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Airport shot: You are correct. My fault. Over-sharpened and de-hazed., sorry to say. It was poor air quality and I wanted to make the shot 'pop'. Here's another at 400mm with default LR sharpening ...

FWIW: I use it with M100. No problems ...

The Canon is ridiculously de-centered. The left hand side is horrible. How can that be 'an excellent copy'?

Congratulations. That's a fine kit, and seems to be in good condition. I hope it gives you much enjoyment.

IMO, the K-5ii(s) is excellent and arguably the best value of the bunch. I'd look for the (also excellent) 16-85 zoom though (and even look into getting it new), in preference to the two zooms you ...

Can't speak for the 18-400, but I have used the Tamron 100-400 with a Canon M100 via the EF to EF-M adapter and got pretty decent results (about on a par with K-3 with DA*300 + 1.4xTC). For ...

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4280893

Great vid. The Astia shot is excellent.

Thanks for the link. I didn't take to this CameraVille guy on his previous K-1(ii) vid (which was the first time I'd ever seen or heard of him). I felt he rushed his first review out, perhaps ...

Not me. I''ll save my $500. I've been pretty uninspired by the hand held PS samples posted to date, which was the aspect of the upgrade I was looking forward to most.

A warm welcome back. Can't do more than repeat what everyone else has already said.

“Highly Recommended (Just)”

Thanks for posting, although I formed the impression (possibly wrongly) that he used/tested it for a few hours or so and then rushed out a video. Is the AF improvement purely an algorithm change ...

This annoyance can be averted by releasing the locking switch as soon as the lens starts to move from its collapsed position. Then Position #1 becomes a 'hard-stop'.

Google: Tin Cheung Camera (Tsim Sha Tsui, also a branch in Central) Wing Shing Camera (Mong Kok). Both of the above carry Pentax. Whether they will have the precise lens you are after is another ...

Agree with your first sentence. But for your second sentence, it seems like a wash in the cityscape, and maybe in the studio scene I even prefer no PS to handheld PS (although, again, they're very...

Your second paragraph is correct. All Pentax DSLRs are the same. I've had split screens in K10D, K20D (from KatzEye, until they went bust) and now K-1 (from the link above). For the K-1, I didn't...

There are focus screens for K-1:
https://www.focusingscreen.com/index.php?cPath=25_152&osCsid=b9a97b2798c388e1fd1442f6ba32cdf1

There is also focus-peaking in live view when old K lenses are used.

I'm using a K28/3.5, FA43, Cosina 55/1.2 (mainly), and Voigtlander 180/4 with my K-1. I also have the DFA 28-105, but that sees relatively little use. EDIT: forgot the second question: No, I'm not ...

All compositions must lean heavily to the left.