Using Pentax medium format lenses on Sony and Leica cameras

By admin | Published: September 5, 2016
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Kipon Baveyes adapters for Pentax medium format lenses
Kipon Baveyes announced another batch of medium format lens adapters (medium format focal reducer) that will let you use Pentax medium format lenses on Sony E, Leica SL and Leica M full frame cameras:

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Top 10 PentaxRumors posts for August 2016

By admin | Published: September 3, 2016
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These are the top 10 most visited PentaxRumors posts for August, 2016:

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Petition: we want full-frame Carl Zeiss lenses for Pentax K-mount

By admin | Published: September 1, 2016
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Somebody started a petition on change.org requesting Zeiss to start making full frame lenses for Pentax K mount.

Few months ago Zeiss confirmed that they have no plans to start producing lenses for K mount.

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Update on the advisory about Sigma lenses scratching the Pentax K-70 camera

By admin | Published: August 31, 2016
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Sigma lenses leave scratch on the Pentax K-1 camera body
Sigma released a new update on the recent advisory about Sigma lenses scratching the Pentax K-70 camera:

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Pentax K-1 water resistance test

By admin | Published: August 31, 2016
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This new video shows the water resistance capabilities of the Pentax K-1 camera:

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New Pentax rebates now online

By admin | Published: August 22, 2016
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B&H published a new set of Pentax lens rebates that offer up to $600 off on selected lenses/combos:

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Does the Pentax K-1 also have the white dots issue during long exposures?

By admin | Published: August 21, 2016
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Does the Pentax K-1 DSLR camera also has a thermal problem/white dots/bright spots during long exposures? A reader sent me the above picture – it appears that Ricoh overlooked the white dot issue during longer exposures (this is a form of noise that shows up on most long exposure taken with Long Exposure noise off). The problem seems to occur the worst on long exposures at ISO 1600 and up to 20 seconds exposure or longer. Nikon had the same issue with the D810 and had an official service advisory. Both the Nikon D810 and the Pentax K-1 cameras use reportedly the same 36MP sensor made by Sony.

This issue has a huge effect on astro photography, night time lapse work or stacking photography. More info can be found here.

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