hows that work with video?

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Aperture can process the dng's right now and will probably add support for the k5 pef files by the end of this month...whenever the next software update gets released.... (usually see support for new cameras every three months hence the guess that it is due this month).

so if Kodak goes bust, completely, what happens to the 645d?
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that is a kodak sensor is it not?

I proudly await the news that My thread set the world record for being the most often deleted, most heavily censored thread in PU history, if not the history of the inernetz!
It just seems destined to go there!

I'm sure if they wait until after Christmas to review the k-5, they can stack it up against Canon and Nikon's 2012 models and not Pi$$ off thier main advertizers while still giving the Pentax a "Fair" review......

I think the kit lens qualifies as the best walkabout lens. To go out and buy something else is an additional expense that has to be justified by spelling out a specific purpose or need.

you have to weigh cost in the event of theft or damage into the equation if you're just walking about taking snaps.

my basic 18-55 and old 28-200 would see very little action in the studio or on a regular assignment, and as such are more expendable if lost/stolen/damaged while on vacation...

on the other hand... if the purpose of the vacation is to acquire stock photography with the intent to sell, then it is a business trip and the need to produce top quality photos necessitates bringing along certain more expensive lenses...

very rare is the situation where you cannot get a decent photo with basic gear....
nike's and patience cost less than super zooms and super tele's...

stiching panaramics costs less than ultrawides...

Dof and a little cropping can do a decent macro lens impersonation...

if you're just walking about why spend/carry more than you'd be prepared to lose?

John, How does the mirror slap/shutter noise between the k10 and kr sound?
One thing I've always been bothered by with the k10 is the noise is distracting at some events.

I'm very interested in hearing more...

have you double checked the basics? Diopter adjustmen, sr settings etc?
I had a comercial soot looking all wrong then realized When teaching Gerri some of the new features in Aperture 3 I had somehow accidentally set aperture to treat j-pegs as masters instead of raw.... changed that setting back, re-processed my RAW images and they were fine!