I don't know, but it just arrived in the US this past week. I ordered one and should have it by next Tuesday.

Thank you very much. I will try to work out learning the istD and where my problems are coming from first!

I have pretty much ignored the RAW setting on my IstD. I have heard others say that they will not shoot any other way now. I have also heard that a RAW image takes up lots of space and you cannot get many images on a 513 card.

I loaded a raw plug-in from adobe some time ago, and do not know how this works.

Can someone explain what needs to be done when shooting in this setting?

What size card do you need to use to hold a good number of images?

What would you need to do in using a special program or plug in once you download the images into the computer?

Thank you for your help. I will read that part of the manual and try to work through the settings!

I have found all the settings that were mentioned on the camera and menu. There is one thing that I do not understand.


For my uses I have used all three of the custom settings - I use setting 1 for general photog with sensitivity correction, setting 2 for manual lenses, and setting 3 for macro and landscape work.

Which 3 settings are you speaking of? Can you save certain settings in the P mode as one, two, or three?

Which settings do you use for macro?

Thank you for the advice. I will try to figure out all the settings in the menu that you discribed and if I am having problems to figure it out I will let you know.

One question I have right now is about the ISO. I have it set to always stay at 200 because my results did not look good (noise) when the camera kicked the ISO up in poor lighting. Do you find that to be the case, or is there some way to correct for this?

I have an istD and a pentax automatic lens. I tried to take some pictures of horses during a training session. I first tried to set to manual and get a fast shutter speed with an ISO of 200. It was shady and for proper exposure I could not get as high a shutter as I wished.

I had the camera set so the shutter could keep being release to take multiple pictures one after the other. I found that the auto focus lens was not always focusing properly by doing it in this way.

I then tried the camera on the P settling and found my exposure to be better, but still there was the problem with the focus and not having the shutter high enough.

I would like to try this again, but it would be nice to have some ideas on the best settings to use with the camera/lens in order to do this.

How can I be most successful at this?

I am wondering if there is a problem with my autofocus lens as well- as some of the pictures where there were no movement are not in the focus I would like to see. Perhaps I need to change the settings for the area in which the lens is focusing. The problem is that things are happening quickly and so it is difficult to keep changing settings without missing something.

I dropped my ist*D and lens while on vacation and there was damage to both. I sent the camera to Pentax for repair, but my close-up lens is close to 25 yrs old and they can't repair it. They do not make this lens anymore. It is a Vivitar series 1, 52-105 macro telephoto F2.5 lens. It was a wonderful lens for close up work.

I am looking for a similar replacement for when I get my camera back. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I like my Epson 1270. They have newer models out now and don't know how good those are.

I bought this autofocus lens a couple months ago, but have not used it very much. I just brought it with me on a trip and had the worst time with it. It seemed to have a very difficult time focusing and even if it looked focused I could not press the shutter (so I assume it did not think it was focused). This happened quite often and it was very frustrating. If I switched to continuous focus the shutter would go off, but often times the objects were out of focus. I was taking scenery photos at first. Nothing that should have caused that much difficulty. I then tried indoor flash, with some people pictures and it was even worse than when outside. Is something wrong with this lens, or am I missing a camera setting????? The pictures I did get of the scenery (inbetween the problems) came out very well, but hardly any of the people did indoors. It seems it should not be so difficult. Any suggestions????

Oh- I did let all the camera gear go through x-ray at the airport, but this should not bother a digital camera should it? I thought the only problem with xray was film.