Assuming that you see a cropped frame in the viewfinder...... Why would that be attractive? The K-3 is 0.95x magnification so 0.70x will be really tiny. 26% smaller,

It might be that they somehow change viewfinders?

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Well the K-1 has a magnification of 0.70x the old MX had a magnification of 0.97x.
Hardly film like?

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I used to get that message when I had a K10D. It didn't like Sandisk cards and was OK with any other make, The cards were OK in other cameras and MP3 players.

I have heard that Lexar aren't as good as they used to be.

Duracell are made by one of the smaller manufactures for Duracell.
(Dane-Elec I think).

Toshiba, Samsung or Sandisk are what I buy now.



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I've seen something else with those shiny ball joint pins, but I can't think what it was. There was a spring underneath the ball and you pushed it in and slid it to a larger hole and could then remove it. There were either 2 or 4 of the pins.

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Can't be done! You need a 600mm f/2 lens + very fast AF and a 15fps motordrive plus a FF camera with at least 40megapixels and mirrorless. I've heard it said so many times on this forum it must be true

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Anyone taking bets on how long it will be before someone complains that the photos from the K-1 aren't as sharp as the ones they get off their K-5 or K-3, K10 etc.


Pixel peeping between different camera models should be banned

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£1,530 in Japan according to Ricehigh.


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That's terrible It's looks as sharp at the corners as the centre..... Shouldn't the corners be soft and mushy Also the corners haven't gone dark as they should do.... shouldn't they? .... vignetting I think they call it

Looks like all you can use that for is taking pictures

Luckily there's a new FF camera to moan about

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Sounds like you got out of bed on the wrong side this morning

The lens you had wasn't the £200 in 1990 SMC version. You described it in this review and noted it only has 8 elements (SMC = 12 elements)

http://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/SMC-Pentax-F-28-80mm-F3.5-4.5-Macro-Zoom...

Your shots from it however look good.....
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/kh1234567890/tags/pentaxf2880mmf3545

AF is noisy, but I prefer MF anyway. My previous favourite small zoom was the A 35-70 f/4 which is all MF as are nearly all my primes. Both of these zooms are well up to prime standards at f/8 and blow away the F 35-70mm f/3.5 - 4.5

The Macro setting is very good and has excellent bokeh. It's only down to 0.25m but that's usual for a zoom.

"A relic of the 70's .. " is just nonsense Dimitrov gives 1987-1991. The budget versions made in another factory probably continued after that.

Pentax 28-80's (all variations) seem very popular and capable on Flickr 6,438 total

http://www.flickriver.com/search/pentax+28-80mm/

This random macro looks OK with a K20D

https://www.flickr.com/photos/melanistic141/5846898954/in/photostream/

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That fancy back takes Polaroid Type 47 film packs

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