The name PentaxWorld.com is registered thus:-

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Domain Name: pentaxworld.com
Registered at http://www.dynadot.com

Registrant:
KOH KHO KING
28-6-909 SunSquare
Nishihonmachi Saijo
Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 7390043
Japan

Administrative Contact:
KOH KHO KING
28-6-909 SunSquare
Nishihonmachi Saijo
Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 7390043
Japan
[email protected]
+81 08063047929

Technical Contact:
KOH KHO KING
28-6-909 SunSquare
Nishihonmachi Saijo
Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 7390043
Japan
[email protected]
+81 08063047929

Record expires on 2007/12/26 UTC
Record created on 2006/12/26 UTC

Domain servers in listed order:
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Now it seems strange to me, that the people who registered and administer the domain use gmail email accounts and not an account belonging to their own domain!

I know you can download directly from the DS/K10D to a PC, but can you use them in "tethered" mode - i.e. control the camera and take photographs via software on the PC? Thats what I wasn't sure about. I downloaded the latest version of Pentax Remote Software and it wouldn't recognise the K10D.

Not all models support being run from the PC anyway. I think only the original D can be controlled in this fashion.

You can't really compare the two. Macro photography with an SLR takes you into a whole different ballpark of magnification. The "macro" setting on a compact camera should really be called "close-up focussing"

Paul,

I have the Tamron 90mm which I use with the Vivitar 6000 ring flash, and I'm happy with the results. I also have extension tubes and reversing rings, all picked up cheaply on "that auction site" and you can get some astounding results for not much money and an existing lens!

Happy Hogswatch!

Also NR can slow things down a bit, if you take a 3 second exposure, the camera takes another 3 second exposure (with the shutter closed) to produce some "reference" noise which it can subtract from the first image.

Try as I might, I cannot find "Aktivo" to be an anagram of "Teogwin"

It seems extremely, suspiciously, low for such a "hot" item. Is it a typo for a K110 or K100 perhaps?

Agreed, Pentax are small compared to kanikon, and while being small often has advantages (a lot of the most innovative and creative products seem to emmanate from smaller concerns) when distributing and marketing your product having Big Budgets helps.