Hello from Otley

Hi, my name is Steve and I have just bought myself a K30. I have been using an Olympus bridge camera for about 6 years and felt the need to upgrade. I had been looking at the usual, Canon, Nikon, Sony etc, not even considered Pentax to be honest, when I remembered (it's my age) I have some Pentax K mount lenses from my 35mm film days when I used a Chinon CE4S. I did some investigating and found it was quite simple to use these on the K30 albeit with limited functions. I have to say I am very pleased with the results so for and can't wait to get out when I get home from work and on a weekend.

Welcome Steve - enjoy the forum

Hello and Welcome to the Forum. I started with Pentax in much the same way, only the film camera was a Ricoh. So full circle

Hello and Welcome

That's bizarre - my first digital jobbie was an Olympus C750 bridge camera

And

I tend to use a manual lens or too as well

Hello and Welcome to the Forum!

Welcome Otley, from Rawdon. Plenty to shoot round our neck of the woods, red kites, vw festival at Harwood House, otley bike race, Tour de France. Enjoy your K30 and let's see some of your pics on the main gallery

Hello Steve! Welcome to the forum! I too came from an Olmypus bridge camera, the C-740UZ!

We got a good bunch of people here, the forums are very "warm".

...and welcome from Knaresborough