I recently acquired a Pentax DSLR of Craig’s List and I’m quite impressed. It’s a K200D and is a serious upgrade from my old Nikon CoolPix 5400. Additionally, I have owned an old Pentax K1000 for the past 19 years that I have additional lenses for that fit on the K200D, with one caveat: If you have Pentax compatible lenses they will need a slight modification. Thanks to SelrahCharleS on dpreview.com for providing the walk through for this adjustment.

In addition to having twice the megapixels of my old camera, there aren’t enough nice words to be said about photographing in RAW format. The JPEG of the image in this post that was shot simultaneously with the RAW was much darker, has more shadows, and is considerably less saturated in color. All of which can be adjusted in Photoshop but not to the same degree as having the RAW file.

I currently have an archive of approximately 2,000 photos of downtown Jacksonville. Unfortunately 98% of that archive is not made up of RAW photos. I’m not interested in reacquiring my entire archive, but from here on out it will be another story.

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