New K200D Has Finally Arrived!

Got my K200D today! The body was held up at a mail depot, and I sold the kit lens (sent separately) in the intervening time (it was a mark 1).

However I have a few older lenses to play with! I've got to say, I am impressed with this camera! Taken tonight from my boat - straight from camera jpegs (however they have been resized/compressed by flickr:

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With 80-200mm f4.7:

With 17mm f3.5:

With 80-200 again:




Full size crop:

Takuma 28-80mm, shot at f3.5:

That 17mm Tokina looks like quite a nice lens on digital

I particularly like the swan shots, in my view the best shots are taken with the pentax lenses.

Am newbie, but I'm impressed with my K200D, I had Nikon D40 previously, the pentax works better for me, especially IQ.

Fantastic camera especially in RAW!!
And of course I must mention the exceptional FA50, am I just so impressed with this lens because I'm a newb or what,I find this to be a superb lens- a must have.
I hope you enjoy your cam as much as me
Regards

Chris

Thanks! I love RAW but unfortunately shot all these jpeg only - I obviously need to get used to the controls cos I swore I had pressed the RAW button. I also took some shots with the 50mm f2 which are very sharp, but Flickr's processing has smeared them slightly...

That Tokina again, taken a few moments ago:




f11, 30 secs. Loving this camera!

Nice tranquil scene.
Just wondered which white balance setting you had on this pic.

Regards

Chris

It was still set to daylight / sun.