Most of your zooms are probably sharper than any normal Pentax 200mm
unless you can stretch to a DA*200mm which is supposed to
be excellent.

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This is a 200% blowup K-30 on top K-5IIS below...




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Your all as blind as bats!

I said earlier what the problem was It's almost
impossible to focus twice on the same spot. The K-5IIS
K52ShSLI00100NRAD.JPG shot is out of focus in most of
the frame so the K30 actually looks better

If you look at the white cloth under the black mug
and the plant inside the Pepper Oil bottle or some
of the swatch of cloths the K-5IIS is better than the K-30

These are all shot at f/8 as well to give a bigger DOF
I have always found f/5.6 to be sharper with most lenses,
although this is probably a Sigma 70mm macro which
should still be good at f/8. It's probably close to
the limit for the sensor as well.

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Simon.. How quicks the AF on that

Start a Petition for Pentax to make one

I'd buy it if they did

Great shots Simon. I actually like the focus on the
rider on the first shot rather than on the bike

All these 100% pixel peep tests are just nonsense,
you can get bigger differences from consecutive frames
off the same camera

Also it's impossible to focus on the same spot twice
without focus bracketing.

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Pentax Optical Viewfinder O-VF1 for Pentax Q : NEW : £85 inc. UK RMSD postage.

Brand new in box. Only opened for inspection.
Excellent viewfinder for the standard lens angle of view (49.5°) compatible
with the 8.5mm (similar to 47mm in the 35mm format).

Very clear bright-line finder with parallax marks, one of the best I've ever seen.

Spec_Here_B&H

Very good quality, could probably be used with any 35mm camera and 50mm lens.

Note: No dioptric adjustment but it should work OK for anyone wearing glasses,
they would need to be tight up to the eyepiece which is recessed.

Payment by Paypal with buyer paying any fees.
Bank Transfer or pay cash into any Barclays Branch.
Cheque (wait for clearance).

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If you want the Worst of All Worlds!
Dual Boot VISTA and Millennium on the same machine!

If that's not sick enough also have a Boot Option
for DOS 6.0 but don't expect it to be there for very
long.... it self destructs...


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I did say UPDATED version I can't think why you
need an overbloated NT based system designed for running
large networks using massive swapfiles and memory just to
run Lightroom.

There's hardly anything running on this XP Pro box at present
and it's got 2.5GB of swapfiles

If I fire up Notepad to write about 2K of text it
will take ages before all the swapfile activity
stops

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