greenmr,

Welcome to the forum - I'm on the east Mountain.

Mike

Spider,

The Canadian "Photo Life" regularly has Pentax equipment as a prize for a draw. Current issue has a K100D system including body, DA 18-55, DA 50-200, DA Macro 50, AF540 Flash and Gadget Bag. (retail value C$3,000).

Paulypentax,

I'll look for you from the shore and take a picture with my K100D - used to sail the bay and lake for years until my back deteriorated.

Mike

Dwight,

Great to know I'm not the only Hamiltonian on here.

Cheers,

Mike

Last evening I was in my local Henry's Camera store picking up some paper supplies. Another chap had just bought a new Epson printer and he was asking my advice on different papers for use with the Ultrachrome inks.

During the conversation he indicated that he started photography with a Pentax LX, which he eventually sold for what he paid for it. He went to Canon film cameras, because of advertising, and also bought a selection of Canon lenses. When he decided to go digital he found that none of his lenses were compatible with the Canon Digital SLR's he was looking at (have we heard this before).

Then, based solely on advertising, he purchased a Nikon D70 and eventually a couple of lenses. He has now seen the latest Pentax digital offerings, K100D, K110D and K10D and wished he had gone back to Pentax.

I have used Pentax now for 35 years and wouldn't change at all.

But, and it is a big but, Pentax have a long way to go to match the massive Canon and Nikon advertising budgets. It's not just at the high end but at the entry level that they have mass advertising and "specials". Although in all fairness I have seen more Pentax advertising in the last month than ever.

Thanks for listening and all the best for the holidays.

Mike

Dexteruk,

I love the reflection on the beach - beautiful photo.

Mike

Joshua,

Thanks for the information.

Mike

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Joshua,

The three black-and-whites are perfect. It was black-and-white prints like this that got me started in photography in the 60's. I need to try and see what I can do with my new K100D. I haven't tried RAW yet, what did you use to convert the RAW images and what workflow, etc?

Mike

It is the same one, mine purchased with my MZ6 works perfectly with my K100D. same goes for the remote.

Mike

My choice from the many I purchase, too many according to my better half, are Outdoor Photography from the UK (I have every issue) and the Canadian magazine Photo Life.

Mike

Gwyn,

So far yes although I haven't delved that deeply yet to try all the new features. I picked up a Jumpstart Guide To Photoshop Elements 5.0 DVD but haven't watched it yet. I thought that when I retired I would have all this time on my hands - right! I didn't like 4.0 as much as 3.0 but so far so good with 5.0

impotentspider

I have now set up separate files for the *istDS2, the K100, and my wife's digital. My main concern was duplication with the files already catalogued in the Organizer which I like. Many do not like the organizer but it has been fine for me. The only chore was reconnecting the files when Wondows changed the drive letter of my external drive.

Mike