Probably not profitable.

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Items are safer packed loose I remember a 'Tomorrows World' program on the BBC where they dropped items tightly wrapped in paper and loose in a cardboard box from the top of a 12 foot stepladder. A delicate china cup and an egg both smashed when wrapped (separate boxes), but survived loose The box might have had a 12mm polystyrene lining and was the same for both.


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Amazon packaging is sorted by computer. It compares the box dimensions and chooses from about 15 boxes one that will fit You won't believe how big a box a walking stick or window blade comes in

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RobL's is exactly the Sunny 16 rule and most of the others are very close. It seems that a lot of togs use the 'Loony 11' Rule in order to lighten it a bit.

http://thenewcamera.com/looney-11-and-sunny-16-rules/

Modern digital cameras can easily tolerate underexposure and it protects the highlights so Sunny 16 should be OK.

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It's lit by the SUN so the Sunny 16 Rule should work.

200ISO = 1/200th at f/16 OR
1/800th at f/8

Possibly overexpose slightly.

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I think they just pick up the most popular ones from Flickr. The latest lenses are bought just to fondle not take photos for Flickr

Ricoh also mess things up by putting Ricoh in the exif instead of Pentax

For cameras Pentax is 12th most popular and Ricoh 13th It would be higher if they just used Pentax. Free advertising and they don't want it

https://www.flickr.com/cameras?s=rank#brands

I wish you could exclude posters on searches on Flickriver some posters are quite prolific and very often not what your looking for and are sometimes scanned from film.
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Flickriver list a few Pentax lenses. Some say we need more and they haven't bought half of them

http://www.flickriver.com/lenses/pentax/

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They usually supply later when they get new stock if they run out.

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Once in a Blue Moon Prices

Blue Moon tomorrow

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Isn't the extra pin for the Spotmatic F to allow wide open metering?

Wide open metering used by all modern cameras was just a ticklist requirement. Lenses vignette differently wide open and give false readings. Stop down metering is a lot more accurate because it's done at the aperture your using.

I suppose with computers in cameras they could apply a correction based on the lens ID, but I've never heard any company say that they do.
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