My tuppence for what it's worth...

I use a K-5IIs for shooting rowing and motorsport.

I generally use a Sandisk 32 or 64GB SD card...i've used various ones...Ultra SDHC at 120MB/s but also more recently a 64GB SDXC at 140MB/s which has become my 'Go to' card generally.

I've also used Transcend cards in 16 or 32GB capacity although with a slower transfer speed many times without issues.

I've currently got a Samsung Evo Plus 128GB U3 A2 V30 micro SD card in my K-5IIs and another in my K-3...both using the SD adaptors that came with the card and can report that they work fine. I 'won' both of these on this site for POTW and it seemed a shame to have them stuck there with them being micro SD doing nothing...but no..work great.

Now for the not so good news...the latest cards i'm using and probably I suspect the Sandisk Ultra 64GB U1 140MB/s transfer speed probably offer a level of performance i'm not able to fully utilise in my K-5IIs which is limited by its very slow internal processing speed when shooting motorsport and the like.

I'm more of a 'sniper' than a 'machine gunner' but even so I find that after about 6 or 7 shots over a 2.5 - 3 second period is enough to overload the processor in the camera and it then freezes for several seconds during which i'm unable to take any more shots and it takes sometimes up to about 8-10 seconds to display any image on the back screen at all. I generally only take images in JPEG as well...usually at highest or second highest file size and most 'stars' for quality setting. The situation would be even worse if you intended multishots at using RAW I presume.

It's not ideal but i've learnt to live with this limitation and accept it for what it is. I really love using the camera in every other respect and when i'm not shooting fast sports this limitation doesn't matter.

Hope this helps.

regards

Karlo

As per comments above.

Have never heard of it to be honest... deserves to be better publicised.

Regards

Karlo

Another great image Spad.

My imagination working overtime again though...looks like a stand-off between a pirate on the left and a demon with melted face on the right !

I'm beginning to suspect the universe has its own resident artist working on a cosmic scale.

Your's is actually more attractive Spad from a purely visual perspective in my opinion.

The impact of NASA's image is lost in the close-up detail...Eagle Nebula? Who are they kidding...theirs looks more like a chicken head. From a greater distance yours looks more believable although I think Dragon Nebula would be a better description!

I found myself asking..."is that your picture or Nasa's Spad?"

First Class.

I emailed the distributor in Poland to enquire about the VAT situation...reply posted below;



Hello.
In case of shipping to the UK we use DDP incoterms, so we pay the VAT and customs. Part of that is included in the item price and part in the shipping cost.
Regards.

I'd love one of these IRIX 150 macros but have just bought a 50-135 so will have to wait. Above info might tempt someone else though? Well spotted Spad.

Regards

Karlo

Just looked ...shipping included is about £289 to England...fantastic price if you don't mind ordering from Europe.

I've got one too...great lens...wouldn't sell mine.

Sounds a great price Spad.

They've suddenly become exceptional value for money.

Worst case scenario...SDM failure out of warranty...can convert to screw drive or in my case i'd just use it as a manual focus lens. Speaking of which I've noticed manual focus on my copy is very slightly sharper than AF at 135 end and about 25m distance...I might need to make an adjustment to the focus...front or back.

Image quality is excellent though.

95x40" ? ...that is staggering.

I've never done panoramics even though every time someone like yourself puts up some great examples...I tell myself i will!

I really must though...

Once again...cheers Spad.