That's the monkier for the whole organisation, I doubt they'd change the Pentax brand, and Hoya have no mean optical reuptation themselves. This kind of tie-up is going on all the time in business, and might even provide Pentax with the money to produce the K1D!

I mean we in the UK aren't worried that a spanish company is going to buy up all our airports, are we?

dammit! Change happens too rapidly for an old fossil like me https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3496

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When I was collecting my K10D from Chris the Nikon rep happened to be there, and he kept referring to Pentax as "Samsung"! It could be part of a long-term strategy to build up the samsung brand and associate the qualities of Pentax cameras with Samsung cameras with (possibly) a view to splitting the market so that Pentax gets used for Serious and pro-level cameras (645D and the mythical K1D) and Samsung gets it's badge on the pro-sumer and lower cameras. I'd guess this would be 5 years or so down the road though.

The Ammonyte runs away and hides under a rock and waits for the explosion!

"A hot pixel is created by an element with a higher rate of charge leakage than its neighbors which, on a long exposure, may cross the threshold of an exposed value. Many digicams don't permit exposures longer than a quarter second, which effectively eliminates the chance that any element with a dark current, so to speak, will consistently report an exposure value."

according to http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/HOT/HOT.HTM which explaines it far better than I can!

I had a similar problem with my DS just after I bought it 2 years ago. It worked in all situations but when trying to take a shot with the pop-up flash it wouldn't trigger. It would work with an external flash unit. Do you have a flas unit you can mount on the hot-shoe? I took it back to Pentax who fixed it. Just before Christmas is a bummer of a time to get a problem like this.

10 pints spread over almost 12 hours. I even took some photographs of Southwold that day. Must dig them out and see how many horizons were out of kilter and how much shake crept in during the day!

There are 10 pubs in Southwold. It makes for an interesting, but attainable pub-crawl (Adnams of course). A friend of mine recently emigrated to the USA; he had been brought up in Southwold, so he, his best man and I just had to see him off in the appropriate fashion!

The ACR page http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html makes the point that the K10D can shoot DNG and that DNG is supported in ACR2.4 onwards. No mention of when ACR will support the compressed PEF format.

I'm thinking this camera is the dogs dangly bits just wish the sun would come out I've taken all the foggy/frosty pictures I can handle for the moment!

Been out and about today in the fog


The autofocus is much quicker and more certain than my DS. Just love the Hyper modes, I can see why the D guys were raving

Silkypix303 is noticeably slower with the compressed PEF files, but "you don't get 'owt for nowt"

I happen to like the new slightly more dicreet shutter sound, Matt

I have long fingers and if I had been designing the location of the front e-wheel I'd have moved it across the battery compartment closer to the lens. That's the only nit I can pick. Oh and the crappy neck strap!

Must go and play some more!