I'm after a spare battery for my GX10 & wondered if anyone knows of a decent alternative brand, cheapest original I can find is £37

thanks

simon

It's best not to think about things like this too much. I've seen some bl**dy awful photographs taken by professionals & some brilliant ones by amateurs & vice versa.

Whilst camera choice is obviously important and certainly makes a difference it certainly isn't the "be all & end all" of photography - the guy (or gal) using it needs to know what they're doing !!

simon

I moved from a bridge camera some time ago & went through exactly the same thought process...

The lenses attached to decent bridge cameras usually out-perform the "budget" kit lenses supplied with DSLRs - I immediately upgraded my kit to the Sigma 17-70 & the difference was enormous, at least in my eyes !!

Also, as already mentioned, the small sensor of the bridge gives greater natural DOF & to achieve similar effects the DSLR needs stopping down a bit more - roughly about 2 stops I think.

simon

Thanks for the explanation but to be honest I'm very familiar with the cameras functionality - spent hours pouring over the manual when I first purchased it

The main reason for my post is that I sometimes shoot in High contrast lighting and previous to owning the GX10 (K10D) I always used Spot Metering as "average metering" didn't achieve the exposure I required.

With the GX10 I don't find spot metering producing greatly differing exposure even in high contrast scenes - I now almost always use "Pattern".

To be honest Pattern actually works very well in most instances - maybe the "average" metering of the K10D is just so much better than my previous camera that it copes with high contrast scenes more effectively. Not complainng but just making the observation really

thanks

simon

Having tried out all the metering modes - spot, centre etc, I must admit that there doesn't seem to be a great deal of difference.

Spot metering in particular doesn't seem to produce the results I expect - anyone else have any thoughts on this ?

thanks

simon

Don't have the Tamron but have the Sigma 17-70, great lens & useful range, definitely worth considering too

simon

Bear in mind the Pentax 55-300 is only just around the corner, so it may be worthwhile waiting to see what the reviews/users say before making a final decision - the downside of the Pentax is that it will be significantly more expensive than the Tamron/Sigma - hopefully it will be significantly better too !!

simon