You're all wrong. It's obviously the giant squid-spirit which has been dragging ships under for hundreds of years. I don't see how it could be anything else.
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Welcome John. I know my one-eyed Nikon friends would scoff when told of your defecture to Pentax. Maybe you could do a test of your new gear and give us your impressions of the Pentax vs. Nikon equipment?
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Serves you right for living on the wrong side of the country. Come over to the East. You've only got floods and earthquakes to contend with.
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I have a Vivitar 2x teleconverter. I'm thinking I might be able to offer it on ebay for, I don't know, $750.....
What do you guys think?
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I thought I was going mad yesterday when I could find no evidence of this thread at all. It just disappeared into the ether for a while.
There are indeed, dark forces at play when it comes to the question of advertising dollars vs. credible reporting.
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I do love that one! I'll enjoy relating that story to my elder metallurgist colleague, who is a one-eyed Nikon tragic.
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Further to my earlier post, I was "browsing" the photo mags in Borders again today, and saw that next month's What Digital Camera will feature a K5 test. Go the British mags! On another note, I quizzed a salesman in a music/electronics store about the K-r in the display case, and asked why it was the only Pentax on show. ("Where's the K-5?", I said). He responded that Nikon and Canon were the big sellers, because they are the mainstream brands that everyone (presumably newbies) know, and that's why there were several models of those two brands, as well as only one each of the Pentax, Sony and Olympus.
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There's a Borders Bookshop in a shopping mall I frequent, and I make use of their comfy seating in the magazine aisles to peruse the photography mags. (The shop actually encourages customers to sit and read the mags!!). I often browse through What Digital Camera, and recently read a decent review on the K-r and a glowing review of the 645D in the same issue of Australian Camera. I do find, however, that there are a number of British mags in particular, who recognise no brands other than Canon and Nikon. These days, if I want valuable info on my chosen brand (you know which one), I visit this site we're on now.
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Dunno. I'm still quite ignorant when it comes to starting a topic. Maybe, "How the heck am I supposed to take a photo in these conditions?".
Will's right though, one tinnie too many, and a couple or three glasses of Chardy.
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Hi all.
I've an apology to make. The other day I posted a photo of my outdoor clock/thermometer, and complained that it was 35°C at 8:22pm (it had been 38°C during the day). Well, today was 42°C for most of the day, and it hasn't cooled down much as I write this at 8:40pm. My older brother also pointed out that when he was at work at Argyle Diamond Mine in north Western Australia, the temp was often 45-48°C in the workshop.
So, I'm sorry to all for whinging. In future I'll just keep my trap shut and lay in front of the air conditioner. By the way, "Pentax". There, that should keep the Relevance Police at bay.
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