hooting on the *istD. The
combination has replaced the SpotF with SMCT 85/1.8 rather nicely, and
is a lot lighter to carry.
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lta and Fuji as secondary lines.
I bought the *istD because it would use the old lenses (although I don't
use that feature) and because it felt right. When I went into the shop to
ask if they had one, they didn't, but they did have the Pentax
representative with his sample one, and tha
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian
Lind) wrote:
> Super-Takumar 1:1.9/85 Asahi Optic Co. Lens made in Japan 890085
>
> SMC Pentax-M 1:2 50 mm 5385767 Asahi Optical Co.
>
> SMC Pentax-M 1:2.8 28MM 7837559 Asahi Opt.Co., Japan
>
> The question is whether there is anything he
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thibouille) wrote:
> Seem both are about the same price.
> I do not have any compact flash so I don't care.
> I have old lenses so TTL buil-tin flash would be nice.
> Vertical grip/ battery grip would be nice too.
>
> Other than that. I do not s
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Lacus)
wrote:
> mike wilson wrote:
> >> heat, dryness and fresh air. The coating on camera lenses is
> >> organic, here's the food.
> > That's the first I've heard of this. Any further information?
> > AFAIK, coatings (such as SMC) are cera
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David
Oswald) wrote:
> Now I'm working on building my fixed focal length kit. Currently it
> consists only of the SMC Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4.
Lovely chunk of glass.
> But then along comes the SMC Pentax-DA 40mm f/2.8 Ltd. This looks like
> a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindamood, Mark) wrote:
> Has anyone here said thanks to Boz for his April 30 promise to keep
> updating his Pentax K-mount page?
Thank you, Boz!
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (New Concepts) wrote:
> Possibly - but the price differential (based on the original D asking
> price) is so great one would have to assume that Pentax are
>
> [a] getting their components much more cheaply, or
>
> [b] have cut the wages of the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bill Lawlor) wrote:
> It would be a great camera to have in a hostile crowd.
Ever handled a Zenith E? Not as heavy, but has nice sharp edges and is
much cheaper to replace.
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Reading old editions of _The Pentax Way_ causes one to come up with some
strange questions:
There's a note that the 50/1.4 ST and SMCT can be badly damaged if it's
used on a Spotmatic with a green "R" on the rewind knob. SL, S1a and SV
models with green "R" are also dangerous, but it seems that
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pancho
hasselbach) wrote:
> http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7513938778
Baawaahaha! Best laugh I've had for weeks. I wonder what photographic
paper is like for Iink-jets, though?
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dario Bonazza) wrote:
> Perhaps you can get useful information about old Asahi Pentax cameras
> in AOHC website: www.aohc.it, run by me (when I can).
Thanks. That's answered the questions. I'm working on writing up all the
non-Pentax M42 full-
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Robb) wrote:
> I must be a shallow person. I tend to like the esthetically pleasing
> more than the gross, even if they both do the same job.
Same here. Silver lenses look so horrible to me that I was very prepared
to go non-Pentax to
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(Godfrey DiGiorgi) wrote:
> I don't know a lot about Windows. Is it impossible to simply upgrade to
> Windows XP?
To do it successfully generally requires you to backup all your data,
scrub the computer's disk clean and set it up again from scr
I have a set of Vivitar tubes in a plain K mount. Those will effectively
make an FA lens into a K mount, AFAICS, since they don't have the contacts
to let the body know it's got an A-series lens on it.
Pentax don't seem to make extension tubes any more (although Pentax
USA sell a wider range o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Sanderson) wrote:
> http://www.thkphoto.com/products/kenko/kenko-03.html
Ta; that looks satisfactory. Now I have to get a UK dealer to order them.
Pentax do actually list extension tubes in their on-line shop, but they're
incredibly expens
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Robb) wrote:
> I they support one. they will support the other, though why this is
> important on a set of extension tubes is beyond me.
I'd like the ability to shoot mild close-ups hand-held, without worrying
about anything. I may not
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Wunsch) wrote:
> would like to have at least a 20mm angle.
The Tamron SP 17mm f3.5 I bought off eBay recently seems rather good. It's
over US$250 new, but under that s/h.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michel_Carr=E8re-G=E9e?=) wrote:
> John Dallman a écrit:
> And this KM has NO self-timer AND DoF preview button ??
Yup.
> Very strange !
> Modified, self-timer removed and bodie re-skinned ?
