How about they've taken up the challenge of development but haven't given a commitment to release a film camera? Lots of things get as far as starting development but get pulled before they are released if it's decided that they won't be profitable. If (for example) interest in film were to drop off in a couple of years time, it might not be sensible for Pentax to release a film camera even if development were well advanced.

Steve

Well, that gives a price point for a new film camera !!!!

Steve

Clutching at straws here, but have you tried cleaning the contacts on both the camera and flash controller? If the controller and camera aren't communicating correctly than anything might happen.

Steve

They're thinking, they want dialogue, they say they will be listening, it's been Japan-centred so far. And they aren't committing to make anything yet: "this announcement does not mean we will release new film cameras". Which is all very sensible, low cost, cautious, preliminary market testing stuff.

But don't get too excited, they might eventually decide to make nothing at all. On the other hand, they might put a project up for crowd funding, which begs the question of how much you would be prepared to pay up front for a crowd funded project to develop a Pentax film camera. And your answer to that question is.... ???

Steve

Thanks folks.

Sharp frosts aren't common in my bit of the deep south and frosts with juicy ice crystals are even rarer, particularly with bright sun for added sparkle. So I don't expect to be able to take any more photos like this for quite a while.

More like dirt crystals on my car!

Steve

Not exactly the hall of the Mountain King. These are miniature grottos of ice crystals from this morning's (very) sharp frost. Probably the last chance before the weather warms up for Christmas. All taken with K3 + Irix 150mm macro and all are focus stacks.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

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The crystals are all on the leaves of my favourite icy plants, sempervivums . All are crops from the following originals:

5.Sempervivum 'Pacific Purple Shadows'



6. Sempervivum 'Raven Heart'



7. Sempervivum 'Raven Heart'



Steve

Really lovely. The first one would make a good Christmas card. You can almost hear the sound of jingling bells as a sleigh approaches.

Steve

Brings back memories of a couple of business trips to Japan. Pity it was only a couple.
Same in the nineties. Couldn't ask for better hosts.
Perhaps several sellers drawing from the same stock of items? Wouldn't be a problem for me. Many web-retailers, particularly for high-cost items, are just shop-fronts that pass orders to wholesalers that they are all using. Come to think of it, it's the same thing when I've bought a lens from the local camera shop who then passed the order down the line to Pentax. It's only a problem for me if a seller implies that it's their stock when it isn't.

Steve

Good stuff . Definitely getting better with practice. All those cold nights really are worth it! The Horsehead Nebula has got me beaten, though - I can't see any part of the equine anatomy but I can see a map of England and Wales...

Amazing to think that somewhere in those pictures is a strange life form pointing an alien camera in your direction and freezing its tentacles off as liquid methane solidifies around it during the long darkness between the setting of one of its suns and the rising of the other .

Steve

Yes. I bought a Q lens. No problems at all. Even arrived quicker than the quoted delivery time. And as you say, the price was good.

Steve