Should not be oxidation as the contacts are gold flashed. Is the power source OK? The drive is geared and just maybe the grease has hardened with oxidation.

Best regards

Subject in the second shot is posing for you with that "over the shoulder" look. They look like painted UK sparrows. Good colours though and well caught.

Best regards

Yes, No. 2 was with the 10-17mm as was No. 4. I got a good few shots of afterburners but not all with the K5 as the 55-300mm was a little slow on focus and tracking. This is one of the K5 shots, odd that the lower right is blurred more than the top left. Maybe after burner heat haze or vapour haze from the wings?




Comments appreciated.

Best regards

Comments appreciated. No salt needed in WA. The Autumn/Winter light is amazing. Looks like good weather in the UK from tomorrow so best get your batteries charged and pack your camera bags.

Best regards

A good event attended by thousands of people. Some shots with the K5.
















Best regards

Let’s hope it's not too massive a price tag as Nikon are rumoured to be releasing a D600 FF "entry level" body.

Existing Pentax owners will welcome a FF body, me included, as it allows the Ltd's to be used as designed as well as other lenses such as the shift and 15mm.

If it's too pricey, new FF users may be tempted elsewhere.

The K30 should be well accepted.

Best regards

Some from today. Huge turnout and some really rare machines attended.



















K5, 16-50mm

Best regards

Third party batteries drain at the same rate as OEM as it's the camera that determines the load. However, as has been checked by some, the capacity may be a little lower, the duration of use may be less. In terms of how many pictures, flashes etc, then that may not be easily quantifiable.

One way to look at it is cost per milliamp hour. Assume a Pentax battery is 2000mA hour and a third party battery is 1800mA hour. The Pentax battery may be $60 and the third party battery $25.

So the Pentax battery is $30 per amp hour and the third party battery is $13.88 per amp hour. So even if the capacity is slightly different, the cost hugely different. For those using gripped bodies, it becomes totally irrelevant. I use both OEM and third party batteries across all of my cameras with no detrimental effects to date.

However, to each their own.

Best regards

Roger,

I have at times done exactly the same thing with respect to making a statement within a thread that read wrong or was not the correct way to convey a point of view.

I now pause and consider what I write in terms of how it may be perceived. I'm not saying others should.

Have a good weekend.

Best regards

Speaks volumes of your opinion to others. "I don't record" would have read so much better.

Best regards