I thought of th
light under
it, briefly.
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ed it yet. Mostly I use a Spotmatic F, with
occasional ESII.
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ut viruses so it would be easier to
> separate our genuine messages from those.
I just have my mail client sort messages that are addressed to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into a folder. Works well, and saves confusion.
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nge including 24 to 60mm, with a wide
maximum aperture? I'd want f2.0, really, but I'd settle for f2.8.
Narrower than that, as per the Pentax lenses, doesn't feel attractive.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(John Dallman) wrote:
* Does anyone know of a third-party zoom that's A-mount compatible or
> better, with a focal length range including 24 to 60mm, with a wide
> maximum aperture? I'd want f2.0, really, but I'd s
y expect to have stock by the end of the month. I want to
handle it and read the manual before I order, since I don't expect to take
lots of pictures again until the new year. It might even be cheaper after
Xmas.
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rtraits, and the 85mm gets the most use by a long way. I'm still working
it out for the *istD I want to buy shortly, but it looks like 17mm, 24-70
zoom, and 85mm. Nobody seems to make a non-fisheye lens that will be as
wide on a *istD as the 17mm on 35mm.
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/corp/researchDevelopment/technologyFeatures/cmos.shtml
To summarise: the *istD is CCD, which is the longer-established
technology. It's expensive and uses a lot of power, but best for
sensitivity and noise, at present.
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tle later managed to score one,
so I've stayed with Pentax.
What do you mean by "Not full portrait", incidentally? I agree an
85mm is not much good for full-length portraits, but those are usually
unfortunately long and narrow pictures anyway, and I prefer not to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Treena) wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can maybe download an instruction manual for a
> ZX-L?
www.pentax.com, select USA, select Literature->download manuals, look for
it in the list.
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* first one I intend to try using auto-exposure with
* first one that I have to learn to switch on
* first one where I'm trying to learn to use a zoom as the standard lens
* first camera I've ever bought new.
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England. I ordered one from the usually-best dealership in
town, and they got it in quite fast. They haven't had the battery grip or
the remote control yet, but I can live without them for a while.
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hey had, but they're on 01223-364223 if anyone
wants to check.
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XP running on an Intel motherboard, and before
adding the powered hub, the machine could get as far as seeing the "disk
drives", but complained of i/o errors on trying to read them. With the
powered USB hub, everything just works.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (zoomshot) wrote:
> Please state when and where obtained;
29th September, Cambridge, UK.
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lable-light ability that was otherwise confined to 50mm
lenses.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Cotty) wrote:
> This from what I've heard...I don't drive cars.
Me neither. I walk, ride a bicycle, or take a bus or a train. I realise
this is un-american, but I'm not american so it&#
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Owens) wrote:
> *istD has interchangeable screens... competitors don't
It does? Nothing about it in my manual. Do you mean the variable diopter
setting on the viewfinder?
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ing. But the lossless rotation is saying "Come and get me!
Now!"
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e a good bit of software, it doesn't seem
to do that complicated resizing that I want. Something with a programming
language is going to be the best bet, and I sent off my money for IMatch
today.
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ouble with not having a lens of equivalent angle on
the *istD. So I bought a 24-70 zoom, even though I don't like zooms. But
now I'm finding that a 50mm on the *istD, equivalent to 75mm on the old
film bodies, is quite close enough. I don't even notice the difference; I
them in your pockets is your
best bet, AFAIK.
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ough) to restore the distance for traditional lenses. A
shorter flange-to-sensor distance would have made designing serious
wideangles simpler. A bit radical for Pentax's marketing department, I
suspect.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilson) wrote:
> I notice I can get a 1 gb micro dive for around $550 Aus while a CF card
> costs the same for half the capacity. There must be some disadvantage
> with micro drives, but I'm not sure what.
Fragility. CF cards are - I un
there's no scripting language for file conversion, as far as
I can see. I want to get the complicated thumbnail-sizing-after-cropping
/right/.
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rk's high-speed line.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(graywolf) wrote:
> Not too hard to do in straight HTML.
I did that first time round. It's kind of slow for people with
less-than-modern computers, when the JPEGS are 2Mb+.
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If that can't handle your scripting
> problems then I don't know what would be able to.
That's my plan...
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optician who
was pleased with the new range of glass she could order lenses made up
from. Nikon, Hoya, a few other Japanese brands. It made me wonder - does
anyone reckon there'd be a market for Leica-branded eyeglasses?
