I'm no amateur, I'm a Gentleman Player!

I guess you have to buy the mag for the full review.

I haven't seen any evidence of the magenta casts they mention in any of the K10D sample pictures I've seen so far.

Aw I'm itching to get hold of one soo baad! No news from Chris at SRS so far this week.

As I think I said in another thread, neither I nor many amateurs need to produce prints larger than A3 and for that even a 6 MP APS-C sensor is easily sufficient. The size/weight thing also becomes important these days. If you want to attract new people into SLR photography, you have to remember that they are probably currently using compact cameras that you can lose down the back of the sofa!

In the interview with the pentax engineer he makes the point that the shake reduction had to be beefed up for the 10 MP sensor - if they did a full frame sensor they would have to make it even more robust (and power hungry), because Pentax put the SR in the body to support all their legacy lenses.

FF is a dinosaur, the deccan traps are erupting, and it's just waiting for a meteor impact to finish it off!

I have an "Atlantic 325" from Jessops. I don't know how it differs from the TP327. It was probably a similar price when I bought mine some years ago. It is not too heavy - but then again a heavy tripod is more stable in windy conditions. The pan/tilt head can be difficult to move accurately, but that's what you get in this price range. With the central column cranked up it is convenient to a six foot bloke like me, but you don't get the facility of removing the column to get very close to the ground. I find it easy to unlock the legs to extend or close it up.

Any tripod is better than no tripod, just don't expect to get the Bugatti Veyron of tripods at that price!

It is known for being slow. It is based on Silkypix, you might be better off going for the full version. It's OK, on my Pentium 4 2 ghz, 1 gig Ram PC, not superfast, but bearable. I batch process and go off for a cuppa tea.

I wonder if Pentax have been playing a "long game" here. By choosing not to produce a flagship camera with first or second generation hardware they are gaining a lot of experience and feedback that can be rolled into the K1D if and when it arrives - which may also depend upon Pentax making some serious money on the K10/100/110D range to fund it. They will therefore have avoided a lot of the mistakes that other manufacturers have made in a stampede to market. OK it is a risky strategy if one of the other makers came out with a gobsmaking killer camera, but a hang back and shake out the bugs in the lower end of the market place approach may turn out to have been the correct one all along.

Thus ends my application for a job in marketing at Pentax!

I can't ever recall a situation where I thought "I need a shutter speed faster than 1/4000!" and doubt that I'll ever need it. 2-3K would take me and the K10D on a nice holiday where I could get some exotic pictures.

There is a translation of an interview with pentax chief engineer Hisashi Tatamiya by Ken Takeshita here:- href="http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/TatamiyaInterview.html" rel="nofollow" class="outlink" http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]">target="blank">http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/TatamiyaInterview.html

It's a bit mangled, but gives some interesting insights into their development process for the K10D.

Joshua,

The PEF's are apparently now compressed PEF files, which should account for the file sizes.

I'm really jealous, and hope that Chris of SRS does get his delivery tomorrow! I think my trousers are about to burst with anticipation (or something!)


B.T.W Like your B&W gallery

David,

There was a free PDF creator I found about 2 years ago. However it added a footer to every page "this document was created in XXXXXX". Trouble is I can't recall what it was called and google doesn't seem to find it!. I'll keep looking.