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Steve's Crazy Macro Rig
And here’s the technical summary... The rig is built on a base board from my heap of ‘might be useful one day’ bits of wood. This is tightly clamped to the desk with standard photographic clamps with threaded attachment points. Everything else is tightly attached to either the board or the clamps...
Posted by Lubbyman on 03/08/2026 - 14:01
Partial Eclipse
My friends and family around Edinburgh saw basically nothing due to heavy clouds. We went to a village called Consuegra De Murera in central Spain where there were a few hundred people watching the eclipse from a country road between fields of sunflowers. In the village there was a small bar wit...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 13/08/2026 - 12:26
Pentax Promotionals
The ball seems a strange item for promotional stuff. You could throw it for your dog and snap photos of it chasing after it and bringing it back... If Ricoh do bring out a new DSLR, perhaps the batteries will be kept the same format, after all, all camera batteries are broadly the same anyway so...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 28/09/2026 - 15:25
Pentax Promotionals
The ball seems a strange item for promotional stuff. You could throw it for your dog and snap photos of it chasing after it and bringing it back... I might if I had a dog that could be bothered with it. He just looks at me with a look that says "What's that silly human doing?". I once tried to temp...
Posted by Lubbyman on 28/09/2026 - 15:58
Pentax Promotionals
Those D-Li90 batteries definitely surprise me. They've not changed for years yet seem to be 'flagship' standard even today. Says a lot considering phone batteries are constantly having to strike a balance between size, weight and capacity. Maybe a move back to simpler times could be nice?
Posted by HarisF1 on 30/09/2026 - 15:17
Pentax f1.2 50mm - Data
Does any one have any technical / sales info on the Pentax SMC f1.2 50mm K mount manual focus dating fromthe '80s. Number of elements, number made - any info ? Regards IanR
Posted by IanR on 03/10/2002 - 11:35
300mm F2.8 ED IF* - Rear filter needed?
About a year ago I bought a Pentax 300mm F2.8 ED IF star manual focus lens. The barrel was slightly marked and the inside of the lens hooded scratched but the lens does not show any signs of obvious neglect. The lens didn't come with it's original truck case, lens hood or rear filters. I've...
Posted by Rod on 22/03/2003 - 18:47
Pentax 45 - 125 mm K series zoom
Amongst the lenses I have managed to collect over the years for my manual focus 35mm system, I have a K series 45 - 125 mm zoom. When I bought the lens it didn't have a lens hood, does anyone know if Pentax made a specific lens hood for this zoom?
Posted by Stephen on 10/01/2002 - 13:53
budget wide angle lenses - budget wide angle
To the best of my knowledge, these two lenses are the same lens with different badges - therefore, buy the one with the lowest price! However, it must be said that good wide angles cannot be made cheaply. It depends what size you intend to enlarge the pictures to, but I would not use the lenses men...
Posted by johnriley on 08/08/2002 - 22:04
lense - 35mm lense
i'm looking for a 35mm manual focus lense for my pentax MX with f2.8. can i find one of this? where? please help me
Posted by lorri on 25/08/2002 - 17:17
200 F2.8 SMC A ED - lens info
OK Papa, it's a manual focus; The new lens is much better, for the price.
Posted by PapaRazi on 14/03/2003 - 06:12
200 F2.8 SMC A ED - lens info
I bought a new one a couple of years ago. Pentax UK said it was discontinued when I spoke to them but I managed to obtain one of the last available in Europe. It's a lovely lens and although it's manual focus when you use it with any AF Pentax you do get focus confirmation, and you also get th...
Posted by Rod on 22/03/2003 - 18:17
Help - need info on lens - I was given a Lens - need info on it's u
Hello All, A friend game me what I believe is an older Super Takumar Zoom Lens. It's labeled as "Super Takumar Zoom 1:45/7-~150 3071081". I have a screw mount to K mount adapter and would like to use this on my Pentax ZX-30 (yes i know it's a cheap camera) I cannot get the lens to bring anything...
Posted by Dinsy on 11/04/2003 - 21:20
Help - need info on lens - I was given a Lens - need info on it's u
You have the first Asahi zoom lens, the Super Takumar-Zoom 1:4.5/ 70-150mm. This monster weighs in at 1,060g without its tripod bush, and 1,200g with. I would not put it on a tripod mounted camera lest it rip out the lens mount! It is intended that the lens is tripod mounted. It takes 67mm filters a...
Posted by johnriley on 12/04/2003 - 13:59
Help - need info on lens - I was given a Lens - need info on it's u
years ago I perchased a pk to screw adaptor [non pentax] that acted as a short extension tube [5-10mm] so the lens fitted fine but did not focus as it should have, your adaptor should fit flush with your camera lens mount.
Posted by Anonymous on 02/07/2003 - 00:42
Centon lenses for Pentax
That's something I agree with, the Pentax 50mm has the most sublimely smooth focus action I have ever felt (beats the Olympus OM f/1.8 50mm and the Minolta MD f/1.8 50mm I have owned) and the same goes for the aperature ring. However, the Centon has lasted nearly a year of being banged about in m...
Posted by kully on 07/04/2006 - 13:36
Pentax SMCP FA 85 F1.4 (IF) lens - Gymnastics photography
John, Thanks for your reply. I've taken the liberty to include another reply from a fellow camera enthusiast from a different forum. He commented as follows: The Pentax 85mm f1.4 is an amazing portrait lens. Users have commented that its ideal working distance seems to be between ...
Posted by rwh220 on 03/01/2003 - 23:47
Spotmatic SP Lenses - wide angle lens
Stephen, I just re-read your reply - 5 months after you posted it!!! Sorry. I did in the end get a 28mm Super Takumar from ebay, sent over from Canada, and for penny's really. So I spent the summer with my 28mm and little-else. A real good lens- and a must more anybody I reckon! I have another q...
Posted by NicholasBrown on 02/12/2003 - 10:45
Will a Sigma Hyperzoom fit on an ME Super and meter ok???
Can anyone help me please? I have found a bargain multipurpose lens (I understand that I would have to focus manually but I need to know: A. If it will fit on a K mount ME. I suspect yes. B. Will the aperture priority mode work. Again, I suspect yes but I would like to know for sure. Can an...
Posted by Anonymous on 10/05/2003 - 22:12
Pancake Lenses
The SMC Pentax-M 40mm f2.8 lens was introduced with the MX and ME models. It is called the "pancake" lens because it is very thin and only adds the slimmest amount to the depth of the camera, making these two SLRs very "pocketable". It consists of 5 elements in four groups, focuses I think to aro...
Posted by johnriley on 14/05/2003 - 23:11
