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johnriley

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The obvious thing would be to contact the official Pentax repairer and, if you are a Pentax User subscriber, take advantage of the 20% discount.

If not, it might pay you to subscribe to the club first and enjoy the quarterly magazine as well.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pentax Physiology at 11/11/2009 - 16:24

johnriley
My favourite "bad photo" was shot on a Kodak 620 Junior Box camera, so it's not for this site.

It is on my website and on EPZ though as it's the only existing photo of my Grandparents towards the end of their lives, so in that context the technical deficiencies become unimportant.

Comment by johnriley posted on My favorite bad photograph at 11/11/2009 - 14:19

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I don't know about "oh learned ones" but I do think that you should keep the 16-45mm.

I have both lenses and use the 16-45mm more than the 12-24mm.

Why not give it a while before making a final decision?

Comment by johnriley posted on Pentax smc DA 16-45mm , should I sell? at 10/11/2009 - 19:03

johnriley
Pentaprism finders are much better than pentamirror ones, which is very striking when you compare Pentax finders with some other makes.

Comment by johnriley posted on Viewfinders compared at 10/11/2009 - 19:00

johnriley
I can see I'll never live this down.....

Comment by johnriley posted on Pigeon Posing in front of 80-320mm at 10/11/2009 - 16:43

johnriley
It may be that you had a poor example. The one I have was new when I bought it and it's been fine. I haven't done any critical comparisons with other lenses at the longest end, but there are no dramatic danger signals.

I'll report back when I've used it some more. It's only relatively recently that I got the Tokina 80-400mm for Sue, so that was when I took to using the Pentax 80-320mm.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pigeon Posing in front of 80-320mm at 10/11/2009 - 15:28

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No, there's no EXIF retained when using Save For Web.

However, I've checked the original file and the info is:

1/1000sec
f8
240mm
ISO 400
Centre Weighted metering
sRGB
Premium JPEG

Comment by johnriley posted on Pigeon Posing in front of 80-320mm at 10/11/2009 - 13:24

johnriley
Maybe 8 or 10 feet away, hard to be exact. The extra 20mm is certainlt enough to make a difference. I'm torn now between using this lens and using my 55-300mm.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pigeon Posing in front of 80-320mm at 10/11/2009 - 12:34

johnriley
It focused down to 4.6 feet (1.4m) which at 300mm gives a very high degree of magnification. It's very suitable for excellent close ups of flowers and small animals.

The focusing range is also continuous, without any necessity for macro settings or any other switches. Just a nice straightforward lens with excellent quality.

Comment by johnriley posted on tammy 70-300 micro V DA 55-300 at 10/11/2009 - 12:32

johnriley
No better, the designs are the same optically.

Comment by johnriley posted on manual focus with 645 lenses at 10/11/2009 - 09:47

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