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Rotten Cookies posted:http://newjersey.craigslist.org/pho/5019496097.html Get it or I will. That's less than an hour from me and it's pretty nice out.
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tribbledirigible posted:Get it or I will. That's less than an hour from me and it's pretty nice out. You should do it. With my new job, I find less and less time for photography, sadly. Plus, I have a pretty good condition MX and a pretty good ME super. Do it, dude!
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Those are horribly weaksauce excuses, Rotten Cookies. Lack of time? "Pretty good" existing gear? Pshaw! You have a NEW JOB, spend some of that NEW MONEY on OLD poo poo.
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I'm saving up money for a bigma or an old 500mm f/4.5 monster. If that counts and makes you happy. I don't think I'd even mind the manual focus, since I do that anyway with birds. And I don't really feel I need a zoom. I'm going to be at the long end of the bigma anyway, and probably still cropping.
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Rotten Cookies posted:I'm saving up money for a bigma or an old 500mm f/4.5 monster. If that counts and makes you happy. Get a cheap Chinese gimbal-head to go with it, like this one from DX if they get more in stock. And a 200mm (or so) QR plate to bolt permanently to the supertele.
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ExecuDork posted:Those are horribly weaksauce excuses, Rotten Cookies. Lack of time? "Pretty good" existing gear? Pshaw! You have a NEW JOB, spend some of that NEW MONEY on OLD poo poo. That is new in the box old poo poo, which is even cooler.
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nm posted:That is new in the box old poo poo, which is even cooler. All the more reason for tribbledirigible to get it.
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ExecuDork posted:That DOES make me happy. My old 500mm f/4.5 monster is my second-favourite dong-shaped object. I got the giant-rear end lens. Yes, I AM compensating for tiny cock. Tiny American WOODcock that I will be photographing soon, hopefully. Of course I haven't gotten an m42 to K mount adapter yet, but I wasn't expecting a package to get from Japan to New York in 3 fuckin' days. I didn't realize how goddamn big this thing is. And heavy. Like I should get that gimbal head and just mount that to a boulder.
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Rotten Cookies posted:I got the giant-rear end lens.  It is a MONSTER. And made out of fun. It's a blast to shoot with it, even if it feels like your arms are going to fall off. Plus, you get great funny looks from "regular people" when you pull it out and start shooting. I keep looking at car-window mounts and trying to decide if I'm willing to risk breaking a window just to get a shot of a raptor on a fencepost.
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Looking at the 70mm DA but then I saw some "my lens fell apart in my hands" threads, is there any rhyme or reason to which lenses don't have threadlock on their set screws? Do I learn to stop worrying and love the limited?
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I haven't seen any pattern in the stories of lens failures. I usually assume the broken lens was badly abused, disassembled by an unqualified person*, or is actually an old 3rd party lens that somebody bought at a flee market. If there is a problem with QA/QC on a particular lens model line I'm So yeah, stop worrying and learn to love the Limiteds - or the HD updates that replaced some of them (like the HD pancakes, including the 70mm). *I know this happens because I've done it. I foolishly and ineptly took apart my 28-105 Vivitar and now it's in much worse shape than before I picked up that screwdriver.
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ExecuDork posted:I haven't seen any pattern in the stories of lens failures. I usually assume the broken lens was badly abused, disassembled by an unqualified person*, or is actually an old 3rd party lens that somebody bought at a flee market. My gran worked in QC then repairs for an optics company and would bring home horror shows sometimes, I'd never make an attempt on even a simple lens let alone clutched AF. I ended up finding one and am liking it so far, obligatory cat photo-  It's a lot quicker focusing than the XS 40mm on the K-01 which is nice. Does make me kind of want a K5ii now but I know I don't need it. Shame about your old S1 28-105mm, that was a great bit of kit. I kept one as my main walking around lens for a long time. Rendered very nice on kodak vps.
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My Vivitar zoom is sitting mounted on my K10D in a box, my (entirely sentiment-driven) plan is to find an independent camera repair shop that offers a body+1 lens package deal. Certainly this will cost considerably more than that camera and that lens are worth, but I have about a million happy memories of walking around with that setup. Zoom creep aside, it's a really lovely lens. I have often thought about putting together an entirely Vivitar Series 1 camera bag in K-mount, with a K-m or K-x in some obnoxious colour for days when I feel like shooting that way. I figure I could do this for around $600 if I stick to a 3-zoom kit.
