How important is the Electronic cable release socket cap, that little
bit of plastic that covers the socket for the cable release on the ZX-M
and related bodies?
Just realized that mine turned up missing. At first glance, it doesn't
seem very important -- the cap itself doesn't make a tight
On Wednesday, Apr 2, 2003, at 19:10 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seriously, that is a bitch. Like you said, it's got nothing to do with
digital per se, but I would've caught it with my MX or Spottie! vbg
Sure it has something to do with digital. Digital cameras are the most
dependent
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 14:06 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[verbiage edited]
To reiterate what has been said many times: take it elsewhere.
Politics is off-topic for this list.
Thank you.
--
David Barts
Portland, OR
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 14:06 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe I've responded no less than 5 times to different folks
saying, I
was wrong, My bad, My error, etc. concerning my ignorance and
misunderstanding of where you were from and I'm getting Goddam tired
of it..
What
On Tuesday, Mar 18, 2003, at 18:53 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just wish they don't leave my packages on the doorstep, quietly...
My UPS driver is equally annoying. In the absence of a written notice
pleading with him to ring my unit, he'll leave a UPS spoor (aka a
post-it note
On Saturday, Mar 15, 2003, at 07:53 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems quite interesting to me! I only hope they make it in K mount.
Unless I'm seriously mistaken, they are. It's called the Vivitar 3800N.
I've heard varying things about the quality of the Cosina bodies,
myself. It's
On Saturday, Mar 15, 2003, at 13:53 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which reminds me to ask. Anybody know if any of the old stations in
or around
the Toronto area are still standing? Any place somebody could take a
picture?
Rode the train from Toronto to Niagara Falls this summer, and
On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 06:07 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apparently this is a
real problem that costs Pentax dealers and service departments a lot
of
time (ie, money) because of cameras brought in for warranty repair
when
there's nothing wrong with them.
Perhaps the user manuals
On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 13:35 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like the idea of Bessaflex. It's a nice design.
I hope they make a K-mount version.
I believe they already are, just not under the Cosina or Voigtlander
names. Unless I'm mistaken, the Vivitar 3800N is made by Cosina.
--
Why does the SMC-A 100/2.8 sell for significantly more than the SMC-A
135/2.8? Does the former have better optics than the latter or is it
just that the former is more convenient for portrait work?
--
David Barts
Portland, OR
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 01:01 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand I don't know what the rest (Av, M, P, Tv, Hm,
etc.) mean either.
That's in the Summary of the K-Mount Evolution, Names, and Features.
page under the Body-Related Information page (itself under the
bodies
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 00:49 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In bright sunlight the high shutter speeds can be wonderful assets. I
have
speeds up to 1/8000 in pentax and even a 1/12000 in a minolta body.
If you
want to blur your background in a portrait type image in bright
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 15:50 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean like this?
http://www.BDimitrov.de/kmp/extras/summary/index.html
Well, sort of. It's a single component of the frameset I navigated to,
albeit the one with the information of interest. The pisser about it
is
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 15:50 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modest winters, modest summers.
Compared to where, that planet on Lost in Space where the temperature
oscillated between sub-Antarctic cold and hot enough to ignite plant
material?
--
David Barts
Portland, OR
On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 04:56 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where is the rest of my quote that says unless they don't have any
SLR.?
Wasn't your full message:
just about everyone that would buy a Pentax DSLR anyway. as BR is fond
of pointing
out, no-one is going to buy a Pentax
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 12:02 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am I the only one wondering when $2k became a budget camera? If I was
going
to spend $1500 right now [forget $2k] I'd be trying to decide between
the
Pentax 6x7, the Mamiya 645e and the Fuji 6x9 and not really thrilled
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 18:00 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I definitely hope that the pop-up flash on the *ist could be
permanently
turned off ;-) If not, then some duct tape will certainly solve the
problem ;-)
Unless the firmware was coded to help you by refusing to take a shot
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 18:00 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ust about everyone that would buy a Pentax DSLR anyway. as BR is fond
of pointing out, no-one is going to buy a Pentax DSLR that
isn't already committed to Pentax.
I don't know about that. I could certainly imagine someone
On Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003, at 14:20 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doesn't look any different than Nikon making those lenses for the APS
SLR's they did. We are starting to seem as fickle as the stock
market. I think we are over reading everything that Pentax does.
I know. Really now,
On Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003, at 18:54 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
already have the perfect portrait lens--the 75mm effective (a.k.a.
50mm)
f/1.4 lens. Now just give me a good fast moderate wide-angle for the
*ist D
and I'm home free.
Not really. The fact that the 50 has a field of
I'm likely going to be doing some extreme macro photography this summer
(in the 1X to 4X range), so I've been seriously considering getting a
body that offers MLU. I detest autofocus; worse, the modern Pentax AF
bodies all appear to offer no way to get a focusing screen with a
split-image
On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 17:22 US/Pacific,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before going too far in pursuit of the ideal body, you should see what
you
get with whatever gear you already have. It sounds like you are just
getting in to this type of work, so you probably have a good deal to
learn
in
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