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dcweather wrote:
According to the Website the K30 is £559 for the body only and £549 with the 18-55WR lens. Can't be much of a lens if it's cheaper without it!
Yup, Yesterday

Comment by JAK posted on Jessops in trouble? at 30/03/2013 - 01:16

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Gamka wrote:
As Boyo suggests, 299 winners sets and judges 301.

You ask for 3 volunteers (who may not want to enter) to agree a topic, and judge 300. Or 3 who have not entered to judge 300 - that allows the subject choosers to enter.
+1

The person who sets 300 has no chance of winning! Suggest the PU team set the subject and judge it as they stand nothing to gain.

John K

Comment by JAK posted on Weekly Competition #300 Preview at 29/03/2013 - 11:26

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Am I seeing things or is a K-30 body only dearer than a K-30 with an 18-55?

John K

Comment by JAK posted on Pentax returns to Jessops at 29/03/2013 - 11:13

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doingthebobs wrote:
If you can remember the old price list (large sheet of newspaper with tiny writing) you can remember how good Jessops were.

Good prices, Good staff, huge stock, often the first port of call for out of the ordinary accessories. If they didn't have it they would get it but they usually had it listed on the price list. They even listed a magnifying glass to read the price list with, after someone had complained about the size of the print.

Searching the old list was entertainment in itself. I think they stopped doing the price list because they couldn't print it in time to keep it current.
Seconded. Often used to deviate through Leicester to pick up the list on the way to where I was going and do the shopping from it on the way back.

John K

Comment by JAK posted on Pentax returns to Jessops at 29/03/2013 - 00:53

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To quote Peter Jones aliasing someone else,
"The team that wins will get a treat of my choosing. And in the team that loses, one of you will be fired."

Comment by JAK posted on Pentax returns to Jessops at 28/03/2013 - 17:18

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jeallen01 wrote:
The link was in my first post!
That link is to this forum, albeit a different thread. By other forum I presumed you meant the American one or somewhere!

John K

Comment by JAK posted on Kenko converter 2x at 25/03/2013 - 21:29

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Yes, I have found the same thing too. Quite happy to use the photos but not pay. They certainly did in the past. I've had cheques from the Ilford Recorder & long gone Ilford Pictorial and the London Evening News, and in that case even though they developed the film for me one lunch hour and took their own print they didn't actually use the picture. On the other hand, the Daily Mail did recently pay fairly for use of a photo.

By the way, your photos of the run were very good!

John K

Comment by JAK posted on Half Marathon and Fun Run at 25/03/2013 - 17:04

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nicolas1970i wrote:
The 12-24 is an outstanding lens, better than the DA15 and equal to the DA21 in my opinion.
You can't really compare them like that because they are not the same thing. The 12-24 is quite a large zoom lens and the DA15 and DA21 are quite small primes. Optically the primes jolly well ought to be better as the MTF and CA figures in the Photozone reviews confirm! But if you want a zoom lens the primes aren't for you. A better comparison would be against the Sigma 10-20's or similar.

John K

Comment by JAK posted on FS: Samsung (rebranded Pentax) 12-24mm f/4 at 25/03/2013 - 16:39

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Nice that they're using them but a bit of a cheek not to pay the standard rate.

John K

Comment by JAK posted on Half Marathon and Fun Run at 25/03/2013 - 16:27

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Taken with a Pentax-M 200mm f4 on a K100D through the bedroom window in 2009.

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Comment by JAK posted on Images with Vintage Telephotos at 25/03/2013 - 00:34

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