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Just wanted to mention that it took almost an entire year, but my Pentax 77mm ltd is finally fixed and shipping back! Precision camera and Ricoh are really goddamn annoying, this shouldn't have taken this long, but apparently Precision had to wait months for parts from Ricoh. Precision also didn't even tell me they shipped the lens until UPS told me that it's being delivered tomorrow.
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HolyDukeNukem posted:Just wanted to mention that it took almost an entire year, but my Pentax 77mm ltd is finally fixed and shipping back! Precision camera and Ricoh are really goddamn annoying, this shouldn't have taken this long, but apparently Precision had to wait months for parts from Ricoh. Precision also didn't even tell me they shipped the lens until UPS told me that it's being delivered tomorrow. Yeah, mine wound up going over 6 months, and they ended up giving me a K-50 to get me to stop calling about what should have been a 15-20minute fix. Sold it immediately and most of my glass, though I can't get rid of an 85mm f/1.4 Rokinon MF. Lesson learned was buying from smaller companies tend to net lovely CS results. As much as I love Pentax I'll never go back until that's not the case.
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WugLyfe posted:Yeah, mine wound up going over 6 months, and they ended up giving me a K-50 to get me to stop calling about what should have been a 15-20minute fix. Sold it immediately and most of my glass, though I can't get rid of an 85mm f/1.4 Rokinon MF. Very true, I just love my pentax glass so much and I have so much of it that I really don't want to go through the hassle of getting rid of all of it. In the 5 or 6 years of owning Pentax equipment this was the first time I needed to send something in. If Ricoh had been more responsive about sending out parts, this wouldn't have been anywhere near an issue. I have been really tempted to get an A7R II, but that is a lot of money for not much improvement. But I did buy another ME super since my other one broke.
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I have a mild obsession with Pentax equipment. Pentax 6x7 with 55mm f4 and 165mm f2.8 Pentax me super with 43mm ltd, 77mm ltd, and tak 70-200 Pentax k3 with 35mm f2.4, 50mm f1.7, 12-24mm f4, 14mm f2.8, 24mm f1.4, and 18-135mm Just bought the 6x7 and waiting on some film to come in so I can play with it. A lot bigger and heavier than I expected (so used to the limited lenses haha)
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HolyDukeNukem posted:I have a mild obsession with Pentax equipment. If you don't mind me asking How much did that 6x7 + lenses run you? I've been eyeballing them on ebay recently and see a bit of variation on the prices. I want to get a medium format camera to round out my arsenal.
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akadajet posted:If you don't mind me asking How much did that 6x7 + lenses run you? I've been eyeballing them on ebay recently and see a bit of variation on the prices. I want to get a medium format camera to round out my arsenal. I payed $212 including shipping for the camera. $159 for the 55mm and $138 for the 165mm. All in all not too bad for what should be a good kit. The 55mm is the newer 67 version (not the 6x7 version). Supposed to have better designed optics. I actually bought the entire kit off of ebay. The only thing left I really want to get is that wood grip!
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HolyDukeNukem posted:The only thing left I really want to get is that wood grip! Hell yeah!
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akadajet posted:Hell yeah! I'm probably gonna just get it from keh. It honestly is about the price I'm seeing on ebay and I don't have to deal with shipping from outside the US.
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Hey Pentaxians. I have a K-50 (which I love) and I have a bunch of garage sale lenses, which seem to work well on aperture priority. Only thing that I don't understand, is the light meter does not work with any of them. On AP the camera knows how to expose the picture right, regardless if its F22 or F4... Yes it will not show me on the meter what it's thinking. I can set it to manual, and keep taking shots until i get the exposure right, but its really annoying. Have I messed up a setting somewhere?
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Rodney Chops posted:Hey Pentaxians. I have a K-50 (which I love) and I have a bunch of garage sale lenses, which seem to work well on aperture priority. Only thing that I don't understand, is the light meter does not work with any of them. On AP the camera knows how to expose the picture right, regardless if its F22 or F4... Yes it will not show me on the meter what it's thinking. I can set it to manual, and keep taking shots until i get the exposure right, but its really annoying. Have I messed up a setting somewhere? This guide should help: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/54-pentax-lens-articles/110657-how-use-meter-manual-m42-lenses-all-pentax-dslrs-k-5-k-r-k-x-k-7-a.html Basically your gonna need to use the green button to determine exposure since the lens isn't sending aperture data to the camera.
