Those look stunning, the black and white mountain has a real 3D effect and the exposure looks very good... simply splendid

Wow those are amazing Matt!
There is only one thing with the lens, the bokeh isn't always so nice.

Bob here you can see some photos. link
It became a bit too much for just a comment.

if you want to have fullsize or the RAW file please let me know I can send it to you.

Bob wanted some flower photos taken with the DA*50-135 so here are two the rest are all very close focus also so included them too.
C&C is of course very welcome, but I only PP the first one and the rest is straight out of lightroom. Non of them are cropped.


K10D + DA*50-135

#1
Closest focus, 135mm, f/2.8, 1/125th, iso200
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1414n.jpg[/IMG]

#2
Closest focus, 135mm, f/7.1, 1/200th, iso100
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1850.jpg[/IMG]

#3
Closest focus, 135mm, f/4.0, 1/400th, iso100
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1824.jpg[/IMG]

#4
close focus but not closest I believe... 135mm, f/5.6, 1/160th, iso200
These things are fast btw, i used autofocus with these and the lens was able to focus as you can see.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1409.jpg[/IMG]

#5
Closest focus, 135mm, f/2.8, 1/1600th, iso100
Yeah don't ask me why I didn't use f/8, since I don't know the answer.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1381.jpg[/IMG]

I didn't knew that, maybe the 6 colour would be cyan, that makes most sence.
Lets see what the future will bring, my CRT is still running fine ^^

Welcome Vicki, we expect some photos of those animals now

OT
the DA 18-55 is also able to focus very closely at 55mm it's surely good enough for flowers.

Bob I've used the DA*50-135 a lot on holiday, I've shot bees, ladybugs, butterflies and a hoverfly with it.
It isn't the perfect lens for it since it doesn't focus so close... i will look for some flower photos for you if I've one

Remco, it's indeed a shame. For the price level they deliver the best colour. I've looked into a TFT but only found a Philips i believe and a HP which is up to what I want. I have a blu-ray burner in the PC so want to be able to show Full HD and 1650x1050 isn't good enough for that.

I think I wait till the leds, laser, fed or sed screens come to the market for the right price. I think I will skip compeletly TFT.

ps I just read that the FED research is completely stopped
Laser tv is still alive though you can buy one if you want, the Mitsubishi LaserVue TV $6,999.
Laser tv can produce 90% of the colors visible to the human eye, sounds good enough to me.

Is this forum now also going to support videos now sionce pentax users will be able to shoot videos?

Gwyn I didn't knew you could save files in gif with the K20D, i thought you needed to put the photos behind each other and used the correct frame rate. Gif is better.

Matt that looks very cool, pretty insane though to draw with light like that.

A bit off topic but have you ever seen videos made by the K20D btw?
Look at these, they are very impressive. link