YES. Go straight to the top of the geography class!!


YES. Go straight to the top of the biology class!!


YES. Go straight to the top of the art class!!

And for all you other nice people who commented, thank you, it's appreciated .

Steve

Guess where I've been this week with a Q-S1 + 02 lens in the bag? He's an amazing beast!

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Steve

So that's where it went! Going to Heathrow T-1/2/3 was never the same after it disappeared ...

Steve

Nice photo. Strangely, from that angle it looks more like a fighter than a passenger aircraft - all nose and not much fuselage. Never noticed that before, even though I've seen it in service on the ground and flying around and in the exhibition hall at the Fleet Air Arm museum, Yeovilton.

Steve

To be fair to whoever wrote the ePhotozine/PentaxUser review of the K3iii in 2021, the review does say "The K-3 III offers improved compatibility with classic lenses, saving the aperture value as Exif data when you set the aperture using the electronic dial, and you can set the focal length of the lens to make the most of Shake Reduction (SR). It also allows AE photography with the aperture closed-down for M-series lenses". Of course, knowing that it can be done and working out how to do it are quite different things...

Steve

There's a 'how to' guide to using manual (M/K/M42) lenses on the American forum. The camera's user manual is not much help, though.

Steve

Thanks for your thoughts. A perfectly valid approach - work out what you want and find the best fit to it among the options available - and I applaud you for making your decisions rationally, implementing them systematically and not being swayed by hype and what other people say. It's what I try to do. However, it doesn't entice me to go mirrorless for a very simple reason: what you want and what I want are different. And while it took a long while for me to move from playing CDs to streaming music (and I've still got a foot in both camps), my son is going the other way, from streaming to vinyl. It's all about the 'want' word, not the technology.

Steve

It certainly does with some restrictions for M lenses. Here's one with the K3iii plus M 200mm and just one press of the shutter button. You'll now need to update the 'M Series Technique With DSLRs' section of your article on the Pentax M Series .




Steve

Being a plasticky camera doesn't seem to stop it taking good photos - I really like these .

Steve

A very good question. So how about this for an answer:

For a lot of people (and not just young people), a photo is and always has been simply a means to a social end, be that getting 'likes' on social media, something to bring back memories, show other people where you have been etc. etc. There have always been many more of these people than those of us who might post on a photographic forum such as this and presumably see a photo as the end product. In days of old (i.e. before social media), millions of snapshots were taken on film that had no significance other that to bring back memories etc. I just have to think of the boxes of photos I've had to sort through when various relatives died. They were taken with cheap descendants of the Box Brownie. Today, a phone is used to take those sort of photos, it's a lot cheaper and easier so a lot more photos are taken and many of them are put on social media. The far fewer number of people who see the photo as the end product use, and have always used, 'fancy' cameras. The difference between now and then is that while snapshot cameras and fancy cameras used to be made by the same companies, phones and fancy cameras are made by different companies. And that is a problem for camera companies because they can no longer make their profits from the vast number of snapshot takers.

Oops, that was a longer answer than originally intended. Must go. I've got to get ready for a family gathering at a nice pub - where I will not be photographing the meal, taking snapshots of relatives eating and posting it on social media!

Steve