The reason this camera starts at 200 is because that is what is native to the sensor. An ISO 100 native sensor will have the same amount of noise at ISO 100 as a native ISO 200 sensor set to ISO 200. This means you actually get less noise for each ISO stop with a native ISO 200 sensor. Secondly 6MP sensors are less noisy than sensors with more photoreceptors so images are quite clean on the K100D.

Mirror lens.

I don't know how to add favourites otherwise I would have already added a few people.

Their layout could do with some work and giving things buttons rather than just linked text.

But then it is probably a Google Beeta...

Found it, guess I'm just partially sighted today.


Love your cover for the leaves gallery.

Well I was standing at least 1.1m away so I was not disturbing the insects. It was also a cool day so they were not moving about as much.

The mouse was something me and my girlfriend nearly trod on walking through a field. It was frozen in terror, my girlfriend moved the vegetation a bit and I got as close as possible with my 50-200 set at 200. It ran away after about 5 shots. Very good luck and got two good shots out of it.

I think that it stopped moving because they are used to predators that can see movement easily (Birds of prey). So it probably thought it would be safest not moving...

That walk was worth it just for those two pictures

Worrying really...

I had my other half check them as I am a bit dyslexic (I'm so glad I have a spell checker in Firefox, though a lot of the time it won't pick up the kind of mistakes I make).

Thanks for the heads up though

Oh, and Lightroom doesn't check my spelling when I title them in the EXIF.

I'm surprised Opera doesn't work, don't use it because I got used to Firefox when you still had to pay for Opera. I use Opera on my PDA/Phone and it all displays correctly (it isn't quite the same thing though).

Thanks for taking the time to look. I really need to get out and about more as I've not shot anything much since I came back up to Leeds from the South West.

I think all those photos are from June.

I finally got round to getting myself a 'proper' web album (not too fond of photo bucket for that use just general messing about).

Feel free to take a look, add comments and critique as I want to learn and improve.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tyr.francoperlak

Look forward to any comments

EDIT: Please let me know if it is not working...

I get about 180 PEF RAW or 120 DNG RAW on the same card. You could have a dodgy card, check the space available, full space and bad sectors in a card reader.

I have fixed a SanDisk card with 50% bad sectors before, you need to reformat it via command prompt to FAT16 then back to FAT32. That may help.