It still depends on the light you have and the subject you try to focus on, if it has a lot of contrast it will focus easier but still suspect it will hunt alot.
Maybe you can focus first at the widest range and then zoom in, sometimes it helps if the focus is already very close. In bad light I mostly help the lens to bring the focus very close and let the AF do the fime adjustimg, it works better sometimes.

Yes out of focus was the word, it was on the tip of my tongue

Bokeh is the part of the photo that is unsharp so to speak, "blurry".
A good bokeh is smooth and not distracting.

Sorry about that Rees but it's quite a new word and used frequently now a days.
Maybe it might be a good idea to put all the terminology together in a list so that you can look it up.

The Kenko 1.5x or Tamron 1.4x would be my choice besides the Pentax 1.7 since they work with SDM. Here in the Netherlands only the Kenko is avaible the Tamrons are hard to come by but they are same in design and quality by the looks of it.

Edit: yes which lens is also smart to ask

Yep what else do we.ve to target practice on
Looks like a good lens, hopefully you can get the 50mm sorted out.
How is the weight of the thing, usable to take on a hike?

My trip don't go on today.. I'm now waiting till it rains to take some shots, they also predicted hail so wish me luck

Oh yes it's a sound advice but some options in the K20D are only software based, if we could find those we could intregrate them into all the other pentaxs cameras too so there is something to gain here.
Better encourage the boys who wants to try it so that I don't brick my K10D

Edit: and if they can do that whats stopping them to putt a Off option in the k20D frimware for the darkframe with long exposures.

Vee, welcome to the forum.

Okay thank you Terry, same thing here with the K10D. I was already wondering how to put it in auto

Wonderfull shot and a steady hand indeed
The redering is also very nice and you got lucky with the lighting.

Thank you Mike for the info, I only tested if the macro can do 2:1 with the TC and it does so will use it for that for now on.

Amin, thank you for your comment.
I've still have lots to upload but doesn't seem to have the time to do it.

Most here find silkypix better, I've tried it but couldn't get my head around it since I'm used to adobe. The combination Lightroom photoshop is excellent and has a good workflow for me, in my case I needed to double amount of clicks needed so I ended up not using it.
Maybe we should do some serious tests now which program is better since adobe 5.3 does seem to do his job and the new silkypix is on the way.