Originally posted by ChristianRock I guess as long as my K10D keeps working I'll keep shooting with it
Christian I love how you've captured the water droplets in the fountain.
Went out with the K10D today for the first time after maybe a month of using my little Samsung GX-1s almost exclusively (other than iPhone). I love the GX-1s, but the K10 does handle even better, and feels more reassuring all round.
Tried a lens fairly new to me, the Miranda MC Macro 24mm f/2.8. And I like it a little bit more than I did before I went out.
Fairly small and compact, surprisingly smooth focus (not Takumar smooth, but certainly approaching a Pentax-A prime and silky enough that you never think about it when focusing) and having the A setting on the aperture ring makes it easy to use on the K10D on manual mode. Pleasingly close focus too - my only other 24mm option is the wide end of my Pentax-A 24-50mm, which isn't a bad lens at all, but only focuses down to 0.4m which just doesn't seem adequate for a 24mm lens, especially compared with the sub 0.2m of the Miranda.
Certainly a lens I hope to use a lot more, at least until an equivalently wide Takumar or maybe a DA 21mm become affordable (for me).
A while back I posted on here about the green button and finding it a bit fiddly with Pentax K and M lenses, compared with shooting Av with M42 and Pentax-A series lenses. I decided to try just shooting the same way with all lenses (M42, K series, M series, A series, even my DA 35/2.4) - fully manual, using the green button to set the suggested shutter speed, then tweaking manually if I feel it needs it. It's become far more consistent and fluid, and meant I've bypassed the need to use the exposure compensation - I just do it by adjusting the shutter and or aperture and the metering scale in the viewfinder. It's given the K10D another level of fluidity in use that I'm really appreciating.