am I mistake, or didn't there used to be an asahi pentax, and a brief time where imorts were rebadged as honeywells in the west?
I could be confused, but I'm not worried.
longas the lenses fit, and the shutter clicks....

My instructor at the college is a canon guy , with the sharper is better mentality.
I'm trying to sway him to the dark side. I submitted an unusal print for my mid term exam.
He looked bewildered when I set up my lighting for a womans portrait with a snooted main, no diffuser and a gridded kicker, using a ringflash for a -4 stop fill.
35 mm 400 iso ilford film to boot.
But when I added heavy difussion filter, at the printing stage, to flare out the shadows, and with a layer of gauze on the paper to add texture, the results were quite nice. ( toned it with tea to complete the meloncholy theme).
maybe he will develope a taste for soft, grainy images by the time I'm done.
over saturated, over sharpened, does not automattially equal better.

maybe "silvadala" silver dollar won't be back.

I suppose it's possible that more than one person out there is using internet explorer...
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my advice, take your pc to a repair shop, and while it's in there, get your hands on a mac, or linux box.
It's the only way those microsoft users will learn....

Herbert Keppler
http://keppler.popphoto.com/blog/2006/10/when_pros_are_c.html#more

http://www.digitalphotopro.com/home.php
http://www.shutterbug.com/

Hey Gwyn, did you ever hear the one about why the Dutch red light districts are the best in the world? Apparently they'll pay half!
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Delicious, sizzuling Steaks?
where do I get one?

there are more lenses available for those other brands because they pretty much force you to buy a whole new system evrytime you try to upgrade.
in other words how many of those lenses will work with any particular body has to be weighed against what pentax offers. no one body from any other brand will work with as many different lenses as a pentax.