£30 inc UK p&p

Much of it has dispersed... What parts were you interested in?
Matt

Glad you've all enjoyed this.
It's definitely a dead camera. It was before I started, and definitely is now
Matt

Ah well, decided to pull apart a totally broken K10D (broken main board, and damaged shutter) to see what's there

If you are camera-squeamish, please look away now! There's nothing to see

Thought I'd share...

1. Just getting started...



2. CCD with the SR electromagnets, and the super-strong magnet plate to the right


(Making fridge magnets with Sugru and these!!)

3. Mirror box removed... devastation!



4. Shutter and CCD



5. Ooooooh!



6. View into the pentaprism. What a lovely piece of glass!



7. What's left of the mirror box and a nice pile'o'screws



8. Utter carnage!




Needless to say, don't try this at home

Lovely set Bill!
My selection: 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12

Thank you for sharing

As you say reckon that's a typo
The K3 is £729 on their website.
"E&OE" as they say.

I can't recommend the X-Equals Lightroom profiles highly enough! Best $50 I've spent in a long while
The guy must be nuts - he's scanned and profiled loads of real film stock, including expired stuff. The only problem is there's far too much choice. Each profile is split into 4 areas: mix, low contrast tone, high contrast tone, grain. I'm finding the mix + low contrast presets from a film stock work a treat. The Kodak Portra is another nice one.
Using the QPcard to 'neutralise' the camera's colour is helpful for an ultra-natural look (or for accurate product imaging), and then apply the X-Equals profiles brings some real "pop" in a few seconds without having to drop out to Topaz or PS.


And I can't stand blown highlights that produce a colour shift - e.g. where a red sunset produces an obvious yellow highlight. Some scenes call for blown out highlights, but they should still be controlled in terms of colour, IMHO.

Matt

Way too much fun with this

X-Equals Fuji Velvia 50 mix in LR, plus some digital grads:


(Some of the other Velvia mixes are super-psycadelic-smarty stuff )

And couldn't resist Kodak Portra BW400 and grads:

Interesting challenge
WB set to Daylight in LR, applied K5ii colour profile (QPcard), and a few digital ND grads.
Foreground +1.0EV grad, highlights adjusted in sky, and a circular grad applied to the sun to bring back some detail.

Haven't got the machine with my X-Equals film profiles... but will try again with those!

Hi Chris,
I suggest you download firmware v1.30 and update your camera. Pretty sure there were SR issues that were fixed

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk/en/Photo-Downloads.html#MediaTypeID4

See the Instructions and download the Windows installer

Matt