Just wanted to say that

He will look more into it to see if he could copy features over from the K20D to the K10D firmware so we will wait and see what happend.
If you look into the K10D firmware you also see options for iso50 and iso3200 maybe some whizkid here can figure out if the code is usefull and could be activated.

Too bad to hear that Gwyn, maybe you can try it again later.
Aslong as it is better then the K20D I'm happy
But I'm missing the mode controll wheel on the left side and if it's on the rightside that would most likly mean no top LCD-screen

@golfdiesel
Well it is an solid object and if lights need to travel less through it will be lighter, atleast I think it would be in par with a pentaprism since the workings are the same.
Even if it doesn't make a difference it might be a good thing to use it just to set themself apart from the rest.

No we're photographers don't get us confused with those geeks
so it's Post Processing Competetition, atleast I believe it is...

I've the lens and it surely is a beauty
The SDM is very silent indeed and certain when locking, very pleased with that. It isn't that fastest AF of what I've but surely fast enough.
The IQ looks to be very good and the bokeh is lovely aswell... I cant really say something bad about it at the moment. The weight of the lens isn't as bad as I thought it would be, it quite nicely balanced in fact so no comment on that.

Now I need to try it out more seriously, this weekend I need to do some portraits so the lens will come in handy and on tuesday there are some belly dancers on the menu.

To go back to the Pentaprism, they have make a new patent in March 2008 for a new desgin. The Patent


As you can see the design is much flatter and I was hoping they would use it in the 645D since that would make quite a difference but the design of the 645D still looks the same as it always did
Maybe we will see it in the K30D, I'm quite curious if it will work or not and if they can make the camera smaller without loosing quality. The Pentaprism is already almost 60years old and they would have some mud to throw at the other brands then.

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The Hybrid comes from Samsung since it use a normall APS-C sensor and use an EVF. The currently only EVIl camera system is the Micro 3/4th and the Hybrid would be the second one, although the name Hybrid sounds right though

Interesting photos, certainly the patterns you can see in them.

If someone talks about EVIL camera's I'm sure that 9 out of the 10 doesn't know what it is. So is it beter to be terminology correct or that you are understandable?
I do agree however that they need to get used to EVIL instead of saying SLR with a EVF but since it's all so new just have them let the time to train the sheeps.

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Yes spot meting is a good one and if you want to use an auto mode... P mode with the flash on trailing curtain might work since the camera keep on metering normally then when the flash is on trailing mode.

When you delete an image you don't delete it but give the sectors free to be rewriten, atleast that my understanding about it.