I'll have a go, and it depends on what we mean by "well made" - very often metal, heavy objects are perceived as high quality manufacture, whereas that's not necessarily true.

The current DSLRs are more precisely made and fit together better than my MX ever did, but that's probably a consequence of how metal parts are finished. There was nothing wrong with the MX by the way, which is hardly a metal camera anyway, making extensive use inside of engineering plastics.

I would also say that our current lenses are better, certainly for digital capture, than our lenses have ever been. Yes, an M lens is so smooth that it's a joy to turn the focusing ring, but that doesn't equate with better made. It's just made for manually focusing. The finish of a current Limited lens, traditionally in metal, is better.

The performance will be a good with either, but the design may or may not be identical. It depends where the shutter is in relation to the lens elements and whether or not the original design was made with both options already in mind.

The Leaf Shutter lens is more expensive, so only needs to be purchased if necessary.

Maybe so, but we all have to have the basic knowledge from somewhere, so that we can express what we want to express.

It's not possible to be a brilliant driver without learning how to drive.

There has to be a practical starting point where people learn about the effects of aperture, shutter speed, ISO, where people see what great photographers have been able to do so they too can be inspired.

No person is an island.

Actually, whichever way, it was something that pentax did, under the ownership maybe of Hoya or Ricoh, but it was still the Pentax engineers. The company was bought because of the expertise it had.

The first thing to check is that the eyepiece dioptre is correctly adjusted. To do this, point the camera at a plain subject such as a white wall or blue sky and then adjust until the etched lines in the viewfinder are sharp.

If still a problem, then there are other screens, but since the advent of AF spilt images have not been fitted as standard.

Personally, I prefer the plain screen.

An idea in progress - this first version is a combination of a rust patch on a park bench and an olw at Muncaster Castle.


Pentax K-5, SMC Pentax-DA 18-135mm/Pentax W90.

I don't think people often see me without a camera - I seem to record the world around me wherever I go. Sometimes I make more creative images, sometimes a record of what's going on. Either way, it doesn't need too much analysis.

Just enjoy it and follow the style that you want to.

Cinematography and Photography have much in common.

I still draw upon things that have influenced me from many different areas. There's much to be learned from paintings as well.

If you're right, very interesting.

How do you transalate 21.64mm image height into 24mm? That doesn't say full frame to me, but it can perhaps suggest some new, intermediate format.

There's a new thought....