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Comment by CiderDrinker posted on K-3ii upgrade to K-3iii at 05/09/2019 - 15:19
I thought I would just tag on to this thread.
I was recently talking to someone who has a little more information about up and coming Pentax/Ricoh stuff and they accidentally let slip that the K3 III is coming, understandably they did not want to give any additional information.
Unfortunately, I hadn't been able to find any recent rumors on the on possible specs. etc.
I'm hoping it'll be a nice upgrade to the K3 II and backup to the K1-II.
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on K-3ii upgrade to K-3iii at 05/09/2019 - 13:43
This is awesome, but when are you going to stop teasing us and give us the DFA 50mm F1.4 code?
Thank you,
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on Black Friday 2018 at 21/11/2018 - 14:59
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on Black Friday 2018 at 16/11/2018 - 11:21
But I guess you have taken off the free filters.
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on Pentax Instant Discounts - Values doubled this weekend! at 22/06/2018 - 15:51
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on Lines on Kenko circular polarising 49mm filter(s) at 16/06/2018 - 17:58
I wonder if you could offer some advice? I recently purchased the D-FA 100mm Macro WR lens from a well-known supplier, the supplier is offering a free UV and polarising filter with the lens.
When I open the polarising filter I noticed lines running across the lines. I emailed the supplier and they sent a second filter, but this also has lines running across it, but they not exactly the same.
I have had polarising filters before and have never noticed any lines or marks within the filter. I assume these are manufacturing faults?
As the filters were free, I'm not overly fussed but a free filter worth £20 helped sway my purchase decision


Comment by CiderDrinker posted on Lines on Kenko circular polarising 49mm filter(s) at 16/06/2018 - 13:35
Working drive is 3Tb fast HDD which gets backup an internal 4Tb HDD daily and weekly to a 4Tb external drive.
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on How do you store your images? at 23/04/2018 - 13:51
FWIW, here's some cautions about SSD's - from recent experience!
Fitted one to my main laptop ( AMD AM8 processor, 8GB RAM) and another to the netbook (AMD E70, 4GB) I use on WiFi - and both have shown things I never saw before:
- the main laptop keeps throwing "low memory" when quite a few IE11 browser tabs are open
- the battery on the netbook "died" very rapidly thereafter (now replaced by an old but "good" one which seems OK - so far).
Can't yet explain either, but the main laptop has a 480 GB Samsung EVO 840, and the netbook a 240 GB Sandisk one - so not "cheap" SSDs!
Comment by CiderDrinker posted on PC advice Needed at 08/02/2018 - 13:04
Good SSD/M.2 (Samsung etc), RAM 16Gb+ and graphics card.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-CC-2017-AMD-Ryzen-7-1...
and if you have stupid amounts of money, try a Threadripper
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2017-1-1-CPU-Comparison-...
Buy an Intel CPU.... AMD are too slow for PS.
Any with under 100secs on this Benchmark will do....
https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/6094/16/amd-vs-intel-57-processor-megatest-benc...
It's worth getting one that doesn't have the recently reported hacking problem. Might not be on that list.
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Comment by CiderDrinker posted on PC advice Needed at 08/02/2018 - 12:33


Unfortunately it seems most people seem to know someone/have read something/seen something about a new crop sensor body which has been "coming" for the last couple of years.
Please don't take this personally but I will believe it when I actually hold one in my hands (Or Chris from SRS says he has them in stock).
Lets hope we actually get something solid soon