I should also point out that if anyone uses the USER settings, it is worth checking very carefully the menu settings of the AF/FA , and indeed all other critical settings before saving a USER setting.

It would be only too easy to assume that a AF/FA menu setting will be maintained when switching to a USER mode, when in fact that may not be the case, depending on how the menu was set when the USER mode was saved.

Me neither, it took trial and error

One caveat I should have mentioned is that this is how it works on the K1. I would imagine it is the same for the K5 but it would be worth you checking yourself and reporting back.

The adjustments made in Apply All or Apply One can only be used individually, not cumulatively. So leave your DA55-300 at +6.

If your manual lens requires -4 you can only set that in the Apply All setting.

But here is the important bit which is not made perfectly clear in the manual: The AF/FA menu is not just for setting the adjustments, but also for telling the camera which setting to use. After you have made an adjustment check which setting the AF/FA menu is at before you exit.

OFF..... and no adjustment will be used (even though you have programmed some)

APPLY ALL .....and any lens you use will apply the "APPLY ALL" setting (even if you have a specific adjustment set for that lens in the APPLY ONE menu)

APPLY ONE.... and the camera will use the APPLY ONE setting for that individual lens. But if you use a lens which has had no calibration done to it, or use a lens which is incapable of being individually calibrated (ie your manual lens), the camera will default from APPLY ONE to APPLY ALL and use the global setting.

So the answer for you is to adjust the manual lens in "APPLY ALL" and save it, but then change the menu setting to APPLY ONE before you exit the menu.

Nice work.

Pentax doesn't do tarty. Stick with your Sony.

Agree with John here. A sharp non-pixel shift picture is going to out resolve a blurry pixel shift one every time. I regularly print 24"x16" from FF K1 images and have no need for PS.

If you are using an original K1 (which does not have Dynamic PS) you are going to be at risk of shake unless you use a tripod. The SR mechanism does not operate in PS mode, because it is being used to shift the pixels.

The statement that PS files are 4x as big is misleading. if you shoot raw then the files can be up to 4x as big because the raw file will contain 4 separate captures. Once you process that raw file in appropriate software the resulting jpeg will be the same size as an equivalent one taken without PS.

If you shoot jpeg in camera the file size will be the same as a non PS capture.

Very nice set.

Nice. It certainly is the rose season right now

I use these for b+w https://www.harmanlab.com/

...and in PS/LR you have the Grad ND filter tool also so you can replicatate a lot in pp. Although in a scene where there is a big difference between light and dark it may not be possible to capture the whole DR in one shot. The pp tools still need detail to work their magic. I suppose you can take a number of exposures and blend them in pp, but I have never tried that myself.