Candies are banned in schools here, because it's pure sugar...
Self repair won't be easy. You'd need an original spare glas piece from Pentax. The repair of mine was about 100 USD - which looks like the residual value of the K10D body. You may well continue to use it as is....
It happened both to my analog LX and K10D in past years. The cameras fell on a hard ground. I had then serviced by Pentax authorized repair shops. The bodies still work perfectly.
I also started to digitize my thousands of slides (ektachrome 100 and 200 from the 70's thru to the late 80's). I use a similar method as mentioned above, using an old enlarger as a repro stand - replacing the light head with the camera - and a strobe called slide duplicator (from Multiblitz). Most important is a trick: I shoot the slides with the emulsion side to the lens - thus avoiding to shoot thru the acetate layer. I later flip the digitized picture in PS. I shoot RAW and process with Photolab because of easiness and speed, especially the easiness to expand the dynamic range with one slider. This method has 2 key advantages: speed and the saving of additional equipment.
The flash is way too short for autofocus.
I have been using the elite version since 2012 and bought the yearly updates. I do not use other software anymore. I like the automatic corrections when loading raw files. The Prime denoising feature is probably the best on the market and the newly added U-point feature allows local corrections. The smart lighting is also a great feature for high contrast photos.
I am certainly not watching Fox news (luckily it's not available here - in Switzerland). Calling the swedish social democrats fascists, well, we must have very different dictionaries...
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Where did I say it was the same thing??
where did you then see socialist nightmares in the current governmental coalition which has been ruling the country for quite a while?...
Nice pubs and eateries in Broad Ripple (N. College ave and 62nd st.)
Social and socialist is not the same thing. Have you ever been there?
Following a 2017 review in Amateur Photographer (a UK weekly pub) I bought the Epson Photo Expression XP-960 which seems to be their high-end amateur all in one printer. It uses 6 dye based color cartridges and print up to A3 (30x42 cm). Using original inks and Epson paper I am rather happy with it. It's very compact but lacks an auto document feed for the scanner and copier.
Thank you all for your feedback. I probably did not express myself properly. I already digitized the negs by duplicating them with a DSLR. I have now DNG files which I need to invert and I thought there must be a piece of s/w to do that. I only have a few rolls of color negs from the past which would not justify acquiring a scanner. I'll check with viewscan next.
I started to digitize my old 35mm color negatives ( I duplicate them on a DSLR in DNG format). But I havn't found out yet how to convert them into positives...Is there a PP software that can handle that?
Nice! Where is it? Burgundy?
and there is a specific Pentax users forum for pure Pentax help...