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01-11-2024, 03:32 PM   #16
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Wow. They look good. Thanks!

edit: $16 usd at amazon.com, I switched the .com for a .ca and its $48.99 cad! (but free shipping)?tag=pentaxforums-20&
Mark's has similar ones for C$21: Flip top mitts | Marks

Then wear some thin merino liner gloves underneath, and you're good to go: merino glove liners | Marks

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I will have to remember the slogan, "It's OK, it's a Pentax." Great photos.
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Since moving to Southeast North Carolina, shooting in snow is one of the things I miss, even though I don't miss Winter overall.




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At last - a break in the ever continual blasting rain and wind from storms Gerrit then immediately followed by Henk.
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Unlike many, I am so not that intrepid one happy to brave all weather conditions and blasted off the face of the Earth to be last seen air-lifted off to Timbuktu.
I also don't do mud - keeping vertical is challenge enough for me, thank you very much.

But something happened to my resolves when it started to snow here in West Sussex - a snow that flittered between a light dusting and a full fall.

I grabbed my KP, fled down the stairs, quickly threw a jacket on, walked out into the snow and started snapping away like in a slightly demented happy loony, oblivious that I still had my slippers on, jacket unzipped and gloveless.

The camera and I became covered with snow when one very concerned passer by pointed out I'd ruin me camera getting it wet like this from the snow.
I smiled and reassured him with - "It's okay, it's a Pentax."

So here they are - snow spots and all. Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy.
Love the story - and love the pics ( Believe it or not, in all my 79 years, I have never seen snow !!!! ) And from the responses your post has received, I think you have most definitely coined a new selling slogan for Pentax. Love it! Maybe you can sell the slogan's copyright to them?

Also loved the image invoked by the phrase "and blasted off the face of the Earth to be last seen air-lifted off to Timbuktu" - shades of Mary Poppins with her umbrella, or perhaps Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

Finally, love your enthusiasm! And your exquisite sense of whimsy!


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01-12-2024, 03:40 AM   #20
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I've put my k-70 and 18-135mm in a storm for 2 hours straight on a tripod and the camera & lens worked just fine (though the SD card slot had a pretty dangerous amount of water) for a year (until I tried to DIY fix the aperture block issue and busted the camera when I almost fixed it, for something very stupid). So in terms of weather resistance I'm fairly confident about my Pentax gears. I do want my KP to have K-1/K-3 style SD card slot instead of the K-70 type slot.
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QuoteOriginally posted by BarryE Quote
Looks like you had a proper fall of snow. Crampons over the slippers might have been wiser. Maybe next time ...

No doubt they'll be some of those show offs in Canada etc who won't understand how excited we get around here when we have such a heavy snow fall as you got. I could have probably have counted the flakes that fell on our garden across the border. Still it does count as a snow so the Met Office was correct.

Time for some T-shirts with that slogan...?
" Crampons over the slippers" Wow - that WOULD be a great image conjured in the mind LOL

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Looks like you had a proper fall of snow. Crampons over the slippers might have been wiser. Maybe next time ...


Time for some T-shirts with that slogan...?
Thanks Barry - and yes, thanks to the lovely comments, I am actually looking into having one made for me.

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Love the story - and love the pics ( Believe it or not, in all my 79 years, I have never seen snow !!!! ) And from the responses your post has received, I think you have most definitely coined a new selling slogan for Pentax. Love it! Maybe you can sell the slogan's copyright to them?

Also loved the image invoked by the phrase "and blasted off the face of the Earth to be last seen air-lifted off to Timbuktu" - shades of Mary Poppins with her umbrella, or perhaps Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

Finally, love your enthusiasm! And your exquisite sense of whimsy!
What a lovely comments, thank so much.
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Yesterday, I drove to Shoreham Harbour - well I thought that's where I was headed to see the ships - and ended up at Shoreham Old Fort as I wanted to test out my other Pentax, the K-1m2 recently purchased with a Pentax 28-105 lens.
But I wasn't disappointed because I actually found some lovely structures to photograph.

Along the wall of an extending arm construction, were some fairly tame birds easy to capture and where I bumped into another camera-bearing hopeful after the same birds. So we got talking cameras, naturally, he discussing his Panasonic 4/thirds with a lens the length of a baseball bat, and I, proudly waxing lyrical over my K1. He replied that in his collection he has a couple of Pentaxes and enjoys them hugely.

"The K1 one is a heavy camera," said I, "but it doesn't bother me."
And he replied
"Because you can always feel a Pentax."

That made me smile and thought I had to share it.

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You have my full respect. We have a saying here: there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices.
That certainly is the way we are here in the UK, and the saying I assure my family in Africa with when they ask how we cope with such cold.
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I particularly like the shot with the bird with the long shadow stretching to the right in the frame. Great choice of framing.
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A friend living in the north of Sweden has a cabinet inside the porch for when he takes the camera out. He has a dessicant in it and dries the camera and leaves it to very slowly heat up to room temp, cranking it up by a degree or so every while. Otherwise he'll hear one or two very expensive cracking noises. Another friend in India has the opposite problem with what is a massive lens he uses for cricket. It could be in the heat for hours, so he has to keep it cool and constant.
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Shortly after I got my KP, we were walking thru Canada NP �Point Pelee� when it started raining. We had known that was a possibility, so we had purchased cheap, lightweight, rain gear for the occasion. While my wife tried to figure out how to use it, I got wet and photographed the process.

I don�t think I would have taken that chance too many times.
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QuoteOriginally posted by PhotoLady Quote

I grabbed my KP, fled down the stairs, quickly threw a jacket on, walked out into the snow and started snapping away like in a slightly demented happy loony, oblivious that I still had my slippers on, jacket unzipped and gloveless.

The camera and I became covered with snow when one very concerned passer by pointed out I'd ruin me camera getting it wet like this from the snow.
I smiled and reassured him with - "It's okay, it's a Pentax."
Coming in late on this, sorry... but, Brava! and I want one of the T-shirts!
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QuoteOriginally posted by PhotoLady Quote
"It's okay, it's a Pentax."
I love this quote. I should programme myself into using this from now on.


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So here they are - snow spots and all. Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy.
The photos have Pentax written all over them. Thanks for sharing.
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My only problem with my K20D's is the limited low-temperature range. Page 4 of the manual says, "The temperature range for camera use is 0�C to 40�C (32�F to 104�F)."
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Time for some T-shirts with that slogan...?
Definitely!
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Coming in late on this, sorry... but, Brava! and I want one of the T-shirts!
A T-shirt? With "It's OK, it's a Pentax" .....Brilliant idea! I would buy one!

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