John wrote:

Good thinking, I will do that.

hogboy wrote:

I have a Pentax-A 24mm. This should be close to the Camera-X lens . I.ll use it for a while exclusively and see how I like it.

Thanks to both of you.

Regards, Horst

Well I didn't mean Fu.. I meant it to be short for FU....

However for some members both meanings are, I suppose rude.

What do you suggest?

Regards, Horst

Hi, Firstly this topic is in no way intent to upset, anger or in any other way make the management uncomfortable.
Having sad this, I must tell you, I am a staunch Pentax user since 1970.
I own still about 10 Pentax SLR's Like Spotmatic, K1000, Super Program, K5, K20, X-5 K-01 and more.
I own about 20 Various Pentax lenses and 1 Sigma and 1 Tamron.

So It can not be said that I am not fully committed to Pentax.

I bought my 9 year old granddaughter a K10 an a couple of zoom lenses last year.

Now My problem is, that sometimes the K10 with lens is somewhat bulky to carry around for her.
But I have noticed a , (now read this very quietly ), Fuji X100 camera.

Lets call it from now on a Pentax-FU., so you don't have to whisper and not to shock the management to much. (I don't want to be banned again for 7 days for heresy)

So if any of you have used or own a Pentax-FU. please let me know, how you like it and how the picture quality and handling is. I specially like the idea of the optical viewfinder.

I noticed Pentax has nothing equivalent to a.) the looks and b.) the features of this camera

Yes, of course. Thunderbird

Cairns is about the furthest I have been up north.

Thanks,

Regards, Horst

Hi Steve , I haven't received anything. I had a look in my spam: nothing.

Also Firefox lets you know if it thinks its a spam and you can choose if you want to read it, or discard it

However I always receive the end of the month newsletter.

Looks like I have to get on to the management and see if they are forwarding it.

Thanks for your comment. Where about in Australia are yo located?

Regards, Horst

What I am saying is quite simple:

When I receive the Pentax newsletter, The monthly competition is on its last day.

An Example: I received the last Newsletter on 1st April which is still 31st March in Europe (GB included)

But the monthly competition ends already on 31st of March. This does not give me very much time to do something about it. (about 9hrs)

Regards, Horst

It is quite amazing, None of the management commented on this problem, or should I say stuff up.

It seem if it is something they muck up, then there is deadly silence.

A while ago I wrote some comments which where not quite to the liking of the so called management, they where on to me like a tone of bricks.

it took only seconds to warn me , what a bad boy I was and should I do it again, I would be banned from the forum for a week. ( Naughty , naughty !!!) I did it again and within a flash, I was banned.

However now, it seems : "Nothing, Deadly silence" Why?

Regards, Horst

Hi George, I didn't mean the normal time zone wich is now that we finished Daylight savings time only about 9 hrs.

However I meant the Starting and finish of the monthly competition, which arrives exactly 1 month to late.

Regards, Horst

NB. Our natives can't spell it either. They call it: Big lump in Ground"

Thanks Steve.

The problem is, not that it is out by only a few hours, but by a whole month.

Thanks for telling me, that the UK is the centre of the universe.

Here in the colonies we are not so up to date. Possibly, because of the time zone.

When it is daytime in the UK, It is night in Australia and we are all asleep when world changing
events occur
So we miss out on all this and stay ignorant.

Regards, Horst

Hi, Every time i receive the Pentax news letter. I am trying to figure out, how to compete in the monthly competition.

The end of the competition date is always 1 day before I receive the news letter.

E.G. the last newsletter I received on 1st April 2015. the competition closes on the 31st of March 2015.

This happens every month.

I can well imagine that the UK is a month behind Australia. They are normally behind in most things,
but this doesn't help me, trying to participate in the monthly competition.

Maybe some of you know, how to overcome this.

Regards, Horst