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with digital, you can get away with the in camera meter.... adjustments can be made and more shots taken..

but if you are using the built in spot meter, or a separate handheld meter... best to really learn how to use it... the truth is these tools were vital when shooting expensive narrow latitude slide film/movie film in the past... Ansel Adams Zone system saved a lot of money for film makers...
but today is digital, and in camera meters and a little know how all you really need for many applications...
I use a handheld meter for flash (incident or reflected depends), and my camera set to either spot or matrix metering for most applications..
I use the spot meter on my d-slr to meter various brightnesses within a scene and only for critical work..

Comment by Don posted on Light Meters vs In Camera Metering at 30/04/2013 - 16:12

johnriley wrote:
There's going to be a disparity for a while here. The GR has taken on some Pentax attributes but the menu system is Ricoh.

Clearly pleasing two camps could be difficult.

true but the tav mode on the dial is pentax... and let's be honest... the menu's and graphics are just a firmware style.. easily the simplest way to distinguish two cameras that might otherwise be identical components underneath.. this camera could EASILY share the electronics with several pentax cameras....
drop the electronics in a different body with a revised firmware is easy enough..

Comment by Don posted on new Ricoh gr camera has clues to upcoming Pentax models? at 29/04/2013 - 23:31

Algernon wrote:
The GXR's discontinued

sorry I wass thinking of the new gr

Comment by Don posted on new Ricoh gr camera has clues to upcoming Pentax models? at 29/04/2013 - 20:37

aliengrove wrote:
I'm hoping they now come out with a K mount module for the GXR....a 24mp APS-C module would be great.

just the same body, with a k-mount would make an awesome k-02!

Comment by Don posted on new Ricoh gr camera has clues to upcoming Pentax models? at 29/04/2013 - 15:53

gwing wrote:

Smeggypants wrote:
Ditching the K-Mount would be the most stupid thing Pentax ever did. Part of the kudos of Pentax is the lens backwards compatibility and if/when they bring out a FF body you can bet that the marketing PR will be promoting the ability to use classic lenses over a period of 4 decades.

On that basis a change of mount won't happen.

I would hate to lose the ability to use my K mount lenses on a new body. But I would like a new APSC body optimised for APSC mirror sizes which would allow a more compact body and reduced lens registration distance making lenses more compact and simplifying wide angle design. All of that could be done and a simple adapter provided to fatten up the lens mount to a K, anyone without new style lenses could just leave the adapter in place permanently and be no worse off.

A side effect of this is that reducing the lens registration distance to less than the old 35mm requirements would allow creation of proper infinity focus Nikon, Canon, Olympus etc. to Pentax adapters opening up lens choice even further - which would be nice, if anyone made them.

it is concieveable that Pentax COULD make a mirrorless body and new lenses with a shorter shorter lens registration and an adaptoer for older lenses.. but I suspect they'll take a design hint from the q and goe with shutter in lens design and keep the existing k-mount minus the mechanical links...and screw drive...

Comment by Don posted on Maybe light at the end of the tunnel? at 26/04/2013 - 15:14

if history is anything to go by.... the k-mount won't change much. my guess.... add a second/bigger water seal drop all mechanical links and replace with all electronics and add a leaf shutter in lens.... the new lenses won't work on older bodies (except wide open) and old lenses will still work on newest bodies..

Comment by Don posted on Maybe light at the end of the tunnel? at 25/04/2013 - 13:46

if you are using the flash on manual, with a radio slave then brand does not matter as long as the flash is new enough that it won't harm your radio slave. (amost all newer units are good to go)

Comment by Don posted on Flash advice at 21/04/2013 - 16:13

from our own forums:
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happy to report a little wd-40 solved my issue the first time, and never a problem since... been a couple years now, safe to say it worked for me.

Comment by Don posted on Kr Faulty Edial at 21/04/2013 - 15:23

link is now live
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Comment by Don posted on new Ricoh gr camera has clues to upcoming Pentax models? at 17/04/2013 - 21:37

stick a k-mount on this and you have the new k-02.

Comment by Don posted on Ricoh GR (more than a hint of Pentax about it) at 17/04/2013 - 20:19

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