Hi all, I recently bought a K100D (my first Pentax!) and the DA 21mm lens, and have taken some pictures with them, some of which are here:
http://www.mabot.com/photo/pentax/ (About 2MB, so if on a dial-up, try just http://www.mabot.com/photo/pentax/IMGP0234-800.jpg first.) Am enjoying it greatly so far, although have much to learn... feel like I'm learning to expose all over again, this time with matrix metering + raw + lightroom, instead of center-weighted + slides. It's all very confusing, so many variables. I find the defaults too bright, mostly, which I could correct with exposure compensation in camera, or by any of four methods later... I seem to be able to handhold much lower speeds than I'm used to, but when I try to test SR on vs off the difference isn't all that striking. (I wondered for a bit whether the switch was broken!) Some the lack of shake is probably from having a smaller, lighter mirror mechanism, I'm used to a Nikon F3. Perhaps the SR is also designed more for longer lenses (higher frequencies). I was a little disappointed at how big the camera was when I got it, somehow I'd imagined it being quite a bit thinner. (I think there's something like 20mm of mechanism and screen behind the plane.) But still pretty small with the 21, significantly smaller than with the kit lens. I have corrected distortion in many of these pictures, so don't assume the 21 is dead straight. But am now fairly happy I'll be able to correct it as needed. It would be nice to have this automated somehow, PTLens's promised Lightroom plug-in might make me very happy. Now if only the 43mm was in stock somewhere... Cheers, Michael -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
