I thought the contacts inside the lens mount would power both SDM and the Power Zoom on the old FA lenses?

EDIT, according to Dimitrov's Pentax website the K200 DOES support power zoom

Perhaps he's looking for a missing lens, cant trust these Pentaxians where limiteds are concerned

I think Dan is keeping everyone is suspense

Actually Peter isn't 100% right the reciprical values your asking about are there as a rough guide to handholding a lens steady enough to avoid a blurred image, regardless of whether the subject is moving or stationary.

It is only a guide as some people will be able to handhold a lens a lot steadier than others, and yes even though it still a 300mm lens you have to take into account the crop facto and multuply it by 1.5

EDIT!!!! just forget this post as Peter has just edited his

How strange, I would have thought RAW converters would be basically the same as regards importing images, Is Pentax PhotoLab unique in this respect?

Thats not quite 100% true Stefan

At least on the K10D, any adjustment to saturation for instance WILL be applied to the RAW file, or at least the file remembers the setting and displays the RAW file with the oversaturation applied

Trust me, I know from experience what a bummer it is having to reduce the saturation slider on a couple of hundred images because I overcooked the setting

I think the results of this poll so far answer your question John

I we thought we didn't kneed knowledge we'd all be replacing our K10/20 with K100/200 or even a compact.
My MZ7 Has all the "modes" and they never get (got:cry used, the camera was permanantly set on Av unless someone else was using it then it simply got switched to Auto.

I think a more interesting poll would be "How many newbies to photography now use the selective modes on their entry level cameras now they know how to use them in Av, Tv & manual:

Superb capture David, did you lose much

That WAS a pet rabbit, soon it'll be a bird of preys dinner Unless Shim see's it again and takes it home

Nice shots Shim, but in the last one the Rabbit is showing you just what he thinks of photographers

Thanks for the link Yves, I dont understand french but it was worth it just to look at the presenter