paulkienitz

This definitely goes on my hypothetical non-budget-constrained wish list.

Everybody's doing it --> everybody MUST do it... not valid logic.

Yes, an old K-5 or K-3 sounds like the ticket for what you want.

I think it's at its best closed up just half a stop.  But the only way I could even tell that for sure was by adapter-mounting it on a Q (which I use for getting video of birds).

The *300 is the best lens of any kind I have ever used.

You almost could, with mirror lockup -- some Q lenses are only a couple of millimeters too wide to fit through the K-mount.  A bit of sanding with a dremel wheel could make it work!

Though the K-3's color tends to run a bit too blue-green, I've found correcting it to be relatively effortless, whereas colors with the K10D often required extensive wrestling to get them to look ...

I have a K10D and a K-3... If you're curious give it a try, but my short answer is no.

I may have been on that spot... used to live there. IR conversion is a pretty good niche use to find for a camera with no viewfinder.

Fro is a boorish dudebro jackass who probably has fond memories of stuffing smaller kids into lockers, or if not, wishes he did.  I keep people like him out of my life.

The ME F also deserves mentioning -- the first experimental autofocus system to be sold retail.  That's up there in the innovation hall of fame with the pioneering Asahiflex and Spotmatic models.

The star 50 is something that the other companies all have similar alternatives to, while the 31 Limited is much more unique to Pentax.  Of course, being a film lens it's bound to be, well, a bit ...

the FA 31/1.8 Limited is traditionally the most envied Pentax lens, so if you want your Pentax to have an air of prestige or specialness or exclusivity, that's probably the one.

K1000 shooters did DOF preview by half-dismounting the lens.  I think this trick was actually in the owners manual.

I don't think that's accurate.  Pentax did not ignore AF, they struggled with AF but made little progress.  Each generation was incrementally better at AF than the previous, and the difference ...

Excellent!

How would that actually help? Features we lack such as 3-D Tracking are no easier to implement with mirrorless than with the system we've got now.  Autofocus is a struggle for Pentax because it's a ...

The K10D is where Pentax claimed the patch of ground where it still homesteads today.  It defined the brand going forward, so it's definitely a classic.  I still have mine and last I checked it ...

It wasn't just reviewers. The K-01 took away the viewfinder and added NOTHING to replace the lost value.  The only way that would have made sense is if it underpriced all of their SLRs, which it ...