yes i think so.

although to be honest, i mean the 55mm DA* compared with any available 50mm autofocus lense, at whatever price each is currently selling for.

what i'm trying to ask is - what advice can anyone offer me for bang for my buck on a fast 50mm autofocus lense? anything under f2 will do me at this point.

manually focusing with my current 50mm A lense means i am missing shots so it's time to upgrade...

does anyone have experience using both of these lenses?

i'm sure both are very sharp - is there much of a difference in how quickly they auto focus?

if you didn't purchase i will be selling one in the next week or so

i have a pentax af360 which is in mint condition, only used a handful of times. i really want to replace it as i want one that swivels. pm me if interested and i'll think about price.

would you believe i was stung for £300 for it new at spectrum photography on tottenham court road in london. i was in a hurry to get the flash for a particular job and just trusted them not to be too overpriced... i had to bargain them down from £350!! and this was november last year, when i believe other shops were doing it for aroun £200. suffice to say they aren't getting any repeat business from me.

perfect, thanks richard

what a relief!

wish i could go back and fix all settings i forget to change...

i recently purchased an ADATA 16GB SDHC class 6 card. On its first day of use it said "card error" after 12gb of shooting.

Thankfully the card was fine once in the computer, but it wasn't fun seeing card error near the end of an important day of shooting.

So I'm not recommending ADATA as a brand.

hi all, i hope this isn't viewed as off topic...

i have a load of PEF files that i want to edit in photoshop CS4 (i forgot to change it back to DNG after i reset my K7).

any way of changing the PEF file type??

quick question about PEF files

i reset my camera settings and and forgot to set the RAWs to record as DNGs, so now I have a load of PEFs, which photoshop won't open

can I change them to DNGs at all? I've just installed silkypix but photoshop won't open the PEFs still...

any way I can get at them in photoshop??

thanks david that's extremely helpful. believe it or not this is my first ever camera with a lithium battery like this (only used AAs before).

roughly how long does a full charge take?

thanks nathan.

am i not risking reducing the capacity of the battery by charging before it's empty?

or can i effectively 'reset' the capacity by draining the battery fully next time?