We've had many "new" Pentaxians on these boards before who've complained about the SR not being effective (not just the K7 but earlier models too) and in virtually every case it's been because they've pressed the shutter button before waiting for the SR to activate. Remember folks, if the green hand in the viewfinder isn't lit up then you don't have SR - regardless of where the switch is set to!

Glad to hear the replacement's working well

I've been tempted to trade my GR-D in for a GX200 on a couple of occasions (for the extra lens range flexibility) but then I look at the pictures the GR-D takes and its lovely svelte lines and I really don't want to part with it.

If it stayed at that price I'd say that was an excellent bargain, however, with a day-and-a-half to go I'd expect that auction to be finishing somewhere in the region of £500-600. I've been waiting for these cameras to drop in price for a couple of years now and it just isn't happening - if anything they've been rising in the last 6 months or so.

Do it - great lenses! Don't pay eBay prices though, car boot sale season will be back soon and you should be able to get them for well under a fiver.

I think the moral of the story is that *whatever* camera you choose there's always a possibility of it being faulty right out of the box. Hence if you get a chance to test it in the shop do so, if not (and it's not always possible especially if buying over the 'net) then give it a good workout when you receive it and return it asap if it's not right.

Paper Stairs

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Couldn't get out to take a photo of the stairs I wanted, so I made some pop-up ones instead.

K10D | DA35 | f/6.7 | 1/180sec | ISO100 | Flash

Assembled and photographed today, 17 January 2010

In which case it looks to me like it has a front/back focussing issue; nothing you can do about that other than get it swapped for a good copy. At least you noticed before any return period was up!

I can't see any crop that would really make the second one work for me - sorry Aiki, it's certainly pretty (those colours again!) but it doesn't tell a story like the first one does.

Actually, the lowest ISO setting will generally provide the best image quality.

The trade off is that the lower the ISO the longer the exposure you need to make in order to get your shot - if the light is anything other than bright (think sunny summer days bright) then using the lowest ISO setting will no doubt lead to exposures that are long enough to induce camera shake. Hence to get a better image you need to move to a higher ISO setting.

So the "optimal" ISO setting is the lowest you can get away with without shake ruining your photo. Depending on the prevailing light that could be anywhere on the scale.

Your GX10 will provide perfectly acceptable images up to ISO400 (where I tend to be for brightly lit indoor scenes), reasonable images at ISO800 (dimly lit interiors) but quite noisy images at ISO1600 (which I try and avoid if possible).

Photography is all about trade-offs and a noisy but sharp picture is generally preferred to a clean but blurry one. Experiment a bit and you'll find for yourself what works based on what you find acceptable.

Hope that helps!

When I open the two images above in PhotoME it shows the P70 to have used the central focus point but the CX1 is crossed through implying focus wasn't achieved.