Is the £300 with or with out the extra £100 trade in.
Getting "ITCHY" fingers,must resist, must resist muuuuust reeeesist
Goig for a ly dune.
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Dave

Take a look at the PHOTOZONE test of the DA*200.
http://www.photozone.de/pentax/370-pentax-smc-da-200mm-f28-ed-if-sdm?start=1
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Dave

Well the do gooders think its better to get CANCER from BENZENE than loose a few little grey cells to LEAD.
Great bike by the way.
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Dave

Second that.
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Dave

The software and hardware used by the K-30 is newer than that used in the K-5, and Pentax have seen fit to use the older K-5 hardware and software in the K-5II/IIs, with slight tweeks to the software.
This might be due to the shape of the camera chassis, and did not wont to alter it just for an upgrade.
I am sure they will use the latest hardware/software they can in the K-5`s replacement, which hopefully will please the "AF SPEED" freeks.
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Dave

It could turn out to be all irrelevent and useless, if you want a cheap K-5 buy now as the next generation of cameras will have filterless sensors.
Sensor technology is advancing at such a rate, along with the hardware and firmware they wont need filters.
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Dave

IMHO there is a lot of rubish being spoken on the subject of the KIIs, if the images are better than the standard camera.
If you have not used the KIIs you can not say if it is better or worse, and bad mouthing people who have used the KIIs and state that it is better is not clever.
It might be better to waite till John Riley tests the KIIs, as i think most people on the forum trust him to test it with out rose tint specs
There are a lot of people out here who think the pictures they take with there phone are just as good as we take with are cameras, if you can not tell the difference between a £500 camera and a £5000 you buy the cheaper one, unless you have more money tha sense.
Just a thought.:::
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Dave

I have been using elements 11 free trial for a couple of days, and it has a mode called photomerge exsposure.
Where it wil; merge up to 10 shots to get a correctly exsposed shot, works quite well if you blow the sky out.
I dont noramaly clone anything, but to be honest i dont know how to do it.
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Dave

Update
Camera raw in elements has BASIC/DETAIL and CAMERA CALIBRATION.
If you look at the picture on page 4 they have another 7.
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Dave

No, elements is a pared down version of photoshop,
Photoshop and lightroom use the same ACR.
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Dave