Yup! Lovely luscious colours!
Matt

Mark,
Customs fees and VAT have been discussed many times here
There's not much in it by the time you get knobbled with that!

e.g. https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6682&highlight=vat+customs
Some have said it's about 21% in total, plus the courier charge


I bought mine from Germany, and that worked out just fine.
However, SRS Microsystems have the 12-24 in stock for £485. And if you phone up and speak to Chris, he's very helpful to Pentax User forum members

Hope that helps!
Matt

Hi Ava,
No
Only the *ist-D and K10D can do wireless from the pop-up flash. With all cameras you can do wireless P-TTL if you have two AF-360 guns

That said, you can do a wireless trigger from all cameras to the AF-360. But the AF-360 needs to be in M or A mode. See my sticky guide to digital flash https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4950
Hope that helps!
Matt

Pete, it's swings and roundabouts
The 6Mp SLRs cover ISO 200 - 3200.
The 10Mp covers ISO 100-1600.

The 10Mp noise at ISO1600 is different to the 6Mp. From what I've seen (as I have 3 Pentax DSLRs) the 10Mp has far more blue channel noise. Obviously the pixels are smaller (which normally means more noise).
However, on the plus side, the K10D focus speed is ballistic in comparison to the *ist-DS, and as you say, the view finder is like the *ist-DS and *ist-D - bright and clear.

The ISO100 on the K10D is extremely useful for landscape and long exposure work

If you want qualitative comparisons then you could start by looking at the DPReview or Imaging-Resource results. You can compare against the *ist-D, which is pretty much identical to the *ist-DS. (And the K100D etc all use the same 6Mp sensor).

In the end, I've kept the old *ist-D... just in case I need to do any really low-light stuff. However, the K10D has more than covered my needs so far

Hope that helps!
Matt

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Matt

Think you'll find that a RAW file bears a striking resemblance to TIFF... just with a different extension
Must double check this....
Matt

Well, it's nearly possible

If the data were cooked, it still wouldn't show there was a TC there I suppose they could pass and cook the focal length (which is great for the multiplication and zooms), but the lens ID may have to be dropped... otherwise you'd have an SMC-DA 50-135 reaching 230mm

I did see that an SDM TC was listed on their roadmap

EDIT: Re EXIF editing... I've not used anything (yet) to do that. A quick Google shows that Opanda do a product that purports to do it: http://www.opanda.com/
There should be a GNU/GPL version somewhere...

Matt

EXIF data is not transferred through the 1.7xAF. You'll notice on the K10D that focal length needs to be entered manually because the camera doesn't know that (a) there's a TC, (b) doesn't know the lens.

I presume that if full lens info were transferred the TC would have to somehow "cook" the lens data to make it appear 1.7x longer!

So, everything is normal. All TCs will "hide" the lens data
Matt

There was also the original Sigma 12-24mm full frame.
But it's big and heavy and cannot take filters (which may be a big downside).
Matt

It's also worth noting that Silkypix updates the image while you are looking at it.

When you change a setting, the view goes "scrunchy" (for want of a better word), and then it will update the image in blocks according to the noise reduction and sharpening settings you have set. Depending on the speed of the computer, and the combination of settings this could take up to 20 seconds.

Also worth mentioning is that even Photoshop goes odd when viewed at non-divisible zoom sizes (eg 33%). In PS you should view at 50%, 25%, 12.5% etc to get a real feel for the image.

And finally, anything other than 100% is an approximation of the image You should use those non-100% views to judge colour, composition, etc - but not the detail

There is more to it than that... but that might help
Matt