Pleasing images...very good value on the face of it with the K-1.

My take on this is that the most likely result will be a DSLR with no video facility and no facility to use AF lenses in AF mode...reverting in effect to the older purely MF K-Mount.

This would be cheaper for everyone...OEM and user and would 'leverage' millions of K-mount lenses still in use whilst appealing to the photographer who gets enjoyment from creating an image rather than merely seeing how long they can hold the shutter down for before the buffer fills up.

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Nice to see images from this beautiful but troubled region...rarely visited from the UK.

Regards

Karlo

Lovely colours...and yes I think autumnal leaf activity has started to arrive already.

These past few days in particular have seen lots of smaller than normal but very dry leaves from Beech trees start to cover our rear lawn.

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The latest Pentax 'offering' said to be in production for release in next few months/next year turned out to be a MF DSLR?

Possibly a retro model I would assume if they were going to do that.

Also let's assume using K-Mount due to all the legacy lenses out there and new lenses would be cheaper to introduce.

Reason for question is, like many on here I do follow the US site, and some strong hints from there tending to hint at this outcome.
Does seem like a plausible route from what Pentax management have said in the past and wouldn't necessarily exclude further development of existing or recently discontinued FF/APS-C models.

Over to the floor...

Yes...agree...very nice images.

Hi Patty,

thanks for your input...i'm always open to constructive criticism...one can't really advance as a photographer without it!

I see your point and understand your rationale.

Those two side-on shots I posted amongst the mainly front on ones were taken literally seconds after some of the front on shots and I was happy to shoot using the same settings as I didn't really have time to alter my settings...plus i was experimenting all afternoon using different shutter speeds as it was my first outing with the 300 + 1.4x converter combo. I took shots from as low as 1/200th sec up to 1/2000th second and everywhere in between (some more successful than others!)

Personal taste plays a part as well as I usually have a particular' look' I want to achieve before pressing the shutter.

You were right about the shutter speed on those two side-on shots though...bang on...1/1000th sec for both of them (they were taken about 4 seconds apart).

I've just looked through a few shots taken a short time after those two and come up with four taken at 1/500th second which I quite like.
Not as low as 1/400th but not far off. I did use the advertising boards in the background to partly do some of the spade work for me when trying to capture the effect of 'speed'.

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Thanks very much guys.

Karlo

Thanks very much for your generous comments...really appreciate them. I do have a lot of photographic interests in motorsport and aviation that were I starting from scratch i'd no doubt be guided down the 'conventional' Canikon route. I do really prefer Pentax DSLRs for their ergonomics, OVF and general robustness so I'll stick with them and aim to improve my technique to compensate for inferior AF.

During last friday's visit to Oulton saw hundreds of Canikons, Sony and the odd Olympus...but not one other Pentax! Felt a bit like an ambassador for the brand!