I replaced the batteries in my camera for the first time. Olympus Camedia CRV3 batteries made it through 1151 shots, a good many of the last 100 including flash.
FYI.
But it took me nearly two months to kill batteries. I don't think rechargables will make sense for the camera body.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
BLAH BLAH BLAH.
I've figured out what my problem is, and why I'm so sold that I could make do with a 200mm lens as long as it was fast.
Pentax doesn't sell anything compelling in digital-appropriate focal lengths at the moment.
I'd love the 12-24 wide angle lens, save for the "i'd never use it" part. That's the only remaining DA lens I care about. The 50-200 is a decent enough zoom, but yeah. The most compelling lens I can find for sale on that there internet at the moment is the 28-105 f3.2-4.5 zoom, compelling not because I need it but because it has the ghostless lens coatings as found on the Limited lenses.
Speaking of limited... I'd LOVE to get my hands on a DA 40 f2.8. BUT... what is 40mm aftter the 1.5andabit crop?
40 x 1.5 = useless.
(aside:Unfortunately, the DA 21mm f3.2 pancake, which I believe I would actually find a use for, seems to have had the 1.5x FOV conversion applied to its price, as well.)
I hear people proclaiming the glory of that little lens all the time, but what is someone like me going to do with a equivalent 60mm focal length? Absolutely nothing. I don't want to pay for limited quality in a long lens, because that would be stupidly expensive. All I want is a 300mm f4.5 that doesn't cost 800 bucks. I know it's possible - just have a machine make it instead of a real live person. [edit from 2019: haha remember when you could get a Pentax FA* 300/4.5 for $800 because they had been discontinued but nobody at the camera stores knew that or understood why they were priced that way?] We don't need DA* lenses, nor did anyone really need FA*, F*, A*, or M* lenses. Pentax sold those to people who were too quick to go ROFLMG I WANT TEH GOAD LANSE???, as is evidenced by the number of people on the dpreview forums who have collected several of the FA* lenses and won't go near anything else. I'm sure they're nice, but imagine if you put their features in a regular lens - the price would have been quite a bit less, and chances are Pentax would have been able to afford to make more of them so people like me wouldn't be sitting on the outside of your elitist little clique, jealous of the fact that you got into photography earlier than I did. At least with the limited lens, you're getting metal construction, a real manual focus feel, and the ghostless coating... of course, when the 77mm limited costs like 700 bucks, that's also not likely to work out. Not that 77mm would be good for me, either.
sigh.
Well, the good news is I found out today my rebate papers processed, so I get my money back.
Pentax doesn't sell anything compelling in digital-appropriate focal lengths at the moment.
I'd love the 12-24 wide angle lens, save for the "i'd never use it" part. That's the only remaining DA lens I care about. The 50-200 is a decent enough zoom, but yeah. The most compelling lens I can find for sale on that there internet at the moment is the 28-105 f3.2-4.5 zoom, compelling not because I need it but because it has the ghostless lens coatings as found on the Limited lenses.
Speaking of limited... I'd LOVE to get my hands on a DA 40 f2.8. BUT... what is 40mm aftter the 1.5andabit crop?
40 x 1.5 = useless.
(aside:Unfortunately, the DA 21mm f3.2 pancake, which I believe I would actually find a use for, seems to have had the 1.5x FOV conversion applied to its price, as well.)
I hear people proclaiming the glory of that little lens all the time, but what is someone like me going to do with a equivalent 60mm focal length? Absolutely nothing. I don't want to pay for limited quality in a long lens, because that would be stupidly expensive. All I want is a 300mm f4.5 that doesn't cost 800 bucks. I know it's possible - just have a machine make it instead of a real live person. [edit from 2019: haha remember when you could get a Pentax FA* 300/4.5 for $800 because they had been discontinued but nobody at the camera stores knew that or understood why they were priced that way?] We don't need DA* lenses, nor did anyone really need FA*, F*, A*, or M* lenses. Pentax sold those to people who were too quick to go ROFLMG I WANT TEH GOAD LANSE???, as is evidenced by the number of people on the dpreview forums who have collected several of the FA* lenses and won't go near anything else. I'm sure they're nice, but imagine if you put their features in a regular lens - the price would have been quite a bit less, and chances are Pentax would have been able to afford to make more of them so people like me wouldn't be sitting on the outside of your elitist little clique, jealous of the fact that you got into photography earlier than I did. At least with the limited lens, you're getting metal construction, a real manual focus feel, and the ghostless coating... of course, when the 77mm limited costs like 700 bucks, that's also not likely to work out. Not that 77mm would be good for me, either.
sigh.
Well, the good news is I found out today my rebate papers processed, so I get my money back.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
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