Some photos with the DFA100WR link

I can still not say if the bokeh is better or not, what do you think?

Has anyone handled the lens, the build quality of the DFA100 isn't super you see so some feedback on that would be great.

lets hope it's something goos, it's great to see Pentax leaving us guessing what kind of lens it is.

I'm watching the Chinese forum at the moment some are quite professional so they might buy one.
That's where the lens came from btw.

No Tim I haven't but when I use Opera and then IE I certainly feel a difference, I'm quite sure you would feel it as well with a clean FF install or not?

That you slow down FF with all kind of plugins

That might Explain the Front sign Hefty but not the dials right?

Btw the hood is also very strange see how long it is and how short the "petals" are?
It looks like a wide angle lens hood but with a long shaft
A very strange lens this one...

Thank you John, lets hope so

It seems btw that Pentax is using a new viewfinder or not?

Here is a pantent at least link


Does look the same right?

The speculation go from some kind of shift/tilt lens to a filter insert

Like Andrew said you would also lose the top LCD as well.

For the ISO performance they are on par at ISO400 and above that the K-X will be better.
The K200D is better at low ISO because of the sensor, it's an CCD like Andrew said and the K-X is a CMOS.

CCD are simply better then CMOS at low ISO it's only with long exposures and high ISO where the CMOS is better.

CCD are more uniform, have less system noise and an higher dynamic range.
CMOS has the advantage that its a passive system, so it only creates heats when a pixel is working now CCD are active and there runs a current through them all the time when when you press the shutter, so if the pixel is capturing a dark shadow it will get just as hot as one capturing the sun, that's not the case with CMOS.
So with long night exposures you have less noise introduced by heat.

And CMOS is more effective with high ISO because the signal gets amplified at the pixel and converted to bits, with CCD it gets read as an analogue signal and then gets amplified and converted. During that period noise is introduced.

I'm not 100% sure I got everything right but this the basics that I understand them.


ps. Andrew, I did make a lot of mistakes with the previous comment

No thanks Whelmed.
A flash introduce a new dimension into photography, what I said just now is just the basics, you also have various forms of light modifiers.

Flashes are a lot of fun but it's a lot of work and trying out.

Here is a list of trigger voltage of a lot of older lenses. link
The Metz 45 Cl1 is 7.6V so that's safe to use.
Pentax is a bit unclear how high voltage the camera can takes but like said 24Volt is the standard and so far as I know Pentax has that standard, some say it can even take flashes up to 200 volt but that's at your own risk.

The Metz 45 is a hammer head (that's how they are called right?)
If you want to be creative then look for some normal flashguns.
However it seems like a powerful flash though.

For new flashes the Metz 48 seems to offer the most bang for the bucks, you can do all the tricks with it except the auto mode and it can't be use as master/controller in wireless mode but it can be used as slave and that's the mode that matters.
Here is a good guide for the P-TTL flashes link
This might also be interesting link

If you're willing to learn however and you've control over your camera then A manual flash is all that you need, you can get flashes made for Canon and Nikon as then, those flashes will work in Manual mode (also Auto I think) on your Pentax and with any wireless device option.

If you want a new Manual flash then this might be interesting link

Just something obvious strikes me, it doesn't have SR.
Do you think that's a big disadvantage?

Its not unwise but it's a different camera the K-X than a K200D.

The K-X has better High ISO performance but with the low ISO the K200D is most probably better.
Don't take this that the K-X does not take good shots at low ISO, just that the K200D is slightly better most probably.

With the switch you loose.
AF indication in the viewfinder
Weather sealing
Battery grip
Money

Gain.
Lighter weight
High ISO performance
Video
Live view

All in all if you don't use high ISO often, video or live view you won't gain a thing.
I don't know how if you've some good lenses already but that are most of the time a better investment.
But that's something for you to decide, the K-X is certainly a good camera but so is the K200D.

For the shutter actions, use www.photome.de when you open a RAW file with it, it shows the number of shutter actions somewhere.