Rees,
seems like you haven't grasped Mike and Terry's fantastic sense of humour , you should see what they sometimes are up to when they want to wind someone up . Got to give it to them, makes the forum much more lively.
Its all good fun and a for a good laugh

• SAFOX VIII+ Autofocus System
Nine cross-type sensors, 2 wide angle sensors, and a dedicated AF assist lamp combine for fast one-shot autofocus, as well as AF tracking. From close-ups of flowers to a fast play on the court, you can rest assured that your images will be tight, sharp, and always in focus.

Does this mean that its faster locking for focus and on AF.C compared to K20D? If there is something I could really enjoy better would be having this improved compared to the K20D. I can see that it has more FPS which is fantastic, but the focusing for me personally would be top

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I have got a friend who does, catching her online is the question, but will still try, fingers crossed

Craig, must be due to light changes, doesn't seem to have been affected by the SR.
I just did a simple test by flipping the SR switch on and off while taking the shots handheld and no changes there.

Definitely seems that when you moved from the tripod to handheld there must have been light changes, or any other changes that must have affected your SS

They did when you went to visit Tyrese Darnell .

My thoughts precisely. I have often used P Mode to fire quite a few shots successively within seconds of each other and noticed that there are changes in the EXIF in the shots

What program mode were you shooting at Craig? That is quite interesting, never noticed it, but again I never looked for that.

Mike, that would be really excellent . If you could try it when you can and let us know some results it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Mike

PS any more prison trips scheduled for this month to visit your famous friend? . Dont forget your camera so we can see some more great shots of inside the prison life

I was wondering if it is possible to get a close up filter to attach to my Pentax 100mm macro lens to get shots where usually a 50mm Macro would be most suitable. And also if this would be something worthwhile considering or its just a waste of time and quality wouldn't be good.

Do such things exist that would be suitable for 100mm macro lens? And what are they like?

I found this thread from Mattmatic where there was a brief discussion about it, but as it was from 2003 I was wondering if things have progressed further, besides Matthew asks here for a close up filter for a non macro lens to achieve what a 100mm macro does.

Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Just wanted to have a feel about it.

Thank you

Amin