I can agree with that, a very good set. I only have one of them

On www.warehouseexpress.com


18-200mm f3.5-6.3 DC OS (72mm)
Pentax
Due Autumn £439.99

I thought that OS was Sigmas image stabilisation. What the hell is an IS lens doing coming to Pentax? It will really screw up the in body IS if it is actually released...

You press the green button next to the shutter and it closes the aperture diaphragm to take a meter reading and sets the shutter speed. You can then adjust this manually as you would do usually. Works fine on my K10D with the few M lenses I have tested. Other people have trouble with the K10D. As far as I am aware the K100D handles M lenses perfectly.

You don't seriously want to get rid of it do you?

It isn't in production and is very hard to find. I want a lens that is actually in production. If I could find the FA20 F2.8 I'd be quite happy though.

It is a shame the widest prime available is the 14mm f2.8. I am also disappointed by the lack of a ~20mm prime with an F2.8 aperture.

I've been looking for an A200F4 for a while but have decided against any more non-AF lenses. The FA50F1.4 is good but I'm waiting to see how the 55 is priced as SDM and weather sealing would be good for shooting outdoors.

The 10-17 Fisheye seems to be very good. Not the fastest lens but very capable, not sure a prime is needed.

Argh! Come on, bring out the DA* 55 200 and 300!!!



I have lost interest in zoom lenses...

Take bracketed shots and merge them is one solution.

Look at the bottom of this page:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/PentaxK10D/page15.asp

It has to do with clipping due to an overexposed area of sky.

It is a sensor limitation, the SuperCCD SR in the S20Pro doesn't do this because it is very hard to overexpose any part of the image. The dynamic range of the sensor is HUGE!

It is reversed shooting for me:#

S20ro shoot for Dark details because they will be unrecoverable. The highlights can almost always be recovered in full detail (a massive 4 stops in many cases!!!)

K10D shoot for highlight details because they will be unrecoverable. It is easy to balance the darks afterwards (About 1-2 stops can be recovered from the darks)