Nice ones Barrie. I hop you enjoyed your weekend in the Borders.

David

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That looks good to me and you did well to get a good graphic composition in a fast moving action shot. I find the K30 gives very good clean images just like the K5.
David

Street photography at the Edinburgh Fringe on Saturday August 11 2012. K30+DA*50-135mm lens.

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David
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My K30 is now just over two weeks old and is approaching 1,000 clicks.
It has been out several times working alongside my K5, one with a wide angle, the other with the DA*50-135mm lens.
Its been to London for modern architecture and street photography. The K30 used the DA* 16-50mm and Sigma 10-20mm lenses. The K5 the DA*50-135mm.
Yesterday was a hard day at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where the K5 and K30 switched roles with the K30 taking over the longer lens.
There have also been trips to Gloucester and Lichfield Cathedrals, Newcastle and the Severn Valley and Great Central Railways.
My non-expert non technical verdict? I can't distinguish any difference in image quality between the K5 and K30. I could not make that claim previously when I worked the K5 alongside my K10.
Do I miss the top LCD display? No.
I worry slightly that the battery has a more limited lifespan between charges than the K5 so I'll probably buy a back up.
The blue colour got some admiring glances at Edinburgh, not least from my Durham Photographic Society Nikon and Canon colleagues.
Barrie Forbes, he of this parish, thought it looked a little gaudy though.
Anyway can't stay here chatting, I've got a backlog of hundreds of images to process and Irene says the airing cupboared has to be painted out.
David

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The third one for me Alan because it includes the Millennium Bridge and its wonderful reflection in the Tyne. Oh and also The Sage.

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I'm impressed.
David

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Thanks for that Steven.
David

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Hillarious, and superbly photographed. Have you tried this with chicken curry Smeggy?
David

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Thanks for the comments folk. I'm loving the K30. There are quite a few differences between it and the K5 but I soon got the feel of it. Like all Pentax cameras I've ever used its ergonomically superb. I thought I would miss the top plate information panel but I can work happily without it. All the info I need comes up on the back screen or in the viewfinder.
The images I got from it today were as good as I get from the K5 and both these cameras are a lot lighter than the K10 so its less weight to carry around on a long day's shoot.
Off to london on Saturday to do some street photography and modern architecture images (Shard, Gherkin etc). Would love to see the finish of the Olympic cycle road race on The Mall also but I think that area will be too hectic.
David

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Took my new K30 out to Newcastle and Gateshead on a test drive today.
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All taken on the K30 (blue) with DA*50-135mm zoom. Inside Newcastle Cathedral the ISO was 800.
The graffiti is at the Sage, Gateshead where a youth art and music project has the use of a huge brick wall for paintwork.
They were at 400ISO. The light on Tyneside today was very poor, heavily overcast, hence the high ISO.
I like the feel of the K30 which replaces my much used K10 as a second body to my K5.
David

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