Pentax versus the Rest

You think right. Modern microphones can be aimed quite precisely at your sound source and away from background noise. Like an external flash they'll be more flexible in use too.

I started work as a trainee photographer on a local newspaper in Kent in 1963. One of the first things my boss and mentor there told me was that I should never worry about how I looked or felt when taking pictures.

The only thing I would be remembered for was the pictures I made.

Imagine if someone tried to judge a pianist by the brand of piano they played. Or a writer by the word processor they used. You'd laugh - wouldn't you?

1: Most external (shotgun) mics are directional and will not pick up the noise from the lens focussing motors. That's also why they pick up very little wind noise ( especially when fitted with a fluffy wind sock) compared to onboard mics.
2: SDM lenses make very little noise.
3: External (camera mounted) mics are specially constructed to prevent mechanical camera vibrations from interfering with sound quality. The transducer itself is usually fixed inside a barrel with something similar to elastic bands.
4: Manual focus makes no sound at all.

Getting back to the topic that began this thread, frames per second, I'm not clear if shooting RAW, which I now do all the time, is slower than firing in JPEG. I don't often use continuous, or motor drive, mode but I did at the weekend to capture a steam train moving at speed, around 70mph. I was shooting RAW and my K10d seemed to fire at just around 2fps. Would it have moved faster in JPEG?

I dont think so but where the buffer would have filled up at around 6/7 shots using raw, with jpeg it would just have carried on writing to the card.

Unless you were using a very slow SD card, I don't think the FPS should be any different in RAW or JPEG for a given shutter speed? As Mike says, the only difference would be shots taken before the buffer filled?

(or shutter speed was 1/2 second or so?!)

Thanks for that Mike and Tooks. I was using a bog standard Sandisk 2gb card and my shutter speed was at 1/400 sec. I only fired short bursts, only two or three each burst, so the buffer shouldn't have filled.
david

That makes a difference with my K10D.
If I use a standard card its a lot slower than my Xtreme 3.

I love my K20. I love its size, its weight, its shape and its looks. I have a grip that fits my hand perfectly. My only problems I am having is getting nice, sharp pictures but that is another issue as can been seen in orther threads and is probally the way I am using it.

I write a regular gardening feature for a local newspaper and on Monday I was at the Chelsea Flower Show Press Preveiw Day. I was surrounded with press photographers most with big, fat, Canons but I did not feel out of place with my K20.

I do not want a camera that takes video and I do not want a smaller camera so the K7D will not be for me but if the K20 is replaced, or updated, then I will change, but if not, I am quite happy with my K20, but I must get to grips with the sharpness problem.

I apreacaite all the help you all have been giving me on and off over the last year or so and especally with my sharpness problems.

Must have missed that or Im getting old and cant remember.
What sharpness problem?

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/K20d-settings-12059/p-1