impotentspider wrote:
Spot on exposure Phil, looks like the light was perfect for swans, did you get any adults?

MattMatic wrote:
When I used MF lenses on the K10D & *ist-D I got mixed results too. I was, however, relying on the autofocus system to tell me when the shot was in focus.

I pinned it down to the fact that I was pressing the shutter when the red LED lit to show the focus point. The correct focus indicator is, and only is, the GREEN Hexagon in the viewfinder

That helped a lot, but even then I ended up using only autofocus lenses because my eyesight isn't that great!

Additionally, I got hold of the O-ME53 magnifying eyepiece - and that makes the view a bit larger (about 1.20x) which may well help in manual focus situations.

Hope that helps!
Matt