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LETTER OF THE WEEK

APS-C, full frame and

medium format,

something none of the

other camera

manufacturers can say. I

use a KP and I love it. The

image quality is excellent

as is the in-body image

stabilisation and weather

sealing. It may be quirky

(interchangeable grips)

but contains much that

you only see in cameras

at a much higher price

point! I am not saying

Pentax will live forever, but

it still exists in spite of a

lack of support, and is far

more than ‘a once-

prestigious brand that now

exists in name only’. On

another note, the latest

two issues of AP have

been superb despite the

lockdown and restrictions.

Well done, it is much

appreciated.

Peter Kay

Buying Guide change

As a regular subscriber to

AP, I read with interest the

recent articles about

reducing our impact as

photographers on the

environment. I was

surprised therefore to

notice that the once

monthly (or four-weekly)

Buying Guide has become

a regularly weekly feature

alternating one week for

cameras, the next lenses.

I wonder about the impact

that these additional

pages have on the

environment. Surely there

are not that many new

lenses or cameras being

launched that would justify

a weekly rather than

monthly update?

Andy Fry

We have taken our

once-a-month buying

guide and broken it down

into smaller sections,

which we now run every

week. This has in

fact reduced our paper

consumption by 192

pages per year, since we

don’t have to increase the

magazine pagination to

http://www.kelsey.co.uk accommodate it. Instead,

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Use Vivaldi

You can upload to

Instagram from your

computer using the Vivaldi

web browser, and as far

as Facebook compression

goes, if you size your

image to either 2048px or

1024px along the longest

border you do seem to get

better-quality reproduction.

However a major gripe

of mine with Facebook is

that it strips out the image

metadata, which can

contain all sorts of

information including

copyright notices and

contact information. Since

this takes up an

absolutely minimal

amount of data I do  nd

this somewhat suspicious

and unnecessary (as if

Facebook needed any

more conspiracy

theories...).

Anthony Bliss

The wrath of the

Pentaxian

Towards the end of your

excellent article on the

demise of Olympus (What

went wrong for Olympus?),

you aimed a barb in the

direction of Pentax,

suggesting that, like

Grundig, it exists in name

only. This is far from

accurate. Just because a

company belongs to

another doesn’t mean it

loses its identity. (See

Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Jaguar

etc.). In the past  ve years

Pentax has released six

camera bodies (the K-S2,

K-1, K-3 II, K-70, KP and

K-1 II) and would have

released a seventh if not

for the global pandemic.

Each camera has a unique

character and is full of

innovation and whilst they

are not universally

celebrated, they have a

strong following (see

Pentax forums, Kai Wong,

Mattias Burling). Pentax

exists in its own right. Its

current range covers

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