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Comment by johnwhit posted on Sitting on the dock of the bay. at 22/06/2010 - 17:34
Doug isn't there a way to hook the EEPROM directly to a computer and force firmware on to it, I thought you had special adapters for that but I can be so wrong since I know very little about this.
John
Comment by johnwhit posted on I killed my K100d!...advise please. at 22/06/2010 - 17:00
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John
Comment by johnwhit posted on A clutch from the weekend at 22/06/2010 - 07:11
The 8mm is a 180MM degree fisheye for aps-c. I'm guessing you'd end up with a circular image on film.
http://michel.thoby.free.fr/SAMYANG/Early%20test%20report.html
John
Comment by johnwhit posted on Samyang 85mm f1.4 at 20/06/2010 - 18:43
Thanks for the comment, I know what you mean by spoilt by lenses I thought I'd take a chance and clicked the Buy it Now button the other night, but for some reason Paypal is refusing to pay for it and I've had no contact from the seller. I even tried paying manually from my Paypal account, but no Ebay items showing for payment So I guess I'm just waiting.
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John
Comment by johnwhit posted on LBA kicks in (again) at 20/06/2010 - 10:33
There have been several threads about the 85mm with those who own it, singing its praises on performance. Now it's in a magazine, it must be true
http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/483-samyang_85_14_5d
Not a bad showing considering what it's up against:
http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/419-canon_85_18_5d
http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/502-canon_85f12ff
Regards,
John
Comment by johnwhit posted on Samyang 85mm f1.4 at 19/06/2010 - 18:32
Absolutely, some telephotos would black out half of the split image etc IIRC the split image was for lenses f/2.8 or faster. Bojidar Dimitrov's Pentax K-Mount Page gives some details:
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/misc/focus/screens/index.html
Regards,
John
Comment by johnwhit posted on To the people who love manual focus... at 19/06/2010 - 16:18
"What I want is an accurate focus screen that makes it very easy to see my plane of focus. I don't care how dim the screen is"
I find it much better to focus on a bright high contrast screen personally, maybe it's just me. We have a Nikon D3000 at work, not my choice, it's totally hopeless to manual focus with because the screen/viewfinder image is so dark. Maybe some original MX owners would like to comment on viefinder quality.
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John
Comment by johnwhit posted on To the people who love manual focus... at 19/06/2010 - 15:42
So am I to believe I'm better off with a used K20D than a new K7? Or should I stick with my reliable K100D Super
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John
Comment by johnwhit posted on FS: Pentax K20D body at 19/06/2010 - 15:31
It only gives a dim image with slow lenses, the max aperture determines viewfinder brightness at the end of the day.
John
Comment by johnwhit posted on To the people who love manual focus... at 19/06/2010 - 14:55
If you'll forgive em I would expect the image to be way sharper than this. It could be that in PP and resizing it's lost some sharpness but I find the 10-20 to be very sharp.
I hope it was set at 10mm
Mike
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John