As per my post on another question, has anyone tried this after upgrading to firmware 1.11?

Erm, How about using Manual mode and a seperate light meter?


(Runs away and hides under a rock)

I've spent my money on the K10D and I'm really very happy with it.



I'm not bothered about what reviewers and pixel-peepers think, and I don't worry that anyone seeing me with the K10D around my neck may have read a poor review and may think that i made a poor choice.

My choicce, my money, my camera. Me happy!

The Pentax batteries have gold-coloured contacts, all the third party batteries I have seen have had silver ones, this being the only visible difference (other than the labels). So there might be some slight difference....unless someone else knows better!

I would have said "buy a generic battery" so I did. I bough two 1750 mAh batteries, one of which wouldn't charge at all, the other only seems to last for half as long as the original Pentax. I then bough another two batteries, 1800 mAh from inov8, again one battery failed to charge at all, and the other only lasts half as long as the Pentax branded battery. I thought that the Pentax charger might not be up to charging the higher-rated batteries, so I bought a charger from inov8 as well. But the dead batteries still don't charge and the others only last half as long as the 'tax battery. So I bought another 'tax.

In the end I spent as much on 3rd party batteries and chargers as one new 'tax battery cost.

I'll stick to 'tax branded batteries in future.

The system 67 lenses are for medium format cameras.

The higher-end of the Sigma range give good results (they have a 10-20mm Zoom), but the Pentax 10-17 is a fisheye lens, so have a look at the 12-24mm DA.

Pete,

Nice. I think I would have cropped out the foreground and had the swans at the bottom.

My K10D got very wet today in the snow and it was perfectly happy!

I bet we'll all be buying K1D's before the pad needs replacing!

I'd have cropped it more tightly to lose the foreground grass and the notice board above the waterfall.