PENTAX ANNOUNCES “FOCUS ON SAVINGS” K-7 SYSTEM REBATE:$100 VISA PREPAID CARD OFFERED ON MORE THAN 20 SELECT PENTAX LENSES WITH PURCHASE OF A K-7GOLDEN, CO (November 15, 2009)…PENTAX Imaging Company has announced a FOCUS ON SAVINGS rebate that offers a $100 prepaid card on an exciting choice of PENTAX lenses. From now until January 15, 2010, K-7 buyers may select from more than 20 lenses (listed below) and receive a $100 VISA prepaid card rebate for each and every qualifying lens* purchased at... Read Full Story
The day started good. Zipping along... One pause to air-down the tires. On the trail we go. My wife had to come get us with the good old Chevy. Still camped out for the weekend. Some guys were climbing the big boulders. Joshua tree is peaceful this time of year. This is some kind of Indian burial place from the early 1900's and my wife and step-son peeping through Another angle of the Indian burial. Who is going to get food from inside the pumpkin? I will fight you for it. Okay, you win...I'... Read Full Story
Visitors to this page also liked: See "Recommended Reading" on the right column. We honor reciprocal links. Email: brqyvn@aol.com Hi Pentaxian friends.Lately, I saw many posts about Hoya wanting to associate with another world-class company that could manufacture sensors for them. This could make Pentax viable outside the Hoya’s mission of medical instruments and the like. Hoya apparently purchased Pentax mostly for their medical instruments. It seems that Samsung eventually want to manufactu... Read Full Story
Visitors to this page also liked: See "Recommended Reading" on the right column. We honor reciprocal links. Email: brqyvn@aol.comHi Pentaxian friends.Before the advent of digital SLRs, along with Pentax and Nikon 35 mm format cameras, I used to shoot with medium format cameras as well. I owned a Pentax 645, and several Mamiyas and one Hasselblad. These cameras had different ways to focus on your subjects other than the eye-level viewfinder. They had a waist level finder (not the Pentax 645)... Read Full Story
Visitors to this page also liked: See "Recommended Reading" on the right column.We honor reciprocal links. Email: brqyvn@aol.com Hi Pentaxian friends.I finally received enough information from Pentax to write an e-book about the newest Pentax DSLR, the K-x. There are a lot of functions similar to the K-7 and some of the K-7 e-book can be recycled. I have a very good feeling about this new K-x, because it uses a Sony 12.4 megapixel CMOS sensor. The image quality will likely be very good at hig... Read Full Story
Visitors to this page also liked: See "Recommended Reading" on the right column. We honor reciprocal links. Email: brqyvn@aol.comHi Pentaxian friends.My Step-son and I went camping and rock crawling this weekend in the Big Bear Lake area of the San Bernardino Mountains. I tested the K-7 against humidity, dust and cold and it did just fine. The pictures below are samples of the weekend. I was too tired to add captions last night but here are some now. I also took some video and once stitched t... Read Full Story
Visitors to this page also liked: See "Recommended Reading" on the right column.We honor reciprocal links. Email: brqyvn@aol.com Hi Pentaxian friends.This weekend me and my step son are supposed to go primitive camping in the San Bernardino mountains. You can go by foot, but we usually go with my Jeep. In preparation for this trip, I checked the Jeep this week to make sure everything was in order. We drive to about 8,000 ftelevation and because the air is thinner up there, vehicles don't alwa... Read Full Story
Nobel Prizes for Camera + Photography (Noisy edition)I am proud to announce that 1000 noisy cameras has awarded me a "Nobel Prize for camera + Photography" in the Camera-Literature category. Imagine that! I will be receiving $1.4 million, but due to liquidity issues, the first payment will be made in November 2099 providing that I'm still alive. I will be arounf 150 years old by then. What an honor this is.Mr. Obama...eat your heart out!Thank you to www.1001noisycameras.com/ and all the peopl... Read Full Story
Click on the link below for the video.Facebook HomeVisitors to this page also liked: See "Recommended Reading" on the right column.We honor reciprocal links. Email: brqyvn@aol.com. Read Full Story
The small mountain town of Wrightwood pictures above.The above map is where the fires are burning. The pictures below were taken in the red circled area. I live in the Victor Valley area, which is close by. If you are familiar with by blogsite, I often venture in my Jeep to the San Bernardino mountains and usually show some photographs on this blogsite. In fact, we are going there for the upcoming weekend, and will camp atop one of the mountain. I will be taking pictures from there on the 10... Read Full Story
