Ah yes ears, the flappy twig,moss,dirt,insect, and thistle catchers. How this breed ever made it as gun dogs, spending time out in the fields and woods is beyond me. Totally mad, cheeky and clever.....I love them

You don't remember the Z1DS hybrid model then.

I like the picture..... the juxtapsition with the ferris wheel works well

Yep, that is what I have set the camera to. Was really wondering if there would be any circumstances not to ?

As a side note , I have owned a MX; Z1;*istDS;K10D; and now a K1. The change in technology from the MX to the Z1 was stellar, the jump from there to the DS and K10 was not that major (excepting the film/digital switch), but the features now on the K1 are another big leap. What will we have in another 10 years ?

As a new user of the K1 I am finding a lot has changed since my last purchase of a Pentax camera, a K10D eight years ago.

I am playing at the moment with the Lens correction settings, particularly the Distortion Correction. I mostly shoot raw, and use Silkypix DS Pro7. Now I know that if I use Distortion Correction in-camera, the correction is saved as a raw parameter. I have the option of either using the correction; letting Silkypix apply an auto-correction; or apply a manual correction myself.

I assume the distortion correction feature has been available for a while on previous models. I would be interested in what most folk do with this setting?

Thanks Mike. This one is definitely down to the equipment rather than any photographic skill. I was using continous shooting with AFC. The scattergun approach is the only way to get this kind of image, and it was not till I got home that I realised what I had captured.

A very mad spaniel indeed...his older "brother" is just as bonkers........

Beautiful frosty morning today, so we were out with the dogs and the new K1. I was very happy with this capture. K1 + DA* 60-250. 1/500s f5.6.

Looks better at a larger size https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/679/31072648834_4c1344383f_h.jpg

Focal length is focal length and cannot change.

What will change is the field of view...ie what you see through the viewfinder. So the 300 on a crop sensor will have the same field of view as a 450mm lens would show on a full frame sensor.

Both the DA200 and 300 were released for a crop sensor body. Optimised for Digital if you like (Pentax had no FF body at the time), hense the name DA. But the designs are capable of producing an image on a full frame too. But irrespective of whether released for a crop sensor or a FF, a lens focal length will be the same.

It should work just fine. The lens has been designed for a full frame sensor, but it will work fine on a crop as the centre images a lens produces are invariable sharper than the edges.

The focal length will always be 28-105.

The first three are stunning. I really like the textures in the 3rd one.