For many folks, WR lenses are only a theoretical advantage as they don't shoot out in the rain anyway. Personally, I would always use a rain cover irrespective of whether the lens/camera were WR

Andrew

You could buy the K30 + 18-55mm + 55-300mm from a number of places for under £600, which I think trumps both of your suggestions.

See: Amazon for example

Stats? Not really worth paying for, though

Andrew

There are some 'A' lenses that were specifically designed to mount on both the Pentax and Ricoh mounts - such as the Sigma 24mm f/2.8 Superwide II. They do have the "Ricoh" pin but are usually (always?) OK.

Andrew

No, mine has been fine.

Andrew

I use the same (calibrated) Dell monitor as John - and I can faintly see some horizontal bands in the darker,upper part of the sky. They become a little more obvious if you copy the image and zoom in to about 300% and/or increase saturation.




Having said that, I love the photo and don't think I'd have noticed the banding had Nigel not mentioned it.

Andrew

Yes, me too - until I discovered that even when the burn is verified, it's a toss up whether the DVD will be readable a few years down the line.

I now use an external USB drive but must buy another soon and also start to backup (presumably full-size JPEGs) to Flickr.

Andrew

I am beginning to wonder whether sea changes from the K-5 (or K-30) are available anywhere now or ever will be. The term "diminishing returns" springs to mind.

Andrew

There is one obvious situation where doing it yourself will almost certainly produce better results - or at least, be closer to the result you intend. Many/most print sizes offered by commercial printers are not the same aspect ratio as the sensor in your camera, so images will need resizing and/or cropping to fit the print size.

Wouldn't you rather decide which bits of your image are cropped off? You might prefer to keep the top half of Auntie Flo's head on the print.

Andrew

You could always use IrfanView instead as a viewer. It displays preview images from all of the DNGs I've used without adding stripes on the sides (K200D and K30).

Andrew