Can any of the good folks here shed some light on this. I have come across a Leica M7 which is said to be a "Betriebsk" model, which I'm told is some kind of...

I have a couple optical hot-shoe slaves that work great - except on a particular brand of flash. Sigma EF-500 ST. Great on-camera flash units, but they...

Getting ready for my Pentax *IST DS purchase and wonder what is the difference between these two cards? Any preference and why ? Sandisk ULTRA II 512mb Secure...

Hi friends, I do mostly close up photography of flowers, which lens should I choose for 60 mm f/2.8 d micro lens . Does the sb 800 do a good job or should...

I have access to a darkroom that's been out of service for nearly 30 years now. Its in a home basement, and has been moderately cold most of that time. Not...

I've searched without success for lens schematics for SMC Pentax-M & -A era lenses. The two I'm particularly interested in are the :- SMC Pentax-M 28mm f2.8 ...

We traced few companies in Poland that were using or distributing both images. Some of them were warned in the past to stop. AS result, my aunt already...

seems to be quite rear lens. Google finds only few exotic references. Not produced anymore. One of them is for sale and I'd like to find out if it is any good...

William Graham wrote: "Rob Wild" wrote in message ... Duncan Hamilton...

I know, Slik doesn't have the best reputation today, but I must say, of all the equipment I was given by my father, all of which he bought in Japan in 1964-68,...

Just acquired the P30T and an AF200T flash. I have read the Pentax on-line manuals and still am defuzzled. I gather I cannot use the TTL AUTO setting on the...

Hi everyone, I own a canon 10D and a 420ex flash. I'm trying to come up with setup for taking portrait type pictures of hockey players on the ice. Not action...

Too late, but Leica could have used its lens expertise to sell high end lenses to Canon/Nikon competing against L lenses etc.. make a profit doing so while...

Apparently there was a major fire at the B&H warehouse yesterday. If you have anyhing on order, you might be affected. Thankfully, only one injury, no...

"Lewis Lang" wrote in message ... Hi. I would like to working with pottery at...

I am looking for relatively inexpensive scanner to scan only b&w negatives. I am not going to scan large amounts of negatives or make prints bigger than...

I'm not a great photographer but I know vaguely what I'm doing. I'm off skiing in a week and intend to do a bit of photography. I've got a 70-210 zoom lens and...

My 12-year old Minolta X-700 has started annoying me with the weirdly behaving shutter release. I tested with new batteries. But of no use. The shutter some...

I got out of my pick-up this morning, opened the back door and my Leica M3 bag fell out of the truck and onto the concrete floor. It was still in the bag, but...

From dpreview.com: Kyocera has today announced that it has decided to terminate the Contax branded camera business. Contax joined forces with Yashica in...