Perhaps he is looking over them while eating dinner to really digest all there is

I'm glad I'm not in your position at the moment. Just don't pick mine as I'll be in the same position next week then

Well here is mine, as has been said, no excuse for not entering this one.

It was quite challenging and I had to take a lot of shots before I was where I wanted in the frame.




Single reflected 40W halogen bulb plus some diffuse light through a window. Magnolia wall in the background, just some dust spot removal and a little bit of noise reduction so soften it a bit. Antique conversion and some negative vignette to soften the edges.

EDIT: Corrected linked image... Linked wrong one and corrected some spelling.

The LCD screen on the back and EVF on point and shoot cameras is very poor in terms of resolution. With an SLR you are actually looking at light coming in through the lens. The resolution is almost as good as your eye without anything in front. This means you can focus manually and frame the picture better.

LCDs are good for viewing the result afterwards but the actual image is inaccurate. You should only use it to view the histogram, composition and clipping. What you see colour, hue, intensity, contrast and brightness is not what you get when printing nor on any other screen (it is close enough for most use but can be off and the other indicators are much better). Screen calibration is important for processing and printing to get what you see to be what gets printed.


EDIT: This is going to get incredibly complicated very, very quickly! So please stop me if anything needs explaining.

It is an SLR not a point and shoot. It has a mirror and shutter in front of the sensor which means it is not exposed at all times to the light coming through the lens. You can only use the viewfinder to take a picture.

There are some DSLRs that have a 'live view' mode but this either makes the viewfinder useless or makes it darker. It is not really effective even if it can be useful in some situations.

I'd also recommend you get a book on photography to get you started as there is a lot you can do with a good camera and the limitation is almost always in the user. Once you know what you are doing you'll notice a huge improvement. Quite a steep learning curve going from nothing to SLR.

Sales volume is too low to keep stock. I'd almost always use a next day delivery service as it is cheaper anyway.

I see the prices have been updated. The K100D Super looks good, especially for the size, weight and ergonomics (the K100D is so comfortable in the hand).

Good to know when the DA* lenses are arriving. Any news on how large your allocation is? I have heard that some places are not even getting enough to fill pre-orders.

Well, I'll email them and see what they say. If that fails then I can still have it looked at by Pentax.

It is now two months old, still in warranty. Bought it online and it is a bit late to send it back now. Can still send it to Pentax for repair or replacement, but they may not do much. Is two months too long to send something back (I think it is)? Really don't want to be without it though But then again the number of shots that are off it may be worth the wait.

It still won't lock focus correctly at infinity when set to 200mm and seems to be a bit off in other aspects of focusing.