LOL. Technically the K10D was my first proper camera of my own. Otherwise I've borrowed an ME Super, Super A and Finepix S20 Pro over the years.

I really like the ME and Super A and have managed to appropriate them since the original owners stopped using them 10 and 8 years ago respectively.

I remember being given a 35mm P&S when I was about 6. How could I forget about that, used it a lot. It had a wide angle adapter built in which you'd set with the flick of a switch.

The only reason I use Firefox over Opera is Add Blocker Plus. Gets rid of all the waste of bandwidth adverts. I use Opera 9.5 when on the go on my PDA and that is great! Shame about all the adds clogging up my measly mobile connection.

Yeah, this weekend has a bleak outlook. So the first weekend in August sounds perfect. Now, is the previously decided location still good or are we changing that?

What is wrong with the 1st of the 2ns set? At least at that resolution the detail looks almost the same. The 1st picture you posted is a little warmer and has a lower exposure so that may help.

Well my shower here is high pressure. Not going to risk that. Rain in the Highlands with 60mph winds on the other hand is just my sort of thing. May get to test that come September.

DA* 50-135, can't think of anything better. Sadly I don't have one... Yet...

I tend to use my 50-200mm at the moment for candid shots and generally use it between 80mm and 135mm.

We have two original Pentax (£50 each but came with each K10D) batteries, one Hahnel (£20) and one Inov8 (£20). The 3rd party ones are slightly lower power but I can't tell the difference between them and the Pentax ones.

I'm not sure I'd trust anything cheaper than those. Good Li-Ion batteries need quite a bit of care in manufacture. Any contamination can cause explosions.

Sony had a hundreds of thousands of potentially contaminated batteries a year or two ago which they recalled. Many burst into flames. (these were for all sorts of uses, not just cameras)

I think he was talking about the weather sealing. I wouldn't dream of putting mine underwater though!

Last weekend we had a meal at a nice country house to celebrate my other half's grandmother's 80th birthday.

More importantly me and her uncle are photographic enthusiasts and spent a lot of the time shooting, discussing technoques, comparing shots and playing with equipment.

He used to shoot Pentax (has a K1000 and some lenses) but now shoots Nikon (D200).

Here are a few of the shots I got from our 'volunteer' models.

All shot with K10D + DA* 16-50mm F2.8 + Metz 58 and 'Bubblesphere'
Bubblesphere see: https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/Best-Diffuser-Solutions-7030










C&C welcome

I must say that first shot is amazing. A lot of emotion portrayed, yes it is anthropomorphic but the whole scene is really good.

Spider:
"I don't want to come out... It is is scary out there"

So cute!