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johnieutah wrote:
Site is back up now. Prices are absolutely laughable IMO though, that's with the 20% off too. Cheaper at SRS and Amazon IMO.
A lot are, but some are cheaper than anywhere else:

DA 50mm f/1.8 £91.19
DA 35mm f/2.4 £113.99
HD DA 55-300mm f/4.0-5.8 WR £304.00
DA 10-17mm Fish-eye £304.00

These prices are all with the discount code added.

Comment by Soran posted on New DA 50mm f/1.8 £91.19 + more offers at 06/12/2013 - 12:12

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Kickstarter really does have some rubbish ideas sometimes, but there are some gems amongst the dross:
link

And my current favourite non photographic funded project on there will be appreciated by anyone who owned a BBC Micro
link

Comment by Soran posted on New use for old gear at 06/12/2013 - 09:40

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johnwhit wrote:
DA*300/4 £1 + Free shipping

John
Did you try to buy it? as it now says out of stock

Comment by Soran posted on New DA 50mm f/1.8 £91.19 + more offers at 05/12/2013 - 16:20

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Pentax are doing Christmas deals on their website shop for December.
10% off Cameras
20% off Lenses
30% off binoculars

Granted, a lot of the lenses are still cheaper elsewhere, but a few bargains are:
DA 50mm f/1.8 £91.19
DA 35mm f/2.8 £113.99

link

The code takes more than 20% off though so not sure if this is a bug, or something to do with the tax?

Delivery is free too.

Codes:

CameraDec
LensDec
BinoDec

P.S. Added the DA 560mm to the basket to see the discount, and it only wanted to charge £6.00 for the lens Can't see them honouring that somehow!

Comment by Soran posted on New DA 50mm f/1.8 £91.19 + more offers at 05/12/2013 - 16:00

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Here is a K-5II price chart for the last year:
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Comment by Soran posted on Thoughts on K3 prices. at 03/12/2013 - 17:31

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Looks good to me, although I am not going to repeat the test myself

Obligatory new Pentax camera under the tap test:
link

Edit: Title should be K-3 Weather Sealing, doh!

Comment by Soran posted on K-3 Weather Sealing at 03/12/2013 - 14:23

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McBrian wrote:
Soran wrote:
I have tested my two Sigma lenses, and they both work fine in live view and through the viewfinder. They are the 17-50mm and the 8-16mm. As a side note, the K-3 still does not record anything below 10mm in the Exif, not that I really expected it to, so still have to add this manually.
Check out this link for info on a Sigma 8-16 Exif tool.
Thanks for that. Did not work at first, but after downloading the latest version of Exiftool, and creating the missing .ini file, it now works like a charm! Certainly will save me a lot of time compared to manually editing each file in PhotoMe.

Comment by Soran posted on K3 not auto focussing with two Sigma lenses in live view at 27/11/2013 - 01:48

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I have tested my two Sigma lenses, and they both work fine in live view and through the viewfinder. They are the 17-50mm and the 8-16mm. As a side note, the K-3 still does not record anything below 10mm in the Exif, not that I really expected it to, so still have to add this manually.

Comment by Soran posted on K3 not auto focussing with two Sigma lenses in live view at 26/11/2013 - 00:25

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PeteL wrote:
My K3 froze when reviewing an image. It is the first time that i have used it with the grip attached. I wonder if that had any influence.
Mine did exactly the same thing, but without a grip attached. Had the side effect of not remembering the last used settings when the battery was reinserted.

Comment by Soran posted on K3 locked up at 24/11/2013 - 01:35

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Blaze wrote:
Thank you for that, Jim. The article explains it very well .
So in fact the shake reduction can work against itself when used with a tripod.

I have looked, but there's no other way of being able to urn SR on or off other than going into Info and using the 4 way controller ...... or is there ??
There is only one way to do that, buy a K-3 and set the RAW/Fx button to turn it on and off.

Comment by Soran posted on Shake reduction and tripods at 22/11/2013 - 18:13

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