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Hi. I've got a Sigma 10-20 f4 currently on a K3 but have been less than universally impressed with the image quality especially at the 10 mm end. I wondered whether anyone has had a chance to use the Samyang 10mm and what the image quality is from it? Has anyone got any opinions on the Sigma 8-16mm as well?

Hi John. I worry that Ricoh haven't grasped the problem with having a brand with limited third party support. Canon and Nikon have lots of manufacturers and software suppliers falling over themselves to supply equipment and supporting software and Pentax don't. They all require help with software protocols to develop supporting software/firmware and if Ricoh can't be bothered then they will eventually kill pentax. Look at Microsoft and Windows 8 phones. They knew they needed the apps to get people to buy them and so not only wrote their own but gave lots of info and incentives to get other companies to write them as well.

Since Lightroom doesn't support tethering for the K3, and PK_Tether doesn't seem to either, does anyone else know of other ways to tether their camera to a laptop. I have an eye-fi card which does download photos to my android tablet but its very slow and more than a little bit flakey ie sometimes the tablet can't find the eye fi wifi hotspot at all. I don't really see why Ricoh can't supply software to read the jpegs and store them locally so that lightroom can automatically pick them up.

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