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Yes Bo thanks for the comprehensive website that we all refer to and keeping it updated it is a credit to you and it would be great to see you shooting a K10D.
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Capturing Creation
 
I have used your site many times, it's the best. Thank you for all the time you must have put in making it and keeping it up to date.

Thank you again.

wll
 
...For, it will make other manufacturers wake up.

Susumu
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Que sera sera
 
Hi Boz,

Nice to see you here. Your site is very usefull to me, every week I make a visit to it. I hope you come back to Pentax equipment soon.

Very best wishes,

Danton Villas Boas
 
Great to hear from you. The dark side is powerful I know, but there is a new hope, you too can make it back. ;)

I join the chorus of gratitude for your website.

The Pentax family would be happy to have you back!

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Gonzomatic

P e n t a x - the whole gamut
 
fwcetus said:
Yes, indeed. Hi Rob. ;-) [I still have my "LX wink" - {g}]
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Yes, they are impossible to give up, I still have two, one I've had for over 20 years. I still have a full set of finders too, but I sold off all my motors, I just have a single winder now, and one wooden grip :-)



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Rob

 
The DA lenses has to have a larger image circle than APS-C, otherwise the in-body shake reduction system wouldn't work. You see, the shake reduction system allows the sensor to move out from the center spot position within the image circle. The amount the sensor needs to travel depends on the focal length, it needs more room for move with longer focal lengths than with shorter ones. So, the lenses has to have a larger than APS-C sized image circle to allow the shake reduction system to move the sensor. The room increases with the increase of the focal length. that's why the long telephotos can't have APS-C sized imge circles, but the wide-angles can.

Take care
R
 
Well great to see you here. Your site is my absolute Pentax guide. I'm surely glad you are sticking wtih your interest in Pentax. Now is the time for you to sell that Canon gear while it will bring good prices. Put yourself in line for the new Pentax and be glad you are still among us.
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Dave Lewis
 
You can count on my $20. Let's get an address from him where to send the money to. I'll get a check in the mail to him as soon as I get an address. We need for him to get the new camera. He needs to get back in the fold.
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Dave Lewis
 
kmccanta said:
If someone can figure out how to start a collection, I'll gladly
chip in $20US to start a fund to buy a K10 for "Boz". Just to get
him back in the fold. It is just plain wrong that the most
influential Pentax contributor on the web is shooting Canon!
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It's not that I would not want to contribute toward such a noble cause, but:

Boz, a long-time (and obviously dedicated) Pentax user did not jump shop for "the dark side" on a lark - he did give it much thought (as I remember him explaining on the PDML). If and when Boz comes back to Pentax, it should be because Boz wants to come back to Pentax. Pentax (now going in the right direction, as I see it) has to earn Boz's interest again.

The above is not intended to deprive Boz of any contributions, but is intended as an statement of respect for Boz's judgment. Please don't anyone (Boz or kmccanta or anyone else) take this the wrong way - thanks.

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Fred
 
Bojidar Dimitrov said:
I know that you are all very excited, and I am too!

With the announcement of the K10D and now the DA* lenses Pentax
have fulfilled all those wishes that I had in 2002 when I switched
to Canon. Needless to say, if I were in that situation now, I
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Eeek!
Bojidar Dimitrov said:
would have stayed with Pentax. In fact, for the time being I
consider Pentax's new system to be the most attractive of all (yes,
better than Canon, Nikon, Sony and so on). To seasoned
professionals who need a camera like the Canon 1D or 1Ds, even the
K10D will not be good enough, but for all others this ought to
suffice for several years.

Regarding the K10D, I am not amazed that Pentax has built such a
camera or so many unique features, but I am amazed that at the low
price. I am very happy about the USM motors in the new lenses and
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It is a crazy low price! I have already put in an order. I have never done such a thing before. It's a no-brainer.

I can only assume it has to do with the Samsung partnership. In

exchange for all the lenses/cameras, they must have put in a few high spec parts!

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cheers!

Gunn

-- Get a big lens and get closer™.

http://www.dpreview.pentaxistDS.photoshare.co.nz

http://www.y3m.net/penwik/pmwiki.php/Main/PentaxLensWiki

 
Hello kmccanta,
kmccanta said:
It is just plain wrong that the most
influential Pentax contributor on the web is shooting Canon!
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You all are crazy (in a very nice kind of way)!

For starters I've done a quick update of the KMP. "Soon" I will write up all the details of those new items, and as I said, I'm very happy for Pentax. In 2002 it was a no-brainer to go with Canon, but I am open-minded and crazy enough to switch again.

On the other hand, all but Canon have now showed their new products, and now is Canon's turn (more likely at PMA in early 2007). And there is only one thing that is missing on the K10D and Canon is the only one that can build that -- a sensor with a 1.3 crop-factor.

So, like they say, "we live in interesting times".

Cheers,
Bojidar

PS: Hello Fred and thanks for your thoughtful comments!

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Author of the Pentax K-Mount Home Page, http://KMP.BDimitrov.de/
Image gallery at http://gallery.BDimitrov.de/
 
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