Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-10 Thread Mark Roberts
mike wilson wrote: >On 9 September 2015 at 22:43, P.J. Alling wrote: >> On a related note, if anyone >> would like a video ready Vivitar S1 35-70 f2.8, (no click stops >> contentiously variable f stop), lens I accidentally made, a few years ago, >> it's price is

Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-10 Thread Igor PDML-StR
mike wilson wrote: On 9 September 2015 at 22:43, P.J. Alling wrote: On a related note, if anyone would like a video ready Vivitar S1 35-70 f2.8, (no click stops contentiously variable f stop), lens I accidentally made, a few years ago, it's price is totally

Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-10 Thread mike wilson
On 10 September 2015 at 19:29, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > mike wilson wrote: > >> On 9 September 2015 at 22:43, P.J. Alling >> wrote: >>> >>> On a related note, if anyone >>> would like a video ready Vivitar S1 35-70 f2.8, (no click stops >>>

Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-10 Thread mike wilson
On 9 September 2015 at 22:43, P.J. Alling wrote: > On a related note, if anyone > would like a video ready Vivitar S1 35-70 f2.8, (no click stops > contentiously variable f stop), lens I accidentally made, a few years ago, > it's price is totally negotiable. The last

Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-09 Thread P.J. Alling
I did. The issue seems to be in the aperture mechanism of the lens. Stress the lens and the A contact behaves as if the lens has been taken off the A position. I suspect there's a ground lead in the mount that has a hairline crack in it. I'd take it apart but my track record of losing

Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-09 Thread John
That's the same thing my Tokina ATX-PRO 28-70 f/2.8 was doing. Any time I twisted the zoom ring down to the 28mm position it lost contact internally & gave me the dreaded "--" for aperture & the camera (K-3; K20D) would prompt for me to enter the focal length when I tried to activate the

Equipment rant!

2015-09-09 Thread P.J. Alling
So I've been noticing that the Vivitar 70-210mm will lose contact with the K-5II more than once in a while. This wouldn't be bad, except in P and M mode it's like hitting the green button, any aperture or shutter settings are reset to base. I hadn't noticed this before and I thought that

Re: Equipment rant!

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Stenquist
Clean the contacts. Paul via phone > On Sep 9, 2015, at 4:54 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > > So I've been noticing that the Vivitar 70-210mm will lose contact with the > K-5II more than once in a while. This wouldn't be bad, except in P and M > mode it's like hitting

RE: Superficial equipment rant

2012-03-22 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling This is a small thing, but has anyone else noticed that the A design, rear lens caps don't hold up as well over time as the old K versions. I have a number of both, and just about all of the A versions have become so loose that they fall off in a photo bag, sometimes they

Superficial equipment rant

2012-03-21 Thread P. J. Alling
This is a small thing, but has anyone else noticed that the A design, rear lens caps don't hold up as well over time as the old K versions. I have a number of both, and just about all of the A versions have become so loose that they fall off in a photo bag, sometimes they fall off when I pick