Ammonyte

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Silkypix 3.0.3 is finished and ready for download from their site. This is the version that supports the K10D https://www.isl.co.jp/SILKYPIX/english/download/

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Silkypix 3.0.3 at 15/12/2006 - 19:36

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IU'd just like to emphasise, for the copyright lawyers benefit, that it was my idea, and all royalty cheques should be made out to me!

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Lens range expanding?? at 14/12/2006 - 20:23

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Why doesn't someone make an adapter with an aperture ring? Or am I being stupid?

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Lens range expanding?? at 14/12/2006 - 16:50

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There is a lens roadmap in PDF format on their main website. http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/en/lens/roadmap.pdf

Current lenses listed here http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/en/lens/

Of course you can use all their existing lenses back to and including M42, and the Samsung lenses should work. However there is plenty of coice in the Pentax line alone, thought Sigma and others do make some good lenses too.

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Lens range expanding?? at 14/12/2006 - 10:38

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I'm assuming magazines associated with photography? Um, does Playboy count?

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Your Favourite Magazine at 13/12/2006 - 21:19

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I have to plead guilty to sum spulling mishtakes, my only defence is that computer spell checkers have made me lazy!

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Atricious spulling mistokes! ! ! at 13/12/2006 - 11:05

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As an accessory, get a cable release for whatever camera you go for - makes work on a tripod easier and steadier!

As this is your first SLR you are not restricted by having legacy lenses, but should you decide to go with pentax you will find that you can use all their older lenses (with some restrictions) which often come up on that well known auction site.

Another reason for going with the K10D: infra-red. It seems that it is still quite amenable to IR photography - so add a hoya R72 filter and you get a whole new avenue to explore. I'm not sure the other makes are as sensitive in the near-IR wavelengths.

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Nikon D80 VS Canon Xti VS SOny A100 VS Pentax K10D at 12/12/2006 - 19:48

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There is a Sigma 10-20mm rectilinear zoom also which might be worth considering, and seems to have had favorable reviews. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05120601sigma_10-20mm.asp

Comment by Ammonyte posted on Pentax 10-17mm lense at 13/12/2006 - 11:02

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Mr Reichmann calls us "sophisticated users" !

Comment by Ammonyte posted on k10 review at 14/12/2006 - 10:31

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[quote="Pwynnej"]
Quote:
I'll just put on my cravate, cardigan and slippers, listen to an old vinyl record playing on the gramophone while I sit back in my whicker chair smoking a pipe
I hope you wear string-back driving gloves too!

Comment by Ammonyte posted on k10 review at 13/12/2006 - 17:17

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