Picking up Mannesty's question, which deserves a thread of its own, I am also surprised that Pentax didn't keep the D going for longer.

For me, there is really only one drawback to the D, and that is the slow write speed/small buffer issue.

It would have cost little or nothing to remove the padding from the RAW files, and thus reduce file sizes and write times by a third. And it should have been possible, one imagines, to increase the size of the buffer so that, taken together, one could fire a lot more pictures consecutively.

Just doing this could have justified calling the thing a D2, and then Pentax would have had a range of cameras to offer.

Strange.

G

I have thousands of slides, so in my case a very good scanner would be cheaper. But, then there's the time to consider. Scanning is slow work.

So it's the DSLR/macro route for me.

G

If the 50-200 is almost as good as the 70-210, then it's a very fine lens.

G

I was amused to note, following earlier discussion of protective filters, that Jacobs suggest you spend another £29 on a "lens protector". That's 60% of the cost of the lens!

No doubt somebody will buy one.

G

The F 70-210 is a great lens. Had you considered trying to get it fixed?

G

Much better. Still just a fraction light on my monitor.

G

I've looked at it, too. It's pretty good for a free program (when shipped with the K100D), and streets ahead of Pentax Photo Lab. I think it's quite new, too, so it will no doubt get better.

Good move, Pentax.

G

I didn't know that, but it makes sense, and shows Pentax have never lost the capacity to think "out of the box".

G

If you like small, old, classic designs, the SuperA/Super Program gives you every exposure mode a serious photographer needs, including TTL metering off the film.

It can be used fully manual, fully auto, and everything in between. If it had AF and digital, it would be my perfect camera.

I will always keep a Spotmatic and a Super A.

George

Very evocative and beautifully done.

I should ring round the calendar companies if I were you.

G