I only realised about an hour ago that Springwatch was back on the telly.
I've missed 6 episodes... iPlayer's going to be busy

Bill Oddy was on Radio 2 about an hour ago on about that boring Robin that hasn't even got a red breast. He did mention that Twitchers have no interest in pigeons or Red Kites. Red Kites because they don't regard them as real because they have been introduced by man?

Really interesting photo's, I haven't seen any frogs for
about 3 years

I jumped because the £600 price is so good Most other places are charging £850/£900 The quality is very good, although earlier one's seemed a bit more variable.

Rain again here so I still can't test it properly, but looking at some blackbird shots I did with the DA*300mm f/4 it's hard to tell which is the better lens. The big drawback with the 300mm is that it isn't a Zoom and it's only 300mm, even with the 1.7x adapter it still isn't a zoom and there is a drop in quality, but it's a lot smaller to handle.

Should be no problems with the K10D. Whenever I see a photo that's so sharp that it impresses it's usually been taken on a K10D. Have a look at Marc Langille's photos on here and the US forum.

I think we may have to watch that we don't get too overconfident that the SR is doing better than it is. I got that way with a Sony camcorder and went back to doing shaky movies

Very well caught, clearly shows the fish

GetDataBack can recover the files even if the two copies of the FATs are damaged. FAT = File Allocation Table

You could also make an IMAGE of the card which could be written byte for byte to another card or mounted on the PC with a new Drive Letter.

"All Image" should be able to do it link

GetDataBack for FAT is one of the best Data Recovery programs that you can buy. It will even recover re-named files and moved. It doesn't write to the drive being recovered and just copies the files off it after a thorough scan.

It won't do you any harm running the DEMO it will just list what can be recovered.

From the website:
"Download the trial version and recover your files. You can preview your data to be sure it actually works. If you like the results you do not need run the program again. Purchase the license key and enter it into the open program. Then copy everything you need!"

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

Only 2.42MB Make sure it's the one for FAT not NTFS even though you will be running it from an NTFS drive.

Good Luck!

Managed to sneak up on a young blackbird in the garden.
I've put the photo in the Gallery.

Seems a sharp lens, a quick test on a brick wall showed very
little difference between wide-open and f/8

I didn't think I'd like the in-lens SR but it's very nice
seeing the viewfinder go steady after about a second.

The Sigma 150-500mm has just arrived from SRS. Only ordered at 3pm yesterday and here 250 miles away at 11am next day. Packed in a massive box with loads of protection.... Well done SRS

I've never used anything bigger than 400mm before and the size is a bit of a shock. Three quick shots at 400ISO of an alarm on a house opposite show it's quite sharp wide open and doesn't seem much different at f/8 and f/9

Now to find some unsuspecting sparrows!

400 was my limit with the K20D, so I'll try 800 (so far OK) and 1600.