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Sorry guys, I'm hopping ship for a Sony a7II and selling all my Pentax stuff. Plays taps, it was nice knowing you, etc etc etc.
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HolyDukeNukem posted:This guide should help: Thanks! Very useful.
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HolyDukeNukem posted:I payed $212 including shipping for the camera. $159 for the 55mm and $138 for the 165mm. All in all not too bad for what should be a good kit. The 55mm is the newer 67 version (not the 6x7 version). Supposed to have better designed optics. I actually bought the entire kit off of ebay. The only thing left I really want to get is that wood grip! Those are all pretty great prices. There's been a noticeable increase in the price of P67 gear over the past couple years. It's probably my all-time favorite camera system. I admit that I haven't tried Hasselblads but I think it could only be a lateral sidegrade at best. I think the wood grip is helpful, personally. One downside is the weight, there's no getting around the fact that it's one heavy-rear end camera.
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Paul MaudDib posted:Those are all pretty great prices. There's been a noticeable increase in the price of P67 gear over the past couple years. It's probably my all-time favorite camera system. I admit that I haven't tried Hasselblads but I think it could only be a lateral sidegrade at best. Thanks, I just ran through my first roll and so far have been extremely impressed with it! I posted some of the pictures in the medium format thread. I knew going in that this was gonna be on the heavy side. Just wasn't expecting the heft once I got it haha.
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Rodney Chops posted:Hey Pentaxians. I have a K-50 (which I love) and I have a bunch of garage sale lenses, which seem to work well on aperture priority. Only thing that I don't understand, is the light meter does not work with any of them. On AP the camera knows how to expose the picture right, regardless if its F22 or F4... Yes it will not show me on the meter what it's thinking. I can set it to manual, and keep taking shots until i get the exposure right, but its really annoying. Have I messed up a setting somewhere? Which garage sale lenses do you have? I love old glass, it's one of the main reasons I went with Pentax in the first place.
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So, reading through the "My First DSLR" thread, they recommended a K-30 if going the Pentax route. I noticed one for sale: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-camera-camcorder-lens/hamilton/pentax-k30-18-55-wr-lens-55-200mm-wr-lens/1105904065?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Any thoughts on what a reasonable price is for one of these used in decent shape? Initially I'd be tempted to go with a Canon, but I realize I do not have steady hands. So having the optical stabilizing in the camera and always available would be nice.
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Golluk posted:So, reading through the "My First DSLR" thread, they recommended a K-30 if going the Pentax route. I noticed one for sale: If you're eager to get started, I say go for it. If you're feeling patient you could wait a bit and see if either that seller lowers the price or if something else pops up. The Canadian dollar is in terrible shape right now otherwise I'd say go looking on eBay or KEH. There's an Ontario seller on PentaxForums named "MightyMike" or something similar that always seems to have fun old manual-focus lenses for sale. There are no K-30 going right now on PF for anything reasonable for you (in my opinion) but that's a worthwhile marketplace to lurk.
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Golluk posted:So, reading through the "My First DSLR" thread, they recommended a K-30 if going the Pentax route. I noticed one for sale: My girlfriend shoots with a k-50 (I shoot with a k3-II and k5iis) and the k-50 is super nice. I'm not very familiar with the Canadian dollar but I checked Amazon.ca and saw a brand new k-50 with the 18-55 for under $500. The 50-200 is ok, but it's really nothing to write home about. If you could find a used 55-300mm it's a much nicer lens with longer focal length at the end to boot.
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Thorpe posted:My girlfriend shoots with a k-50 (I shoot with a k3-II and k5iis) and the k-50 is super nice. I'm not very familiar with the Canadian dollar but I checked Amazon.ca and saw a brand new k-50 with the 18-55 for under $500. The 50-200 is ok, but it's really nothing to write home about. If you could find a used 55-300mm it's a much nicer lens with longer focal length at the end to boot. Plus the newest revision of the 55-300 has weathersealing! Though I wish it had the DC motor, since it is a lot quieter.
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Pablo Bluth posted:So Pentax have finally confirmed their first full-frame and the Pentax thread is archived due to a lack of anyone giving a crap...
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