I have the K10 and grip, and am looking to get a third battery as a backup for a holiday trip later in the year.

My existing two batteries are both Pentax original K10 products.

Any thoughts on me getting a non-genuine Pentax battery, and especially will it present a problem mixing them in the camera/grip combo ?

Lemmy

I would do some focus tests with your prime lenses first. My experience with auto focus is that every lens is slightly different. Many do not always achieve "perfect" focus first time. Some lenses will select a slightly different focus in consecutive tests. I use a split prism focus screen (as I manually focus a lot) so I know if the auto focus is correct or not. The smaller viewfinder on DSLRs make it difficult to evaluate focus yourself without one.

If after a number of tests you cannot get sharper images with the prime lens then I would suspect the lens is at fault and you should exchange it where you bought it.

The last one is a cracker !

Thanks for that Peter. Matt's guide must have passed me by.

I wish there were more hours in the day

Aminstar

I am not an expert and others on this forum are far more knowlegeable on pp, but with regard to the USM you should use it as the last tool in your work. So after all your colour or levels/curves work has been done you should re-size, and only then use the USM to sharpen it up while viewing at 100%.

Here are some good tutorials that helped me :

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/tutorials.html

http://ronbigelow.com/articles/articles.htm

Very nice framing Father.

I like the flash photo.

I would be extremely proud if it was one of mine.......keep it.

Lovely images, especially the ones of Derwent water.

Is anyone using 8GB or more on their K10 with no problems ?