First question is WHY were you dissapointed with the 70-300? was it just the focal length or a combination of that and the maximum aperture or even the quality of the lens?

If it was just the focal length what do you intend to use the lens for and are you sure that going up to 400mm will then be long enough? I just bought the Sigma 50-500 for shooting birds because I thought my Pentax 80-320 wasn't long enough, but I am already considering a converter as a future purchase for the Sigma.

This wont help you much Brian but may be of use to someone round my way.

I get my board from Sydney Beaumonts in Leeds, theyre a wholesale business but will sell to the public, you have to buy in full size sheets (A0?) but they will cut it at no extra cost, I get mine cut into four 20x16 and they work out around 85p each. they have a huge selection of colours.

If anyone nearer to Leeds is interested PM me for the directions and contact number.

Here it is, I spent £3.70 to bring you this report!

four stars out of five for each; handling, performance, image quality and value for money, and five stars for features.
The only real gripe was the battery grip;

"the vertical grip is too narrow, putting too much pressure on the fingertips"


particular referance was made to the SV and TAv modes, plus the Hyper Program, also the fact that bracketing can be applied to white balance. they also mentioned the price of the K10D put it between the Canon 400D and the Nikon D80 but its specs would put it alongside the Canon30D and Nikon D200

Just read on another forum that PP have rated the K10D as the best Pentax yet, of course WE allready knew that.

Will have to scour the newsagents for a copy tomorrow and read the "real" report for myself.

Hi Dave

OOOER! I just bought the Sigma 50-500 for that very purpose, I've had two or three visits to a local RSPB reserve and to be quite honest have found an equal number of "photographers" with long lenses and "Birders" with spotting scopes, I have not yet had the opportunity to have any lengthy conversations with either but cant see any reason why the photographers would be seen as elitists, in fact many Birders use compacts and bridge cameras attached to their scopes.
I also participate on this forum; http://www.birdforum.net/index.php? and there doesn't seem to be any annimosity amongst members there. Nice forum by the way....I get to use my Avatar (cant have it on this forum )

[/quote]They are unsociable, and elitist

maybe theyre Canon users

Whoops!

Sorry, got my wires crossed with another thread, I thought we were talking about a K10D.
The inclusion of the adaptor must have thrown me.

So was the charger fitted with a UK three pin plug, or have you just chopped off the continental one and fitted your own?

It does sound a bit OTT, then sods law dictates that you pay your £20 and wait a week for it to arrive, only to find the £20 is to cover the cost of a Pentax employee printing it off from PDF and stapling it together!

C'est La Vie

Try selling the French manual on ebay to offset the cost. Oh and welcome to the forum.

DANG! I hate it when the links dont work.....

try again,https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2720


if that didnt work you can cut and paste.

Could this be a similar problem to the one I had with my extension tubes?

see thread https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2720

Read Peters solution (third post from bottom)