With the emphasis on was

But do you really use the sunny 16 settings, they sound quite strange to me although ISO 400 is a good range for the K-X but most current lenses are the sharpest at f/5.6 to f/8.

You think Pentax will take you serious? If so ask for a leafshutter!!!!

Somehow I don't believe you Mowog...
Sunny 16 rule???? I would claim it all to be experience to be honest because when is it even sunny in Britain to begin with?

I use now manual mode a lot because that way you can batch process your photos cutting the processing time to 1/5th compared to without it.
And it's indeed very satisfying to go and judge the exposure with your eye and just nail it with the first shot, it only happened to my once so far.

Doesn't it depends on how close your framing is which focal length would be the best?

Like many already have said in other discussion about this and you also says, there seems to be a distance that's comfortable to work in.
Not too far from the model or else it feels so distance and not too close because it would be too much in your face, I mean with those both the photos and for the models feeling.
The focal lengths you state I feel are just about right for most subjects but for "full body" you could imagine to go even wider like you say 30mm but for a closer head shoulders I would be more tempted to use something over 70mm to not get too close to the model.
That's just me thought and I don't have a lot off experience with portrait photography so would be interesting what your answer would be, I'm sure I can learn from it .

FF has always been a buzz, there hasn't gone a year by without a rumour about it
I truly believe that Pentax is too late to jump ship now to 135 format because they have brought out a full DA range for APS-C only, only a very few lenses are also officially for the 135 format.
Now we also have these speculation about EVIL camera.
If all these rumours would be true, Pentax will be supporting 4 different exchangeable lens formats next year, do you believe that yourself?

If i need to guess what Format would be it, 135 or EVIL I think it would be the EVIL pentax might bring out.
The reason for that is that they need to develop new wide angle lenses for the 645D and pretty fast to make the camera more attractive so that basically means that for the upcoming year lens development on the APS-C format will be most likely low. Because I don't believe Pentax have the resources to expand the development line.
Also because off that I don't see Pentax creating a new 135 format line either in the upcoming years even.
EVIL camera has the advantage that it can use the DA lens range with an adapter so the pressure to create a full extended lens range is far less, also for the people such camera are interested for too.
If they can redesign the DA18-50 DA17-70, DA50-200 and DA55-300 I believe it would be enough for such cameras for now.
Or they might even play it so that they design a entirely new mount for the APS-C DSLR instead to make their current camera with mirror smaller too. Low budget will be EVIL cameras and the higher range would be DSLR maybe, because electronic gets cheaper and mechanical gets more expensive relative speaking?

Just my view on the whole though.

This even worse then spam... it's boxxy link

Maybe Nikon is going to buy Pentax?

Don't want to make a new thread just for this but do you think these are HDR or not?
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What do you think about the first and last one of these? link

Sorry made a mistake

K7 July 2009
K-X October 2009

But the K7 is older, would be strange if they would already replace the K-X before the K7.

Solved Jack