My machine went belly up last week. the C drive HDD died. on reinstall, when I run Photoshop CS5 bridge to view the RAW, when I try to save them, it craps out after 4 or 5 images and says it's out of memory.

before the crash, that didn't happen. I have 10GB of cache set, thumbnails go to the drive and all the settings are as they were.

any other suggestions to get it working the way it used to be?

anyone have the service manual for the 18-125 sigma?

mine broke today. the zoom ring has disconnected from the inner workings so it won't zoom. I think a screw inside has broken.
anyone have the manual

WEnt today.

Good show, lots of good bargains, provided you weren't a pentax user. Very little pentax support and the pentax 'stand' was an embarassment. a small booth tacked on the side of the London Camera Exchange stand. I walked past it twice thinking it was part of the london camera exchange.

all the lenses on the display on two shelves and one each of the mains bodies available but embarassing, just embarassing.

Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung, Nikon, Canon all had big stands. Pentax had a little cubby hole.

and they wonder why they aren't taken seriously.

saw the tamron 150-600 in the flesh. gorgeous lens, absolutely gorgeous. very miffed we aren't getting it in a pentax mount.

overall, a good show, but pentax, seriously, next time, more effort.

Would that tenpa eyepiece fit a k3?

Took this new lens down to London last week.

Picked it up for a stupidly low price as it was marked broken? spares or repair and I got lucky and have myself a stunning new lens for pennies. Very impressed with its performance. Most of these shots were ISO 3200 or less, all shot handheld with a K3 which also performed amazingly in the museums. A lot of those were down to 1/3 second shutter speeds due to the poor lighting.

British museum, spanning panorama stitch of 6 photos.



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3 shot stitch


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street walking around london, it was a gloomy day, but even the, the lens and camera could handle it.

the figure above the savoy frontage


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interesting to know. so the DA* 60-250 + a TC would be a better bet?

particularly since sigma have apparently stopped making the k mount 1.4x and 2x TC's and isn't the sigma 100-300 F4 getting low for spares regards a repair?

don't forget the Sigma 100-300 F4 EX DG but it's rare in the pentax mount. although one did appear here recently.

does that support autofocus?

well that's my point obione.

if they release this new lens at DA image quality levels and charge accordingly, will many people buy it if they already have the 60-250 and slap the new TC on it?

well I suppose it all depends on what level of picture quality they are aiming for doesn't it.

automatically a few people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that it will be equivalent to DA 60-250 or sigma 100-300 in picture quality, ergo more money.

but the HD WR 55-300 is not stunning money. if they are building it to be as good as the 55-300 then I can't see how a £850 - £1100 won't be impossible.

it's all a balance of sales against no sales surely? a mid quality, pentax made WR telephoto lens with the new HD coatings to fill the gap in their lens lineup will garner interest from a lot of users and maybe even tempt across users of other systems. producing a top drawer WR HD telephoto modelled on the likes of the DA 60-250 will garner a lot of drooling but the price will put a lot of people off.

bearing in mind, take a 60-250, add the new 1.5 TC and at 1.5 crop on the APS-C you have 575mm equivalent.

the 135-380 lens is equivalent to 570mm. now why make a 135-380 telephoto at huge money on that basis. who is it going to tempt?

it's not long enough for hardcore birders, and a lot of people with the 60-250 might be content with just adding the new TC to their collection and keeping their lens rather than spend more money and upgrade.

or they sell, saturate the market and see the resale price of the 60-250 go down a bit on the 2nd hand market for a short while and upgrade to the new lens.

obviously weight will be a factor, Pentax are known for good, not humongously heavy lenses so I hope this new lens will not be a beast like the bigma.

but i feel it more likely, if they are trying to build market share that they go the mid picture quality route. build on the good reputation of the 55-300 (which under the right conditions can take a stunning shot) and produce a sub £1000 to £1100 lens for the broader market.