The trend with mirrorless seems to be make them bigger to look like a DSLR


The Panasonic DC GH5S iis HUGE for Four Thirds camera. It dwarfs a K-5> The attraction of mirrorless and 4/3 was supposed to be that they were smaller

http://camerasize.com/compare/#373,727

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I can't see why you have to re-post rubbish from Depressing Review here

Nikon, Canon etc. all using mirrorless at the 2020 Olympic Games What absolute nonsense. No photographers would risk not using tried and tested DSLR's at such an important event.

This is what Canon will have at the 2020 Olympics....
http://www.lightnfocus.com/canon-camera-room-rio-olympics-beautiful-thing-youll-...


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It's unlikely that handheld pixel shift will be as good as the original on a tripod where the shots are moved exactly 1 pixel for each.

The improvement is that you can do pixel shift hand-held although with a steady hand that has always been possible.

Some good original K-1 samples in this thread... 28mm f/3.5 Wow!

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/190-pentax-k-1/324925-pixel-shifted-images-3...

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Vintage lenses are the NEW BITCOIN

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The 55mm f/1.4's used to always go for around £500. One of the best standard lenses ever made. I have a copy of a test of nearly all 50-58mm lenses done by AP years ago. Looking at the LPMM graphs the Pancolar wiped the floor with them all, but as usual with magazines they didn't like to say much about East German lenses..... so they didn't

I always wanted the camera and lens. but they were too expensive.

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Woke up this morning...... Seem to remember waking up yesterday morning as well.... Been waking up a lot lately
Feel a blues song coming on

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Around £600 ish. More if your very lucky like Ned Bunnell (former president of Pentax U.S.) who recently stumbled across a NEW ONE!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfTlXfdHpOB/

More in this thread...
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2586090?page=2#forum-post-60785959

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Legend of a lens. No signs of decentering on my copy and I have no reason to believe others won't be just as good. Sharp at f2

100% crop K-5 Jpeg No PP f/8





https://www.eoshd.com/2013/07/60-pentax-lens-thats-actually-a-800-zeiss-by-desig...

http://forum.mflenses.com/poor-mans-zeiss-distagon-28mm-f-2-hollywood-t16851.htm...

http://www.marcocavina.com/articoli_fotografici/Pentax_28_2_M/00_pag.htm
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Anyone accidentally leaving a flashgun switched until the the batteries go flat will have at least one cell at 0V and the others so close to 0 that they won't charge.

This is quite a good video showing the difference between the German Technoline and a Chinese copy. The reviewer discharged 4 batteries to 0V by leaving them in a torch switched on. I'm surprised the clone wouldn't even charge a battery with 0.37V in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e0uZbxBQnw

Any 0V batteries will need at least TWO charge discharge cycles to bring them back into use. Running any battery right down should be avoided.

The cost of these chargers is unimportant when you take the life expectancy and battery recovery into account. Mine cost £30 and It's still as good as new after 8 years. That's less than £4 year. It's saved me a lot more in batteries it's brought back to life.

Youshiko and 7 Day are reported to be the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrdEmymF2w

What is it they do to Knock-Off Rolex's
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Sign of the times

Chester has some nice signs. I spent a couple of hours in the olde filme dayes photographing them with a Spotmatic and Tri-X

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