Thanks for help everyone and commenting.
susan

Thanks hefty1

Can anyone show me any photo's taken with a k20d using takumar-A zoom 28-80mm lens to show me what I can expect as to quality of photo's I can get from this lens.I have just aquired one.Thanks everyone.
regards susan

Not quite sure if I'm on the right forum. But here goes, I bought a "pentax right angle viewfinder" of ebay, but it doesn't fit my k20d, it is a fraction to small to fit over the eye piece, is there any way of getting another eyepiece to put on this right angle viewfinder. The person on ebay said it came of a pentax camera when I wrote to him, but thats all I have heard from him.Thanks again for anyone who can help me.Also if I tape it to the camera, I found that everything I see is backward, is that right.Thats when it is resting against the eye piece and tape around to stop it coming off.
regards susan

Thanks, will have a go tomorrow again and let u know how I get on.
regards susan

Thank you all, I am trying to get my head around all these remarks you have made. At the moment I struggling with the input focal length, I get No's from 8 to 800. Also I press the green button and it makes a noise,but can't see what it actually does except the shutterspeed seem to move back. for instance if I put it as 1/125 when I press the green button it goes to 1.5". I am using a lens which is fixed to 5.6 as the aperture is broken, it is a 200ft zoom, that what it got on the zoom anyway.Its also got a switch which says A or M and also got a adapter to x2 this zoom.
regards susan

When you fit a pentax (genuine) adapter to k20d, do you need to alter anything in the menu, or can you just put it on with the lens and away you go?
Thanks for taking the time to answer this for me.
susan

I shot in RAW then into tiff and jpeg.And yes it looked like this at 100% on photo.The above was jpg
susan

I used ISO 100 for my photo that is on the gallery, which is where this sky came from. Not quite sure though why it says when I click exif, it says 'ISO Speed Rating:Array'.
Thanks
susan

The K20D have the ability to take multiple shot with inteval shooting and you can merge them into one photo using CEMENT (Computer Enhanced Multiple Exposure Numerical Technique) at home. Since you don't have such long exposures your noise will be less plus you combine multiple photos so noise in just one photo would be far less visible.

Pentax also use very little noise reduction so that all the detials are preserved, so comparing to other camera's it would look a bit more noisy sometimes but with the right software you can remove the noise better then any camera so in a sense it's better.[/quote]Thanks everyone, thats a relieve, glad the camera is ok.Could you explain the CEMENT a bit more please stefan. Thanks