You could check out the Q - 12 Mp, backlit small sensor, pocketable, prime f1.9 lens in one of the available kits, settings to suit an enthusiast... I got one second hand and have been playing around with it - pretty impressed so far.

I agree that a no frills SLR, especially with a full frame sensor, would be very desirable - especially coupled with some nice prime lenses; although I would even more like to see a digital 67. Very cool, although I suspect I'd need some serious hardware to do PP...

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How do you do the borders? I use PSE8 and create borders by using the increase/resize canvas size tool, set to whatever number of pixels I want, and the borders always seem to be opaque... would have thought the same would be true in PSE9 (?)

Not sure if that helps...?

It is possible to get eyepieces similar to that for Pentax, although all the ones I have seen are magnifiying eyepieces (so may limit field of view through the viewfinder - although help with manual focussing), and from an earlier vintage than the current cameras, and I am not sure whether they fit the current eyepieces. An example would be something like this:

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you might find something similar/more modern on ebay

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EDIT - i think the item in the link is called a Pentax finder magnifier-M.

My earliest memory of colour in newspapers was the launch of the 'Today' newspaper in the mid-eighties (1986?). I was still at school and one of my mates won a (at the time absolutely cutting edge) sky satellite system through the paper, and so we all also got to see videos of the Simpsons! Very cool...

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I had one of those today; then I had a quick look in the second hand section of London Camera Exchange (as I was passing), and now i have a Pentax Q and two lenses! Top fun these itchy Buy Now fingers but I hope I don't have one every day as my wallet will not be able to handle it

Do you reckon that the lens is fixed or interchangeable? If it had a k-mount you could presumably get some pretty monstrous (equivalent) focal lengths with existing lenses:, but my guess is that the lens is fixed like a bridge camera... Like the swivel screen, I could do with one of those.

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I agree - beautiful shots. Good spot!

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Beauty! - love the first shot, DOF and compo spot on.

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What lenses are you having difficulty with? and what overall set-up are you using? Could it be an issue with the aperture control of the lens? I think Manual mode on the K7 enables you to set the aperture and shutter speed that you want, but the aperture will only physically be changed when exposing the sensor if the lens aperture can be controlled from the camera - that means either a lens with no aperture ring (i.e. a DA lens), or an 'A' lens (or later) with the aperture ring set to the 'A' setting - otherwise whatever you set the aperture to will not translate to the lens and you'll just be shooting at the same aperture all the time... I think.

Does that help at all? Apologies if completely wide of the mark - someone here will surely know what else to try

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I like these very much - especially the last one. Really well executed.

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