wlachan

The Q & anything SDM too. Not much left then I guess but better be late then sorry. No company being successful by launching a vast array of silly products. Not Sony, not...

So full of life!!

Not doing something just because nobody else is doing it is shortsighted. Pentax cameras have poor QC and enabling user calibrations will save consumers and their service centres a great deal of...

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The SDM failures have hurt them bad enough they need to cover the cost. I suspect they'd rather not sell those damn lenses by raising the prices steeply than fixing them later because there is no...

The failure rates of their products must be hurting them enough they need to find a way covering the costs, or they are trying to discourage people from buying some of their cursed products, or...

good old manual focus lenses with grease filling the helicoil are rather WR but modern AF primes aren't sealed at all. Protect them from water and sand are my best...

This myth has existed for as long as the SDM itself. Lots of wishful thinking, but not a single evidence thus far. -- http://www.pbase.com/wlachan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan/image/123158183.jpg

If you can afford the Zeiss primes and want FF, why not just get an array of ZE or ZF lenses with the C/N FF body to match and start shooing now? If you want Pentax lenses on Pentax FF DSLR I can...

While the EVIL type cameras are gaining popularity, I suspect the FF sector might not be doing as good as some hardcore photographers might have imagined. For one they are bulky & heavy to carry as...

I mean, the market for expensive Pentax gears is very small. Sony had A900/A850 and this lens isn't made for Sony either for the same reason. If Pentax user moan over the cost of the FA31 or the...

Many minor repairs require no special calibration and can be done by skillful people. Not selling parts to individuals mean consumers will pay eventually and large amount of savable gears would end...

Unable to obtain parts is one important reason not to buy certain brands. Well done Nikon.

by the time the LR4 matured, they would be pushing the LR5. Luckily Pentax users can keep using the old versions by shooting...

645D is not that expensive afa medium format goes. True. Also true. Perhaps most old Pentax lenses do not perform as great as some might imagine on FF DSLRs. I bet if Pentax...

It shares the same optical formula as the F but the FA is loosely built and the optical alignment is not as good as the F. It was compact, affordable and great for portrait but not that high on...

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Just a tad overdone.

Just a tad overdone, and creepy.

And sometimes I just cannot walk pass the solid mass behind me. Maybe you can? Who knows? -- http://www.pbase.com/wlachan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan/image/123158183.jpg