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The New Pentax 17
Some comments regarding the price. 'Bruce' says why pay £500 on this when you can pick up 2 'well-serviced' cameras like Nikon FM2 plus a 50mmf1.4 instead. In my case I love my Z-1p which I paid £599 for in August 1995 but bits of plastic and rubber are degrading; things like the battery cover and...
Posted by Pwynnej on 18/06/2024 - 09:53
The New Pentax 17
How can a new camera in 2024 rely on zone focusing?????? It has a 25mm lens with a maximum aperture of f3.5. Most well-lit pictures will be taken around f8. It will have a very wide DOF, so zone focussing will work just fine. Did you never take pictures on a manual film Pentax with a 28mm ? Ju...
Posted by pschlute on 18/06/2024 - 21:37
The New Pentax 17
Just ordered a 17 today from Pentax.eu, saved a little money with the new user welcome code so that's nice. It will be my first zone focus and half frame camera.
Posted by zero86r on 23/07/2024 - 12:17
The New Pentax 17
When I saw the price yesterday my eyes just about popped out of my head and I spent the next five minutes repeating to myself: "Five. Hundred. Dollars. For a guess-focus half-frame camera..." Making it half-frame is a big mistake as it seriously limits the quality it can achieve. Making it...
Posted by George Lazarette on 24/07/2024 - 14:01
Some Sorrento film pics
Nice. I always like to take a little film SLR on holiday wherever possible. I think you might mean SMC-M 28mm f/3.5 as there were no M series 24mm lenses. Or maybe a K series 24/3.5? You're absolutely right and I cannot edit it now - it was indeed the 28mm! Not sure how I made that typo, especi...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 27/06/2024 - 18:33
Best places to buy 35mm colour film, and best places to get it developed and printed?
Personally I would develop the negative film at home. It really is a simple process, even I managed:shock: back in the mid 80s with Slide, colour negative and B@W negative all in the comfort of my parents bathroom:roll: For 35mm negatives a Patterson developing tank along with an accurate thermome...
Posted by Flan on 03/01/2025 - 23:07
Best places to buy 35mm colour film, and best places to get it developed and printed?
I buy all my film from AW. For developing though, I found them very slow and always end-up going back to The Darkroom UK. The vast majority of the time, I'll post the film one day and get the scans back via wetransfer the next working day.* The negs/slides arrive a few days later. The advantage ...
Posted by womble on 28/04/2025 - 07:32
Best places to buy 35mm colour film, and best places to get it developed and printed?
I've recently used Harman Labs for some C41 processing and, to be honest, I'm not sure I'd use them again. The link to the scans I'd paid for wasn't sent until I chased, the box I'd ordered to keep the prints and negs wasn't supplied (the usual paper envelope instead) and the whole thing took rathe...
Posted by JonSchick on 30/04/2025 - 21:18
Pentax LX
Great video, thank you for sharing! You are very welcome Bjorn. I'm delighted that at least one other person enjoyed it. As for the so called music, I totally agree. Sadly though, that wasn't peculiar to just this video. I dumped my TV back in 2016 and as a consequence I do watch a lot of Youtube ...
Posted by Defragged on 16/02/2025 - 06:55
My Three CLASSIC SPOTMATICS --
SO I was GIVEN an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II by a Camera Club member who was having a Clear out so now I have the Spotmatic I, II and F cameras to compare The Mk I has the 55mm f1.8 Super Takumar, the Mk II has a 50mm f1.4 SMC Takumar and the F has a later 50mm f1.4 SMC Takumar with a different focu...
Posted by Peter Elgar on 26/11/2025 - 10:32
Central London group?
Far better to look at why you didn't like them and learn from your mistakes, don't ever just say "don't like it" and delete it. Say "Why don't I like it?" and find out how to correct it the next time. Sure, totally agree. But often the reason isn't too profound. Like, the ot...
Posted by ChrisA on 24/07/2007 - 18:47
Central London group?
If I can persuade my boss to let us use the facilities, I could organise something this autumn. Provisionally, meet up at the Institute of Archaeology for coffee, chat etc in the morning. Go out and take photos in the Bloomsbury area of London (British Museum, Russell Square, etc.) Do your own th...
Posted by womble on 14/09/2009 - 23:32
Netherlands
Hi Gwyn, By the way things are going with the climate i figure our Gov. will have to decide to put the ''Bouwvakvakantie'' back to April and June. No one want their holiday's as wet as the last couple of years. :) But all jokes aside, lets keep the thought of a meeting warm. I would really like th...
Posted by Malo1961 on 28/11/2007 - 15:50
Yorkshire Group
Well here I am folks, back from sunny Greece :D , actually it was more like SCORCHING Greece, far too hot to even bother leaving the poolside, however my liver is now recovering and I have vowed never to touch another beer (in yer dreams :lol: ) Assuming we can dodge the raindrops how are we all ...
Posted by fatspider on 18/07/2007 - 19:24
Focus on Imaging 2007
Just a quick note to say Magezine Publishing (the people behind the Pentax user club/web site) are at Focus on Imaging at the end of February. Our stand is LK3 - full details can be found here: If you are already a subscriber of the club (not just registered on this site) you can take advantage ...
Posted by Admin on 16/02/2007 - 12:09
Focus on Imaging 2007
Shame I'm away on hols - would be nice to put some names to faces. Guess I'll have to wait and meet up with all the Southern mob on the 10th March... Enjoy... Will
Posted by spirit_of_will on 16/02/2007 - 22:38
Focus on Imaging 2007
We'll make for the PU stand around 12 noon on the Sunday. Be pleased to see anyone who can be there! :D
Posted by johnriley on 16/02/2007 - 23:32
Yorkshire meet 28th July 2007
Well, I'm back in my humble abode running the RAW files through Lightroom. Will post some later on, think I've got about 30 to go through. So shouldn't take along at all. (Plus beer in hand for a hard days shooting) Was lots of fun, got out and used my camera which was great. Really need to do th...
Posted by Tyr on 28/07/2007 - 16:26
Yorkshire meet 28th July 2007
I actually felt as if I'd not really gotten very many at all. Thirty nine exposures in all out of which I kept twenty two. Could have been a little more trigger happy if I'd been willing to swap lenses more. Unfortunately I thought it a clever idea to bring my tripod which restricted access to my ba...
Posted by Tyr on 29/07/2007 - 18:41
Yorkshire meet 28th July 2007
Well I managed to sift through my images, I took around 50 including the bracketed shots, I'll probably end up keeping about two of them :oops: The first is more or less the same as Daniels, although I took the time to use the tripod I had carried around all day :D so the DOF is far greater tha...
Posted by Tyr on 31/07/2007 - 23:33
