I think that when switching from using a camera in auto to manual setting it is best to go to full manual which is not as dificult as may think, the important thing to understand is how changing a setting affect the end result.

I would set the metering to mutli-segement for now, which will average out for the whole scene. Its worth remebering that the meter expects the scene to be a grey, so if you took picture of white wall you would need to over expose to get it to come out white and similarily a black scene would need to be underexposed.

The basic settigns can roughly be described as follows;

ISO - Sensetivity of sensor to light, lower ISO like 200 will provide more detail, raising it to higher setting like 1600 will result in less detail and more noise.

Apperture - affects how much light reaches sensor through the lens, wider apperture such as f3.5 will let in more light than a narrow apperture such as f11. Apertures also affect how much of scene is in focus wider aperture = less of scene/subject from font to back is in focus.

Shutter Speed - Shutter speed affects how long the sensor is exposed to light. A faster shutter speed 1/2000 will freeze moving subject, a slower speed such as 1/10 will render moving subjects as a blur. (Point Mr B made about keeping shutter speed above focal length when han holding is worth remembering to avod camera shake)

What seetings you can use will depend on the amount of light avaialble.

I hope I have not assumed you know less than you did this is not patronsing!

What is about pentax forums that when ever pentax announces a new product or what ever people feel compeled to have long arguments about marketing? It's even started to creep into reviews.

Interesting set of photos, thanks for posting

I bought one from SRB Griturn, this also turned out to be Camdiox branded filter, they are charging £27 for 67mm filter (£30 for 77mm I bought)

I enjoyed watching that, thanks for posting

I might have got my sums wrong but i make it 44.4 hours, assuming it does not crash or go slow

K-X was my frist DSLR. Origonally wanted to get a Canon or Micro 4/3 but the reviews directed me to the K-X because of image qualty, it was also alot cheaper.

Spec suggest you get eye piece cap as standard. Thats handy, there have been a few discussions about light entering veiwfinder and affecting metering recently

looks good to me.

Just ordered a MFT camera as smaller carry around. I wonder if this would have been a better choice.

I wonder how it works at lower sensitivty, i.e would the lowest sensitivity setting be 10 stops higher?