Maybe you do, but most of us don't.

http://www.mypentax.com/tak50_1_4.html

Enjoy . . .

You have the option to adjust 3 components of the JPG. Sharpening, contrast, and saturation.

Look in your menu to find them, tweak them, and test until satisfied.

Personally, I can't see the point. You'll probably be trashing the JPG's anyway if you shoot RAW as well. Why waste card space with JPG's as well?

Digital Photo Magic at http://www.dpmagic.com/products.html have a thumbnail viewer available for free download. Click on DPMagic Community > more.

It works with K10D PEF's.

The images I've seen so far from the use of the Raynox adapter are very impressive. Certainly as good as many others I've seen taken with a true macro lens. I was so impressed I bought one but it hasn't arrived yet. My other macro lenses are SMCP-FA 100mm 1:2.8 and a Sigma 70-300mm APO Macro Super (macro at the long end but not 1:1).

I have other Pentax zoom lenses with the magic word 'Macro' in their name, but these are not true 1:1 macro lenses, so don't be fooled by listings stating as such on auction sites.

Proper macro lenses cost big money and I'd recommend a 100mm over the 50mm any day because you can get that little bit further away with the longer focal length. Not much further, but usually enough to make the difference between getting the shot of an insect . . . and the darned thing having a panic attack and doing a disappearing act.

A decent 50 or 100mm prime on extension tubes is a cheaper alternative.

And then there are those being sold as kits with AF film cameras . . .

You mean here.

Curious title, "Hiking Girl". She doesn't look dressed for hiking, not an anorak in sight .

There are certainly a lot to look through . . .

One observation . . . her eyes. Few (if any) of your pics show her eyes in focus. The last shot above for instance, has only one eye in focus.

I think you ought to be very pleased with your results. Of the first batch, I like the first pic mainly because it's isolated from a cluttering background. The orange glad' is the best of the second batch.

On a future occasion, try placing black card or cloth behind the subject to eliminate any distracting background. You might like the effect. I realise that some subjects, like the Pasiflora for instance, is going to be difficult.

Having out of focus background is great, if it compliments the image. A garden fence does nothing . . .

Well done.

Thanks for that reminder Daniel .

Go on, I dare you, take the thing apart and fix it. You will feel sooooo good afterwards, or you'll have jumped off the top of the nearest multi-storey car park

All I can say is, if I had to, I'd do it again, but take much greater care that those little Jesus springs don't escape.

Jesus Springs: A term from my days fixing typewriters. They're the springs that you don't want to ping off the end of their retainer, but somehow they always do. The first comment after such an event was usually "Jesus, where's that bl--dy spring gone." Hence the term, Jesus Springs. There's a hell of a lot of them somewhere, 'cause I never found many and fitted a new one instead. They're probablr right alongside 3 million tons of Biro's that everybody seems to lose.

Mounted to a reversing adapter it makes a great (and cheap) macro lens too.

I have mine (SMCP-A version) fitted permanently to bellows. Unlike Daniel, I couldn't just leave it sitting in a box, or worse, the bin. I fixed mine. It's not a job for the feint hearted, but if it's going to be bin fodder anyway, you might as well have a go Dan. I wish I'd taken pics of the disassembled lens now, but I didn't.