First time lucky with a Kx

I've not posted anything here for a while, having been distracted somewhat by my other two cameras. Today I borrowed my wife's Kx, my K5 being away for repair. I like it! It helped having some good weather to try it out. I'm looking forward to getting the K5 back, but the Kx is a very able substitute!

The first shows K2 in the distance. All taken with my FA 24-90mm. Larger versions can be seen on my Flickr stream.

Cant comment on the Kx, never used one, but if these images are anything to go by, its an excellent piece of kit, Like #1 and #3

Absolutely superb shots Jonathan

Paul

Good advert! Super shots.

Yes, great shots from the Kx.
I use the K7 and Kx, sometimes I prefer the Kx, it produces very clean images!

Fabulous pics. Can't bring myself to part with my K-x even though its been rarely used since getting the K5 13 months ago

They're very sharp images - I wonder how much of that is down to the lens rather than the camera itself. While I have no complaints with my Kx, I don't recall any of my images jumping out at me as being that sharp, leaving aside subject matter. Have you done much (or any) post-processing on them?

Wonderful images! My favorites are 2+4.

Bjørn

Great images, the K-x is indeed a superb camera but also needs a good photographer behind it!

Regards
David

Thanks for the comments!

The FA 24-90 is a superb lens, albeit one that feels a bit cheap and plasticky. As far as PP goes, a lot of trial, error and advice from the web have led me to adopt the following method to get the best from images suffering from atmospheric haze.
I started with the RAW files in Lightroom, where I adjusted WB, reduced noise and applied a grad filter from the top to reduce exposure slightly and increase contrast. Then the images were exported to CS5. The images have then had a general levels adjustment, with the lower part of this adjustment erased by about 40% using a large soft-edged brush (a general levels adjustment often makes the bottom of the images too dark).. Then I made selective levels adjustments using feathered masks (between 20 and 60 pixels depending on the size of the area) on different parts of the images. I then used an unsharp mask at a large radius (40 pixels and amount about 30-50) , using a heavily feathered mask (about 100 pixels), on the middle and far parts of the image, which reduces haze by increasing contrast. A few of the images have also had the saturation of the blue channel reduced slightly in the distance, again using a heavily feathered mask, to get rid of a touch of the blue cast you always get from altitude. All these adjusrments need careful fiddling to get them to blend into each other. Sometimes I tweak the individual masks by erasing parts of them using a soft-edged eraser at various opacities.The whole process perhaps sounds tedious but it generally takes about 10 minutes per image. Finally they are sharpened conventionally using unsharp mask.

Excellent set!

It just shows how good the IQ is of other Pentax bodies. There are those who have said that they wouldn't go back to a KR with any lens. I wonder if they would consider a KX?

Best regards

Stunning views as ever - I especially like the first three.

Cheers

Indeed - a fabulous set. Number 1 is breathtaking. All you need is a volcano in the background and you have Mordor.

Superb shots. My fav is No: 3 (just).

It's encouraging to see just what the Kx is capable of, probably aided by the superb lens.
(I love my Kx !)
Hard to say which is my favourite - they all give something different !