It doesn't make any sense discontinuing it with the FF camera only weeks away and Ricoh have already promoted it on the FF website.

In the days of film AP described it as the "World's Best Standard Lens" in a test against the Contax 50mm f/1.4 (See AP dated 17th Oct. 1998 )

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I was looking for a specific German pruning saw (Gardena) recently and couldn't find one in the UK. Several were listed in Germany, but only one supplier would post to the UK. They took the order, but later cancelled it saying it was out of stock.

I eventually bought it from Spain and it took just over a week.

There does seem to be a big difference in how postage is charged in Germany and the UK. They usually have a messy selection of about three ways. In the UK It's the responsibility/liability of the seller to make sure the item is delivered and received..... None of this pay extra if you want insurance lark,

It can be a big problem with returns especially if the seller has to pay postage both ways.

I've sold lenses to Germany and Bulgaria without any problems.

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The old Pentax 1.7x AF Adapter is very good and the image is quite a bit bigger than the 1.4x.

The correct aperture is shown, but you have to manually input the focal length.

I'm not sure how it works with the Tamron.

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What's your new personal best for the 100M Stan?

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Glad to hear you are improved Stan Careful you don't crush your camera after taking steroids

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I'm not a Wolves fan, but someone just posted me a link to this quite simple video which is quite good if you watch it in full screen with the sound up.

Just imagine if Pentax did similar with the FF camera instead of a rugby team

PENTAX FULL FRAME 2016 Shall we begin...... I have returned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5kX51J4hjo

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I would have expected that they would bring the three original lenses up to date first with at least quickshift and possibly new coatings.

Imagine how disappointed a user from another system will be if they buy the FF camera and the three lenses only to then find that they haven't got QS.

Ricoh don't seem to have a clue about marketing Very much like say Panasonic or Sony bringing out a super duper TV and showing images of their small B&W TV's from the 70's

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From memory officially the batteries should be discharged about 50%, but I've never had a problem storing fully charged batteries. My old backup GX20 gets used about once a year and has two old batteries plus a new one that I bought recently, just in case the old ones stop working...... they are quite old now. I've never had a problem with using them even without re-charging.

My 4 batteries for the K-5 are all fully charged. Two of them haven't been used since last summer.

Maybe I should store them in a steel cash box or something and keep in in the shed just in case they explode

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He's my teddy bear!

Or perhaps you mean this TED

http://www.ted.com/about/our-organization

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Another make has an intermediate 30x20 format just in case the APS-C lenses can't quite stretch to 36x24

FX format (36x24)
1.2x (30x20)
DX format (24x16)
5:4 (30x24)

The APS-C crop from FF should look like this......




Ratios are correct.
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