Chris,

As luck would have it . . .

I have a Sigma 400mm 1:5.6 lens, with both original caps, and hard case I want to sell. It's the 'A' version finished in tasteful 'battleship grey' and is in excellent condition showing only slight signs of use externally. Oh, and the blades work too

PM me if you are interested.

Regards,

I have downloaded this calibration page and have adjusted my printer (Epson R800) settings to use Adobe RGB colour profiles (same as my camera and PS CS2).

I wasn't particularly happy with my own printing results, but having printed this calibration page and changed a couple of printer settings I can honestly say that my printer mimics almost exactly what I am seeing on screen.

I have to add that my monitor is calibrated with a Spider2 device. I found WYZIWIG a bit hit 'n miss. Certainly for colour editing, you need a properly calibrated monitor and a dim (low light) working environment.

Regards,

Peter,

If you go for a 'dedicated' lens, IE: optimised for digital cameras, the 16-45mm is a far superior lens to the 18-55mm kit lens. If, as I suspect, you have some of the older outstanding glassware from Pentax, you could be disappointed with the results of the 18-55mm and K10D combination.

Firmware is to be found in all modern digital cameras and its the internal software which makes the thing work. Occasionally, updates to this internal camera software are released by all manufacturers, not just Pentax. The upgrade process is simple and instructions are always included.

Lastly, if you do take the plunge, you'll have to modify your signature on this forum

My advice:- Go for the K10D + 16-45mm

Regards,

Tom,

thanks for psting your pic and welcome to the forum. Your pic has rekindled a project that I put away a while ago, that is a ringflash mount to fit a reversed K mount lens.

Quite simply, I've taken the K mount from an old manual extension tube and removed the glass from a 58mm skylight filter. All I need to do now is 'glue' them together.

I'll try and post some pics here.

You've certainly got a good magnification with your combination of lenses. Unless of course you found a three foot tall ant. Sorry, 1 Metre tall. They probably don't do feet and inches in schools any more.

I'm Peter and I'm 18. Shame my body's 58

what a fANTastic pic. Reasonable DOF too. Great shot.

For my business I use R-Studio from www.r-tt.com and it has never failed me yet.

Lilly,

As you have PS CS2, you don't need to load the Pentax Software really. It's not a friendly application to use.

Do make sure you have the latest Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) plug-in though. This will facilitate you shooting in RAW DNG mode, and you can u se Adobe Bridge, together with ACR & CS2 for editing.

Regards,

Shorthand, BTW = by the way, GUI = graphical user interface.

I think it's about time some of the others caught up. It wasn't so long ago that Matt was singing the praises of Capture one, and I bought it. Now it seems, SilkyPix is 'flavour of the month'. I wonder what it'll be next, Adobe Lightroom perhaps.

Personally, I'm happy to wait for the update to Capture One and use RAW DNG in the meantime with Adobe Camera RAW.

Are we really expected to keep switching RAW converters avery time a new one appears? SilkyPix has an obvious advantage at getting a RAW converter software product to market before the competition due to their contribution to the bundled Pentax software.

I can appreciate that A N Other software package may contain improvements over other packages but hey, we show undying loyalty to the Pentax brand, why not software suppliers?

This is a shot I took a couple of weeks ago




Taken with *istD, Pentax 135-600mm @600mm, Takumar-A 2x Converter, ISO200, 1/60 sec, f11, distance . . . about a quarter of a million miles