Last one is a cracker. He looks a lovely boy too. I have the M 85 f2. Must give it an outing soon. Sitting portraits only!

Gosh these are real quality. The first and last are really good. I am sure these have commercial value

Take care you don’t take excessive risks.

They breed 'em tough up there !

No's 2 and 4 for me please.

Thanks for the comments . Funny you mention flash Nigel as my first reaction when I viewed the image on the computer was it looked like fill flash had been used. I was lucky the low sunlight filtering through the trees was doing that job for me.

Thing is I don't get much time for planning any positioning as such when they are tearing about the garden like the mad hounds they are. I invariably use TAv mode in these circumstances so that the shutter will be fast enough to freeze the action and the aperture will be just right for the DOF I want. Luckily the K1 has low noise at 1100.

I took 90 shots yesterday afternoon. This was the first one I took !

I don't know the K70, I assume the manual flash setting allow you to control output from the camera?

By normal flash you mean P-TTL ? if so it is possible that the slave is triggering on the pre flash. Can you see the effect of the slave in the picture?

Another thought.... if you are getting correctly exposed pictures it sounds like the flash is not in slave mode at all !! Which is odd as it is not supposed to work that way ?

Aha. I see you speak Dog.

K1 + DA* 60-250. 1/750 f5.6 ISO 1100 FL 250mm

Lovely set of lenses.

Hello George. What a handsome boy

i wonder if they will even produce a new version of the mythical M 35mm 1.4 !!

http://kmp.pentaxians.eu/lenses/wide-angle/m35f1-4/