A quick trip to Portland Bill today with Mrs L. while the sun was still shining. Lunch at the Lobster Pot cafe at the Bill (recommended if you ever go that way) then Mrs L. hunkered down in the lee of the cafe while I took a wander along the cliff tops with the camera in the strong and finger-numbingly cold wind. Here are some of the results. No long exposure milky seas for me, just splash and spray in all its glory. The main problem was getting an angle that didn't include people holding phones at arms length in the frame . The bird has crept into the set because... well, the rocks and cliffs are his/hers so why not?

K3 + 16-85mm or 55-300mm.

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Steve

And a few days for me, too, please.

Having lived in a seaside town for 10 years and not being far from it even now (went there yesterday) I recognise what you want to show. My never forgotten memory of an exploratory visit prior to moving there (due to job) was of old folk sitting silently in shelters looking out to a misty sea. Still chose to live there, though. And later found out that the visit had been during old-folks' fortnight which followed school holidays each year - lower prices, no families but often poor weather.

Steve

An interesting thread for someone who likes puzzles, albeit not for the owner of the lens!
I would be very, very surprised if the SDM motor is at fault. This sounds like a problem with information that the phase detection AF system (i.e. 'through the viewfinder' AF) needs from or sends to an SDM lens not being dealt with correctly (or at all) by the lens. Goodness knows what the cause might be, but £420 does sound a lot to pay for getting it fixed. Just out of interest, do you know what the seller meant by 'not working'? Is it the same as what you have found?

Good luck

Steve

Wandering round town yesterday with camera in hand, I saw this little chap. So 'flobalobalubby' !! - which, if my memory serves me correct, is Oddle Poddle for 'Happy Christmas to you all from Lubbyman'. (And if you haven't the faintest idea what this is about, you're either too young or didn't grow up in Britain .)

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome in Oddle Poddle.




Steve

Oh dear . Was it a big bang - sprouts stuck to the ceiling, bits of parsnip decorating the windows, fairy blown off the top of the tree by the force of the explosion??

Steve

A Pentax video linked from this thread implies that the first flim camera - if there is one - will be a compact, then work up to an SLR. So how about a GR III-F (F = film) for those who like the GR series?

Steve

Difficult to buy a new one when it hasn't been in production for a long time...

It sounds like the fault is in the bit of the controller's electronics that works out how much power to send to the flash - when on auto it says 'no power', when on manual it says 'full power'. It might be something as conceptually simple as a capacitor or resistor having failed, but that's no use unless it can be checked and replaced. It might be worth putting out a shout in the flash part of the Americam forum. There are people there who take cameras and flashes apart, seemingly for fun. They even seem able to put them back together again!

Steve

Has any camera manufacturer ever given current users a clear vision of what to expect going forward? And if they did, did it actually work out like they said?

Business is uncertain at the best of times, let alone now, and a 'vision of what to expect' would be interpreted as a promise and used to knock the company if it didn't materialise (c.f. what has been said many times over when a lens appears on the roadmap - which is not a promise - then isn't delivered at the indicated time or even at all). Sure, we all want certainty, but no company can give it. Even looking 12 months ahead can be a nightmare, there was a time when I had a collection of my then employer's annual forecasts (to which I had contributed), none of them matched what actually happened!

Steve

How about a teleconverter with an aperture control ring (manual + A) that allows the modern full-frame lenses without an aperture ring to be used on film cameras? A £2000 lens on a £20 camera... Yeah, I know there are technicalities that would need to be sorted out, but ... .

Steve

... he said, as the ghost of Pentax Past slowly materialised, holding in its skeletal hand a camera that was ... NOT DIGITAL!

Steve