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I find it useful not so much for checking what is in focus but for seeing how much I can stop down (e.g. for reasonable DOF on a macro subject) and still keep the background reasonably out of focus.
Comment by amilner posted on K-7 DOF Preview at 03/11/2010 - 19:42
Just got an LX5. Gorgeous, fast and great quality pics. OK it is not Pentax but it is an LX...
Comment by amilner posted on Curious- what compact do you use? at 31/10/2010 - 19:44
mowog wrote:
I'd like to see that Soligor on here, when you get the chance, Tony.
You will have to wait until Christmas I am afraid... I return on 18/12I'd like to see that Soligor on here, when you get the chance, Tony.
Comment by amilner posted on The ten quid lens thread. at 31/10/2010 - 19:36
I picked up a Miranda 70-200 F4 zoom in pristine condition from a camera fair in Guildford not long back - some initial tests showed it was not bad at all, though I am skeptical if it really is a constant F4 (it could be - it has a 58mm filter thread - but exposure does seem to change when zooming against an evenly lit plain wall)
It is in the UK at the moment so I cant do any further tests or post any pictures - as is the 28 2.8 Soligor (I think) on which I wasted a fiver and which was absolutely awful!
It is in the UK at the moment so I cant do any further tests or post any pictures - as is the 28 2.8 Soligor (I think) on which I wasted a fiver and which was absolutely awful!
Comment by amilner posted on The ten quid lens thread. at 30/10/2010 - 10:30
Pwynnej wrote:
As can the MZ6 (in one of the custom functions)Dangermouse wrote:
I think a standard Z1 is the only AF SLR I'd like to add to my collection, for a rather esoteric reason. It can be set to leave the film leader out, making it compatible with my daylight developing tank which loads film in the same way as a camera does.
Unless any of the MZ series can do this?
MZ-S could. I think a standard Z1 is the only AF SLR I'd like to add to my collection, for a rather esoteric reason. It can be set to leave the film leader out, making it compatible with my daylight developing tank which loads film in the same way as a camera does.
Unless any of the MZ series can do this?
Comment by amilner posted on Pentax Z1 75 years edition and 28-70mm lens at 19/10/2010 - 09:25
'Stereo' is more acurate for all those 3d movies, cameras, TVs etc. etc. True 3d would change perspective as you move round it (like a hologram). Anybody have wone of those stereo viewer thingies which took discs when they were a kid? Can't remeber what they were called.
Comment by amilner posted on Photokina report at 25/09/2010 - 10:47
1000mm f1.0 Hmm... 1 metre diameter front element...
Comment by amilner posted on Wanted: 12-125mm at 24/09/2010 - 14:20
Got a manual sigma 24 2.8 for about £40 the other week on ebay. Not really given it a good test yet though. That has temporarily subdued my hankering after the 21.
Comment by amilner posted on Question regarding FA* lenses at 22/09/2010 - 17:19
Aero wrote:
I can't see any reason it wouldn't work with the MZ-M, which has the full, "uncrippled", KA2 mount. They're superb little cameras that are considerably underestimated by Pentax purists.
Al
You can't set the aperture from the body of the MZM, hence lenses without an aperture ring (such as the DA 40 ltd) can onlly be used in shutter priority of program mode, not manual mode or aperture priority (or rather - in those two modes it can only be used wide open at f2.8 )I can't see any reason it wouldn't work with the MZ-M, which has the full, "uncrippled", KA2 mount. They're superb little cameras that are considerably underestimated by Pentax purists.
Al
Mine works fine on my K7...
Comment by amilner posted on sigma 170-500mm APO nonDG at 30/08/2010 - 13:12
