Congratulations Enjoy!

I did it. I could not resist Sadly, barely have any time to enjoy it right now but here are first few shots from earlier today all at ISO 3200 I believe, just to see how usable it is in comparison to the K3 II.

Last one is a 1:1 crop with the 55-300mm. The rest is the DFA kit lens. Not thrilled with the vignetting and distortion it produces :/

https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/ready-to-ship-budget-value-intel-home-of... .

Generally, i3 will suffice, but I5 would be more future proof; RAM is what you want a lot of. The performance difference in Photoshop between an equal system with 4, 8 or 16 is clearly visible. It's worth every penny. GPU, integrated is plenty; GPU acceleration function in photo editing programs often causes more hassle than it's worth.

So a 3GHz+ clocked CPU (i3 or i5) with a fast drive (7200rpm) and abundant RAM (16GB) is sufficient for extremely comfortable photo editing and many retailers in the UK will offer custom systems at around 500GBP.

You could just try to hunt the parts yourself and probably assemble it all for 50-80 quid cheaper. Bear in mind Black Friday is coming up; you may be able to get a decent deal on a package from a place like Scan, Aria or Overclockers.

3 and 4, great. Properly alien

https://www.sigmaphoto.com/18-300mm-f35-63-dc-macro-os-hsm-c.

They say Sony and Pentax have no OS option. Which, with in body OS, makes sense.

As far as composition, no2 is quite something I do like the IQ of the last one though.

Thank you for commenting and yes, it was quite an afternoon. Lovely light, relaxing warmth

Taken today afternoon, all from the same spot/angle; a bench I sat down to watch the sunset after work; not far from the local port.
K3II and 55-300mm.
CC ,as always, welcome Thanks!



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Always charged, ready to use. Still have and use the original K7 battery. Third party replacements are so cheap and good that short of the 'recycling' aspect; not really fussed if one was to die on me prematurely. It is yet to happen though.

My K3 II manual is perfectly 'normal'! Looks about the same thickens as the K7 one. Fine quality paper and print. Bought mine at SRS almost a year ago.