what part? two little parts are missin off my wifes giottos tripod... a foot cover and a knob...
that never happens with my manfrotto....

a faster lens was favorable in the film days.
a 400 speed film was as fast as you could get decent quality from, any faster and the resolving power of the film was less than the lens so wide open fast apertures were both needed and aceptable...even if they performed poorer wide open..

now we lose a little lens speed wide open and gained huge quality advantages in iso, AND shutter speed (with sr)..

it is like losing a dime in one hand and getting dollar in the other...

this lens is small and light and well matched to the cameras it is intended for.. as a kit lens..
those that want more, spend the money for the 35 macro or buy a ltd prime...
those that are gonna buy the kit lens, not knowing much about photography, are gonna be amazed by this lens...

I think having a prime kit lens equates to reviewers publishing favorable reviews if the kit prime outresolves the competitors kit zooms... which it will....

I'm still shooting bigger game with my 16-45, my 50 1.4 and 100mm... every vacation...
if I bought s 600mm lens I'd have three problems...

1) I'd have to learn to back up further from the animals (that elk shot I posted recently, shot with the 16-45, would have had me pulling a Wile E Coyote of a cliff if memeory serves me...



2) nothing is gonna have fifty soccer Moms on thier cell phones calling 911 like seeing a guy down the street from the playground with a telescope on his camera...

3) if I bought such a lens, I'd have to give up vacations to pay for it, and it's too big to use around the house.

well it would affect the initial reviews to have the camera tested with a prime...

I'm fairly certain that God made the universe.... while wasting time in His garage while hiding out from Mrs God, because She was mad at Him at the time...(our universe won the coin toss, He could've rebuilt an old carburetor instead).

What can I say.... I feel like building stuff this week.......

well if you're not first, you better be better...


send me four cameras and I'll split them in to two pairs and do the first 3d, hdr....

anybody with connections @ Pentax Canada wanna help me out with a project?
I need to borrow 2 kr's or k5's with 35mm primes.
I got a homeless project for a local shelter I want to film....
I want to film it in true high dynamic range using beam splitters.... to pair up a set of over/under exposures combined in finalcut into one hdr file....

yes and there is to be a new line of flashes with irsimple controls, {and hopefully an irsimple remote with intervalometer..)..

two lenses for me...
a leaf shutter 55 sdm. for portraits.
and take the glass from a wide prime 645 lens and mate it to a ball socket lens mount for a tilt/swivel/shift effect (think this:
on steroids plus shift ability, just for fun)