Excellent result

Sorry to see you go Gwyn

...I too am sad to see things getting heated up more often

Matt

It's got an EVF, not a mirror and optical VF - that's why they could decrease the lens-mount to sensor distance. Because of that, I presume the lenses must be different.
But it seems to hint that the sensor is still the same physical size as APS-C.
Matt

Clarky - Shortcut Inc is the US distributor.

Dick - sorry my tome hasn't helped with everything flash related Feel free to email me a JPG/PEF/DNG if you want some analysis

No. Only a global adjustment.
The K20D has individual lens adjustment as well as global.
Matt

Yup, and yup

The "dodging" control (under the fine exposure group) is brilliant.
They've improved highlight recovery - not that I've played with that much.
The contrast adjustments can now be shown in the curves tool, and the curves tool has a histogram on it. Fab!
The spotting and patching are pretty good.
Also, I notice that you can open a directory and a choice of levels (1, 2, infinite) etc - which is a real boon for the way I happen to store my files!

I upgraded via Silkypix UK who had a really great price (£59 upgrade, £29 for additional license). Originally I bought from ISL Japan, so it was no problem going via the UK
(But if you bought via the US then that IS a problem apparently)

Matt

This has been mentioned several times with respect to Pentax, but looks like someone else is getting there first:

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Freedom-for-photographers-with-opensource-came...

and

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/

(They could probably improve on the lenses immediately! LOL!)

It's an interesting idea... would be nice if Pentax could go that route (after all they did with the DNG format), rather than people having to do things like "Pentax-Hack"

Matt

Ah! That's the D FA lenses, not the FA
The D FA are the newest macro lenses etc. (ie current lenses designed for digital that have full frame coverage and therefore will work on film too)
There'll be no real difference between SMC-F and SMC-FA.
Matt

That's new to me
What kind of problems could there be that need correction?
Certainly with the *ist-D, *ist-DS, K10D, and K20D the SMC-F macro behaves the same as every other lens I have
(I don't have a K7.... yet!)

Matt

I just use Picasa to find my images

Works fine on PC and Mac - is fast and handles the nearly 70k images I have easily. The only thing is you have to keep all images online (there's no provision for offline DVDs etc), but with 1Tb drives around that's not a big problem!

Matt