Welcome to the fora.

If you buy A, F, FA, FA-J, DA series lenses (or their starred versions!) you do not need any sort of adaptor.

If you use K or M series lenses, you need to enable use of the aperture ring in one of the custom menus of your K10D (see manual) but you can still use the lens without an adaptor. Some people have had problems getting the metering right and you are limited in the modes you can use. Manual and aperture priority work fine.

If you buy an older Takumar M42 screw mount lens (various versions, the SMC-Takumar are to be recommended) you need a screw mount to K mount adaptor. You are best advised to get a genuine Pentax one as some other makes mess up your focusing at infinity.

M42, K, M and A series lenses are manual focus only, obviously.

I think that is it!

Cheers, Kris.

I'm not selling one but thinking of bidding on one! As Mac said, it would make a nice portrait lens and would work on my S1a or my K010D...

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I love the deep depth of field and the wide variety of scales in these pictures. Never be put off by bad weather!

I really like the first picture but I would crop it slightly to get the horizon straight, the sea is at a little bit of an angle. Also, did you apply sharpening before you resized? The edge between land and sky is quite hard and has a slight blue halo to it.

The last picture is fun and colourful but I wonder if it might have been better to either have moved round a little bit and concentrated on the buoys and baskets making it almost an abstract, or pulled back a bit and made it more of a sea town scene.

Great shots and thanks for sharing. Best wishes, Kris.

A SMC Takumar 24mm F3.5 just sold for £112.56 on ebay, so they are certainly keeping their value. Any guesses how much a SMC Takumar 85mm F1.8 will go for?

Best wishes, Kris.

Some great shots there. K.

I was playing with my A 50 F1.7 last weekend (see photo in gallery) which is how I discovered the problem! I'm looking forward to trying the f/1.4 when it arrives.

Cheers, Kris.

If you have the body on autofocus it will refuse to fire unless it thinks the lens is in focus. Try turning the body to MF and see what happens.

Cheers, Kris.

Hi. If you look at the LCD display on the top of your K10D you will see three tick marks showing the three bracketed exposures, one of which will blink when you half depress the shutter button indicating the current exposure (in case you had forgotten how many you had taken). If you then dial in an exposure compensation you'll see all three little tick marks move as you do so indicating the level of compensation compared to the reading. So, +/- 1 stop bracketing with +1EV compensation will give you 0, +1 and +2EV shots.

Best wishes, Kris.

Is worth having the pro bundle so that one can work with 16 bit files, or is the home edition good enough?

Thanks, Kris.

I especially like the third one, it is an unusual angle which makes it stand out.

What are the orange shiny things between its eyes?

BTW what is it about bugs and this forum? There seems to be quite a theme developing!

Best wishes, Kris.