The 4gig card in my grip is a result of heading off on a day trip without my usual card... Makes a change from forgetting to shove some spare rolls of film in the bag!

Best wishes, Kris.

Fascinating. Thanks for the links.

Kris.

Some of you may have experienced the thick fog yesterday. I quite liked the effect with this one though:




Taken as a RAW file, converted to BW (although to be honest hardly any different to the colour one!) in CS3, tweaked the curves a little.

C&C welcome as always.

Best wishes, Kris.

A while back someone commented that Pentax doesn't seem to get much of a look-in with magazines and competitions. I get "Black and White Photography" magazine which doesn't seem to suffer this bias as much as perhaps some others. This month, a runner up in the portfolio section uses a K10D with the kit lens and a Phoenix 100mm macro, and in one of the articles the author uses a Pentax Spotmatic with a 55mm lens. A bit of a "niche" magazine I know, but it is cheering to see.

Best wishes, Kris.

About the only thing that made me think of switching to Canon was the lack of tilt/shift lenses in the Pentax range (only 28mm shift no longer in production) but I solved the problem by buying a 5x4 view camera to go with my Pentaxes....

Enjoy the K200D and you'll find the people here wonderfully willing to be helpful if you have any questions.

Best wishes, Kris.

Welcome to the fora. Amiable lot here so join in and have fun.

Best wishes, Kris.

If you scroll down half an inch there are details about being a pro centre below. One curious thing though..

Pentax 18-55mm SMC DA f3.5~5.6 AL lens £149.00
Pentax 18-55mm SMC DA f3.5-5.6 AL II £119.00



I'll have two... [not]

Best wishes, Kris.

I'm pretty happy with the kit lens apart from being a bit on the slow side sometimes. That is why I decided to get the 50-135mm first rather than the 16-50mm. I'll admit to wondering if I should get the 12-24 as my next lens purchase rather than the 16-50... decisions decisions.

BTW, and back to the OP (so many TLAs), lovely shots. I, too, prefer No. 2.

Best wishes, Kris.

Just to add one extra point to Nathan's excellent post. The trade off with fast lenses is the narrow depth of field. You might get an extra couple of stops using f/1.4 BUT, if you are relatively close to your subject (e.g. the baby photograph) you may well find that such a narrow area is in focus that you still are not getting what you would like.

I recently got a SMC-A 50mm f/1.4 but have mainly used it when I deliberately want selective focus.

Best wishes, Kris.

I use both methods. My latest memory card came with a tiny little card reader which is actually quite convenient and smaller than carting the cable about. One thing in its favour is that I have in the past forgotten the camera was attached. Once, I moved the laptop and watched in horror as my K10 fell to the ground. Thankfully, Pentax make 'em tough and no damage was sustained. Lastly, my original cable stopped working a few weeks back and I had to buy a replacement off fleabay.

I don't think it really matters one way or the other.

Best wishes, Kris.