My Sigma 28mm f2.8 sometimes opens up to f1.0 (or so the camera tells me :wink

Gwyn didn't post any photos, Stefan!

What would be nice is to sometimes share experiences images made with our other non-Pentax stuff, particularly older cameras. Or discuss a camera (with sample images) which might fill a niche that a Pentax camera cannot.

Old girl? I think if you try milking her you might be in for an unpleasant surprise!

Nice sharp shot, good lens isn't it?

Ephotozine isn't a very good forum for me.

I like where my fellow Pentax users are coming from, and would rather hear about their experiences with off-brand kit from them, and in relation to the Pentax gear they use. Using non-Pentax kit doesn't mean you're not a Pentax User!

Alphamount World (are they scared of saying Sony?) and Pentax Forums both have this feature and nothing 'bad' has happened to them!

But discussion of non-Pentax gear is discouraged, and showing images taken with it is outlawed in any part of the site. A little corner for discussion and a few pictures without worry about confrontation with the Mods is what I thought Mowog was talking about.

I agree Mowog.

The best K-7 user report I saw was on Alphamount World. Clearly they are more relaxed about this issue. Pentax User does not have any ties to Pentax so there's no reason we need to be uptight either.

The DA-L is exactly the same as the DA, minus a hood, quickshift, and with plastic mount. I would consider quickshift a useful feature, on a lens which has very badly behaved AF (in my experience!) And you would probably want to obtain a hood so take the cost of that into account.

If you don't mind removing a bit of purple fringing, I would also consider the cheaper Tamron 70-300mm, which seems to be about as sharp at the long end (but none of these lenses are stellar at 300mm!)

Ouch! Can't really blame the government for how the manager of this private shopping centre acted though She could easily have shown discretion as you had everything else sorted but no... The vanishingly miniscule risk of something going wrong scared her. And she probably got that peculiarly British thrill from applying the rules

Now that's thinking. I never thought about it when I bought the K-7, but with the 400.00 difference between what I paid and the cost of a K-5, I can now splurge on a few lenses, totally guilt free!

The only benefit to a K-5 for me would be the fantastic high ISO results. 1080p video is nice in theory, but I would have to upgrade my computer to edit it!

Maybe he got the idea when the results just seemed a little brighter than the FA, shutter speed and aperture being equal. I'm not going to comment any further... this is where my technical 'knowledge' ends!

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