film rules

Seriously Frederic, I was just kidding, but trying to make a point that is often missed around here which is that the camera/lens/film/pixels is only a secondary consideration to making great images. Your answer actually confirms this - digital, film, b&w, color, you still make great images. Most of the gearheads around this forum worry themselves to death about lens resolution and cannot take a photo that is worth a damn.

Great work Frederic! As usual.

 

By the way, what camera/lens/film did you use for these? Actually, do not answer that question - it does not matter. I was just kidding.

Go for it Lutz. I need a fast lens for my TX-2 and it does not have to be Leica.

John, I am currently selling one on eBay with a custom filter ring attachment. It is a great camera and has had no problems whatsoever, if you are interested.

LINK PLEASE?

Great review - I actually learned that hitting the "OK" button shows the current ISO setting! Missed that in the instruction manual.

So I sent an e-mail request to Pentax asking when the 40/2.8 will again be available and I got this totally unhelpful response:

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

Thank you for contacting Pentax.

 

smc P-DA 40mm F2.8 Limited

 

Ultra-thin 40mm lens for PENTAX digital SLRs Designed for exclusive use with PENTAX digital SLR cameras, this unique pancake style standard lens measures a mere .59 inches in length and weighs just 3.17 ounces. Combined with the popular PENTAX *ist DS digital SLR, the PENTAX DA 40mm F2.8 Limited lens will offer the smallest and lightest digital SLR combination available from any manufacturer.

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=smc+P-DA+40mm+F2.8+Limited+&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=1&startPage=1

 

If you are in need of further assistance, please respond to this email or call our technical support center at 800-877-0155.

 

Sincerely,

Spencer Todd

Pentax Imaging Technical Support

Anyone know when this lens will be made available again?

Silly me, I found it.

I looked through all the previous posts and did not find any mention of this. Would all K10D owners please rotate their camera bodies and tell me whether anything is moving inside.

I recently got a K10D - great camera! And those pancake lenses rock.

 

One question though, when I rotate the body I can feel something moving inside

that is of substantial mass. Thinking it might be the battery, I took it out

but the movement is still there. I am not experiencing any malfunction with the

camera and everything seems to be functioning properly. Is this possibly

movement of some part related to the Shake Reduction? Anyone else with a K10D

experiencing the same?

I am also a big Epic fan. I wanted to share a trick that I use with mine as I only shoot Tri-X developed in Diafine for effective ISO of around 1250 to 1600.

 

I made a DX "plate" out of a sheet of metal cut from a beer can as follows: I cut the plate to size, sand the paint off, lay down electrical tape to create the appropriate DX code for 1600, bend the sheet into the curve of a film cartridge and then tape the plate over the DX contacts in the film chamber of the Epic. So now my Epic is "permanently" set to ISO 1600 and it works great.

 

By the way, the Epic only allows DX coding for whole stops, i.e., 3200, 1600, 800, 400, 200, 100, etc.

Photos of flowers ought to be outlawed!

If you are going to post something here like it is breaking news, then you ought to do a little homework first. There have already been posts here and at the rangefinderforum about this camera for a couple weeks.

 

On the camera, it should have 40mm framelines. It seems abolutely stupid not to include them when there is space for them and it is one of the best VC lenses.

That photo is definitely not an example of a decisive moment. It does not even fit your own definition. Is she dead?

In case you did not notice, the U.S. just invaded Iraq too.

Digital-Schmigital = fast-food photography. Baaaah, Baaah (those are sheep sounds).

digital = fast-food photography

Don't use flash because flash looks like dog dirt.

 

I have shot two pregnancies and births - the first with an M6 and a T3, and the second with a Stylus Epic and a Leica CM. For both I also had a Sony digital P&S. You will want to have one totally automated camera at hand during delivery so that you can shoot fast and from the hip because things go very quickly.

 

For the delivery, my suggestion would be to use your T3 loaded with 1600 to 3200 film and with the flash turned off and also have a digital P&S handy for a couple shots. The lighting in delivery rooms in my experience is pretty good so you should be able to get away without using any flash. Once things calm down, you can pull out the screwmount for some more contemplative shots.

Nice blown highlights.

A nice M6 ttl 0.58 just sold yesterday on eBay for about $1300.

Screw Leica - Leica should stick to making film cameras. The M8 should have been a new film body with swing back film loading, same shutter they put in the actual M8, adjustable diopter viewfinder, a built-in grip like the Hexar RF and matrix metering. Basically they should have built a better Hexar RF.

 

Perhaps Canon will see the wisdom in a digital rangefinder and build one based on the 7D or the 9D or whatever number they're at by that time and using the M-mount. I won't buy one, because film rules, but maybe Leica has just shown the way for the other camera manufacturers.

I was just looking at the "Photo Book" last night. For those of you who do not know about this book, it is basically an encyclopedia of significant photographers going all the way back to the 19th Century with an exemplary photo for each.

 

In any event, as I flipped through all of these various photos, I wondered to myself how the wonderful variety in styles could have ever existed if "photography" had begun with digital. Sure you can manipulate digital into virtually anything, but, for example, would a cyanotype style have ever caught on with digital? I doubt it. Now people use digital to mimic all kinds of older processes - these are just Disneyland.

 

Keep your film cameras and buy lots of film. I am going to buy a case of Tri-X this weekend to commemorate the coming of the M8.

Might as well shot this with a camera phone - then you could post this useless info: Motorola Razor/5.6 crap lens. Moreover, you got the lens stopped down so much it makes no damn difference what you shot it with. Try a 8x or greater neutral density filter for full sun already. Good gracious I hate digital!

 

Sorry to sound so hateful but did you ever stop to think that you were using about $5000 worth of camera gear and you got dime store camera results?

You tell him Dan! Film Rules!!!