Yeah me too Don! I mean I care about it quite a lot, but not that much. I could, therefore, care less.

I've come to that conclusion after recently recording some video on the K30 (while walking backwards) that had annoying jerks in it. (Not the person I was filming - I mean the footage itself! )

The mechanical SR (e.g. on the K7) used to be perfect for that sort of thing. What a shame.

The big advantage that *even Pentax* DSLRs have over supposedly better P&S cameras and iPhones etc, is being able to use good lenses and having that DOF which comes with a larger sensor. This has much more impact (in a positive way) than a little bit of compression etc. Instantly looks 'professional' (although it seems everyone on Youtube are shooting video on DSLRs these days).

Maybe NEX / MFT cameras are a bit better, but not everyone wants to have a second camera system for video.

Ouch. Hopefully it will fare better on eBay, where I eventuality had to sell mine (and got a reasonable price). Forum members are perhaps to aware of the 'issues' with the K7.

I liked mine, but there were moments when I was having to avoid shutter speeds of 1/40 to 1/125 (to avoid shutter blur) and ISOs over 800 (because of the noise) and was also restricted to apertures of f8 to f11 (shooting with the DA15mm) that I found it quite frustrating to use!

I thought the same thing, but then the screw drive still works pretty well on the DA Ltds... fast and pretty quiet.

The marketing shots of all the DA ltds together look very appealing actually. I don't think people outside Pentax landl are aware of these lovely lenses.

Unless the new red bands simply denote apsc lenses. Maybe the FA ltds will have another color band when they are reissued with this new coating.

That's only £10 per metre of flash distance at 100ISO. Bargain.

Que?!!

Anyone having trouble with the new Smugmug?

I think it looks much prettier, but getting the galleries to link up to the home page is causing me a great deal of frustration! Specifically I can't seem to have a gallery on the home page which contains 'sub' galleries.

Those are super. Looks like you're going to do well at this!

(I used to walk through that part of the park on my way to work!)

It's mainly just that the Sony Exmor sensors are just better and more efficient than the old Samsung one in the K7. There's not really much difference in performance between the K5 and (12 bit) K50 in terms of DR... a little bit perhaps but not much. Both are far ahead of the K7.

There certainly is! The lack of noise in the images recorded by this sensor is fantastic. I used to ETTR with the K7. Now (with the K30) it makes more sense to ETTL, and therefore avoid clipping the highlights. Even the jpegs hold up pretty well to having the exposure adjusted in PP.

This is true, and reverting back to the K10D after having the K7 for a bit, I found the metering a lot worse and the camera generally slower and less responsive. And I missed the K7's lovely screen and features like HDR. That said I preferred the K10D ergonomics!