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Comment by Don posted on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit at 01/02/2011 - 20:09
what is needed is a protest against Evilbay to stop that sort of thing.....
Comment by Don posted on always read the small print at 01/02/2011 - 19:55
I'm gonna proclaim that there will be a new model.
it will be the basically the kx, with the grip shaved off (no AA's) using the same battery as the kr, it will have live view a-la kr, no pentaprism/pentamirror instead an optional shoe mount evf, pop-up flash, p-ttl flash compatible, k-mount, no mirrorbox, sr, a Samsung like iControl ring around the lens mount instead of a second scroll wheel and they will call it K-2. It will be priced at approx $500.00 Cdn and come bundled with the 35mm 2.4 in a wide variety of color combinations.
it will be the basically the kx, with the grip shaved off (no AA's) using the same battery as the kr, it will have live view a-la kr, no pentaprism/pentamirror instead an optional shoe mount evf, pop-up flash, p-ttl flash compatible, k-mount, no mirrorbox, sr, a Samsung like iControl ring around the lens mount instead of a second scroll wheel and they will call it K-2. It will be priced at approx $500.00 Cdn and come bundled with the 35mm 2.4 in a wide variety of color combinations.
Comment by Don posted on kx and k7 both officially discontinued? at 01/02/2011 - 19:44
had an angry (now ex) wife throw a tamrac backpack full of Pentax gear down a flight of stairs... EVERYTHING Pentax survived.... only a couple broken filters.
Women love me sooooo much just the thought of losing me makes 'em go crazy.
or was that living with me makes 'em go crazy?
Either way they go nuts for me.
Women love me sooooo much just the thought of losing me makes 'em go crazy.
or was that living with me makes 'em go crazy?
Either way they go nuts for me.
Comment by Don posted on Parcelforce - employing shot-putters to deliver!!?? at 01/02/2011 - 19:09
gillbod wrote:
i'm not so sure i agree with your assessment about it being better than the macro, stu.
it does seem to have a bit of a stronger contrast in the centre, which is very impressive for a zoom when pitted against a top macro lens.
but in the corners the 18-135mm outright worse.
also, there's significantly more fringing around the white chairs in the 18-135mm compared to the macro.
a good performance for a zoom, but still, the macro is my choice in those images.
only a proper studio test or pixel peeping off brick walls,will convince me. leaves and foliage could easily be moved by a slight breeze causing loss of sharpness around the edges of any of the lenses tested here.i'm not so sure i agree with your assessment about it being better than the macro, stu.
it does seem to have a bit of a stronger contrast in the centre, which is very impressive for a zoom when pitted against a top macro lens.
but in the corners the 18-135mm outright worse.
also, there's significantly more fringing around the white chairs in the 18-135mm compared to the macro.
a good performance for a zoom, but still, the macro is my choice in those images.
I'm not arguing that the zoom is very good quality, I'm just not convinced it will outperform the macro 100,
if it did, no one would bother buying the *zooms that is for sure...
I'm not convinced from that example that one lens is superior to the other.
try some tripod mounted, manual exposure under a consistant light source.
any differences perceived from the example you posted could be down to exposure, and technique rather than lens quality.
I suspect that with proper technique, tripod mounted, cable released, carefully metered both at 100 mm at several apertures, one lens will outperform the other. I'm just convinced it will be the one you think...
try some tripod mounted, manual exposure under a consistant light source.
any differences perceived from the example you posted could be down to exposure, and technique rather than lens quality.
I suspect that with proper technique, tripod mounted, cable released, carefully metered both at 100 mm at several apertures, one lens will outperform the other. I'm just convinced it will be the one you think...
Nikon and Canon have both reported losing market share to evil class systems in Japan.
Japan is ahead of the market in the sense that what happens there usually precedes what happens everywhere else.
I suspect Sony dumping ff to pursue nex is part of that same trend.
Evil class cameras will beat out both high end compacts and entry level d-slrs.
That leaves Pentax needing a high end pro camera and and evil class camera.
a digital auto 110 with kmount adaptor and an expensive, jewel like, digital lx either d-slr or if there has been any breakthroughs with the patents on hybrid evf/pentaprism they have, there will be an optical with evf overlayed viewfinder... to keep up.
Killing off their best selling model, while it is still, technology wise, viable in any market has to be a financial based decision and since Pentax knows what they have coming next.....
We have to just wait a bit to find out!
Japan is ahead of the market in the sense that what happens there usually precedes what happens everywhere else.
I suspect Sony dumping ff to pursue nex is part of that same trend.
Evil class cameras will beat out both high end compacts and entry level d-slrs.
That leaves Pentax needing a high end pro camera and and evil class camera.
a digital auto 110 with kmount adaptor and an expensive, jewel like, digital lx either d-slr or if there has been any breakthroughs with the patents on hybrid evf/pentaprism they have, there will be an optical with evf overlayed viewfinder... to keep up.
Killing off their best selling model, while it is still, technology wise, viable in any market has to be a financial based decision and since Pentax knows what they have coming next.....
We have to just wait a bit to find out!
Comment by Don posted on kx and k7 both officially discontinued? at 01/02/2011 - 15:09
I suspect the new "Evil" class cameras will cannibalize sales of the kx, so the kr becomes the "Entry level" d-slr, the new evil auto 110 fills the kx's gap and then the newest camera possible ff but likely it is a pentax styled (think the ie 2000) hybrid optical/evil with standard kmount and the k5's sensor.... will be more high end in in price perhaps pro level....
Comment by Don posted on kx and k7 both officially discontinued? at 01/02/2011 - 13:56
Comment by Don posted on kx and k7 both officially discontinued? at 01/02/2011 - 02:37
johnriley wrote:
A little extreme Don and not really something you would contemplate. A complaint to eBay and/or PayPal is the only sensible way to go.
Who knows what the outcome would be, let's hope we never have to find out for ourselves.
not something I would condone... but definately something I'd joke about!A little extreme Don and not really something you would contemplate. A complaint to eBay and/or PayPal is the only sensible way to go.
Who knows what the outcome would be, let's hope we never have to find out for ourselves.
Comment by Don posted on always read the small print at 01/02/2011 - 01:32
