It would have been a luxury for me when I started whilst still at school. All I had was a JOHNSON-PHOTOGRAPHIC-YEAR-BOOK. To use it you looked up the Month then time of day, then whether it was Sunny, Cloudy Bright etc. Then used a dial calculator to work out the exposure See last photo in this ebay listing

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOHNSON-PHOTOGRAPHIC-YEAR-BOOK-1956/192530379617?hash...

Camerwise was OK I had a Voigtlander-Bessa-II-RF-6x9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Voigtlander-Bessa-II-RF-6x9-camera-Color-Heliar-lens/...


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Sony A7's are UGLY!

I remember the old Pentax add "Just Hold a Pentax" .........
Been holding one ever since

I can't stand ugly products

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These $400 Nikon to Sony adapters make Pentax AF look as fast as people drinking free beer!

https://fstoppers.com/gear/what-nikon-f-sony-e-adapter-best-choice-246389

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Nikon are DOOMED!

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He likes to moan!

I can't believe that they would re-badge a 50-300 as 50-200

Pentax AF is much better than Sony's. It's the photographers that who are incompetent and only any good at moaning and spreading FUD

Stub has a "guess is that it (Sony) has fast auto focus"

Sony's AF hardly works below about 13M see the Chasseur d'Images graph at ....

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4027736

Let's have less FUD in what is supposed to be a Pentax group.
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It must be the forum software then It should look something like these...

http://mygreegar.com/index.php/plants/wild-flowers/22-wildflowers-11-dandelion

Make some Jelly out of it......

http://www.bakersbrigade.com/recipe/moms-dandelion-jelly/
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Yes it certainly has that f/1.2 magic about it

Electronic focus aids don't work unfortunately. I wish Pentax would finally improve them...... probably take about a week. I've been waiting since I bought an ME-F in 1981

If you don't believe me try moving the camera slowly towards the subject and then moving away from beyond the subject or focus from infinity to the subject and then from the closest distance on the lens turning it to infinity. You get two beeps confirming focus in two different positions as though there were a DOF. Neither position is in focus and it's effected by how far away the camera is from the subject.

It's controlled by the calibration setting, but only works at the test distance.
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