The odds are your DA lens will work on your P30 film body from about 24mm up. Vignettes badly below 24mm.

I think you have a few K lenses, and I'm sure they will out perform the DA which was never designed for "Full Frame".

I ran a roll through on my SFX and wasn't impressed. The kit lens performs much better on the DSLR bodies for which it was designed.

Don't blow a whole roll on this experiment, have fun with your old primes and just shoot a few using the DA just to see.

Now - as we've discussed here quite often, the reverse (M and K lenses on DSLR) = WOW!

Cheers,

Pete,

Sounds to me like the black foam light seal(s) are getting old and sticky.

I'm not at all familiar with the 67's, but there may be an issue with the lock-up slider as well?

Don't dispair! I don't think it's anything you've done.

Do you have any idea of the camera's age?

I dunno Terry, I have a lot of older Pentax film bodies with a fair bit of bright metal finish - Spotmatics through Super Program - and I think that little K200 harkens back to those good old days.

I agree with Hefty that the silver limiteds would look great on it.

May have to do with my age.......

Hi Liam!

Glad to hear the "wand" works well, - haven't got mine yet.

Asked Daughter #2, who is also a photo nut, to get me wet wipes for Xmas. (Glad I didn't ask Daughter #1 as the wet wipes would be the diaper rash type and probably too big for the sensor.)

I'm getting pretty good at ignoring the crud and not shooting smaller than f11 for now.

Cheers!

amoringello,

Your therory makes a lot of sense!

Next time it happens - I'll hang onto the shot.

Watch this, it'll never happen again....

Thanks for the great input!

Cheers

[quote:3496ace15f="amoringello"]What was the image of? The water itself? Water with lots of bright highlights and dark areas on and between the waves?
If the camera basically read lots of distinct bright and dark areas, there may be spikes over lower broader areas in the histogram.
I would probably expect to see this more likely with a tele lens as opposed to a wide angle which would pick up more surrounding area.

Yup, most likely a 50 / 50 land and water shot into the rising sun. Lens would have been medium - to short tele. (16 - 55 kit lens).

So, solid histogram = trees and land in silloette, comb's teeth = sparkley water?

Result, confused camera and very confused photographer

Thanks for the input folks,

This was showing on the camera itself - not the computer. In fact, these images never made it to a USB cable, not even to shore - I was shooting from a kayak.

And yes, I was shooting in JPEG.

And, if I remember, these were attempts at a sunrise - probably straining something!

The histogram was the very first thing I looked at after the shots in question. I've sort of gotten into the histogram habit now.

Hi Everyone!

I wish I could remember the exact circumstances when this ocurred, but I've gone and erased the images. Always too hasty.

I'm pretty sure the lighting was bright and over water, probably shooting in AV with aperture set at f8.

When I looked at the histogram, I saw the usual white-on-black mountain range, but many of the mountain tops had additional vertical lines (sort of half spaced, like a comb's teeth) extending upward.

I'm quite sure this has ocurred (though very rarely) while using different lenses.

Was the camera (K110D) giving me some additional information?

Thannks for your consideration!

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Heeeee's baaaaaaaaaaaaacckk............

Hey, wild man! How's the wheels? Go anywhere neat? Get arrested? Get any shots?

Thank you Dan.

I can see this lens being a big plus in my limited stable - and I'm gonna wait for it!

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