JJekyll

The next thing to come along will be that your picture will go straight to Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon's cloud, and to anyone else buying into it. It will become their property and copyright, ...

Looks from the poll that Canon, Nikon, and Sony are the only brands on the market.  Have  I missed some news?

Thanks to many people deserting cameras for phones, and many of the remainder deserting DSLRs for mirrorless, the used market is now flooded with quality kit that the sellers can't even give away. ...

In view of the profund sounding thread title I was expecting him to have taken up oil painting or at least to have bought a 4x5 view camera.  Finding that he simply switched systems was quite an ...

So you sold some digital gear and then bought some digital gear.  I don't get it.  Is that supposed to be profund and philosophical? I was expecting the punch line to be that you had bought a 4x5 ...

I left film after the quality of photolabs started to decline (unless you paid a lot for a professional service). I have not left DSLR for mirrorless and I am not likely to.  DSLRs are fine for the ...

Er, I think you meant the Sunny 16 rule :-D

I have some family photos up to 120 years old (B&W prints of course) that I dont keep in special storage, and they look fine.  Colour photos of any sort probably won't do so well.

No, I don't find it important, and cameras are never going to beat phones on size and weight. It depends on your aproach, whether you consider photography to be an adjunct to some other activity ...

Indeed, no co-incidence. Pentax set out to make the ME the smallest ever.

I have no use for GPS, nor for that matter video, pop-up flash, WiFi, program modes, whacky jpeg modes, etc etc.  However, I don't get upset about it.  I agree that Pentax, who cannot afford to ...

Funny how everyone wants and expects something different : a K1-iii tailored to themselves. I'll throw my hat in the ring - I'm a landscape/townscape photog and not interested in fast AF, video, ...

The way to avoid reflections in glasses is not to light the subject from the direction of the camera.  Bounce flash is the simplest way of doing this - by aiming the flash head at the ceiling and ...

While admiring the guy's sentiment, I would not agree that his version of a K1000D would either be practical or sell particularly well. He wants a K1000D to be "identical" to the film K1000 (yet ...

That caught me out. I started to tick several things but it removed the tick boxes as soon as I did the first (which was not the greatest priority for me).

Perhaps. I was just saying how things are. I never use the Guide Number or Flash Formula in practice. I tend to use bounce flash (for which it is practically useless) and some form of auto control. ...

Either you misunderstood him, misheard him, or he did not know what he was talking about.  I guess one of the first two.  The Guide Number is used in the Flash Formula and relates lens aperture to ...

I wrote some of the reviews in that link. I have never cared about auto-winders myself, but I mentioned the Z Series to make the point that "fancier" cameras were around while the K1000 was being sold.

It was a stripped down KM. Pentax set out to offer the cheapest "big name" SLR on the market and took the KM (already their cheapest SLR) and removed the self-timer, DoF preview, and one or two ...

What exactly do you expect a K1000D to be like? We often hear the "K1000" call, but the callers all seem to want something different - anything from a K1000 look-alike with a card slot (not ...