It's the banding sometimes seen in the dark areas of an image at high ISO (aka Visual Pattern Noise).

I only got it on my K10D if I cranked up the exposure a lot in the raw converter (in which case it's not surprising), but there's endless discussion of this on Depressing Review (qv).

R

Clearly, I did pitch this at the wrong level as I've been inundated with enquiries

However, it has gone now - thanks to everyone who expressed an interest

R

As a prelude to putting it on eBay, I'm lowering the price to £275

Cheers,
Reuben0

Due to my acquisition of a K20D, my much loved K10D is now surplus to requirements

It's a year old and is in mint condition, apart from a few specs of dust on the focussing screen (which does not affect picture quality).

Focus, both AF and manual, is spot-on. There are no VPN problems that afflict some K10Ds. It's taken around 5000 shots.

Box and all accessories and paperwork are included.

I was thinking around £300 - drop me a PM if interested.

R

Had a bit of a play now

My first impressions are:

Externally almost the same as the K10D apart from the shutter release is black.

The new LCD doesn't really seem any bigger or better.

The shutter and sensor shake are quite a lot quieter.

There does seem to be a bit more dynamic range (haven't tried the D-range function yet though).

There is a fair bit more detail.

ISO 1600 is very usable, having quite a lot more detail.

ISO 3200 is like 1600 on the K10D, but a bit sharper.

ISO 6400 is very noisy, but still with a fair amount of detail.

Tungsten WB gives much better colours than the K10 (at least in my lounge).

Also Silkypix doesn't understand the RAW PEF files yet (no real suprise there).

Can't wait to try it out in daylight

Cheers,
R

I left early from work and picked mine up from SRS on the way home (a bit of a detour via Watford)

Externally it's almost indistinguishable from the K10D.

I'm just about to put a battery in and try it out...

R

My wife and I went to Ranthambhore (another Tiger reserve in India) over the Xmas holiday.

I used an M*300/4 and my wife used an F 70-210 (both on digital).

My experience was:

The F70-210 is a great lens but was not quite long enough and the 300 was much better (although a lot heavier to lug around India ).

Manual focus was fine because the tigers didn't move that much (but when they did move, they moved very rapidly). In addition, as they were in long grass a lot of the time, autofocus had a hard job distinguishing between grass and tiger.

I used a shoulder-pod to keep the 300 steady, but I'd wished I'd taken one of those pods that attaches to a car door - would have been perfect for using in a jeep (but not so good from the back of an elephant ).

R

These days, CZJ lenses seem to have a cachet totally out of proportion with results gathered by objective testing

See for example: http://oomz.net/135/.

I was very amused to see another writer's conclusion that "the tested Super-Multi-Coated Takumar is embarrassingly good compared with the highly regarded CZJ S(onnar)".

http://galactinus.net/vilva/retro/comp135.html

Will these Canon users ever learn

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R

Well I'll be selling mine shortly (& the 16-45) in order to fund my K20D pre-order
Drop me a pm if you're interested.

R