[RICHARD L.]

K20 + DA 16-45 mm f/4, 26 mm FL.

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Last edited by RICHARD L.; 02-03-2023 at 08:25 AM.

[Grimmus]

K20 + DA 16-45 mm

Nice! This was my first DSLR combination and the images from this combo still stand up very well!

[Cruddola]

My first dive into digital of my very own was with the K10D in 2006 and added another pair of K20D bodies and grips in 2008. I had moved from my fleet of Nikon F2 and F3 film gear from my days as a Beirut-based UPI shooter back in the 80's. I even had Century Optics convert of my 400 mm f2.8 Ais Nikkors and one of my 600mm f4.0 Ais Nikkors to K-mount. With any of my Tamron 300mm f2.8 Adapt-alls I get focus confirmation anyhow. It's 2023 and I still use those K10 and K20s today. Each of my vehicles has an exact kit that had never left them.

Our summers are almost 7-months long and easily reach 120 degrees here along the Mexighanistani border. The Pentaxes and my lenses have held up without a single issue despite being kept in three vehicles. Just a matter of just driving off. The summer monsoons and lightning shows are killer here! My weatherized (and their lousy dead AF) lenses are the perfect menu. After a haboob/blinding dust storm, it's just a matter of rinsing the gear under a showerhead or faucet. No other camera maker offered that back in 2006! I haven't the need to upgrade or do I need full-frame either. I shoot scenic anyhow.

I also shoot almost always manual-mode and manual focus anyhow. I did love the D* AF lenses until their SDM went to shit on all of them. I'm all last generational KAF Sigma 2.8 or faster now. Nine bodies with grips and 15 lenses. I rarely go beyond 400. 100 is where I'm at home. Kinda like my Dark Ages back in the 60's with Ektachrome 64 and Kodachrome 25. I get great 8.5 X11-inch prints! That's all I need or want.

For what I do, they're perfect!

[ChristianRock]

My first dive into digital of my very own was with the K10D in 2006 and added another pair of K20D bodies and grips in 2008. I had moved from my fleet of Nikon F2 and F3 film gear from my days as a Beirut-based UPI shooter back in the 80's. I even had Century Optics convert of my 400 mm f2.8 Ais Nikkors and one of my 600mm f4.0 Ais Nikkors to K-mount. With any of my Tamron 300mm f2.8 Adapt-alls I get focus confirmation anyhow. It's 2023 and I still use those K10 and K20s today. Each of my vehicles has an exact kit that had never left them.

I think you need to prove it by posting some pictures

Our summers are almost 7-months long and easily reach 120 degrees here along the Mexighanistani border. The Pentaxes and my lenses have held up without a single issue despite being kept in three vehicles. Just a matter of just driving off. The summer monsoons and lightning shows are killer here! My weatherized (and their lousy dead AF) lenses are the perfect menu. After a haboob/blinding dust storm, it's just a matter of rinsing the gear under a showerhead or faucet. No other camera maker offered that back in 2006! I haven't the need to upgrade or do I need full-frame either. I shoot scenic anyhow.

Ok, now I'm really anxious to see some shots!!

I also shoot almost always manual-mode and manual focus anyhow. I did love the D* AF lenses until their SDM went to shit on all of them. I'm all last generational KAF Sigma 2.8 or faster now. Nine bodies with grips and 15 lenses. I rarely go beyond 400. 100 is where I'm at home. Kinda like my Dark Ages back in the 60's with Ektachrome 64 and Kodachrome 25. I get great 8.5 X11-inch prints! That's all I need or want.

For what I do, they're perfect!

I'm the same way. With the K20D I was at ISO 100-400 most of the time, sometimes 640 if I had to, but I avoided 800 and up. With the K10D and K200D I tend to stay in ISO 100 as much as possible, like you - usually when I open the RAW files it just gives me joy to work on them. I sold the K20D, I like the CCD sensor better on those older cameras... also have the K-S1 and K-S2 because the 20MP sensor is also, in my opinion, very good, but I keep going back to those older cameras if I can help it!

[Aussie Matt]

How did the drag racing shoot go? Please paste some images...

Was supposed to be in another 3 or so weeks, but I check the website and I can no longer see it on the calendar, I guess they've cancelled it.

[junkbench]

I picked up a K20D because I saw one for sale with a 50mm F1.4 FA on its nose and the price was so cheap I said - why not?, so I got it.

It almost makes me upset at my old K7, I avoided the K20D for years thinking it was as bad as the K7 and it turns out its not as noisy.

Enjoying owning mine, this poor undead beetle, his ghost is gonna haunt me but, gotta use him for testing purposes and a quarter.

50mm Sigma Macro MF 1:1, taken at 100ISO on a K20D

[Mbaez]

Punch of color
A punch of color after a monochrome week.

Pentax K-20D + Sigma EX 50mm F2.8 Macro

50mm f/4 1/400S ISO400



50mm f/4 1/250S ISO100



50mm f/2.8 1/60S ISO100

[paulh]

Punch of color

Very nice colors, too!

[Mbaez]

Very nice colors, too!

Thanks! I like how the K20D renders pinks.

[Toma]

Attaching some prime lenses on this camera it really improve the shooting experience and the photo's beauty.

[Aussie Matt]

Good news. That drag meet that got cancelled, is now selling tickets for October. K20d will be getting it's work out.

[ChristianRock]

Attaching some prime lenses on this camera it really improve the shooting experience and the photo's beauty.

Wonderful colors. Pictures like these make me kind of want to get a K20D again... I still think it's one of the best cameras ever created for people shots, perhaps the best Pentax.

Punch of color
A punch of color after a monochrome week.

Pentax K-20D + Sigma EX 50mm F2.8 Macro

50mm f/4 1/400S ISO400



50mm f/4 1/250S ISO100



50mm f/2.8 1/60S ISO100

Beautiful color transitions.

[Mbaez]

Beautiful color transitions.

Thank you. I need to use it more, it produces lovely colors.

[HoundFrog]

[HoundFrog]

thinking it was as bad as the K7 and it turns out its not as noisy.

Since you have/had both, could you please make a short comparison of the image quality and related things? Asking because I have a K20d, and I like the colors it produces, but the buttons layout is too different from my other cameras (K-1, k-01), so switching them in the field is pain. So I thought that maybe I will get myself a K7, and enjoy virtually the same sensor (Samsung 14 Mp) in a body that is ergonimically consistent with the rest of my fleet. And the same battery.

Is it much worse? I tried it once for a few days (many years ago), what I remember is a very satisfying mirror/shutter sound.