If the message appeared EXACTLY as missmarple pasted it, I would be concerned at the calibre of employee in Jessop's customer service department.

The message does not make sense (with incorrect/missing words) and the writer makes the elementary error of using "there" instead of "their".


Regards

Dear All,

I have recently seen a Tamron SP 2x Converter for sale s/h at £15.

Does anyone know of its' likely quality?

I presume it will only be useful for manual lenses on my K10D (my 80-210 turning into 160-420 sounds like fun) but will work with anything on my old Ricoh KR10 Super.

Thanks in anticipation of your help/comments.

Just to qualify the last comment...

I have a Ricoh 50mm f2 MF which works ok on my K10D (accepting its' MF and non-"A" limitations).

As a prime, it gives some of the best results I have achieved, once I have worked out the settings.

I think it is some of the later Ricoh lenses which cause problems. John Riley explained this some time ago but I can't remember in which thread.

Regards

...and I use the same approach for railway photography, though the path of subject through the frame is more predictable than motor-sports.

Regards

Peter

Hi Matt (and apologies to non-Fawlty Towers fans),

Sorry for doubting you!

I think we might both be right though, but I can't recall yet which episode the "APE" came from. One of my work pals is working her way through the DVDs so I've asked her to look out.

Can't lay my hands on my "Complete Fawlty Towers" so maybe I should pick up my K10D Manual for a bit. I think I know the first better than the second, so some K10 reading is due!


Thanks for your links a while ago for EXIF readers. I wondered if you knew of any similar for extracting the embedded jpegs (640x480) from image files.

Regards

Peter

I do....."It would be quicker to train an ape!"

Sorry Matt,


Yours Pedantically ,

Peter

We all love them!

See:

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/Can-SRS-Microsystems-be-trusted-8781

...in the "General Digital Photography Chat" Forum.


Bought a 16-45mm lens from SRS by mail order, a couple of weeks ago and got quick service and a good price.

Chris even replaced a defective CD (my fault), which I had tried to source through J****s where I bought my camera.

My concern is about "wear and tear" on the USB socket in the camera with repeated un/plugging, so I have gone the card reader route.

I used to use a £10 SanDisk card reader, which worked fine with xD and SD cards, before I bought a laptop with card reader built-in.

I suppose there is "wear and tear" with removing/inserting cards and opening the card slot door, but I judged these to be more robust than the socket.

Thanks Matt,

I have down-loaded PhotoME and seen some of the data available.

I am trying to look at all of my photos of one particular type of subject, to see if the focal lengths I have used are covered by a possible new lens purchase.

The number of photos is too large to contemplate opening each in PhotoME, so I am thinking of going the programming route to automate/speed-up the analysis (and I like a computing challenge now and again).

Regards,

Peter

Dear All,

Does anyone have a listing of the data items and their associated variable types (i.e. ASCII, long, integer, etc) embedded in the jpg files produced by the K10D.

I want to analyse how my photos break down by focal length (& other parameters) which I thought I could do by writing a little programme to read the exif data, but need to know the data structure.

Thanks in advance for any help,