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Comment by giofi posted on Pentax K-01 at 05/02/2012 - 18:56
I would like to buy a Pentax DA 10-17 fisheye lens. If you have one in very good conditions you are not using and consider selling, can you please send me a PM. Shipment to Finland and payment by paypal.
Thanks
Thanks
Comment by giofi posted on WTB Pentax DA 10-17 at 04/02/2012 - 12:32
Very nice set, I really like n. 6!
Comment by giofi posted on A Chilly Morning at 03/02/2012 - 20:33
Don wrote:
you can't swap lenses on the iphone, so there is no macro lens option ..
Oh yes you can.... link you can't swap lenses on the iphone, so there is no macro lens option ..
Comment by giofi posted on Pentax K-01 at 03/02/2012 - 18:20
fritzthedog wrote:
For those of us who have enough experience/ knowledge to spot the - shall we say limitations - of this salesman and his ilk - he/they are an annoyance and occasionally in my case a source of amusement and fun - especially if I am in the mood to toy with them a little - usually if there is an audience.
It is the potential customers without the experience and knowledge I feel sorry for who may end up spending a lot of money needlessly on something wholly unsuitable for them.
Anybody old enough to remember the old "Not The 9 O'clock News" sketch about the guy who goes in to a hi-fi shop to buy a gramophone? they satirized this sort of salesman brilliantly (no - just me again eh).
It's also unfortunate that we tend to equate the person with the company they work for. I have not been in to a branch of Jessops for years - but did so a couple of weeks ago to pick up a 50mm 1.4 whilst they had them on offer. I have to say that the guy who served me was very good. He even told me that he was a Nikon user and wished that Nikon made something as good as the 50 1.4 for his D300 - said he had paid over £400 for the Nikon equivalent and in his view the Pentax was a better lens. He did look over his shoulder as he said it though to make sure nobody heard him
Was he telling the truth? who knows but it was the right thing to say.
Carl
sounds like a really good salesman..... For those of us who have enough experience/ knowledge to spot the - shall we say limitations - of this salesman and his ilk - he/they are an annoyance and occasionally in my case a source of amusement and fun - especially if I am in the mood to toy with them a little - usually if there is an audience.
It is the potential customers without the experience and knowledge I feel sorry for who may end up spending a lot of money needlessly on something wholly unsuitable for them.
Anybody old enough to remember the old "Not The 9 O'clock News" sketch about the guy who goes in to a hi-fi shop to buy a gramophone? they satirized this sort of salesman brilliantly (no - just me again eh).
It's also unfortunate that we tend to equate the person with the company they work for. I have not been in to a branch of Jessops for years - but did so a couple of weeks ago to pick up a 50mm 1.4 whilst they had them on offer. I have to say that the guy who served me was very good. He even told me that he was a Nikon user and wished that Nikon made something as good as the 50 1.4 for his D300 - said he had paid over £400 for the Nikon equivalent and in his view the Pentax was a better lens. He did look over his shoulder as he said it though to make sure nobody heard him
Was he telling the truth? who knows but it was the right thing to say.
Carl
Comment by giofi posted on Jessops bad attitude at 03/02/2012 - 18:08
matwhittington wrote:
I rather like the thought of the DA 550 , although (a large) part of me wishes it were to be a DA* - although if it were I suspect I would never be able to afford it... I'm gonna start saving my pennies now in any case
Well, let's hope it will have DA* quality @ DA prices..... I rather like the thought of the DA 550 , although (a large) part of me wishes it were to be a DA* - although if it were I suspect I would never be able to afford it... I'm gonna start saving my pennies now in any case
Comment by giofi posted on New Pentax lens roadmap at 02/02/2012 - 22:11
This is expensive, but a valid alternative if you have a larger number of slides, and it is much more practical than normal scanners:
link
I am planning to rent one of these, as it will be much less expensive then having them scanned by a professional service.
link
I am planning to rent one of these, as it will be much less expensive then having them scanned by a professional service.
Comment by giofi posted on scanning slides to the computer at 27/01/2012 - 21:41
Still27 wrote:
Airsure is very good, but I would not post to Italy again.
I think you cannot ship with Airsure to Italy.. Airsure is very good, but I would not post to Italy again.
Or maybe the 2 comments were not related?
Comment by giofi posted on Recommendations for shipping to EU countries at 15/01/2012 - 17:52
rscoote wrote:
actually, it works both ways. iCloud will share photos on all devices. I did a search and it works also with windows. You should be able toset it up so that is automatically copies your pictures on your pc's photo directory to your iPad. johnriley wrote:
How about Cloud? I seem to think that when my son takes pictures they appear on his iPad with no intervention from him at all, similar to an automatic backup.
John, I think that is for photos you take on an apple device if you use apple's Photo Stream. Take a picture on your iphone or ipad and it appears on any other apple device that uses the same apple id. Generally the cloud refers to storage somewhere on the internet yet secure, so Flickr, Photobucket, Photo Stream and Dropbox are all termed cloud-based applications.How about Cloud? I seem to think that when my son takes pictures they appear on his iPad with no intervention from him at all, similar to an automatic backup.
In iTunes you can define so that a certain directory (say grandchildren) is always syncronised to your iPad. So all you need to do is store your selected pictures in that directory and connect your iPad to your pc once in a while. IMO much easier than email.
Comment by giofi posted on Photos on an iPad at 10/01/2012 - 20:36
I think it depends at which resolution you want the pictures on your iPad. If you are happy with low resolution just to watch them, then iTunes synchronisation is the easiest option. Alternatively, you can export your pictures to a memory card and then use an iPad card adapter to transfer the pictures to the iPad.
If you have a mac you can enable photo stream, and pictures you download to your mac will be automatically available on your iPad.
If you have a mac you can enable photo stream, and pictures you download to your mac will be automatically available on your iPad.
Comment by giofi posted on Photos on an iPad at 10/01/2012 - 19:56
Just did a Google image search on "Pentax K-01". Try it. This camera is certainly generating massive interest, which must be good news for Pentax. I seriously think that on balance the design will do more for sales than if it had been retro. Pentax is thinking ahead with this future design classic. And still puting image quality first.
Personally, I think the yellow version looks great and unlike any other camera.