kne I should have got up early this morning

I am going to stick my neck out & think Pentax will price this lens at £2499 & release September.

A rebate of £250 by december and then a price drop in february to £1999 where it will most likely stay.

It is an important release, it will bring some credibility back to the brand. If they make their stockist stock a copy with the price tag attached it will make the brand taken seriously by Joe Bloggs.

Exactly even in daylight my gx20 couldnt focus on an artist jumping!!

Yes the k-5 just allows you to do the job, without becoming a hindrance. When using the GX20 the af took that long to focus that by the time the shutter finally clicked the artist had already landed on the ground. Yes I agree photographers in the 70s where making great jump shots with mf however this is the 21st century and the tools are now available to do this a lot easier

I still like using the GX20, particularly with long lenses, the weight and size balance better I think.

All the Pentax digital cameras are good, just variations of speed of use as technology progresses, I certainly agree with others who say ultimately it is the photographer, however modern equipment does help enormously...

In 4 years of gig photography with the k100d, GX20 & the k-x I managed just one jump shot, in my first day shooting with the k-5 I nailed 3, thats the difference for me.

This with the k-x




The shots below with k-5 and the so called slow focussing DA* 50-135mm. Notice sharpness & lack of blur, I think you would have to be really really really lucky to get shots like these with the k20d or GX20..

The jump between the k20d and the K-5 is huge, The k-5 is just so responsive, faster to work with and final image quality are vastly better than the k20d. I still have a gx20 as backup and I can only equate it to cars a 1980s porsche to a 2011 porsche..

the 35mm f/2.4 is very contrasty so not very flattering for female portraits, but I do like the portraits from it. The FA50mm is very good, but with the new 50mm 1.7 being launched this year I would wait and get that & the 35mm f/2.4.

Link below to my 35mm portraits..

Portraits on 35mm

Excellent

I think dslrs will get smaller with faster processors. Ff and high pixel sensors will be confined to high end. Look at the new d800 as an obvious example of this...

Cheers Bob, I never watch any of those shows so i couldnt tell you what show it was lol...

Algi this show had the dreaded LED lighting which is why his suit changed colour.

3 is a little soft, but its such a good pose

I like number 1 just because for once the stage had a really long walkway into the crowd which we could stand at the end of and get a really good wide shot.

Far to many wedding photographers are primadonas, do any of them actually listen to their client???