that picstop site looks really good value, I think I'll bookmark that!

worth asking but I'm pretty sure they stopped doing that

7dayshop.com


Never ever for any reason buy a camera card from a high street retailer, unless that reason is that they will price match internet prices.

Katz Eye claim that their prism works down to F11 and beyond, don't know how true that is though

Arthur, can you comment on the effectiveness of the Katz Eye "Plus" prism with slow lenses?

good point, I'd forgotten about that. I always thought snap in focus was probably an accidental feature, but its pretty cool none the less

In AF-S mode the focus system must think the shot is in focus for the shutter release to work. If the focus indicator is not lit, the camera wont go off (this is true of all Pentax AF cameras not just the K10D).

You need to either make sure the focus indicator is lit, or put the camera into MF mode when using A series and earlier lenses.

I suppose AF-C mode would also work since you can fire the shutter all the time in AF-C, but there is no advantage to using MF lenses in AF mode since the focus indicator still functions in MF mode.

absolutely, I already knew it performed well from messing around with my 60x card, but what surprised me was the level of performance the K10D eeks out of even a budget card. The buffer is so big that the speed of the card rarely enters the equation.

I'm begining to think my Dad is right, the knocking sound when it turns on has nothing to do with DR, its the little magic imp who lives inside trying to get out.

On Saturday I took my K10D to a fencing match.

I now have yet more observations of this universally superb camera

1) Contrary to my previous beliefs, the K10D does NOT require a fast card to perform well in continuous drive, provided you arn't taking long bursts.

I was happily squeezing off 3 frame bursts in PEF RAW format with my 7dayshop bargain basement card (an unrated Keymem card) and never once filled the buffer. With my DL2 I was forever waiting for the buffer to flush, or loosing frame 3.

2) the manual white balance tweekage ROCKS! I was running out of space so I decided to switch to tungsten WB and go to JPG mode (I usually shoot RAW with AWB and sort it out later). The manual white ballance adjust makes it so easy, and bringing up the previous shot with whatever WB you pick is just genius.

3) for my part, I am very satisfied with its 1600 ISO performance. I am not seeing banding and while it is noisy, the noise is not offensive and I consider it should be pretty easily removed by NeatImage or similar.

Now I just have to sort through the 4GB of photos I took, the only problem with having such good continuous drive!

No problems Mike, I was just kidding anyway, I used to use a lot of Leica and Trimble total stations in my old job as a Survey assistant but was always a bit jealous of Pentax ones with AF. For some reason no other company seems to think AF is a good thing to put on a total station.

What, no surveying instruments?

The R series total stations with auto focus telescopes always struck me as a good idea. I'd rather have an auto focus telescope than auto target tracking any day of the week.