You geeks are awesome!

From one geek to another, thanks for your advice. Our K100d came in the mail today. I know it's a little older but it's our first real camera and we're all excited about it. Reading the posts here really helped us out a lot. There is a lot of great info to be gleaned here.

I've been a computer geek for 20 years plus, on bulletin boards then Internet the whole time. I've been on all kinds of technical forums, asking and giving advice. This forum is as nice and helpful as any of them.

I also learned that you camera geeks pre-date even us computer geeks! Amazing but true. So it was with film before, the principals are the same.

Anyhow thanks, I appreciate the help and I hope to give back as we learn this new craft.

Greg & Laurel
Seattle WA

enjoy your new camera and welcome.
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Greg Sumner said:

From one geek to another, thanks for your advice. Our K100d came in the mail today. I know it's a little older but it's our first real camera and we're all excited about it. Reading the posts here really helped us out a lot. There is a lot of great info to be gleaned here.

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Glad this forum and its users could help!

Greg Sumner said:

I've been a computer geek for 20 years plus, on bulletin boards then Internet the whole time. I've been on all kinds of technical forums, asking and giving advice. This forum is as nice and helpful as any of them.

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Most of us do try to make this forum nice and helpful. Sometimes we fail, but I believe that most often, we succeed. Thanks for the feedback.

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I also learned that you camera geeks pre-date even us computer geeks! Amazing but true. So it was with film before, the principals are the same.

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Yup, the first "photo" geeks probably started bragging about their cameras in the early 1840's, lol.

Back then, both the camera and the Dagguerotype (the ancestor's of photographic film) were usually designed and assembled by the photographers themselves, so that was REALLY something to brag about!


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All the best with your camera Greg & Laurel, if you are shooting Jpeg I found Bright, Saturation -1 and Sharp +1 good on the 100.
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Regards Dean - Capturing Creation

Greg Sumner said:

From one geek to another, thanks for your advice. Our K100d came in the mail today. I know it's a little older but it's our first real camera and we're all excited about it. Reading the posts here really helped us out a lot. There is a lot of great info to be gleaned here.

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Enjoy the K100D. It's been rather eclipsed by later models but I still charge up the AAs from time to time and take it out - and really it still does everything I personally need from a camera, and produces shots easily printable at A3. It's still a good low-cost way of getting into the Pentax system at least as long as lenses continue to have AF screw drives. There are very few shots you see on this forum or in PPG that could not have been produced just as well with the K100D as with the more recent bodies.
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Welcome Greg and Laurel, One often overlooked advantage of the K100D (and the reason that I do not sell mine) is it is quite sensitive to Infrared Light compared to Pentax's more recent DSLRs, if you are into that sort of thing. It also takes very nice pictures.

I tried to upload a jpeg infrared image (280KB) to my gallery and the upload process just hung at 65%. Sorry that I don't have a pic for you!

Greg Sumner said:

I also learned that you camera geeks pre-date even us computer geeks! Amazing but true. So it was with film before, the principals are the same.

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Yes, there are photography clubs that go back as far as 1886. Back then you were either a photography geek, or a covered wagon nut.

Enjoy your new camera.

Enjoy your new toy,post photos when you have time!
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Pentax forever
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Hi Greg, have fun!

Just a small fix to my previous reply, DxO have tested the K100d's sensor (on the D40), not the K100d itself. Nevertheless, due to the hands off approach to noise reduction and weak anti-aliasing filter I think it's even a better camera than the d40. Btw, I set mine to aRGB (Adoby RGB)+bright mode. Try using raw.

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