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I can see a great deal of effort has gone into this, and it looks good. I have just been overhauling my own photo website so know what it is like, I too mixed potentially commercial work with everything else but realised it was trying to cover too much and losing impact as a result. One suggestion I...
Posted by RobL on 24/06/2022 - 17:09
Tripod head
On rare occasions I want to be able to point my lens high up, sometimes almost vertically. My three-way Manfrotto head just won't tilt back that far. The problem is also complicated by often needing a longish lens such as my DA* 50-135 or DA* 60-250. Any recommendations? I'm worried that mos...
Posted by womble on 27/06/2022 - 12:42
Tripod head
Morning Kris Have you been able to try the Gimbal yet, will one work for you with the angles you need for the church ceilings etc ? I could probably do with it back soon-ish please as I've some product photography in the pipeline
Posted by Chrism8 on 25/08/2022 - 07:04
Lens Buying Strategy?
1. For general use, have some decent, easy to carry zooms covering ultra-wide angle to telepohoto. Had a set of full-frame zooms, then swapped to DA/DA* when there was no K-1 and swapped straight back when I just had my K-1. The D-FA lenses are also used on the P50 and Z-1p 2. Acquire other lens...
Posted by Pwynnej on 25/07/2022 - 15:58
Contax Compact Cameras
It's like going back to the late 1960s/early 1970s when lots of things were being advertised but nobody had any stock. It wasn't just cameras and lenses though, the field I was in at the time had long, ludicrous delays on all sorts of products, sometimes many months. Then a batch would arrive, there...
Posted by johnriley on 04/08/2022 - 00:11
Contax Compact Cameras
Yet there still seems to be the odd model or two that haven't been elevated to the dizzy heights (yet!) - again LCE have a Contax, this time the Contax N1 with a Vario-Sonnar 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 Carl Zeiss lens for £299. This model was their Autofocus Film flagship with a pretty high spec and build...
Posted by LennyBloke on 09/08/2022 - 08:46
Contax Compact Cameras
Yet there still seems to be the odd model or two that haven't been elevated to the dizzy heights (yet!) - again LCE have a Contax, this time the Contax N1 with a Vario-Sonnar 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 Carl Zeiss lens for £299. This model was their Autofocus Film flagship with a pretty high spec and build...
Posted by Benz3ne on 09/08/2022 - 10:43
The Pentax (designers) Way
There's some discussion over on the US Pentax Forum on the subject of the new 100mm Macro lens that they have just added to the roadmap - it appears to be identical in form to the existing WR model but one of the designers had been frustrated with the Purple Fringing that can be seen in some images ...
Posted by LennyBloke on 04/08/2022 - 08:58
Peak Imaging - no more.
I recall this firm being recommended some time back. http://www.johnsalimphotographic.co.uk/e6.html Any use? Michael
Posted by MHOL190246 on 14/09/2022 - 11:43
Camera advice.
Hi, I am in the market for a camera to use with M42 Lens. Have several M42 lens of various focal length that are leftover from My days of Film Takumar, Pentacon, Carl Zeiss Jana etc. Plus more recent acquisitions Helios and others. Current cameras being Nikon that have limitations on M42 Infinity fo...
Posted by MichaelJP on 11/10/2022 - 05:31
Camera advice.
The K5 is still a good camera and, using a simple adapter, will accept your M42 lenses. The best adapter to buy is the Pentax Adapter K, which you attach to an M42 lens. Then bayonet this onto the camera. When you change lenses, just unscrew the lens and screw another one on, the process having effe...
Posted by johnriley on 11/10/2022 - 09:09
Camera advice.
The K5 is still a good camera and many swear by the image quality from that 16MP sensor. The only thing I'd mention is that I believe the K-5 does not have focus peaking, whereby the areas with highest contrast (and therefore most in focus) are highlighted in a specific colour in live-view. For th...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 11/10/2022 - 09:59
I cannot recommend this enough...
Gotta be careful though. I once drove off in our estate car with the tailgate up and a very worried dog in the back staring out into the big, wide world.... :o Steve
Posted by Lubbyman on 20/10/2022 - 16:39
pentax sigma
[quote:3496ace15f="Spad"] Can you get lenses converted? They were all full frame lenses to begin with. The problem with these particular lenses is that Sigma changed the mount slightly for some reason and when the K-1 and K-P were released the new mount was slightly too deep and caused the len...
Posted by Mike-P on 13/11/2022 - 14:22
pentax sigma
I had a Sigma 70-200mm that was dropped and replaced under insurance. The newer lens I have, the OS HSM version has the new mount on it so it doesn't catch the body. The old lens, that's still here also has the newer lens mount on it. The insurance company wanted the old lens back, why I don't know ...
Posted by cardiffgareth on 15/11/2022 - 11:27
mobile phone camera problem
My SONY XA2 H3113 mobile has a great camera but is slowing down at loading webpages etc as the internal memory is virtually full and it is on Android 9 and wont update the software. I have rebooted BUT not set it back top factory settings as I dont want to have to re-load all apps and saved settings...
Posted by GrumpyGrandPa on 27/11/2022 - 19:41
mobile phone camera problem
Thanks for ideas and info folks I have, almost, gone back to basics and deep cleaned loads of caches and moved all of the photos from the SONY default store onto the additiona SD RAM card. There was 32GB of free space on the 32GB inbuilt RAM - hence the problem. There is now 4.3GB free and browsing...
Posted by GrumpyGrandPa on 28/11/2022 - 16:35
Ricoh CFO: “The time has come for us to choose which businesses to be in”
As I have said many many times before I have seen doomsayers saying Pentax is dead since the mid-1980s. I do think Ricoh have to put a stop on the subtle changes and special editions and offer current users a tantalising prospect of future upgrades, ie those K-1 users who might want something new...
Posted by Pwynnej on 06/12/2022 - 11:10
Fine scratches on front element
I recently sent a lens to MPB and they would only offer me scrap price for it due to the rear element being severely scratched so I asked them to send it back. In the 6 years I owned it I never noticed a single issue on any image nor the scratch.
Posted by cabstar on 09/12/2022 - 23:48
Buying from Japan
The general opinion does seem to be very good. However, I was looking at A series 200mm macros a bit back. I noticed a couple of pictures looked similar then I began examining them. About 4 sellers were offering the exact same lens! It didn't look like laziness and use of stock photos, especially wh...
Posted by davidwozhere on 16/12/2022 - 01:30
