Well on the article in the link it says same spec as original k-5 except for firmware so something must different

Surprised no one has mentioned the different firmware on the new silver version...

Would this be to work with the new lens or some other unrelated technical reason????

it was difficult, means having t ospend more time in post.

Difficult decision next week, Florence & The Machine at Nottingham Arena or Laura Marlin at leeds O2 Academy, both on the same night???

Another visit to Sheffield only tonight in the rather small room of the O2 Academy. Since I have last photographed at the O2 there appears to have been a rather nasty photography unfriendly strip of LED lights above the photo pit, this makes concert photography rather difficult with a smurf like appearance.

Samsung GX20 with the wonderfully contrasty DA 35mm 2.4
Pentax k-5 with the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8

Really really narrow pit for this one and a tiny stage so no super wide shots..













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Not aware of any college course, adobe do online courses and plenty of tutorials on youtube. photoshop is definitely a package where effort to learn results in great techniques...

I think its a shame people are put of buying these fine lenses for fear of failure.

I have owned a 50-135mm for nearly four years now & its my favourite lens. It has yet to fail me apart from it snapping which is another story. If SDM does fail out of warranty then a repair cost around £100 will sort it, I hear with a new upgraded motor??

I think a lot of these surveys are so poorly monitored you are more likely to hear about the failure rate as people who lenses fail look for a solution on google then find the forums & then post and add to the polls skewing the figures even more...

Remember the number of Pentax users far far far outnumber the number of Pentax forum members...

Another talent show finalist, covering myself here due to lack of my talent show knowledge... I am sure someone will know when & where she finsihed..

A quick look around the stage revealed the dreaded LED lighting in the roof of the stage but didn't have to much of an impact I am pleased to say.

First shoot after finally getting my DA* 50-135mm back from repair, wow have I missed that lens.

DA*50-135mm on the GX20
Tamron 17-50mm on the K-5




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