What I want to know is "how did you get the dog to sit still?" Whenever I point a camera at a dog it goes beserk! Even when apparently asleep they seem to be able to hear me take the lens cap off!

Some interesting comments on SR here http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2006/12/anti-shake-pt-ii-or-shake-reduction-as.html

So before it failed, it worked intermittently? Or maybe that's the definition of a shutter, something that is only open intermittently!

I wonder how may people are stuck in the Ice-Age?

As some people have commented over on Ephotozine, their 1000 pixel/200 KB limits don't allow justice to the pictures the current crop of DSLR's can produce, and since most people (I hope) are now on broadband maybe it's time to re-evaluate such limits.

LOL @ Dan

Matt,

"If I had had longer (and a tripod)"

SR?

Try these http://www.pbase.com/tcom/k10d (Not mine, by the way, these are from a good photographer! View the original size versions for best effect.

I'd guess that it depends whether you are in Shutter priority or Aperature Priority mode, which I think is confirmed by my reading of Page 151 of the K10D manual, which says (in relation to Tv mode)

"* Turn the front e-dial whilst pressing the +/- button to chnage the EV Compensation value
* Set the shutter speed in increments of 1/2 or 1/3 EV. Set in [EV Steps] in the [C Custom setting] Menu"

Flash Compensation is the adjustment of the output (Page 47 of the AF360FGZ manual)
"Flash Amount Correction -3.0 to +1.0 levels (EV) (0.5 Steps)"

I could be wrong, though!

Alf,

I can only compare with the DS, and I'd say at 1600 they are pretty much the same. I don't see much noise upto 800 ISO, and Neat Image makes a damn good job of removing what noise there is. Also, you can set it so that ISO changes in 1/3 ev steps, so you get far more choice than 100/200/400/800/1600 ISO, you can effectively select the minimum ISO for your chosen Aperture and Exposure.

To make the review even shorter:-

"Verdict: This is a brilliant camera. And at this price it is a world-beater."

Now that's more like it!