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All Pentax lenses since the 1970s are compatible, Tammy!

'DA' means it was specially designed for digital.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on copatibility at 03/01/2011 - 21:14

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If he's that tight about his 21 quid (the VAT difference), I doubt it Gareth!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Ordered my K-5 !!! at 03/01/2011 - 20:55

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It plays for me. Vimeo uses flash, just like Youtube I had to turn HD off though it was taking too long!

Nice video, the glare and out of focus bits look cool! As for the music, I can't resist saying it:

........Nice!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on NEW VIDEO SHOT ON THE K5 BY MYSELF at 03/01/2011 - 20:39

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What I'd really like is a W90 with a much improved low-light sensor, and build on the idea of the little lights around the lens to provide a proper integrated mini-ring flash. That'd be sweet for photographing underwater beasties.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Please Pentax, Pleeease! at 03/01/2011 - 20:01

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I agree with you there John. I doubt there'll ever be such a tough camphone, certainly not one you could take snorkelling. Look at this beaut I found on flickr link (under lily pads).

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Please Pentax, Pleeease! at 03/01/2011 - 19:49

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I'm still not sure what subjects would benefit from this method as opposed to regular USM sharpening?

I generally sharpen with USM as a last step, after a slight sharpen in LR3 and then resizing for the web.
Usually 0.3 pixels at 300 percent or something like that: My Version

'Focus Magic' is great too, it actually literally sharpens your image, as opposed to applying contrast adjustments which is how USM works. It cures slight motion blur too!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Sharpen experiment at 03/01/2011 - 16:26

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I think that some cameraphones do at leaast rival the cheapest compacts. For example the James (Bl)unt album cover link was done on an iphone - you see it blown up to poster size and billboards and it looks OK. And the iphone isn't the best cameraphone by a long chalk!

For the time being the best cameraphones are much more expensive than a budget digicam, so digicams still make sense, but other than specialist high-end snappers, their days are numbered! After all most people do use these cameras for pretty casual snapping.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Please Pentax, Pleeease! at 03/01/2011 - 14:00

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It will already have begun at dawn. Should make for interesting sunrise pics - and relatively safe to photograph or briefly glimpse. Cool, thanks for the heads up Gwyn!

Be on the look out for little points of light made by the sunlight passing through (for example) vegetation. I noticed during the last eclipse how these became crescent shaped!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Parial solar eclipse at 03/01/2011 - 13:30

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Yeah but no but yeah! If you take shots of daily life out on the street it's street photography in my book. Look at these, about 50/50 colour and b&w iN-PUBLiC

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on People on the street, episode 9 (in colour!) at 03/01/2011 - 13:20

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