Benz3ne

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I've watched the DA-50 one. Great little vid. I'm used to something a little quicker from the vids I watch but I usually speed up to 1.5x speed anyway. One thing I noticed was that the animations came across a little sluggish (personal preference) at the beginning of the video. The main take away for me though is that the beginning of the video is louder than the end. Not absolutely sure why that might be the case.

Also, not that I'm an expert in the matter but do you have a script at all for these types of videos or not? Especially as the focus isn't on your face you could quite comfortably script something which might help minimise speaking errors - again, though, that's endearing for some that it's not overly clinical.

Hope this helps! I'll watch a few more now, enjoyed that DA-50 one... tempted to get one again now I've a K-1!

Comment by Benz3ne posted on Newish Pentax YouTube Channel at 26/02/2020 - 13:00

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A D-FA 28-105 WR for a shade over £200. Essentially new (so doing away with the 'used' aspect somewhat), and a big thanks to a chap from this forum who went above and beyond to help me acquire it. I loved the 18-135mm on APS-C so I'm looking forward to taking this out on the K-1!

As for used bargains previously:
MX for £20 + P&P, not quite as good a deal as Womble's but happy with it.
ME Super job lot for £70 or thereabouts, including a few cases, Weston Master V, couple of Cokin filters, M50/1.7 lens which I've now cleared of fungus, 2x ME Supers, both appearing to work correctly now with new light seals and a PKA Kiron 28mm f/2.
Pentax K-50 and K-70 job lot. Included a number of lenses, both cameras etc. for under £300. Managed to sell everything for a bargain for their recipients but leaving me with a little profit so enabling me to get a K-1 not too long ago after using the K-70 for a few thousand shots.
SMC-M 135mm 3.5 for £15 posted, SMC-A 50mm f/1.7 for £20, SMC-A 28mm f/2.8 for £20. Daft me sold the 50/1.7 so I might look to procure another in due course.
SMC-M 50mm f/1.4 for £30 posted.
SMC-M 85mm f/2 for £50, had some 'haze' which I feared might've been lens separation, but on cleaning and reassembly actually appears not to be!
Plus the handful of bargains on great items from this generous forum.

Comment by Benz3ne posted on Used bargains at 26/02/2020 - 09:11

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Subscribed. I’ll let you know if I think of anything after watching a few later.

Comment by Benz3ne posted on Newish Pentax YouTube Channel at 25/02/2020 - 19:11

Benz3ne
Spotted this one on Facebook. If I had the disposable I'd be all over it - good luck with the sale, I'm sure it won't take long!

Comment by Benz3ne posted on FS: Pentax FA 77mm F1.8 Limited at 25/02/2020 - 15:02

Benz3ne
Bargain price. I’m sure this will be snapped up quickly!

Comment by Benz3ne posted on FS: DA* 35mm f2.8 Macro Ltd at 23/02/2020 - 16:43

Benz3ne
Love it. Wonderfully exposed and see, just to parrot the above comments.

Comment by Benz3ne posted on Window in a white wall. at 23/02/2020 - 09:44

Benz3ne
It might sell reasonably well on eBay, if you can be bothered with the hassle?

Comment by Benz3ne posted on slightly damaged 150-450 mm HD D-FA F4.5-5.6ED DC AW Lens at 19/02/2020 - 10:13

Benz3ne
davidwozhere wrote:
I really don't know which old film lenses Stub bought which were "rubbish". All the K1 photos submitted here by me are 'old glass' and most have been well received. There is a reason, for example, why the SMC Pentax-FA 80-320mm is so expensive, despite its age - it can give a DA* a run for its money. Macro Taks are unbeatable and the Canikon brigade are always snapping up Pentax-K and M primes rather than buying their own brands. None of these are cheap but the £60-£80 you pay for them is a lot less than the £1.2K and upwards you seem to have to shell out for new ones.
Agreed - I'm 99% old lenses here, too. In fact, the only lens I currently own with autofocus is the D-FA 100mm WR Macro, which is by far the newest lens I own. Thereafter it's the Voigtlander Ultron and then it's a swamp of SMC-M, SMC-A and some 3rd party manual-focus lenses... All perform superbly in my opinion.

That's a lovely picture with the 80-320. I'm tempted to pick one up just for the reach and autofocus on the K1.

Comment by Benz3ne posted on 'Upgrade to K-1' quandary... at 19/02/2020 - 08:29

Benz3ne
HarisF1 wrote:
Any ideas for chairs? I've been using an Ikea Markus for around half a year and it's been pretty good. I'm a sloucher though and I'm not sure I can fix that.
Nothing wrong with slouching. It's sitting and not moving for hours that causes issues.

Comment by Benz3ne posted on Another pointless thread at 19/02/2020 - 08:12

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LennyBloke wrote:
"Like New" at £679

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-lenses/pentax...

If I didn't have one I'd snap this up.

Best modern lens I own
I spotted this too but it’d exceed my ‘biggest spend’ on any one lens by about 3x... a great deal for someone who can afford it!

Comment by Benz3ne posted on Used Pentax HD D FA 50mm f1.4 at 17/02/2020 - 19:59

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