Exploring my Pentax k-m

**El Barto** · 06-07-2009, 09:39 AM

I mailed away for this camera , well , because they didn't have any in stores around here. Under BSD's advice I went with this model . The body is solid and comes automatically with a company 2 yrs warranty

It came with a half inch thick manual ....all in english ....meaning , it's a HALF INCH manual !!!!........lol.
Having got a tooth pulled out the same daygot this meant I wasn't really motivated for scratching my head.

It has a huge lcd screen which is mainly to see your settings. My first thing I had to learn was navigating through the menu

I want ENGWIUSH DAMN IT!!!!

After I realized that I had to accept the changes , this didn't appear anymore. D'OH!
Didn't play too much with it. Wanted for BSD to see it and play around with it ............Imp I know what your thinking :shifty:

First thing I had to find was the flash option , how to turn it off !!!!
The navigating got quite easy to learn, now it was to learn what the options did.
A few things stood out as options . Metering range, either the full 16 zone or down to the 'spot' on. That went for focus and aperature, 2 different option. The multi shot option too, remembering to turn it off. Altho found the option to have which changes 'settings' to keep when I turn off the camera.
By accident I found a dust detection. It takes a long exposed shot and you can see in black and white if you have dust . That and some kind of vibrating thing inside that seems to clean the dust off , soooo cool

To fully master the manual aspect of it I will be learning each in themes . The wonderfull thing about digital , you only waste batteries not film. Basically don't get over whelmed by it globaly and divide the learning process of it in small steps .

BSD took some great shots yesterday as I let him hog the camera , so bug him for it ok? :laugh:
OH BTW BSD the pics came out great on my screen, not over saturated :blum:

**El Barto** · 06-07-2009, 12:39 PM

**Owl** · 06-07-2009, 12:49 PM

Nice shot

**Imp** · 06-07-2009, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by El Barto

Didn't play too much with it. Wanted for BSD to see it and play around with it ............Imp I know what your thinking :shifty:

You know me too well. :laugh:

and I see he went ahead and played with it too!

Beautiful pic!

Now fix the link so I can check out the camera.

**mikezila** · 06-07-2009, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by Imp

You know me too well. :laugh:

and I see he went ahead and played with it too!

Beautiful pic!

Now fix the link so I can check out the camera.

try this. :blum:

**El Barto** · 06-07-2009, 05:17 PM

how come that link changed?
thanks Mikey

**mikezila** · 06-07-2009, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by El Barto

how come that link changed?
thanks Mikey

think nothing of it...until you get the consulting bill from my boss..

some sites don't like to hotlink. they get billed for spammers eating up their bandwidth. they probably don't mind you raving about their product, but how to they tell the difference?:unknw:

**BlackLab** · 06-07-2009, 05:21 PM

Damn nice pic, bro!

Imp, did you ever get your Rebel?

**El Barto** · 06-07-2009, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by mikezila

think nothing of it...until you get the consulting bill from my boss..

some sites don't like to hotlink. they get billed for spammers eating up their bandwidth. they probably don't mind you raving about their product, but how to they tell the difference?:unknw:

lol that and your typo correction hahahah