The lens obviously has great flare resistance. Lovely shot.

To be honest, I'm pretty satisfied with the K-7 noise-wise, so far. Don't know what I was so worried about, reading too much forum chatter probably!

Shooting from the hip? You must be very tall!

Nice set!

You could always try handling a K-7 Gwyn, to see how the K-5 will handle. They look identical!

Sounds to me like you are experiencing the much slower focussing in live view, which I believe is common to most traditional DSLRs. Perhaps some other K-x owners can comment?

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks Jon, i'll give Clifton Cameras a ring tomorrow. I really like this camera, by the way - my concerns about noise are unfounded, particularly after taking your advice and switching to Lightroom 3. ISO 1600 looks passable, and 800 looks great! And I find my manual lenses much nicer to use with the big viewfinder. I am finding it a bit hard to come to terms with how much it cost though - it's worth about the same as my car! I need to do my penance now, and sell some lenses and put the LBA on hold for a while I think

I have an smc-a f2.8. Recently bought from LCE Leamington. £50 delivered?

The leaves in the foreground were fluttering, yes. It was the trees in the distance which concerned me. Perhaps Clifton Cameras will agree to switch for another lens, as a lot of people seem quite happy with theirs. I had a similar issue on the last kit lens I had...

Both lenses were at 18mm, so the two crops correspond to the same part of the image (left and right hand side).

The differences look more pronounced on the LHS when you click for the full size (100%) image. (I should have sized the image properly for the forum - sorry).

The right hand side does look much more even, although there is some slight red CA on the 18-55 image, above the light coloured field.

Well I won't ever be buying any lenses from you then!

Hello all

I got my hands on a K-7 finally ( / ) and was checking the kit lens against my 16-45mm.

The WR kit lens produced the top two left and right side crops, the 16-45 the images beneath. Both lenses at f8. I am disturbed by the softness on the left hand side of the WR lens.




Do you think I should send it back?