Prices of all marques are heading upwards. When I do the "value for money" research for the lens reviews on EPZ, it becomes obvious that Pentax lenses are as well priced as anything else, sometimes better, sometimes worse, but certainly nothing to make the grass seem greener elsewhere.

In any event, a price premium for the product we want as opposed to the one we don't really want but will make do with makes it tolerable to me, given the many years service our kit will give?

Cameras work in different ways, so it might be possible that different techniques are necessary.

For example, the Pentaxes have no difficulty focusing on say a single large grass against a background of water, whereas another marque body steadfastedly refused to do so. Therefore for the other camera a different technique was needed in those circumstances.

With the K-1 I would tend to use central focus only, taking advantage of QuickShift to manually tweak where needed. Or even manual focus if on a tripod in the studio.

Just thoughts, hope they are helpful.

We'll be there, sometime, somewhere, but exactly when isn't decided yet. For some reason every time the NEC comes along lots of other things do as well. This year we actually booked a week out and then it had to be postponed....

It may be that the way the lenses work means any firmware updates are done in the camera. Having said that, there have been updates for some of the Q series lenses, but that mount is new and totally electronic.

Firmware updates do happen, but eventually the models move on.

I tend to think of the JPEG processing in the camera as an equivalent to choosing the film and then the developer to get the sort of negatives we want.

It depends what we mean by post processing. When printing black and white images in the darkroom we were post processing, finalising the crop, determining the required contrast, selectively dodging and burning.....and that's more or less what I do in Photoshop for most images. Doing more than that, making montages, HDR and all the other available techniques could be done with film, but the techniques were very slow, exacting and sometimes expensive.

If you want images really SOOC, then shoot JPEG and adjust the JPEG output to give you the end result you want. An example of doing that:


Even so, the image has been resized and given final sharpening in Photoshop, but nothing else.

When it comes to using SR, don't forget that the camera might be still but SR does nothing to stop subject movement. So to still flapping wings and the like, we still need high shutter speeds.

The internet can be full of annoying glitches, but PU hasn't been a problem from here for a long time. Some pages can time out, but usually when looking at some other part of the site and then using the back button. To be honest, I tend to just click on the Pentax User Forum tab rather than using the back button, so perhaps that's why it's been trouble free.

Is it a new problem? If so, it might be a tempoary local one, but if it stays a problem then put in a report and IT will look into it for you. If you do put in a report, please be very specific about what the issue is as that will help them to follow it up quickly.

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We don't usually clamp down on a bit of deviation, but please keep it reasonable lest it should get out of hand.