Giving people photographs for free is extremely unlikely to bring you any direct benefit, for the reasons mentioned earlier, and just encourages more people to expect that they can get something for nothing. I naively let someone use a couple of my images for free once a few years ago, but it brought absolutely no benefit, and I regret ever doing so. I have let the odd charitable organisation use some of my images, but only if I really believe in what they are doing.

It sounds like they want to use your images to raise funds, as I doubt they are giving away calendars and yearbooks. Are the people asking to use your images doing their work for free? I doubt it very much. Why should they expect you to?

Looks like someone has snapped up the lot, can't see any of them listed.

David, that's a Trident 1 not a Boeing. It was an unsuccessful competitor to the B727, with 3 rear-mounted engines. It was very underpowered, and on the Trident 3 they added an extra engine to help take-off performance (and enable it to meet engine-out climb requirements). It was Britain's last serious attempt at competing with the American manufacturers in producing jet transport aircraft. The Trident 3 was however the first civilian jet airliner to be certified for automatic landings in low visibilty.

Thanks for the comments! I was very lucky to get this shot; we normally land from the other direction, not over the city, and most times I'm not in the jump-seat.

I've got a couple more which I still need to look at, been very busy recently, and my computer is sick (the fan has packed up). I've got 10 days off now, and hopefully my computer will be fixed in a few days.

That's a bummer, guess I'll be shopping somewhere else then.....

I'm not sure putting a zip across the screen when you wrap it up is such a good idea.....

David Storm has very kindly uploaded some RAW files for me to play with. Unfortunately the fan on my computer is playing up again and it gets a bit warm when I do too much processing....I'm going to the UK next week and have ordered a new fan, so will finish the experiment then.

However, I have processed three files taken at ISO 6400, -2ev, all of the same scene with the same lens. It's surprised me: the K3 does indeed have more noise, negligibly, but it's very fine-grained, and after a bit of processing there is far more detail than in the K5 and K5iis shots. If I try and get rid of all the noise in the K3 file, there's not much to choose between the three cameras. However, with these ISO 6400 images processed to the point that I think they look good at 100%, and once all the images are resized to a size midway between the K3 and K5 file sizes, the K3 produces the best images imo (significantly so), with the most detail and least noise.

I'll update this for those who are interested once I've processed all the files.

As for my choice of what camera to buy next (I was planning to next week), Ricoh have thrown a spanner in the works as it seems there's some new models coming out.

I had one of those once, that a hitch-hiker in Botswana left in my car. I only found the camera a few days later, and had no way of tracing him, so kept it. I used it quite a lot, for 15 years or so, then lost it myself, while moving house. I always hoped whoever found it got some use from it too.

Thanks, Gary, I had thought of that, and have in fact done this on a previous occasion, but it would be more lucrative selling them direct....it's probably the sensible option, though. I've not found anything in the contract on similar's, but I will have another look through it.

However, I don't want to upset the apple cart (or risk being subject to any legal action), so I'll do as you suggest and send them the links to the images on Getty. I've got a few (different) unlicensed images they are interested in too, so will possibly get the best of both worlds.

I shot this recently on approach to Doha, from the jump-seat for those who are worried about who was driving, using the GR. It was Explored on Flickr, 13000+ views so far!

I'm loving this camera. If they came out with versions with different focal lengths, I could see myself with a set of GR's instead of an SLR.