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Hi All,

Offloading some primes and getting into DA zooms while everyone else is getting out On the chopping block are the following:

SMC M28/3.5, very clean body, glass very dust free for age, blades nice and snappy, OE caps, case and box - £45
SMC K35/3.5, very light brassing, glass pristine, blades nice and snappy, OE caps - £85
SMC K50/1.4, body in good condition, glass pristine, blades oil free, OE Caps, and I'll bundle in a non OE hood and cover. - £95

Postage to UK will be about a fiver, tracked and insured. Payment is via Paypal please and prices are Net to me.

Its all about the pentaprism. Looks like a monster VF.
Ref the ISO range, i'm still hopeful of something a little under ISO100

There is a standard zoom DFA 28-105 listed on the lens roadmap alongside the DFA15-30 f/2.8 Presumably this will be the kit lens offering?

FA43 is my favorite by a long shot. It always delivers a shot and I am becoming used to character. Add in its lovely build, petite size, relative fast aperture and it potentially is all the lens I ever need.




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All taken in the last week or so.

I got bored and replied to the two guys. IRC there was a bit of an issue with some K-5s having mirror flap syndrome at one stage (I bought a second hand example on here that had it) and I think the K-X had it as well. I did not hear of it with the K-5II's so will assume it was either a bad batch or Pentax tweaked the design during manufacturing.

PhotographyBlog .. don't know how to react to this, if you read the K-3II review it is a cut and paste of the original K-3 review and does not show examples of pixel shift. They also forgot about the GPS and Astro while keeping the onboard flash. So.... ok its an award of sorts, but a dubious one.

Had one of the Voigtlander 90s for a while a couple of years back, I would not rely on the focus beep, you're better off dialling in via the OVF or Liveview. Still @f/3.5 it is not the most difficult to focus with
If I did have an issue with it was to do with how intermittant the metering was using the Green button approach, it really jumped all over the place, I think in the end I used to take test shots and dial in the exposure to suit. So tricky to use but when the stars aligned it will produce a wonderful image.

A nice starter guide to optimising your flash setup

Reviewer did not seem to think pixel shift was up to much and I have more than a sneaking suspicion that the K-3II in question was barely used for few hours if that. Comments like press the AF button in conjunction with the arrow keys to move AF points or a lack of true understanding of the capability of the all powerful green button I wonder if there is anyone within Pentax UK who could give a comprehensive Hyper-Program demo to reviewers.

Problem with SSDs is that once you start with one, then you want two. Its like LBA for flash drives
Nippy though but always have a backup setup - I run 4 * SSDs in RAID 0, daily backup to 4 * 2TBs Mechanical in RAID 5 and then once a week I do an external backup as well. Pure paranoia but you can never be sure.




The new M.2 devices are exceptionally nippy, have a browse for Samsung 950 PRO , if you have or are thinking of upgrading your CPU / Motherboard, check to see if it supports M.2