Not just Sony quite a few Apple products have gone up in flames..
be careful

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Very well documented Mowog, you got there in the end
Is the 50mm 'A' lens the same?

Nice shot.... How did you get the flash under it's wing?

OEM is a very misleading term? A copy of OEM Windows XP would mean a Dell branded copy etc. see Wikipedia

Origin of term

OEM is defined by IBM to refer to "a manufacturer of equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer"

The IBM Glossary can be DL from here

We don't know who the OEM of the Pentax batteries was. But John is referring to the correct batteries anyway

I've got 4 batteries for my K20D The two Pentax branded ones work perfectly. The other only do about 50 shots so Pentax batteries seem better in the long run.

Won't that distort the image?

I assume that they mean "Maintain Aspect Ratio"

There is a Freeware program that's quite good for doing lossless
crops on Jpegs called JPEGCrops. You should be able to set a
custom size to whatever you want. All the standard sizes are
already set in the menu.

Download from:
http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/

It's only a small program quite easy to install/uninstall.

Look at the links page for other cropping programs also
a Paint Shop Pro tutorial on creative cropping.

HK deliveries can take anywhere between 4 days and 5 weeks+
You will probably eventually get them so it's up to you.

In India it's sold as a "Sanjeev Kapoor Tandoor Grill"

Buy a George Formby Grill

I think most of it's from Spain these days, some good some bad all cheap. I've seen granite road kerbs from China cut to circles round lamp posts (made to measure)I doubt if they would have ever made them here, even years ago the cost would be too much. They weren't cheap from China either.

The wet one looks great The colour balance looks off
on the other one.... brownish Amazing detail