Here's the place to discuss the monthly comp. As usual I'll disappear from this thread once the first entry is posted.

I'm looking forward to seeing your entries!

There's no issues, it's just that the K3 is not supported on the older versions. Download the trial version of V9 here link and you'll find it works fine.

Also, you don't need the Elite version for any Pentax cameras, it for full-frame cameras , otherwise it's exactly the same.

I posted this in the "sort it out" thread, but as some people have probably stopped visiting that thread, i thought I'd post it here as a seperate thread.

I wouldn't put a single image on the mypentax.ricoh site under the terms of their conditions, Basically you are giving them your images for free:

"The user agrees to transfer to RICOH IMAGING EUROPE and any company of the RICOH group the reproduction and exploitation rights for the content that it publishes online, worldwide and for the duration of the copyright protection, including in particular the right to publish this photograph in full or in part on any of the websites of RICOH IMAGING EUROPE and the websites of the RICOH group. He/she warrants to RICOH IMAGING EUROPE that he/she holds all intellectual property rights to this photograph and that this photograph does not infringe on any rights of a third party.

For technical reasons, the user acknowledges that his/her name or pseudonym shall not appear or is not likely to appear on the photograph."

As you are transferring all rights to Ricoh, you could also find yourself in the bizarre situation of being sued by them for selling your images elsewhere.

I wouldn't put a single image on the mypentax.ricoh site under the terms of their conditions, Basically you are giving them your images for free:

"The user agrees to transfer to RICOH IMAGING EUROPE and any company of the RICOH group the reproduction and exploitation rights for the content that it publishes online, worldwide and for the duration of the copyright protection, including in particular the right to publish this photograph in full or in part on any of the websites of RICOH IMAGING EUROPE and the websites of the RICOH group. He/she warrants to RICOH IMAGING EUROPE that he/she holds all intellectual property rights to this photograph and that this photograph does not infringe on any rights of a third party.

For technical reasons, the user acknowledges that his/her name or pseudonym shall not appear or is not likely to appear on the photograph."

As you are transferring all rights to Ricoh, you could also find yourself in the bizarre situation of being sued by them for selling your images elsewhere.

Here's the history of that aircraft link

It's last revenue flight for BOAC was November 24 1965, so that's the latest that picture was taken. The aircraft tail on the right of the image is a B707. The B707 was introduced by BOAC on 27 may 1960, so that's the earliest the picture could have been taken.

I hope we see some changes. I have no idea what caused so many active members to be banned, missed it all, but banning people can't be the way forward. It's not the first time it's happened, either, and as I remember it the previous time was over a storm in a teacup. A forum shouldn't be run as an oligarchy. Maybe we need a few more moderators on here? Meanwhile I'm going to keep a very low profile around here, and see what happens. Hopefully things will change for the better.

What did I miss? Whatever it was, guess it's all been deleted? Didn't realise we'd had another round of bannings.

I like Flickr, but then I don't see any ads as I still have a pro account...there were a few bugs when they changed it again, but they seem to have been ironed out now.

More than half my lenses are old FF lenses. Some of them are as good as any modern lens. I was interested in the Tamron 17-35mm at one point, and if a FF Pentax comes out, it will probably be a quite sought-after lens. They don't seem to come up in K mount very often. At the moment, with APS-C, I don't see it having any advantage over the DA 16-45. There's a review of it here , where it gets very similar reviews to the DA 16-45.

Ditto. I found the K5 a huge improvement over the K7, mainly as it is so much more capable in low light. Secong hand K5's are pretty cheap now, so I personally think the choice is a no-brainer; get a K5, or, if you can afford it, a K5ii. If you want to shoot video, I think the K30 would be a better choice than the K5, and worth considering as an alternative anyway, though I've not personally ever used one.