MSM - Thanks for the valuable help. Yes I wear glasses
For some reason (read - because I am a novice) I always ignored to see the green hexagon and just went by the beep that tells me I was in focus. After your message (and others who commented that the hexagon should be appearing) I went looking for it in the VF and found it
It appears every time I hear the beep and when I am in focus.
I also saw that I was using the 1-point focus (when I had 11-point focus available too) and tried clicking with 1-point focus first, with the result that the focused area was sharp but rest around it was quite blurry, in fact even the focused area was blurry in the outer reaches of the round focus ring in the VF. Than I changed that to 11-point (all this time with f16) and clicked again and got a beautiful focused photo, this time the outer reaches of the ring in the VF was tack sharp. I realised I was using a fast shutter speed in low light conditions (1/1000 upwards at an iso of 1600) when I should've been using say about 1/100 and lower, which I tried now and am getting pretty sharp focused photos. Have to keep experimenting
But than again, Thanks Heaps MSM for the advise and help. You guys are wonderful.
Does anyone know(Pentax Kx) of any setting for the focus lines(and the center circle) in my VF can be made to light/blink when in focus (as I suppose that would help even further besides the green hexagon).