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francis Ebury) wrote:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/M42
Having just joined it, that's "ClubM42"
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comes 52mm, 50mm becomes
> 75mm etc. Mostly common sizes already.
... but not necessarily in the same filter sizes. If you know where I can
get a hood angled for a 75mm lens in the 49mm filter thread that fits this
'ere FA-50/1.4, I'll buy it.
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ery reluctant to buy a consumer
> zoom from Sigma.
Snap! I'm reckoning on a Sigma 12-24 at present. When the credit card
heals up a bit.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike
wilson) wrote:
> > You folks work it out.
> > It'll be a while for me.
> The pixies.
Seconded - also Pink Fairies generation.
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gt; =25bf5528b7c2fbeeea6184c46873fad1
This URL works better: http://www.teamworkphoto.com/heliopan.html
I'll look at those.
thanks,
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Halpin) wrote:
> Working from memory here, not with the item in hand, but I believe the
> hood for the Tak 85/1.8 has a 52mm thread
Um, my SMCT 85/1.8 has a 58mm thread.
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lens cap
> off, but I see that as a good thing. Why would you want to leave your
> lens cap off when you're not shooting? Spotmatic F is the way to go.
Seconded. Those batteries last a fair time, and they aren't expensive.
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s are 'generously cut', as tailors say.
OK, I'll see if one comes by on eBay.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(graywolf) wrote:
> Look at Heidelberg-Hell scanners.
We'll call the EMS!
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ar
> standouts?
I quite like my Sigma 24-70 2.8. It's not small, though.
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-frame CCD sensors can cost $7000 each, which
would fit well enough with the price of the Nikon pro DSLRs.
Leica will charge as much for a camera back as Nikon would for a full
body, of course.
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fectively than I actually can. So the lenses I mostly use on it are ones
that I've bought for it. So if I had known that, I would have looked
harder at the competitors - but I'd probably still have bought this one.
It /feels/ right, even though I still haven't learned all
enture.co.uk.
> 'Luxury' film SLRs continuing with reasonable sales and higher prices
> than present to a niche market which refuses to die - for a VERY long
> time. MZ-S/F100 is very much the style of film camera which I believe
> will survive.
Just as Leica-style rangefinder camera
go together when we go..." I think that those formats will
last until it's not worth running film coating plants any more. That might
be quite a long way off. I strongly suspect that the last 35mm camera in
production will be introduced after I die. Wonder if it'
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Shel Belinkoff) wrote:
> With fond memories of surveys past :
#3, although I haven't had digital for long, and still have all my film
equipment.
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other's marbles collection handy and used it to top up the bottle after
each film. Also, ID-11 still works fine when it's a bit brown - although
cola shade is going too far.
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bile phones are much higher-volume items, and a large proportion of them
run third-party operating systems: Symbian, Palm or Microsoft. Cameras
have much simpler communications needs than mobiles, and the user
interface requirements are quite fierce.
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h Windows on. Since I tend to buy my computers
from technical, rather than consumer sales organisations, I don't actually
know why it's done this way, or if anything bad will happen if you start
telling Windows to put files on D.
Hopefully, someone else can tell you that bit.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob W) wrote:
> I've got artificial hearing bones in one ear (and none in the other).
> Next time I see my consultant I shall have to ask him if they're Pentax.
My spectacles are Nikon. Pentax don't seem to do s
? I can't remember.) with the knurled rubber
> focusing ring?
Doesn't help, sadly. I have a 50/1.4 "Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR" here
with a metal focus ring - not missing rubber, just the earlier model that
came with the metal ring - which looks exactly like a Super-Takumar a
ith a plain text file a la
Windows.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
Sherburne) wrote:
> There is a bit of technical info on Autorun on the Apple website; it
> may be worth a try:
Ta!
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e selling all they can make in Nikon
and Canon fittings, and don't feel the need to divert production into
"less popular" mounts.
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a Pentax 80-320 FA, which haven't yet taken a picture with in anger.
I'm waiting for a 12-24 Sigma, simple because it's the widest lens that's
(ostensibly) available that I can use on the *istD.
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s, I like lots of maximum aperture. My sight isn't the finest, and lots
of light is good.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mark Roberts) wrote:
> For wide and fast, consider the FA*24/2.0 - works very well as a manual
> focus lens even though it's AF. Brilliant optical performance, too :)
Nice! Bet it's pricey, though, even second-han
to focus with. :-)
> ...and the A85/1.4 will be very pleasant.
