C'mon John you have to admit that liveview will have its uses occasionally despite the superbness of the Pentax viewfinder, and liveview may have even more uses if it was more accessible. I use my DOF preview button an awful lot and I think the current arrangement of having to disable it to access liveview is a bit naff....are you listening Pentax, thats Naff with a captial N apart from that the K20D is a very nice bit of electronic wizardry

Coriander makes a very valid statement though, if we go on adding bells and whistles to cameras the fun of taking pictures will dissapear.

Oops quick edit....I didn't realise there was a second page of replys, Hefty raised the point about lack of fun too Sorry Hefty

It certainly is, we've had so many new members recently I'm running out of funny greetings

Welcome to the forum Nicolas

I'll second one of Wombles comments, Pentax would do better to make the Liveview feature much more accessible than having to trawl through the menu to set it up.

Face recognition gets a thumbs down from me, but I dont do a lot of people stuff anyway

And I thought thats what digital photography was all about

Welcome to the forum Bob

Rob,

I had the same concerns as yourself, but I realised I could dither forever so I took the plunge and ordered one (plus a few other bits and pieces:wink just go for it

Could be very tricky, I would suggest trying to leave any hot spots from the forge out of the frame, avoid flash and try with the lamps first, shoot RAW so you can play with the white balance later.

When you feel more adventurous try including the forge, but be warned this will tend to either upset your cameras meter and underexpose everyting else or the shot will be OK but the hot spots fron the forge will be totally burned out.

Looks like you better cancel the 16-45 and spend a little extra on the 16-50, your going to need the weather sealing

Welcome to the forum John.


PS; regarding the damp and condensation, we had a similar problem but cured it with some anti-condensation paint from B&Q, its too cold to rush out to the garage for a look now but I'll let you have the name of the stuff later, it was expensive (for a can of paint) but it did what it said on the tin

And saying hello is'nt usefull:

Welcome to the forum

Republic of Ireland has some of the most restricting licensing laws in Europe, a bit like the UK several years ago.

The shots are nothing special, just snaps really, but I wanted to show some samples of my first outing with the 16-50 and K20D, I didnt want to rush the processing and bugger up some of the better stuff

Nice one, I think its lacking a man and his dog, or cant we see them for the fog?