steve_wilkes

<p>Following your instructions I managed to get Vista x64 and my coolscan 9000 working with no problems.<br>

Thank you so much, I can now run my scanner on my high power x64 PC. Nikon surely should have done this customer support with minimal effort to themselves.....</p>

Who said you have to keep the circle ?- I would assume most of these are cropped. In the case of mine I have kept part of the circle, you can see it around the top right of the picture & bottom, but cropped in on the rest of the picture to give a sense of circularity but not overpoweringly so. People who are good fish eye users generally dont like 'rules' too much LOL. Having said that I always take 'normal' pics of the B&G as well. Some dont take kindly to fish only pics!!! - see other mail in this section. Some of these may have been taken by a 'semi-fish eye' like a sigma 15mm - which give a full frame effect.

Great tool to have, some locations just beg for a fish eye experience

 

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thanks for the info

I bought an older remote release for the 680III not realising fuji

have upgraded the model. Is there any way I can get this older model

to work with a 680III - thanks for any info.

hello all, I recently bought a secondhand 165mm LS lens,

unfortunately I cant get it to fire the flash below F8. I dont think

Pentax would manufacture a lens that does this, so can anyone

confirm for me its faulty ?

thanks for your response, the lenses I am now considering are the The 80 and 150, however I do have an older Arca Swiss LF set up and a 150 & 90 mmm lenses. I would be interested in seeing if this 180 macro could be used on both the arca and the fuji- do you think this is possible ? I have no idea how the convertor you mentioned would work - do you have any pics or could you give me a description ? I suppose it may be possible to swap the 180 between lens boards if the arca swiss lensboard was not compatable with the system you mentioned. Steve

hi John , thanks for the response, no I dont have any lenses at all. Room wise I should have approx 30 x 30 feet soon. steve

hello, I recently bought a fuji 680 III. My dream camera by the way -

waited for 4 years for this. I am slowly building up the rest of

the parts. Can anyone help with lens recommendations. In my studio I

shoot food & portraits so a good close up lens is good, maybe one

that I can use for both food and a close up portrait lens. Also I

need a wide angle lens to shoot full length portraits any

recommendations ? thanks Steve

Ryszard

I got the grip for the 67II and the metz 70 set up worked fine- steve

Hi I am looking for a second hand 165mm/f4 lens (LS)so I can use

studio flash, any for sale? I am in the UK. thnx steve

to show what can be done on a 67II without a tripod & colour enlarger......

http://www.pbase.com/foodphoto/pentax_67ii

I have got a Metz 70-mz5 flash I want to use with my 67II. I have

the SCA 372 converter as recommended by metz, so my question is will

this arrangement fit onto the 67II TTL grip & work? I know Pentax

are trying so hard to get me to buy one of their flashes for the

67II & I am working equally hard not to be pushed down this route...

TIA steve

Steve thanks for the tip re extension tube, I just picked up the full set of 3 for 60 euros on Ebay , so I am happy :)

Steve

Steve & gary, thanks for your replies, having worked with a 150mm Bronnie lens for portraits in studio's, and backing up almost out of the studio to get the shots I wanted, a 165mm lens would not be my first choice. As I understand it this is the only choice I have to get above 1/30th sync for flash, which coming from Bronnies is the only real compromise I am having to make on this switch.

 

If there is a simple conversion adapter available to somebody elses lower focal length leaf shutter glass I would consider it.

 

Thanks also for the clarification on the functioning of the leaf lenses, it does make sense to me now.

thank you to everybody who contributed a reply, appreciated.

steve

hi all, I am considering a 165mm/f4 lens (LS) to add to my new 67II

kit, as I do some studio flash work. I can't find out much about

this lens on the net.

 

Is it optically as good as other 67 lenses ? also I understand the

PC socket is in the lens, is it just a case of plugging a pc lead in

there & setting the shutter speed (up to 1/500th) and aperture

according to light meter readings ? I read something about still

setting the shutter speeed to 1/30th, which does not make any sense.

any info appreciated - thnx

Steve

hi, I am a ETRSi user about to sell up & go to the 67 II (after

falling in love with it!!). I have not found much about the 90-180mm

f/5.6 Zoom lens in this forum, anybody using it ? any opinions on

sharpness compared to the 105 mm & bokeh ? I could get one in the

package I intend to buy for not much more than the cost of the

105mm. I would use it for mainly portraits/fashion type stuff. I am

not worried about the extra weight as I am a big bloke & like big

cameras !!!! the 5.6 aperture does worry me slightly compared to the

2.4 of the 105. But for studio use I would not be anywhere around

there anyway. Thnx for any advice.

steve