I don't know how much it costs. Gerri handles all the money....money is an abstract concept to me... I just have to remember to turn that damn phone off so Gerri can't use "Find my Iphone" to hunt me down.

She "Where are you?"
He "At the children's hospital, reading to sick kids"
She "The HELL YOUARE! You're sitting on a patio, at the pub, with a Honey Brown Ale in your hands, admiring your motorcycle!"
He "Well if you already knew that why'd ya ask?"
She "Come mow the lawn or I'll cancel your bank cards and motorcycle insurance"
He "Well, I wasn't REALLY LYING, These guys are really imature, they are sick, alcoholism is a disease.... and we come here to feel better..I was reading the label on my beer....."

will that still be a feature in a few more years? let's be honest, the new lenses are complex and failure prone compared to the tanks they used to make... we still won't know the long term viability of the weather gaskets, then there is the electronics and micro motors... I suspect 25 year old DA lenses won't be a huge selling point... later on... so Pentax is gonna have to step thier work with tokina and hoya...

only one way to find out if it is good.... shoot it.
just don't use it for any professional portraits, weddings, or other once in a lifetime photo ops...

Well frogfish, they do cost more...
if I had them, I'd use them.

as for me... things change over time.... right now my most used lenses are:

50 1.4 m (mostly for video)
50 1.4 fa (portraits & products)
100 mm macro (portraits & video)
16-45 f4 (everything)
35 2.4 (everything)

then of course:
28-70 f4 (everything)
28-200 (sports)
85 soft (video)

I am a professional, and I don't bother. If it ain't broke don't fix it. If it is broke, get it repaired under warrenty or replace it.

in the LX days cameras were like fine Swiss watches... worth repairing, and sometimes needing servicing. These days, they are Timex's almost reaching the point where it will be cheaper to buy another camera than to replace the damn battery... well we're not there...yet... but that seems like where camera values are going...

the pentax ones are huge, big enough to use with 645 slides...

did I post this here already?
link

just got up...
but that looks like a reasonanble alternative.
I am keeping my eyes open for a Pentax loupe... they had one the size of a small glass, before... I'm thinking if memory serves me correct, it will fit perfectly into a rubber plumbing pipe fitting which could then be bungie strapped onto the lcd of the camera.

anybody know if the loupe or even better the zoom loupe is still available?

I do believe there ought to be a standardized watermark to identify the level of photochopping done to an image for fashion/beauty/fitness shots. I would take Bea Arthur




and photoshop her till she looks like Minka Kelly




if they pay me by the hour and be honest about it.

thanx. yes the video in that clip, all but the two clips of the interview on the sofas backstage came off the kr. oops, one scene panning the crowd was with the sr12.
10-17 fisheye, 35 2.4, 50 1.4 "m", and the 28-200. The interior interview shots were the sony hdr hc1 and sr12.