FWIW, Johnsons are used by other marques, not just Pentax...

Not as far as I can work out

I can't even get it to trigger in dumb slave mode - the preflash is so close to the main flash that even in "A" or "M" mode you don't get the flash in the shot.

(Though the shutter is a leaf type shutter AFAIK)

Can keep trying some other options sometime...

Matt

Have the Q - lovely, and incredibly 'diddy', but often the image quality is just so far behind the K5/K5iis that I'd rather carry the dSLR. With the prime the Q is pretty good.

But the MX-1 is in a different league. It's the only compact where I'd leave the K5iis kit at home. The Chatham Historic Dockyard trip was its first real outing, and I am hugely impressed at the IQ, usability, and form factor. As John says, it's a little bulkier than I'd like (and I would have preferred manual zoom control), but battery life is significantly better than the Q too. The lens is very versatile at f/1.8 with 1cm macro mode!

Sorry that I'm dilly-dallying over the LR profiles... need a little more time, and hope to get these off to Adobe for general consumption soon!

Matt

No 2 for me
Nice!

Excellent optics goes a long way
It is rather astonishing for a compact
Matt

Thank you for the feedback Bernhard!

Replied. *ist-D sold

K10D, Metz, and lenses still available!

I think "prior art" would make that an unsustainable patent.

Matt

Welcome!

Depending how far away you are the DA*50-135 is just incredible for performances.
The DA17-70 is stunning too.
I shoot fully manual, with focus triggered by the rear AF. Our local school has rather a large gallery of my shots
Matt

Thanks Andy.
Andrew - re distortion... if you mean the converging verticals then that's to be expected. I was tilting up the camera to line up with the tower

Actually I shot RAW+. So I compared the in-camera JPG to a non-corrected RAW and the one you see here. In-camera is very good, non-corrected has loads of barrel distortion, and the DIY-Adobe-profile-corrected one that you see here is pretty good (IMO), but could be better.

But then, I did mention that the DIY profile needed some tweaks, and of course lots of time to remake them!

Still, if you want corrected verticals, LR5 can do this nicely:



Matt