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It was really a simple photo. The camera did all the work. I sat my dog on some decking at the top of the garden yesterday when the sun was out for a short while. I only had 5 mins as i had to get back to work. I was about 3 feet away from my dog and set my camera to apeture priority F4.5 the shutter was auto and turned out to be 1/250 sec. Metering was also auto with the cameras multi pattern focal lenth was 43mm (dont have a clue about what focal length is about) guess its the zoom in out distance maybe some one can tell me? the photo was taken in both jpeg and raw DNG

Then i edited (raw DNG) last night with silkypix software and just upped the sharpness and contrast a little and set the exposure down by 1/2 step in the software to untill it looked to my eyes ok.

That was it. Like i said its the camera that did the work i just tweaked it a little after.

Im glad you think its a nice pic. If you want all the details as mentioned above download the pic, right click mouse on the photo scroll down to properties and click on the summery tab at the top and it should show all the details of the photo as metioned etc.. you may also see an advanced tab near the bottom is so click on this to reveal the details.

PS the lense was the kit lense that come with the camera
PPS the photo was also cropped to get rid of some of the background

Thanks Pete

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I assume you mean the SMC-F 17-28mm fisheye, the SMC-FA 28-200mm, the SMC-FA 80-320 - all these lenses are perfectly ok on digital.
You will get all functions: autofocus, auto-aperture etc.

I use SMC-F and SMC-FA lenses that were designed for film and can say they are absolutely sublime on digital - e.g. the SMC-F 50mm/f1.4 is one of the best lenses I've ever seen, anywhere.

I think some of the issues you mention occur with other makes of lenses, like Sigma, Tokina etc. Sigma is perhaps the worst since they reverse engineer the body-lens protocol. Part of that protocol is the lens ID code which indicates the particular model - and the third party lenses often get misrepresented as different Pentax lenses. The *ist-D was built to focus on the hyperfocal distance automatically, and I suspect some of the issues are down to that. Additionally, if the light is not collimated correctly it can often work well on film, but digital is a little less forgiving (because it has the bayer filter in front of the CCD).

That said, I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at the quality you can achieve with Pentax own lenses and their DSLRs - especially the K10D

You didn't say which 135/f2.8 you have - if you have the "A" or "M" versions then there are some "limitations". The M lenses don't do evaluative metering, only centre-weighted and spot. Both types require stop-down metering too since the DSLR bodies lack the mechanical "finger" that senses where the aperture is set to. However, if you've been using the thumb/finger wheels of the Z1 then the likelihood is that all the lenses will be just perfect

Hope that helps!
Matt

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They sound like FA lenses - PKAF2 mount but maybe the limited functionality refers to the fact that new lenses with in-built motors will soon be coming and these utilise the connector that was formerly for the powerzoom functions on the old Z cameras.....so if you have DA* then you should have full functionality on K10D, but with other lenses "limited functionality'....

Just a guess