New Pentax owner saying hello

ianjohnson67 wrote:
Hi all, thought I would say hello.

I joined earlier in the week, read some posts, rang SRS, ordered my K20D which arrived yesterday.
The advice from this forum was spot on, and yes I did plug the forum and get free postage!

First impressions of the K20 are very positive.
Features offered on this camera seem to surpass all the other manufacturers at this price point. I'm currently in a transitional phase between my Minolta gear and Pentax, although I fully expect to retain some of my old favourites.
When I've sold some of the Minolta glass I will indulge in some Pentax equivalents as I only have the 55-300mm at the moment to use on the K20D.

A couple of decisions to be made pretty soon are regarding a new SD card and RAW conversion software.

SD(HC), I currently use a Sandisk 2gb Extreme III CF card in the Dynax and will probably go for an SD version for the Pentax. With the increase in sensor size on my new camera I guess an increase to 4gb would be a good idea.
Is SDHC a big improvement over plain SD?

RAW converter, I predominantly shoot RAW and use RawShooter or Phase One (v3.7).
Neither of these seem to read the PEF file, or is this just the K20 version?

Regards,

Ian.

ianjohnson67 wrote:
Thanks for all welcomes and replies.

I've tried upgrading my old version of PhaseOne's Capture One (3.7.7) to 4 but it refuses to so I downloaded v4, does not look like my oldish computer will run it!

I've decided to find a stop-gap alternative until I can afford a new PC seen as I've emptied the piggy bank on a K20D!

I guess it will be a 4gb sdhc for the card.

Again, thanks for the warm welcome.

Ian.