Other half took last Friday off, so we headed off early doors to Keswick, and took a walk in from Lodore ferry stage, up above the falls to Watendlath Beck and on to the Bowder Stone then back across the top of Lake Derwentwater via Falcon and Walla Crags and back into Keswick, 'twas a beautiful day...

Hopefully a better picture this time, don't think my phone focuses that close!

Actually I'd like to hear about the K30/50 image quality, I am seriously considering putting together an even lighter kit in a shoulder bag to have sat in the hall to go with me everywhere, in an attempt to get into B+W and street stuff etc, Now the K5 series are 14bit but the double digit k30/50 only 12 bit, I've never realy been that convinced of the difference, is there any?
If it's really not that big a deal I may just get a K50 intead of one of the 5's or a limited edition K3...

Nope, you send me the Lenses Mike!

This guy used to post a bit about Pentax and he's back, probably not to Smeggys taste but anyway he lieks em and uses em, he's just binned his 5DMKIII for a K3...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLpVqb2vrA

Ok I wasn't going to come back to this thread but I feel the need.
Firsty, I wanted to cry Troll the first time the guy responded to me but felt that this forum was not the place where that sort of thing would happen, strong debate yes but not trolling, so I let it ride. The abuse I was then given for responding with facts was met with more abuse and still more abuse in the form of personal mails, one of which I posted to try to make the guy see what he was doing but it still persisted. I'm not going to post up the rest here as I then may need to go and dig out my birth certificate to prove a few things, enough on that point I think.
Secondly at one point I also got a little strong but it was more to do with the personal Mails I was getting in between his abusive posts but I fed the Troll and broke one of hte cardinal rules of the internet and for that I am truly sorry!
Thirdly I'd like to thank the members who sent supportive personal messages to me during this, I actually thought I was losing my mind (Again) at one point and went back to check that all my facts were right twice as I thought that may have been the cause.
Fourthly, It's hard to be judgemental as I have no idea what was going on with him yesterday, could have been anything and I've been there in my recent past, it's sometimes really hard to keep a perspective on things and then a fly crawls up the wall at the wrong angle and BOOM!
I saw a lot of signs yesterday, not good...
And fifth, I 'd again like to thank this forum, well for being this forum, two years ago when I had my do, call it a proper midlife if you will but it's actually something I will have to battle for the rest of my life. I left pentax User to take time out to get myself better, I could feel myself getting angry at people, who really had not done much at all to irritate me and it was time to take a break, since my return I have grown within myself, if what happened yesterday had happened a year ago I would of simply left again never to come back. I would have not had the personal strength to withstand such a public/private onsluaght and partly my new found inner strength is in no small amount down to all of you.
And last but not least I'd like to thank Gartmore and John Riley, the Moderators here, until yesterday I had no idea Gartmore was a moderator but I'm very glad he is.
And to John You can't be here 24/7, you must feel like the teacher leaving the classroom for five minutes, coming back and the classroom is in tatters! My Mums 92 and never stops amazing me, survived a doodlebug on Woolworths in London during World War II, yes some tihngs are more important than even photography...

AF seemed to do ok here but then I have no idea how many hundreds of shots he had to take to get these!

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52601915

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52599519
This thread is interesting on DP Review, might it account for some of the differences in the scores regarding the DXO Review of the K3 against rhe competition, or indeed not, I must admit I get a bit lost in this deeper stuff and had to start a diffraction thread earlier in the week to make sure my understanding was correct! Just interested in why the D7100 and Pentax K3 seem to see the same thing slightly differently and why...

I think given the current situation it's pretty fair, we don't know what conditions it was tested under though I suppose but you would expect them to try to have a look at the low light performance at least I guess.
Regards the rest of the Pentax AF conudrum, what I'll say is, we are not going to be able to quantify it against another marqus performance until both are tested with the same lens IE a third party one, (Not so easy either given the lack of support in the third party world at the moment!) so that the focus throw and speed of the motor are the same or Ricoh/Pentax decide to be benevolent enough to let us have lenses that can face the opposition head on (erm sort of pun sort of intended). If ricoh gave AP the K3 to try and let it out with a "kit" Lens, then as Mike P alluded in another thread, they deserve all they get and it should be teamed with the 18-135. Although that does not escape criticism either, see the Photography Blog review below.
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/pentax_k3_review/

I know that AP did a first look peice on one of the pre production samples but I do not know if AP were on the recievers list for the production products. If not they may well of waited until it was out and went and bought one to test themselves, in which case were looking at a kit lens, a DA40 and seven out of ten..

In pretty much as new condition, no box as it came fitted to my new tripod but I already have all the tripod heads I need, in fact more than enough really, hence this ones up for sale.
£30+Del UK only...

http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-velbon-qhd-53d-ball-head/p1526336
•One-touch locking lever controls both the panning and ball movement at the same time.
•Features bubble levels for more precise leveling in Portrait and Landscape mode
•Strong and lightweight Aluminium construction

I disagree it tops the D7100 in all the areas I mentioned and more that I frankly could not be bothered to think about!
When introduced the price of the D7100 was very close to that of the K3 that's just market forces on a year old camera, the same will happen to the K3.
You tempted me out with a list of upgrades over the D7100 and having used both I prefer the Finder in the K3, on paper it's .01 better in mag, a win is a win, tell that to the new Zealand rugby team and they'll back me up on that one, not Ireland I'll warrant though?
Actually I remember saying in another thread on here that I thought the Canon 5DMKIII was the best out there (Money no object)not the K3 but hey ho, I have nothing to justify save for my next purchase which will likely be another K3 as it works for me.
A nice yummy silver one, as that's the real upgrade...Shhiinnyy...
You, I suggest you go away and upgrade the tone of your posts, at least to me. I'll make that my last word in this thread as I find you irritating in the extreme.