What has happened?

I think it will be the price rise that will be the next big talking point

Which price rise?

There's always a price rise

The trouble with that Barrie is that it's just wrong. There has just been an announcement of a whole mass of price reductions....

Just to clear up a point, there has never been any attempt to make up any rule about what the Gallery and the Your Photos section of the forum are for. Just use them as you wish, but use them. If you do that then there will be plenty of pictures to look at an comment on, in both locations.

I think this thread sums up my original point - there's only four of us that have contributed so far!

For heavens sake, what are people doing on a Friday Night?

Regards
David

Correction to previous post - five of us now!!

So David's announcement about the FF is correct then. (said with a sense of humour)

A rash of price reductions is always a precursor to what? A price rise of course! Either that or an announcement of Administration

From my perspective.

1. work is harder/longer as the employer tries to get as much "value" from my sorry carcass.
2. money is tighter than it was a few years back
3. toddler demands are high
4. I'm knackered

I think 1 and 2 might apply to a few more people.

I might try and get back to the local club next season. If so I might have more output to discus on here. I've never posted too many images so you'll need a more prolific poster to answer that one.

Thanks Doug, that's 6 contributors now! Sounds like you have more important things to consider than this website!

Cheers
David

Talking of contributors. According to the "Members' Member List" we have 15051 members spread of 502 pages. As far as I can make out there are 438 pages of members with less than 10 posts. Maybe not as many interested in the forum as we think?

I think Nigel has a point about the small thumbnails,
I tend to pick out only the 'stand out' images to look at.
Perhaps a revamp of the gallery home page?
Any suggestion as to how the gallery page could be improved to encourage more activity? Include a running slideshow, larger thumbnails, scoring/rating system etc.?

One of the biggest Pentax things to get excited about lately has been the new digital 645, an amazing new camera which successfully integrates medium format aspects with some of the latest and greatest DSLR developments as found on the K3. This creates a more all-round usable camera (perhaps not quite truely 'hand-holdable' but easier to handle and more responsive) and all with the large sensor quality.

Sadly though it seems to have mostly passed us by here - not much talking about it, and I don't recall seeing anyones images either? Is it the case that it is unmarketable to enthusiests? I presume those professional users who have them are far too busy making money out of it to get involved in forum discussions?

Michael, yes I'm sure there are ways to improve the initial view of the gallery. One problem is the way that images quickly vanish onto the 'underneath' pages, and you have to click through to see them, so for someone just having a quick glance you just see the current most recent selection.

Perhaps a few larger windows with a slideshow each of different categories, going back through the whole day. So you'd have one landscape, one wildlife, one architecture window etc, each cycling (say 7 seconds each) the days photos from that category. You could sit back and watch for a while - see one you like and a click on it could open it full-size on a new tab. You can look at it more closely, comment, close the tab and go back to the slideshow overview page again.

At least this way everyones images would get a fair crack at it and be seen a better size initially.

I agree Nigel, that's the main problem for me, photos quickly getting lost into the background pages.
Categories would be good (I know there's a filter system but that's too long winded) on the gallery page and some kind of slideshow would be more interactive