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Comment by pgweber posted on Tamron 18-200 zoom - is it super? at 27/03/2014 - 16:33
I should be receiving payment of £132.50 fairly soon for a number of pictures published in the railway press over the last year or so.
Coincidentally I noticed this lens available for almost exactly that sum.
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/Tamron/Tamron-Pentax-Fit-Lenses/Tamron-18-200...
I have never owned a superzoom (and not saying I will soon, £132.50 might be better spent going towards a 17-70 or a body upgrade), but I wondered if anyone could comment on the pros and cons of this model?
Coincidentally I noticed this lens available for almost exactly that sum.
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/Tamron/Tamron-Pentax-Fit-Lenses/Tamron-18-200...
I have never owned a superzoom (and not saying I will soon, £132.50 might be better spent going towards a 17-70 or a body upgrade), but I wondered if anyone could comment on the pros and cons of this model?
Comment by pgweber posted on Tamron 18-200 zoom - is it super? at 27/03/2014 - 14:07
The link to a set of 'pseudo scientific' tests of batteries is here:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/37224059
Their relevance to real world use and discharge characteristics is moot.
Of course you know that if everyone buys cheap, no name 3rd party batteries and not the Pentax own brand, that will decrease the amount of money Pentax has spare for it's R&D budget and defer the day that Pentax's FF model appears.
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/37224059
Their relevance to real world use and discharge characteristics is moot.
Of course you know that if everyone buys cheap, no name 3rd party batteries and not the Pentax own brand, that will decrease the amount of money Pentax has spare for it's R&D budget and defer the day that Pentax's FF model appears.
Comment by pgweber posted on 3rd party batteries at 13/03/2014 - 20:48
I believe that 100% of Pentax batteries perform to Pentax specification and no other manufacturer can match that!
Comment by pgweber posted on 3rd party batteries at 12/03/2014 - 23:41
I have had 2 out of 3 Sandisk Extreme SD cards have their write protect slider fall off. I cannibalised a faulty SD card to repair the 8GB version but the 2 GB version (previously used in my K10) rattles around in a drawer. The third, another 8GB is ok for the moment.
In fact I believe that 100% of Pentax batteries perform to Pentax specification and no other manufacturer can match that!
Smeggypants wrote:
Don't you mean that they are less likely to perform to Pentax specification?johnriley wrote:
???? I'm not quoting anyone. I often see it claimed 3rd party batteries are more likely to go wrong.Quote:
We also see a lot of irrational mentality about 3rd party batteries, trying to claim they are more likely to go wrong because they haven't got a Petnax lebal on them.
That is clearly not what is being argued, so do please at least quote accurately.We also see a lot of irrational mentality about 3rd party batteries, trying to claim they are more likely to go wrong because they haven't got a Petnax lebal on them.
In fact I believe that 100% of Pentax batteries perform to Pentax specification and no other manufacturer can match that!
Comment by pgweber posted on What size for raw please? at 12/03/2014 - 22:47
claystevens wrote:
I believe that most of the members have 2 or more lenes, then what's your second and third one? My first lens is the kit lens and the second is the 50mm. Still want to find the third one for travel.
Not a lot wrong with a 50-200, which would complement the kit 18-55 quite nicely.I believe that most of the members have 2 or more lenes, then what's your second and third one? My first lens is the kit lens and the second is the 50mm. Still want to find the third one for travel.
Never owned a 'Superzoom' (18-200, 18-250 etc) as I have assumed they might be a case of 'Jack of all trades, master of none', but convenient as part of a travelling kit.
Comment by pgweber posted on What's your second and third lens? at 07/03/2014 - 14:28
Mine are:
1st FA50 f/1.4 - nearly always spot on;
2nd DA16-45 f/4 - pretty good, though a little more reach would be nice;
3rd DA (Samsung) 50-200 f/4-5.6 - faster AF than 55-300, easier to carry.
All the right lenses, not necessarily in the right (bought) order!
1st FA50 f/1.4 - nearly always spot on;
2nd DA16-45 f/4 - pretty good, though a little more reach would be nice;
3rd DA (Samsung) 50-200 f/4-5.6 - faster AF than 55-300, easier to carry.
All the right lenses, not necessarily in the right (bought) order!
Comment by pgweber posted on What's your second and third lens? at 07/03/2014 - 10:42
Two from the top, three from the middle and one from the bottom please Carol?
Comment by pgweber posted on Pentax at the NEC at 03/03/2014 - 21:50
Yes, that's a nice record of Mallard and her five sisters together.
Would you have been happy to see all the engines even if they had not been accessible in the same shot?
It looks like a little more effort from the organisers would have made a better picture but it depends who they were catering for - rail enthusiasts and photographers or Joe Public.
4469 Sir Ralph Wedgewood lost at York?
Would you have been happy to see all the engines even if they had not been accessible in the same shot?
It looks like a little more effort from the organisers would have made a better picture but it depends who they were catering for - rail enthusiasts and photographers or Joe Public.
4469 Sir Ralph Wedgewood lost at York?
Comment by pgweber posted on Two days of uninterupted photography at 20/02/2014 - 17:24
Hello David,
I was interested to see the A4 shots at Shildon because I had read several critical postings about the daytime staging of that event on a railway forum.
I see that you have captured three locomotives in one shot but it would have been nicer if they had been lined up better - i.e. if the middle locomotive was further forward or the near locomotive further back.
I believe that if your were prepared to pay £90 to attend an evening session, all 6 locos would be posed in such a way that a photograph of all together would be possible.
It's a shame that if they have brought the two locos from Canada and the US to be together in a group of 6, the museum authorities didn't line them up in such a way that the general public could not photograph them as such.
They still make a pleasing shot with their side profiles on view and I like the colour particularly in the Mallard shot.
The Tyne bridge with sharp relections is a pleasing shot, especially in mono.
I was interested to see the A4 shots at Shildon because I had read several critical postings about the daytime staging of that event on a railway forum.
I see that you have captured three locomotives in one shot but it would have been nicer if they had been lined up better - i.e. if the middle locomotive was further forward or the near locomotive further back.
I believe that if your were prepared to pay £90 to attend an evening session, all 6 locos would be posed in such a way that a photograph of all together would be possible.
It's a shame that if they have brought the two locos from Canada and the US to be together in a group of 6, the museum authorities didn't line them up in such a way that the general public could not photograph them as such.
They still make a pleasing shot with their side profiles on view and I like the colour particularly in the Mallard shot.
The Tyne bridge with sharp relections is a pleasing shot, especially in mono.
Comment by pgweber posted on Two days of uninterupted photography at 20/02/2014 - 11:33
The 18-200mm lens was a film era lens. The 18-250mm is much better, and the 18-270mm slightly better again.
Ok, it was winning awards in 2005. I looked again at the pricebuster & Tamron websites as it sounded like the lens might be useful on my MZ6, however it is a specifically APS-C lens.
One lens to carry when I go cycle touring sounds appealing but I have taken the 16-45, 35, 55-300 and FA50 in the past.
A couple of years ago on holiday in Devon, I bumped the 16-45 enough to jam the focus & zoom mech and that was useless for the rest of the hols. As I had the DA35 with me, it was not too much of a hardship and it was repaired quite easily/cheaply by Johnsons.