Hi Don,
Thanks for the video. Not too bad to understand... however, I don't think it was that easy to work out where all the reflectors & 2 lights were. A quick sketch would have been helpful
Matt

Just been Googling about it...
The Pentax one is the O-ME53.
There is also a Nikon one that fits - DK-21M which gives 1.17x magnification.

However, I have read that some have probs when wearing specs - ie not being able to see the whole frame and LED info

Clarky, I presume you don't wear specs?
Matt

What search forum box??



Oh, you mean the one that's staring me in the face... I couldn't see that!

Wonder if there can be an advanced search??? I often used a search on words + author + date to pin down something I'd said and couldn't remember! LOL!

Matt

Do you have one? Can you see the whole VF?
(Cause I'm very, very shortsighted and it could do with being a touch bigger!)
Matt

Well, I'm not sure about the difference in size... I've only had a quick go at using my brother-in-law's *ist-DL and it was horrible in comparison to the *ist-D/DS pentaprism.

The Pentax viewfinders (pentaprism) are among the clearest out there. As far as I know there is no way of making it larger. I thought the magnified viewfinder attachment shows the centre of the image larger (for accurate manual focus), but effectively crops it.... but I could be wrong!!

Actually... just checking the specs on Bojidar's site...
The DL2 has a 0.85x magnification with 96% coverage.
The D/DS/K10D/K20D have a 0.95x magnification with 95% coverage.

So, yes, they'll appear larger and clearer
All the pentaprism bodies have 0.95x mag, and all the pentamirror have 0.85x

Matt

The DL2 (and other "low end" Pentax DSLRs) use a penta-mirror.
The higher end models (*ist-D, *ist-DS, K10D, K20D) use a penta-prism and the viewfinder is exceptionally clear. The pentaprism is more expensive and heavier but produces the type of viewfinder that you are probably used to seeing on older film cameras.

TBH, I don't there's much you can do for your existing viewfinder
(You can pick up reconditioned bodies from www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk, and second hand ones from various places. For example, www.lcegroup.co.uk have a couple of *ist-D bodies at around £200 with a lens.)

Matt

That's looking much more positive
I'm currently testing web conferencing tools to see which one(s) will work ok.
At the same time I'm looking into recording apps to see if I can preserve the web-meeting for later consumption

Sure that it'll come together
Matt

I'm not sure about Sigma gear... however, I'm pretty sure there are two models of EF500. AFAIK only the "Super" variety works properly.

In any case, you can use any flash gun as long as it has "A" and "M" modes. If it has a "TTL" mode then you can't use it. (There was a thread yesterday in the "flash" forum about it).

HTH!
Matt

But it only takes you to the LAST post of the whole thread.
The phpBB took you to the NEXT post that you hadn't read

As I mentioned, that's quite a difference when you come back after a week to find that a thread is, erm, 17 pages long and you can't remember that the last post you read was halfway down page 9!

Matt

At the moment the only option I can see is a link to the last post (not the "last post I read on that thread").

To the right of the username (on the right of the screen) there's a little grey document with a weeny green arrow.

That's a bit better, but not really enough
It's fine if you're always online, but go away for a week and you can't work out what you've read and not! (That's where the phpBB option was so very helpful - you could quickly see what you haven't read, where you'd got to in a long thread, and easily skip over stuff that wasn't important)

Matt