If the kind person who gave you the camera had looked at Pixmania's site, they might have seen that Pixmania supplies European spec goods, not UK, and warns that manuals may not be in English.

Since Pentax UK supplies English manuals with everything they sell, there isn't much call for them to stock extra ones. They therefore have to order them specially, which costs time.

G

If you want people to read your messages, try using paragraphs. Why? Because when people are confronted by a dense mass of text, they just skim, and may miss what the writer thinks are important points.

There IS a benefit in taking the trouble to write properly. You should try it some time.

G

Just go the website and download one.

G

The AF500FTZ does not offer High Speed sync.

Nor does it offer P-TTL, so I doubt if you can get both it and the 360 to work successfully together with the K10D. However, I may be wrong.

To connect them up you will need 5P cables and adaptors.



G

Indeed, I have a Sigma lens which works fine on a Z1-P, but doesn't work at all on an SF-X. There is no consistency. What works on one camera doesn't necessarily work on another.

G

From the PDML:

> Finally got My K10D today YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> but my Sigma 24-70 zoom won't work with it. Won't auto focus, won't auto
> anything,
> Yet same lens works perfictaly on my MZ7.

G

So much for Wikipedia.

Everybody of a certain age knows that ISO was originally ASA (American Standards Association). As the International Standards Organisation spread its wings it adopted ASA into its own ISO standard, and when it did, ASA and the alternative sensitivity measurement, DIN, were dropped. DIN of course stands for Deutsches Institut für Normung, or German Standards Institute.

Isos, indeed! Snort.

G

My approach is to use RAW wherever possible, but when it's not practicable (like travelling without a laptop) I revert to JPEG.

Silkypix is so good at tweaking RAW pictures to get the best out of them that I find it is faster to edit RAW pictures than JPEGs, and the quality difference is palpable.

2GB cards store over 100 RAW files, so it's not a major limitation if you are just out for the day.

G

I think you would get appreciably better results shooting RAW and developing in Silkypix.

I find that I have no need for image editting programs after using Silkypix, but then I am a believer in photography rather than image manipulation.

G

Graham,

You think £599 is a bit steep? On the contrary, it's a steal.

Many of us here on this message board have been using Pentaxes for decades, and in recent years have been using Pentax DSLRs.

In my view (and I don't think I am alone), the K10D is far and away the best Pentax camera of all time, given the price.

Although the LX may have been the best SLR of all in its day, bar none, it cost a lot of money. By contrast, the K10D is extraordinarily cheap, but still has excellent build quality, an incomparable feature set, great picture quality and superlative ergonomics.

Some samples appear to suffer from banding in the blue channel at very slow shutter speeds at 1600 ISO. I have not been able to reproduce this myself. That apart, the K10D is pretty much impossible to criticise.

Just buy one.

G