Originally posted by Jimkol Unfortunately, I had somehow de-selected auto ISO a few shots in. I was shooting in aperture and shutter priority and the images on the LCD display looked good. However, when I got home, almost everything was blurry. I was too concentrated on aperture and shutter that I didn't notice the ISO until I was done. Am I the only idiot?
No, you most certainly are not. You're in good company actually. The K-5 is my 4th Pentax DSLR over the last few years and I have some 75K shots under my belt. Only last week I left my camera on TAv with the shutterspeed at 1/1000 and aperture F11 on a perfectly bright spring day, resulting in ridiculous ISO's of 1600 and more where ISO200-400 with 1/250 and F5.6 would have been perfectly sufficient. I managed to "bring back" my shots with Neat Image but they could have been so much better.
I have learned to shrug these momentary lapses of reason off and go on shooting. You name it, I've done it: no battery, no memory card, no lens (yes, actually NO lens!!!), wrong ISO, wrong timezone messing up my GPS data in the EXIF....everything, literally everything. You'd think I would have learned by now...nope.