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New Single Word Association!
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Forum: Light-hearted chat
Pentax *ist D Opinions please
Always willing to help, if I can. jas
Forum: Digital cameras
Holes in my Kit...
I really need to stop hanging around after posting :p Give people time to reply :p I never bought a Pentax lens (the 18-55 came with my first K100 body) simply because I can't try them! Most of our work cameras are Canon (with a Nikon or two hiding in there) - so the only lenses I can try that will work on my camera (with a different fitment, obviously) are the third party ones... (hence the...
Forum: Lenses
The lens you cannot live without
It's always the one I want next... Right now it's a Meyer Lydith in M42.
Forum: Lenses
I don't know how the rebate will work, but from what I've gathered it will not be available outside the US. Seems to be a prePMA promo (which some think will run until Pentax's anticipated baby DSLR is ready to hit the shelves). Olympus is doing a similar thing with the E-1 too. It annoyed me when I discovered it was a US promotion. I'd like to get the *ist D, but can't quite stretch to it's...
Forum: Photographic discussion
Is there a Sweet Spot on my Lenses?
Yes, probably around f8 but there are a lot of if's. Good contrast, good focus, good stability are just as important. A wide open aperture can throw the back ground out of focus and if the focus is good and there is no camera shake and there is good contrast the image will look sharper than it might with a background that is also in focus.. It is only digital photography that has cause...
Forum: Lenses
Book Puns
'Underwater Photography' by Carol Reef.
Forum: Light-hearted chat
New baby
I had to put it up on the website (though I'm supposed to be working on the new 'slidebox' and 'glossary' sections) it's at CLICK HERE I hope the weather holds until the weekend - if it does I'm taking it and my Retina to the seaside :)
Forum: Film cameras
Serious HELP NEEDED ASAP
That looks pretty much like the one I bought - see above. It'll give you the equivalent of about a 28mm lens, but you will get some barrell distortion, correctable in PS. If you screw the macro bit off the back , it gives you more or less a fisheye lens, which is great fun but there's a fair bit of colour fringing & some vignetting. As I say, great fun but nowhere near the quality of a DSLR & a...
Forum: Fujifilm Cameras
So who are you really?
Many, however, simply say what they do and tend to identify themselves with the external aspects of their lives, rather than look inward. Who we "really are" is getting into "Zen" philosophy. We are "no thing" is the answer, but being able to truly believe that takes many years of meditation and self-exploration. I agree completly Iain. After many, many years of meditation and self-explo...
Forum: Photographic discussion
Quadruple word association!!!
It's hell in here!
Forum: Light-hearted chat
What's your favourite camera?
Pentax ME Super. A wonderful little camera, which just fitted perfectly in the hand and handled superbly. When I accidentally smashed mine up, I replaced it with a P30t - very good, but just not the same. Current favourite, Minolta Dynax 7. All the controls fall to hand very well and it has a reassuringly solid feel to it. Doug
Forum: Photographic discussion
Help me please!!!!!!
More like a clean stop in and the neighbours are from poland or something so who cares!
Forum: Digital cameras
A little laughter
Renault and Ford have joined forces to create the perfect small car for women. Combining the Renault 'Clio' and the Ford 'Taurus' they have designed the 'Clitaurus'. It is available in any colour you like so long as it is pink, and the average male car thief won't be able to find it - let alone turn it on - even if someone tells him where it is and gives him an instruction manual. Rumou...
Forum: Light-hearted chat
I think you need to work on your timing NikonMan ;-) bit precious about your kit are you? ;-)
Forum: Digital cameras
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Pentax release the X70, a 24x optical zoom bridge camera.

This camera has a body divided into two for more versatility.

An all-in-one digital camera with upgraded specifications to assure solid performance.

Lensbaby 2.0 is a second-generation selective focus SLR camera lens, bringing brighter, sharper, and faster selective focus photography to professional and avid amateur photographers.
Reviews

A new 12.1 meagpixel bridge camera from Pentax sporting a whopping 26x zoom lens.

The Lensbaby Composer builds on the current range of sweet spot lenses with an innovative ball and socket for accurate focusing.

With a 10x optical zoom from a wide 28mm angle and stuffed with features for easy picture taking, is the DMC-TZ3 a camera for the lazy? Enter Matt Grayson.

Daniel Bell reviews the Fujifilm FinePix T200, a travel zoom compact camera with a 10x optical lens.

Daniel Bell reviews the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT3, a compact digital camera with is waterproof, shockproof and freezeproof.

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