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Last year my beloved Pentax KP died and many of you helped me in getting a replacement camera, a #Fujifilm X-S10. This is an amazing camera, especially in color rendition, I may adjust contrast or clarity, but I never find myself adjusting color ❤️
06:29 PM - May 20, 2023
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They are both amazing cameras. The KP was in many ways the perfect camera, it had all the features I wanted and delivered fantastic photos. When it died I decided to go with the Fuji as the KP’s demise was the third Pentax camera I owned that suffered a critical malfunction. 😢. I got…
10:42 AM - May 22, 2023
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An adapter to use my old Pentax lenses with the X-S10 and while the adapter does have a manual aperture control ring, I find it works better to use older full manual lenses and use the lens aperture control.
10:43 AM - May 22, 2023
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I had that on my K-30, which fortunately I was able to get repaired for around 100$. This was similar the camera lost all ability to adjust exposure, this time over exposing, this occurred after the camera had been unused for 3 weeks. Not even manual lenses would expose properly. The best quess..
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02:25 PM - May 22, 2023
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I could come up with after discussing it with several communities is that the battery I had in it had gone bad and discharged it’s full load into the camera. It was a Pentax branded battery but it was an older model I had used in the K-30. To be honest my only real complaint about the KP other…
02:28 PM - May 22, 2023
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Than this failure, was battery life, I ended up getting the battery grip for it. This is also a problem with the Fuji X-S10, but they offer no battery grip 😡 So If I know I have a big photo day I carry a couple of spares.
02:31 PM - May 22, 2023
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