What memory card do you have? With a high speed card writing RAW and JPEG is very quick. You NEED a 120x speed or better card in the K10D as with any other good DSLR. Sandisk Extreme III cards are what I use and there is only a slowdown after 9 shots. Shooting JPEG I can shoot continuously till the card is full.

Learning to use a camera and its limitations any you will get brilliant shots. The needs to be exposed to the left of the histogram to retain maximum detail. Shooting to the right will cause blown out highlights. The S5Pro is one of the few cameras that you expose to right as it is much better with highlights than dark regions.

It does have in camera B+W mode but only in JPEG. There is no such thing as a B+W RAW file in any DSLR. It may be tagged as such, but will never be B+W. You can quickly apply a B+W filter to any shot you take in the K10D internally and save the output file as a JPEG on the camera! The in camera RAW developer is handy.

RAW works for exposure bracketing but only if you have a good memory card! A good memory card is very important on any DSLR. You can't stick in a good low speed card and expect it to keep up. That is like buying a sports kit car and sticking a 1.2l Polo engine in it and complaining that it won't go.


I'll just give some examples of places where the camera would normally overexpose parts.

Sky overexposure on an overcast day:



Exposed for sky details while still leaving it slightly high to capture shadow details. Processing the image I pulled down the highlights slightly and pushed up the dark regions.

Shooting into the sun:



There will always be some overexposure in this situation but there is enough shadow detail to be able to expose for the highlights you want and push up the shadows a bit.


Just my thoughts on what your problems seem to be. I always shoot on manual to get full control over the exposure. The metering system is not perfect an it becomes second nature to adjust to compensate. You must also know where/what to meter against to get the image you want.

Wait, someone else started a new one:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1036&thread=25462583

The search never works and I can't get google to bring it up

I can't remember what the outcome was or the exact technique but someone was going along similar lines. The way things disappear on DPReview it probably needs re-investigating.

You are too late, someone on DPReview already showed you can really improve the DR of a shot using multi-exposure mode. Multi-exposure mode can also be used to replace ND filters for taking landscape shots and water shots.

There are several threads on the novel use of ME!!!

I took about 750 shots on the old S20Pro a couple of years back. Unfortunately I forgot my tripod and was prone on a wall the whole evening.

Tripod, IR Remote, a good spot to stand and machine-gun mode!!!

Good timing can be used if you dislike machine-gun mode.

I'd use a 17-70 lens or similar for a large display and a 50-200 for a small display. Also depends on the distance.

I'm going to have an other go with my K10D at the national fireworks competition in Plymouth sometime around April.

Exactly right... the Cony is a fixed lens 'p&s'.

It can be a little irritating that you get this sort of thing. at 1/180 does it still happen? That is the maximum shutter speed for full frame exposure on the K10D.

You may be interested in this:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1036&thread=25431769

Multi-exposure mode in the K10D so you don't need to combine them in PP. Improved dynamic range and a lot less noise.

I think they decided 9 exposures at ISO100 was like shooting at ISO11 with ISO33 noise levels.

They have been delayed in favour of a consumer super-zoom 18-250 and the Star 60-250 F4.

It is a real shame as those two lenses are ones I am really interested in. I've lost interest in the zooms and just want to save for some primes.

I can't wait for the *55 *200 and *300.

AKAIK all K10Ds have 1.0 firmware from the factory, I don't know of anyone who has received one with a different version.