Amazing for hand held. You must be a watch mender or something like that.

What lens was it?

You can get something to repel those blighters...........it's called a dog!

How clever of Pentax to sell a camera with a minimum ISO of 200 and give the guide number at ISO 100 and not tell you a conversion factor is needed. I'm going to bin the manual or rip it up and put the pages on a nail in the outside loo.
It does not tell me anything I really need to know and it assumes a certain amount of knowledge from the reader about far to many areas. How could a new comer to photography (digital or otherwise) expect to get the best from their camera with this piece of "head up their own arses" junk.
I hope the same crew don't start writing Haynes Manuals for cars.

I have read the manual as I stated and it clearly states that P-TTL is only available with the 360 & 540 flash units and I am talking about the internal flash. How am I supposed to know the pre flash happens with this too when the manual written by Pentax for a Pentax camera does not state this.
I seriousley think that the guide number for the built in flash (15.6) is feet NOT metres.'cos that's what my photo results seem to bear out!

Just tried setting the flash comp to +1 and stepped outside to try it and found no difference. I have tried this before with the same results after reading the oh so helpful Manual which tells you how to do this without telling you what you might expect from doing so.

What is the interval between the pre flash and the main flash by the way?

Read it from cover to cover and have Magic Lantern guide, read that to Oh Great Sarky One

Having not really bothered in the past I have decided to buy a dedicated flash for my K100D Super.
This was partly brought about by a couple of trips to the Cold War museum at RAF Cosford, where my in built flash showed itself up quite badly.
However before I take the plunge and spend some money I have concerns about the way my camera performs with flash.
I was with a friend who has an Olympus 410 (despite having a mint LX and many lenses), and his inbuilt flash took many good shots at closer range (GN15). I got under exposed shots. Now whilst taking a shot of a tank I noticed the reflection of the flash firing IN THE VIEWFINDER before the mirror flipped up. Thinking I had imagined it I tried a few more with the same result. As I have said I have never been into flash in a big way, but my understanding of how it works is this.
When you press the shutter release
1. The mirror flips up
2. The shutter opens
3. The flash fires
4. The shutter closes
5. The mirror drops
Am I wrong?
If not how could I see the flash in the viewfinder?
Is this a setting problem on the camera?
Is this what caused the under exposed shots?
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?
Come to think of it I can find the answers to the last two questions!

I was using the Auto Pict setting after about 20 shots on Av with the same results on both settings.

Rob

I think the colour is great. It envokes that quiet early morning feel that is somehow so different from sunset.

Good depth of field, but what is that in picture 1?

Now that I seem to have worked out how to use this computr thingymabob
(with a lot of guidance from these brilliant forums) heres a couple more from a trip to Ludlow (a great place to eat by the way)







K100D Super + 50-200mm

Any advice/ criticism?

Rob