I've got a few hundred Panasonic 9.4GB Cartridge disks (Double sided) going back probably 10 years and only had problems with ONE and I recovered the files off that with CDRoller. It was probably MS Explorer that caused the problem. The single non cartridge disks don't seem as reliable so I also make a DVD-R copy of them.

I only trust Panasonic drives and these are now hard to find and unfortunately the only reliable software is VOB Instant CD/DVD last supplied by Pinnacle now discontinued and not updated.

DVD-RAM is still widely used by Banks and other financial institutions for backups.

I've no idea why but a few tears ago Panasonic went to great lengths to persuade all the other drive manufacturers to include DVD-RAM on their writers? Up to 12x speed as well although I've only ever seen 5x speed disks. It does seem to be more popular in Japan than here.

My original Panasonic came with a really good program DVD-MovieAlbum which can preform all kinds of tricks that no other software can, such as take a TV recording on DVD-RAM and edit it on the disk to remove adverts etc. (very quickly). Put several episodes of a show on one DVD-RAM etc. Author DVD-RAM with 3D motion titles. Panasonic never promoted this software unfortunately. They could have cleaned up the TV and computer market if they had.

The only Panasonic drives that take Cartridges are these and they cost £190 each. I'm glad I bought 2 as backup last year when they were £120 My old ones are better but beginning to sound a bit noisy.

DVD-RAM disks have a life of around 30 years. Archival DVD's are available with a 100 year life.

Use Quickpar to make at least 10% PAR2 files to recover any that get damaged.

The aperture display on the K2DMD was also the indicator for when the exposure compensation was set it changed from white to orange. It also had an internal built in eyepiece blind.

TK Max have all kinds of bags (cheap) that can be adapted as
camera bags.

Lord V's also very good link

You need to put your name on the opening page at least. If you can't put it anywhere else make a cover out of the 1st photo with your name in large type.

Nice shots, but the 55-300mm should be a lot sharper? Are you using at least f/8?

I like the site, the photos load fast and navigation is easy. It does what it's meant to and shows the photos off well. Oddly a lot of photographers sites (including the Pentax Gallery) don't.

The photos are very good and only you know who you will be directing to the site and you will have the best idea of what to show them and in what order.

Nice! has he just been for a Cut & Blow

Some very nice shots there The one of the packing case is my favourite