Thanks John, its not started to be fun yet, I am still learning what does what and when to use or not use it.

Not a chance Hefty, the MX has some fuji slide film in, the ME Super has some fuji colour and the Program A has a B&W in. I am hoping not to give up on them fully !

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PaulM

First shots with my new K200D

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/The-Bay.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/Sandstone.jpg[/IMG]

The next two seem to have a bit of echo or motion blur on them, The first one (yellow flower) was taken with the 18-55 to see how close I could get
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/Yellow-flower.jpg[/IMG]

The second one, was with the Sigma 55-200
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/bird-problem2.jpg[/IMG]

Both where taken with the Shake reduction on am I expecting too much? or shold I have turned the SR off ?

Comments on all 4 pics welcome
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PaulM

A cople of pics in the the Pentax Equipment section

Here

Hi all,

Pictures to accompany my post in the General section
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/K200D.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/K200Dsigma.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/Sigma.jpg[/IMG]

(Taken with my sony cam-corder cause I had nothing else to do it with )
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PaulM

Due to the cool way the tax system works over here and me only starting halfway through a financial year, I got a decent refund. After a few discussions on the cost of buying and processing film my better half relented and I was allowed to spend a little bit on a new camera.
I am now the proud owner of a shiney new K200D, with the 18-55 pentax lens and a sigma 55-200.

I am a very happy bunny (there is not a good enough smilely for it)

I picked it up on Friday and after a busy saturday doing chores and not having a lot of time to play with it, I was given permission to go out on one of the local trail walks on sunday.

Regards
Paul

Thanks Matt,

That makes it all a bit easier to understand

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PaulM

A question to all you Macro gurus.

When your using a flash, do you have the camera set at the flash sync speed (ie 125 on my ME Super), or do you go slower?

When I put my flash (its a Vivitar 550FD) on either the ME Super of the Super-A it sets its self to 125, should I just use that for both day and night shots?

Sorry if there basic questions but I haven't ever used a flash before other than "holiday" style night snaps.

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PaulM

I like images 1,3 & 5. Over all a good set. I have a set of ND grads I bought before I left the uk but I haven't used them yet as I dont have the adapter rings for my lenses.

In your post your say
So did you use all three of these filters together or seperately ? or in a combination ?

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PaulM

Even though someone beat me to this question I would still like to say thanks for the info guys. I have heard this mentioned a few times and now I know what its all about.

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PaulM

I like the effect in pic number 4, it seems (to me anyway) to fit better in a black and white picture, but I do prefer the untouched number 1

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PaulM