I am more paranoid about the site record photos (dull pictures of mud) than my carefully crafted "nice" photos. The former I have been paid to produce (in a round about way), the latter only I would cry...

I will happily admit that I wish they had sorted this one out so we could just use the K and M series lenses without fiddling about. I do, however, find that one or two of my K/M series lenses are worth it, e.g. the 135mm f/2.5. On the whole, however, the autofocus lenses go on the K10, the K/M/A lenses go on the bayonet 35mm cameras, and the M42s on the M42 cameras. I sometimes play around mixing things up, but not often. The only lens which floats between series is the FA43mm Ltd which is either on the LX or the K10D.

You don't trust your Dad with your 43 Ltd? Shame on you! But then I wouldn't either, or my 50-135mm, or the 12-24 or the f/2.5 135mm... I think I have an old Vivitar somewhere...

I find all this discussion about hardware quite interesting. Professional archiving institutions are less worried about that than (a) the format of the files and (b) finding them (i.e. metadata). PEFs are camera specific, DNG is yet to become a recognised archive format although Adobe would like it to be, jpegs degrade, photoshop files are software specific... The current preferred long term file format is TIF.

With metadata, we are all familiar with the EXIF information, and many of us add in extras such as copyright info when we download the files (I have a standard metadata template in lightroom) but how many of us really add in useful information such as where the photograph was taken and what it is of? I have been taking digital photos since 2002 using various P&S but since getting the K10D a year and a half ago the number of files I have has gone up enormously. Most are still PEFs, few have much metadata... (and most should be deleted!)

Cheers, Kris.

Thanks for the info.

Best wishes, Kris.

Wrongly described, and she'll be lucky

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Check out the warranty too. Pro-centres give you two years instead of the standard one.

Kris.

Anvh, look at Peter Elgar's portfolio, he has studio shots using the 67.

Hear hear!

How do you find it with monochome prints? I'm looking into getting something along those lines.

Thanks, Kris.