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Mar 31, 2020 16:31:47   #
Looking for a good used scanner with the templates and cables and power equipment.
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Mar 13, 2020 20:47:47   #
This is true. I went looking for replacement battery before i was able to get mine functioning. There is new batteries that can be adapted to this camera. Haven't had to try any so can't offer any suggestions.
Love my Pentax!
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Mar 13, 2020 18:21:41   #
I have over 4,000 slides from my ASAHI Pentax. My very first 35 mm camera.
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Mar 13, 2020 17:47:50   #
I currently own the exact camera case and lens. Purchased in HK and it still functional. Today one can't purchase a battery as the original contained mercury. But if you remove the battery and clean the contacts you may find like i did it will work.
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Mar 1, 2020 18:33:56   #
MT Shooter is a great person. I had the opportunity to meet him in person, at the time he told me he was going to retire and i knew he was going to be a great loss for us. I wish him the peace and love he deserves.
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Jan 4, 2020 20:45:19   #
burkphoto wrote:
I’ll second that. For home use, spending more would be only marginally better.

The V800 has more dynamic range but it is over $1000.

Another alternative is to copy photos with a macro lens and dSLR or MILC, mounted on a copy stand and lit evenly.


In have a question regarding copying images using a Canon EOS 5DMKIV using the Canon F2.8 100MM USM IS lens would be the best set up for Photos, Slides, and Color and B&W negatives to obtain the best quality 1:1 digital capyure?

Thanks in Gene.
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Feb 24, 2017 13:06:58   #
The grip also is great to increase the battery life when in the field during extremely long periods in cold and very cold temperatures. Like when shooting wildlife etc.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:28:48   #
Thanks for the link and great opportunity to learn a very great process.
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Feb 23, 2017 21:56:35   #
Just make sure you don't purchase the most expensive thinking you will get the best Canon IS, The more expensive is heaver and has less angle of view. So my Canon IS is used in YNP and it provides me sufficient view of Birds fairly close and as stated clear images when IS is enabled. I also use them to spot distant objects the if I am seriously interested in the subject I stop and set up my spotting scope to follow the subject and if it looks like it is headed my way I get out my best long distant lens and wait.
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Feb 23, 2017 17:15:20   #
Go to B&H and look for the Canon Image Stabilizing Binoculars They can freeze birds in flight as you follow them.
Best I have ever owned. Just make sure you purchase the pair with the angle of view you want.
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Feb 18, 2017 22:58:31   #
Here it is.
Sony-Cyber-shot-DSC-F505-2-1MP-Digital-Camera
My spouse purchased it for my BD, Paid 1K which is many times more than what I am worth. I was disappointed with the
performance but it was 1999. I was using a 35 mm camera so you understand. But it was my BD. Still have the camera but LCD is dead.
Available on Line at E-Bay for $35.00.

Check out the Zeiss Lens
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Jan 26, 2017 01:54:08   #
Thanks for all your replies,

I had seen previous post regarding the laser for distance to determine how far the subject was and was hoping I could do an innovative thing like test and calibrate my lens and make tick marks accordingly. Guess that was a dumb idea. I do have a smart phone and have applications as suggested was just hoping I could get it down to a quick process as it was in the old days. Now it is more money and less capabilities with the lens from a DOF capability. I guess if I shot every day I would know where to set my pre-focus to obtain the correct image I want. I don't own a distance finder for golfing or measuring a room but looks like I will be in the market at some point.
Again thanks for the input.
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Jan 23, 2017 15:34:30   #
My bad. I did mean DOF markings.
Sorry for the confusion.
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Jan 22, 2017 23:27:02   #
Almost all my pro lenses have no distance markers to aid in establishing preset focus for helping me set the F stop for DOF when using manual focus.
I have been reading current and past post on this site. I haven't seen any mention of how one would go about scribing their lens for distances. I do have two very older lens that have no auto focus from the late 60's that have the great distance markers one is fixed focal length and the other is a zoom. Any ideas would help.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Jan 12, 2017 01:42:16   #
In April 2010 I purchased a Dell M6500 Dell Workstation 64 bit (Lap Top) that weighed 7.5 pounds. It has a 17in RGB Screen I am using right now, it's native resolution is better than HD. Purchased it with 8GB Ram 2 - 4GB Ram Chips. It was configured with 2 - 500Gb 7200 RPM drives configured in a Raid 1 equivalent of 1TB data only drives. It also was configured with a 64 Micro SSD by Samsung in the mini slot. It came with Windows 7 Professional Ultimate so I could secure encryption on selected files. However, the Widows 7 OS didn't support TRIM for the SSD at the time I purchased it. The OS also contains the ability to use Virtual XP that will allow the 64 bit system to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit environment under one roof. It also came with all the Windows Office Professional apps less Windows Project, and Windows Access. It also was configured with an NVIDIA 1GB 3500M Video card supporting CUDA to off load Adobe's Adobe Primer Pro video editing to the video card and allow one to get their PC processor back to do other things when doing long extended HD video rendering. I also configured it with a tray type slide Blue Ray and DVD Disk Burner to off load my rendered HD Videos. Keep in mind this was 2010. I configured it with the first version of the I7 CPU using the 820 Version as the 920 was an extra 1K and I couldn't justify it. Today it has the 920 that cost me $110.. to purchase and installed it my self. As time marched on and the price of memory chips dropped I added 2 more 4 GB chips to get to 16 GB. Then noticed later that the price of the 8GB chips dropped, so made a $100.00 investment to replace the 4-4Gb with 4 8GB chips, so now it is a 32GB laptop work station that cooks when rendering HD video. BTW to keep up with all the up grades from Adobe, Windows etc. I went from a 64 GB Micro SSD card to a 128 GB SSD Card and now have a 512GB SSD Card with a lot of room with hopes some day to be able to afford the 1 TB Micro SSD Card for my apps and OS. Don't get me wrong but the initial purchase for this bleeding system in 2010 was a serious investment but look at where it is today in 2017. My next step is to purchase two 1 TB SSD Cards to slip into my two hard disk drive slots and configure it as a 2 TB data drive for data. A that point my system will only have 4 moving objects on it. 1- Key board, 2- my roller ball 3 - the two fans running under the Main CPU and Video Card which are real quite now and will run less when the Hard Drives are gone as the SSD Cards don't generate much heat. At this point it will be reaching it's life growth capabilities. and as a closing note it came with 3 each 3.0 USB slots and one 3.0 /Esata slot and a HDVI Port and Fire Wire port and on and on. Just the other day I confirmed it will support a monitor running 100% AdobeRGB , 100% sRGB, 100% REC709 and 98% DCI-P3 (delta E < 2) 1.07 billion colors. Got to save up a bit to get this monitor but here we are, a video card developed in 2010 supporting resolution of 2017 monitors. Is it 5k? No but one can see the fruits of their labor at least on a screen that supports a serious color space we can see. Maybe some day a monitor that supports Adobe PRO RGB ???

Thanks for reading. My intent is look to the future when making an investment and find your best product and buy the best for YOU and the best you can, keeping in mind the speed of technology doubles every 2 years.
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