back along. Final straw - it was labelled "Fred Bloggs - Electrician's".
Posted by Oggy on 07/05/2010 - 07:24
Recalling Guy Laroche No Photoshop
Recalling Guy Laroche Since I posted “Recalling Pierre Cardin”, there have been several requests to post some of my earlier work from my archives. I have always had the greatest respect for French Designer Guy Laroche’s work and found a couple of adverts I did for him that appeared in VOGUE and ...
Posted by benjikan on 06/05/2010 - 04:28
Off topic question ...
That's easy. Everyone knows "all roads lead to Rome", therefore Rome can't have any roads, because they would all lead back to itself. I'll collect the prize in gold bullion, or K7's, thank you very much. Regards
Posted by sam-joseph on 07/05/2010 - 12:14
Off topic question ...
Pompeii? Pompeii has some very wide 'roads' (they'd be a bit bumpy due to all the open sewers though!) We're back to the matter of definition of "roads"! :D
Posted by robbie_d on 07/05/2010 - 16:43
Off topic question ...
[quote:3496ace15f="robbie_d"] (how the hell they get cars somewhere without roads is beyond me though). Ask a Landrover driver :wink: Ok, you ready for this ! Its best with a LandRover 90 Defender or Discovery. Either one as the Defender 90 has a 90 inch wheelbase and the Discovery has a 100 inch...
Posted by robbie_d on 07/05/2010 - 22:33
Off topic question ...
I sold my Disco for sundry reasons but getting about 30 mpg was one of them and I'm not sure the more modern ones are much better. But with your 'previous' you know all about filling up 20 gallon tanks :) Thanks for bringing me back to earth Mike. I'd forgotten that particular aspect. I got about...
Posted by Mannesty on 08/05/2010 - 08:42
Sorry friends!!
I have been away for a few weeks but I am back!!! I will start posting images on a regular basis again... PENTAX FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagesteve...........
Posted by imagesteve on 07/05/2010 - 19:13
