Re: Professional Gear
In 35mm it is somewhat clouded by the fact that Pentax hasn't really marketed to the pro market. It would be safe to say that any of their * lenses (A*, FA*,etc) are pro oriented as would be most of their really long glass. All of their medium format lenses would be considered pro oriented but that is pretty consistent with most MF manufacturers. 35mm pro lenses are usually fast for their focal length, superior optical and usually build quality, and very expensive. Margo Ellen Gesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote; Now hears ANOTHER dumb question: I comprehend the difference between consumer and pro bodies. Could you good people enlighten me as to the difference between consumer and pro LENSES? And what series of Pentax lenses are pro? P.S. That's not a dumb question. BUTCH Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself Hermann Hesse (Demian)
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Bruce wrote: Your homework assignment is to find out how many current production lenses Pentax has that meets these criteria. Count all FA* and FA Limited lenses and the few odd A pro grade lenses still in production and you're all set. If you want to, you can count all Pentax MF lenses as well. No shortage of pro grade lenses. The situations is certanly far worse when coming to Pentax bodies. Pål
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I have 1 Nikon body and 7 Pentax bodies.:) Prior to optaining the DSLR body all of my horse work was done with the K1000,now about 75%. Dave Begin Original Message From: Rodelion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 21:39:02 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Professional Gear A Nikon user with a K1000... Odd, indeed... I guess it must have been some kind of nostalgy? - Original Message - From: James Fellows [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:26 PM Subject: Professional Gear I know this topic keeps coming up but I to metion what happened today. I coach my 5 yeqr old's soccer team and today was picture day. There were about 50 teams of 10 kids each and the photo outfit that was handling it had 4 stations setup. One for team shoots and 3 induvidual player shots. It was a nice and efficent set up. THe team photo was taken with a Nikon F5, no surprice there. When I got my team in line line at the station for individual shots, the photographer was using a Pentax K-1000. I do not know what the lens was but I found it intersiting to see it being used. Jim End Original Message Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
Re: Professional Gear
on 9/22/02 6:22 PM, Butch Black at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I wasn't aware that Nikon is designing all levels of lenses as G lenses. I bet it will P*** off a number of Nikon users. You mean like Nikon's new 70-200/2.8 AF-S VR? Or didn't you know that Nikon has started dropping the aperture rings from their top of the line pro lenses? While this was a rather questionable move, it does meant that all one knows from the G designation is that it doesn't have an aperture ring: it no longer indicates quality Now hears ANOTHER dumb question: I comprehend the difference between consumer and pro bodies. Could you good people enlighten me as to the difference between consumer and pro LENSES? And what series of Pentax lenses are pro? Margo
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Yes it has, is and will. From: Butch Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I wasn't aware that Nikon is designing all levels of lenses as G lenses. I bet it will P*** off a number of Nikon users.
Re: Professional Gear
Using the term pro quickly gets things into a muddle, because of its many connotations. Keep the concept industrial strength/high performance in your mind when thinking about camera equipment. Generally, (I said generally) prime lenses and f2.8 constant aperture zoom lenses are ruggedly built and have high performance are considered pro. Your homework assignment is to find out how many current production lenses Pentax has that meets these criteria. From: Margo Ellen Gesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you good people enlighten me as to the difference between consumer and pro . Margo
Professional Gear
I know this topic keeps coming up but I to metion what happened today. I coach my 5 yeqr old's soccer team and today was picture day. There were about 50 teams of 10 kids each and the photo outfit that was handling it had 4 stations setup. One for team shoots and 3 induvidual player shots. It was a nice and efficent set up. THe team photo was taken with a Nikon F5, no surprice there. When I got my team in line line at the station for individual shots, the photographer was using a Pentax K-1000. I do not know what the lens was but I found it intersiting to see it being used. Jim
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- Original Message - From: James Fellows Subject: Professional Gear photographer was using a Pentax K-1000. I do not know what the lens was but I found it intersiting to see it being used. I shot a lot of weddings and portraits with my K1000's. I really like the things. William Robb
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A Nikon user with a K1000... Odd, indeed... I guess it must have been some kind of nostalgy? - Original Message - From: James Fellows [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:26 PM Subject: Professional Gear I know this topic keeps coming up but I to metion what happened today. I coach my 5 yeqr old's soccer team and today was picture day. There were about 50 teams of 10 kids each and the photo outfit that was handling it had 4 stations setup. One for team shoots and 3 induvidual player shots. It was a nice and efficent set up. THe team photo was taken with a Nikon F5, no surprice there. When I got my team in line line at the station for individual shots, the photographer was using a Pentax K-1000. I do not know what the lens was but I found it intersiting to see it being used. Jim
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On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 01:26 PM, James Fellows wrote: I know this topic keeps coming up but I to metion what happened today. I coach my 5 yeqr old's soccer team and today was picture day. There were about 50 teams of 10 kids each and the photo outfit that was handling it had 4 stations setup. One for team shoots and 3 induvidual player shots. It was a nice and efficent set up. THe team photo was taken with a Nikon F5, no surprice there. When I got my team in line line at the station for individual shots, the photographer was using a Pentax K-1000. I do not know what the lens was but I found it intersiting to see it being used. Jim While making small talk at a kid's birthday party a few weeks ago, one of the parents was telling me about how great his new Nikon F5 was, he also confided that he had recently inherited his late father-in-law's K1000 and 50mm lens and, in lowered tones, was surprised that he could get better pictures with it than with his new F5. Go figure. Dan Scott
Re: Professional Gear
On 21 Sep 2002 at 14:26, James Fellows wrote: I know this topic keeps coming up but I to metion what happened today. I coach my 5 yeqr old's soccer team and today was picture day. There were about 50 teams of 10 kids each and the photo outfit that was handling it had 4 stations setup. One for team shoots and 3 induvidual player shots. It was a nice and efficent set up. THe team photo was taken with a Nikon F5, no surprice there. When I got my team in line line at the station for individual shots, the photographer was using a Pentax K-1000. I do not know what the lens was but I found it intersiting to see it being used. Hi Jim, If he truly wanted to produce a professional product he would have been using at least a 645 for the group shots, an F5 is still 35mm no matter how many frames per second it can shoot whist multi-point colour matrix metering :-) Practically any quality 35mm camera especially fully manual could be used quite successfully for the individual player shots however a winder of some sort would be advantageous. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
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It could also be that he got the F5 with a consumer grade zoom, or worse yet a G lens. Nikon's consumer grade zooms range from ok to poor and the G in G lens stands for garbage. also confided that he had recently inherited his late father-in-law's K1000 and 50mm lens and, in lowered tones, was surprised that he could get better pictures with it than with his new F5. Go figure. BUTCH Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself Hermann Hesse (Demian)
