Interesting photo, I would have exposed it differently like most here but that's why it's interesting.

I wanted to suggest that you should remove some dots but it's my fathers screen hat's so dirty

Sandy the Wacom Bamboo are fine tablets to begin with and cost 1/10th of what a 60-250 cost so money can't be the reason

If you use a brush a lot in PP, like for example the burn tool in photoshop or a crop tool then a tablet would improve your work and get you to a finished photo faster. If you do everything in silkypix and the likes, sliding bars and such then you would not gain anything from a tablet, maybe it will prevent you a mouse arm though.


A question.
Intuos 4, does any one got experience with them. My tablet is pretty wearing down and want to replace it with the intuos 4 if it's worth the money or else I would get a bamboo.

Ken, pressing on the arrow below photo 16 would help.

Great portfolio, although the simpleviewer is a bit standard but really working well. maybe you can play with the codes a bit?

Mr. Tokina is not allowed to produce a K-mount lens, so you will need to address Mr. Hoya since they own Pentax and supply glass to Tokina.
If Hoya would buy the lens formula of Tokina lenses (11-16 would be great) they would be allowed to produce a Pentax version and since they make the glass it wouldn't be much of a challenge.

I washed the camera under the tap once to wash some mud of the camera, that was a year ago and I still have the same camera.
For me it's waterproof enough.

How weatherproof are the DA* lenses, somehow I ain't so confident about them.

Already busy with #1200?

Sorry Chris read it a bit differently.
You can also put one more in it and go for a RAID 3, 4 or 5 option.
So you put 3 drives in but only lose a total of 1 drive, leaving you with 2TB but also the protection of one drive failure.

Why not put a set in raid?

I don't see the point in this, you will get a number but nothing more since it is not a percentage so it won't tell you which lens has the most SDM problems.

BTW what's the point in this anyway?

Those are simply numbers, probable only Pentax know how many faulty came back for repairs. Although a number of 15% is very high though, when reading the topic most owners with a broken SDM have 2 or more lenses and others commenting even have 4 or 5 so the number will probable be around the 5% though of the lenses.

As for the speed, I don't know if the AF system is used differently, if so then that might be the problem.
The way SDM AF system works is.
- AF meters and give a signal to move the focus, it says so many turns at that speed. they could optimize this but Pentax keeps that low to insure accuracy and to get a better one hit lock.
- It can also be the problem that the PZ contacts can not carry enough power so the motor works sluggish. There are some comments that SDM works faster with Full batteries.
- KAF2 system is faulty. the system is designed to work on SDM and screwdrive so the focusing mechanism in the lens is quite complex for that reason. Maybe KAF3 (SDM only) lenses like the DA*55 and DA17-70 work better. I don't have those lenses so don't know for sure.
The DA*55 seems to be only a tiny bit slower then the FA50 lens as for the DA17-70?

ps. pure speculation this, no facts!