Sure is, on trials without film on the KM. Must get the K2 that just came
from eBay overhauled, since the film speed setting doesn't seem to work
any more.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jerome) wrote:
> This may be helpful. An old post from Mike Johnston:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg27961.html
OK, that's much clearer.
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ancially perilous activity, but there's a
35/2.0 and a 50/1.2 on the way now. I just have to get this here K2
overhauled, and I have a viable K-mount outfit.
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a small saving that may
> well prove to be an illusion?
True, but *finding* them is the hard bit. Just at present, I'm working on
convincing myself that I've got all the stuff I want for a while.
Yes, my credit card bill did arrive today. Why do you ask?
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an MP and to have been one for some
time; becoming PM involves similar processes to becoming a House Majority
Leader in the USA.
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ting to do a lot of shooting with the 500/f8 mirror, a Besamatic
might be worthwhile.
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out the OM-3; the OM-2 and OM-4 are
electromechanical, and the OM-10 series are far too cheap and nasty for
the taste of the USN.
I could ask over on sci.military.naval if people really want to know
what they use now; there are some recently ex-USN sub-drivers ther
tting maintenance on
K-series bodies is harder than on Spotmatics, there having been such huge
numbers of the latter sold in the UK.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Alling) wrote:
> The LX is almost precisely the same dimensions as the K2, a bit pricey
> though.
Right-oh!
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andards at Microsoft. Politely - they'd want to keep the guns
holstered, at first.
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spot on the variable resistor
under the shutter/ASA knob.
One other thing to check: you don't have the stop-down switch pushed up,
do you? It latches up, and stays there until you take it off again.
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. If you've managed to set the
lens to stopped-down with "manual", that would have this metering effect.
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there seemed to be only two of us who wanted it
seriously. It's not mint and it didn't have caps or a box, but it's in
pretty good shape and caps are easily replaced.
Someone else can have it when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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x, a fifties
British copy of a Rolleicord. The ping is quite high-pitched, but doesn't
travel far, and people doesn't always realise that a TLR is a camera these
days, since you don't hold it up to your eye.
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, but rather scarcer in other focal lengths,
at least in the UK. I reckon Pentax probably sold as many of those three
in screw-mount days as they did of all their other lenses put together
(excluding the 50 and 55 standard lenses).
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sid Barras) wrote:
> So, while I suppose my travels will lead to Ebay, I hereby announce my
> intention to buy an LX, and if any of you pdmlers have one for sale, I
> am in the market.
Damn. That makes two of us...
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I try to turn the exposure override ring, using its ears? That mostly
changes the exposure override, but sometimes the film speed will change a
little too. I've now got it on 400ASA, and I think I'll leave it there for
now, unless someone
y will only cause confusion, the pushbutton release affects only
> the ASA ring and not the ears.
Absolutely. The manual just doesn't *say* what one moves to set the ASA.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Clark) wrote:
> I know a quaint little pub where they mainly sell Peter's Ales.
I'm keen; prefer a weekend.
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st releases itself
> from the cursor and bounces on back. . . Grr!
I use Mac OS X 10.3 at work, and find that if I drag such icons to the
wastebasket, they go and don't come back. I don't know if q0.2 is the
same, but it's worth a try.
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se the current stuff enough to justify
it.
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erious
wideangle on that, and I'm fairly confident, from using the Sigma 24-70,
that it will be adequate for digital.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shel Belinkoff) wrote:
> So, what's your favorite Pentax - even if it's one that you don't use or
> use very much.
*istD
Spotmatic F
I never learned to love the MX or its mates in the M-series. They're too
small - or to be specific, not tall e
> Just had a text message from Jostein. He's just about to board his
> flight at Heathrow, going home to Oslo. He said he'll check in later.
I'm not usually in London these days, but family there are all fine.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Loveless) wrote:
> To continue a recent survey trend, how has the list inspired (coerced)
> you to become enabled?
It told me that the *istD was about to come out. I'd only been interested
in Spotmatic-era cameras until then, but a digit
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sid Barras) wrote:
Spotmatic F, in 1980, as a student. Used the same one until I bought the
*istD in late 2003, and still have it. It was an upgrade from a Praktika
LTL, a stop-down metering M42 camera, with basically equivalent
functionality
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