Film camera? Right, no one is making them anymore. Or practically no one. And certainly not Pentax, which has shifted its focus, so to speak, over to making nothing but cropped-sensor digital bodies and lenses. But one of the great attractions of the Pentax system is, and has long been, all those lenses, going back [...]
Alas, for it is in so many ways a sweet little camera. But a couple days using it divulged some critical flaws: First and foremost, it eats batteries. It burned through a set of expensive CR2s in the first four rolls. So I put in a new set, different brand — and they went dead in the [...]
First impressions: It’s very little! Even by Pentax standards. The body is so tiny and light it’s almost, but not quite, too small for my small hands. It’s quiet. The sound of the shutter is refined but not explosive. The autofocus works better than any Pentax camera I’ve ever handled. It’s fast and sure. More [...]
photo: Trinity Alps, 2009 Actually, it’s been a little more than a year. I bought the K20D and a handful of Pentax lenses at the end of 2008, shifting over from Canon, and here it is the beginning of 2010 already. Inspired, in part, by a recent post at Photo.net, “Life with a D300,” I [...]
The development of new technology regularly leads to new forms of art. The invention of metal paint tubes in the 19th century, for example, helped artists to carry their paints into the field, fueling the explosion of plein air painting and Impressionism. The invention of the electric guitar spawned rock ‘n roll. But sometimes the [...]
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