Nice serrie Bob!
I like how you always focus on there heads

Well they don't have a lot like I said but the service is just good and they will always help you as much as they can. There knowledge about Pentax isn't that great though but they do stock the K20D with the basic lenses 18-55, 16-45. the other basic lenses are with the suplier so they have it in 2 days in the shop for you to test it out.

Btw the Dom is in Utrecht, we have the Grote Kerk
The harbour is certainly also nice and a hike through the Biesbosch will complete the trip.
If you ever find the excuse to come give me a note and I'll give you a tour if you want, I'm a real sheephead afterall

Is this the shop in Den Haag? link it used to be called Combi Focus but they recently changed their name.
Looks very good and I like the print service, might give them a try sometime.

Gwyn, I sometimes go hiking near your place with another Pentaxian. She's also quite a veteran and she wouldn't mind if you join us that way you can field test some of my lenses. I know I don't have much yet but still just give me a PM if you wanna test some or simply want to get out the door

Hi Amin!

The pentax F remote is a very small thing witch you can hide in your hand easely if you want to make a group shot with you included. The rest would be also very small though, maybe. I don't know to be honest

Will test the standby thing for you
nope doesn't wake up, you can change the standby function though and it will wake up with cabled remote.

Don't know if zoom would be handy since there are only some lenses with motored zoom. You can set you're camera that it would autofocus and then take the shot if it is in focus so that problem is solved.

Isn't a cabled remote maybe better for you, maybe something like this link :

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ps. going to use your topic if you don't mind Amin
Does any one has experience with the aputure remote, I'm planning to buy one so I would like some comment please

Just wanted to say that since she used an exposure of 30 seconds.

The K20D have the ability to take multiple shot with inteval shooting and you can merge them into one photo using CEMENT (Computer Enhanced Multiple Exposure Numerical Technique) at home. Since you don't have such long exposures your noise will be less plus you combine multiple photos so noise in just one photo would be far less visible.

Pentax also use very little noise reduction so that all the detials are preserved, so comparing to other camera's it would look a bit more noisy sometimes but with the right software you can remove the noise better then any camera so in a sense it's better.

Reversing the 50mm would give you the best result, if you use with extension tubes the sharpeness and the light drops a bit off so you would need a longer exposur time. The problem with reversing is that you expose the rear element of the lens to the world and it wasn't design for that so be carefully not to scratch it!

With some long lenses you might be able to come already close to the subject, not so as with macro lens but still maybe close enough.

This done with the DA* 300mm, beautiful lens I must say! link
These are with the DA 55-300mm link link
As you can see you might be able to come close enough for what you want to do. The DA 55-300 is highly regarded here so take a look at that and it comes at a soft price. If you want some more quality the Tamron 70-200 or the DA* 50-135 might be something.

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For the case you didn't know this site www.photozone.de

no indeed not... metz also makes them for other brands but would work similar as the version for Pentax but it doesn't have P-TTL but you might be able to hold and play with it a bit on a Nikon or something, just to try it out.

If you like the handeling just order that one since it can do all the things the Pentax AF540 can, so you won't miss anything.

No such luck for macro lenses I'm afraid they are specially designed lenses and not just your ordinairy prime lens. The field of focus is very flat and even for example. You won't find them cheap used

You have a 50mm prime so just use that with extension tubes or reverse it on your camera to do macro.

Just out of curiosity, if you have a DA 16-45 why do you want a DA 17-70 why didn't you bought that immediately with your camera? You might better look for a lens to go besides your DA 16-45 imho

I shop local and luckely they are cheap (getting some extra discount) and have a good service. They don't stock a lot of Pentax but when you want to try out some lenses they just order them for you and they have it 2 days later for you to play with them so I'm quite happy
Just have bought a Cokin Z-pro set with 3 GND filters for €60,- at them who can compete against that

edit: Just readed Gwyn's comment and it looks like I'm lucky, is there really nothing in Amersfoort?

What kind of camera does he have, a Canon maybe?

I don't believe these things are repaired in the shop but are sent off to Pentax, don't know if that's true but I believe they do so.

You can take it to the shop and see which is the faulty one, the camera or the lens.