Monday, August 24th, 2009
Today, during a short trip to Watford, I was testing my new gadget brought to me by weihnachtsmann called eBay (but he asked for ten pints of proper lager, what a tank!). It is prime lens SMC PENTAX-A 1:2 50 mm. It’s an old lens but it’s a superb piece of optical craft dated between 1985 and 1998. No modern rubbish plastic. Pure metal classic!
After first five shots taken in darknesses of the night and the Underground, my conclusion is quite simple, the kit lens Pentax SMC-DA 18-55mm that comes with Pentax K10D body belongs to a trash bin. Pentax prime lens rock and it’s not British, it’s Japanese :-)
Tags: 50mm, hardware, k10d, lens, pentax, pentax-a, photography, prime, smc
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
I’m a user of Pentax hardware and I like reading Joel Cornuz‘ blog dedicated to Linux & Photography and Pentax too. I was amazed how similar Joel’s and mine Linux stories are:
I have also been using Linux for quite some years (starting in the days where having an up and running X server was a good week of hard work?) and have since then tried to use Linux for photography ? these days, I run Ubuntu for it?s ease of use.
I still remember the times when I was staying at my past employer office (nearly) every Friday overnight to download, install and learn Linux and programming. That days, I could only dream about broadband at home. The time is running so too fast!
Tags: Cornuz, jcornuz, jpeg, linux, pentax, photography, raw, story, ubuntu
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