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Those are all beautiful pictures! I doubt that you would achieve better results with any Pentax camera/lens combination. So, unless you have some other problems with your camera, just stick with it.

Well, a lot of bones for sure :-)

Thanks Doug! I think that Pentax should offer to any unhappy SDM-based lens user to disable the SDM option, which should cost a fraction of the SDM replacing.

Hi Doug, You would immensely help, if you could clearly describe how to proceed to disable SDM. Only now I read that article (at the link I provided) and I must admit that that "anglo-franco" ...

So, use it and if it fails again (hopefully not), as the first thing try to disable SDM.

Right now I found the following web-site: http://www.pentaxiste.org/pratique/depannage/article/how-to-deactivate-sdm-and-allow-386 It might be worth to try it.

Once you are accustomed to the great lens quality, you would be hardly satisfied with the DA 55-300, unless you will keep the f ratio at 1:8. At least I wouldn't be happy. The "cheapest" good lens ...

Very nice! I can even smell it.

So, it might be a very nice area where you live. Some more pictures, please?

Very good timing!

Very nice! Is it a gall? Here, in Ottawa I've seen only white galls.

In spite of having other (AF) lenses (DA 16-45/4, DA 35/2.8 Ltd, Tamron 90/2.8), this old lens is still my most used lens. Definitely not suitable for any fast movements, has to be closed to at ...

Just two recent pictures:

Thank you David, yes this is what I fear as well, that when I buy a camera like Sony RX10 my (2) Pentax bodies with 5 lenses would become redundant. The Panasonic FZ2000 price is far more ...

Beautiful pictures from both your cameras. And that's why I would like to know your opinion whether 4-times higher price of the Sony camera is justified. Well, I need to replace my obsolete Sony ...

Absolutely stunning pictures!

And they are doing so. For example, in the case of Pentax, they provide a list (with the test results) of the lenses tested on the K-50, K-5II, K-S1 and K-3 Pentax bodies (i.e. all 3 different ...

This was exactly my feeling before I realized what their test results mean. They measure how much (many!) details contains a picture taken with a certain lens mounted to a certain camera. And the ...

@ecka84, why for example Fuji X-T2 would be bad for such snapshots?

@RED i, Nice pictures Arek, but exactly for such type of shooting the Sony A7(RIII for example) equipped with some wide angle lens would fit far better. Ouch, I forgot rather a poor ergonomics of...