Interesting articles. This backs up my own experiences. Worth pointing out that they found no evidence that SR has a detrimental effect at faster shutter speeds.

Lovely portrait.

+1

I learned a new word today Geoff ! Hornswoggled ! Keep them coming.

Using LV with manual focus is a fantastic tool when you zoom at 100%. It beats all the digital focus tools the camera offers in my opinion.

Especially useful for those of us who use the old manual focus lenses.

I have never noticed this using the K1.

No experience of that lens Gareth, but as far as AF adjustment is concerned i need a +10 on a few of mine so as long as you get accurate AF at that setting I would not be concerned.

The degree of AF adjustment needed will always depend on a camera/lens combo. A camera can be spot-on but the lens needs a lot of adjustment or vice versa. The majority of cases will fall between the two.

Whatever method you use to do the AF test make sure you do a "best out of 10" attempts before deciding on your final setting. A single AF test will not necessarily yield an accurate result.

Very nice

I think you did quite well with that combo., especially number 3

I like to give the old lenses an outing on a digital body

Hi Steve

Just had a look at your pictures on flickr and there is clearly a problem and it has nothing to do with your focussing. Nothing at all is sharp in the unsharp pictures.

Only thing I can think of is that perhaps the shake reduction mechanism is not turning on correctly. This could be a problem on older cameras but I doubt it would be a reason on the K3. Perhaps experiment with it on/off.

Perhaps there is a problem with the lens ? You could do some experiments and see.

Other than that I am flummoxed. Anyone else got any ideas ?

I am afraid the pictures are too small for me to able to see. Can you upload full size images with exif intact to a site like flickr ?