Hello Steve, welcome to the forum

Wooden bike on a wooden table with a wooden bowl backdrop, taken handheld in natural window light.

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2 December 2008
K10D / FA77 / f1.8 / 1-20sec / ISO400

I've noticed that Pentax (as a brand) seems to appeal more to photographers than gear-heads.

As we can't spend all day bragging about having the fastest AF, the most FPS, the highest ISO or the biggest sensor we tend to fall back on that old quaint hobby of taking pictures instead.

Then we like to seek out like-minded picture takers and share our experiences so that we all get more enjoyment from our hobby. I think some (not all) forums forget that it's supposed to be about having fun and instead treat photography like some kind of competitive sport where winning is everything and those with the most (and latest) gizmos must be venerated.

Even if the Internet didn't exist I'd still use Pentax because of the wonderful quality / value ratio and the awesome ergonomics, however, the fact that Pentax users seem among the nicest people on the web is a nice added bonus.

Don't worry - I have something in mind but I need a little daylight to shoot it in.

Actually, having seen the weather forecast...

Perhaps they only have enough production capacity for two camera lines? The K200D almost certainly took quite a few sales away from the K20D and it's continued existence makes the K-m look expensive - shame though!

Hi Pete, welcome to the forum

It's a special digital film that comes in a roll and has to be exposed to mysterious chemicals before you can play with the image in Photoshop. No preview on the back of the camera either I'm afraid...

I'm gutted for you Lilly, I know you were really looking forward to the trip.

It's difficult to know what to do in a situation like this; on the one hand nobody but a fool would fly into an area knowing there was a very real threat to life and limb, however, atrocities like this are designed to put people off travelling to a country so there's something to be said for continuing as normal and not letting them have their "victory".

I'm quite bloody-minded so I would probably go anyway if it were me, but I can fully sympathise with others who would take the "better-safe-than-sorry" course of action. I'm grateful it's not a choice I've had to make personally...

That's one of those times when you want to slip an MX into your bag - fully mechanical cameras should be able to keep snapping whatever the temperature (that's one of my justifications anyway )

I've often thought I'd like a Leica M8 or a Hasselblad H3 but as for DSLR's I can say with all honesty, "Never". If I could go back I'd still choose Pentax every time (although I'd probably chop and change some of the lenses I bought and their ordering - hindsight's a wonderful thing ).