Hi and welcome to the best and friendliest Pentax forum on the web.

I’ve had the K100d for the last 2 years, and have enjoyed every minute of it. You will be amazed at the image quality compared to a compact.

The K100d Super has shake dust control at start-up and able to use SDM lenses.

Due to the smaller pixel count I would stay away from the HC cards, a 2gig card gives 186 RAW and a massive 689 jpegs, that’s a lot to lose should something go wrong.

I have used high power Ni-Mh for one day photo sessions but keep Panasonic Infinium for everyday usage as they always seem to be ready to go. A good battery charger is also important.

Other things to think about are how you are going to carry the camera around and software.

Hope this helps
Ron

I bought my wife a pair of the Viking Navigator 8x42 (£119 from a local photographic shop), most people that we have loaned them to have stated how clear they are. They do have a small amount of purple fringing on high contrast areas but generally we have found them very usable.

Key point is try before you buy, we tried several pairs of similar binoculars before we chose these on comfort grounds.

Then found this review at Timesonline link for confimation, although advice at shop made up for missing the price point.

Hope this helps
Ron

Martin, thanks for some kind and useful comments, well done for the difficult job of being the judge.

Congratulations Epithet Man, a brilliant capture !

Ron

Dymchurch Beach




Pentax K100D Kit Lens @ 55mm f/16 @ 1/500s iso 200 edited in SP & PSE5

Ron

Congratulations to Daniel, looking forward to the next subject.

Iceblinker, I didn't envy your task this week, with such a diverse and interesting range of images. Well Done.

Ron

K100d 18-55 @ 55mm, 1/500 @ f/10 ISO 400

Ron

Congratulations (or Commiserations should it be) to Iceblinker, like the new topic, hoping for some good weather to get some photos.

Lily as usual, good and useful critique, had great fun generating my resultant image using Elements, something I would not have tried without the competition. THANKS!

Ron

K100D Pentax 50-200 @ 115mm, 1/250s @ f/8 ISO 200
Lots of Elements 5
Ron

Hi Clarky

Sorry to hear of your bad news

Hope it does not take too much of your time to sort things out.

Our hearts go out to you and your wife.

Sally and Ron

Well done to all, an amazing competition.

John has carried out the difficult task of judging and critique giving superb and decisive advice. Well done John.

Congratulations to Lilly for an outstanding image, a well deserved 1st.

I’d like to thank you all for these weekly competitions. They have given me a reason to go out with my camera (not that I really need one) .
They are changing the way I am viewing the everyday things around me.
These competitions are a superb learning resource on the way to compose and critique images.

Many thanks and I am looking forward to the next challenge.
Ron