Not unless a third party like Hahnel decide to make a battery grip for the K10D (which they do for C*n*n and N*k*n). I have emailed Hahnel to ask them about their intentions.

There is no reason why a third party shouldn't make such a device in future, which is why I'm putting off buying a grip at the moment. I'll also buy cheaper 3rd party spare batteries for the K10D.

Kevin,

If Matt can't sort your problem nobody can!

At ISO200 it's very unlikely to be noise, unless you have a very long exposure - i.e. measured in seconds. I haven't found the 18-55 to be too bad for CA either, so sounds like the stuck pixel Matt suggests.

If you join http://www.ephotozine.com/ you can upload pictures and link to them in the forums.

What ISO setting was it taken on? You only usually see noise at high ISO values, <800 (in my experience), and most of that is easily removed by the RAW converter. Noise also tends to appear not as a single colour but as patches and is more visible where you have areas of solid (and usually dark) colours. If it is a light blue fringe arouind objects at the edge of the frame it might be cromatic abberation produced by the lens. What lens are you using? Cheap lenses are more prone to that problem. It would help if you could post an example of the problem.

Look at the water in this image, the "graining" is due to having been shot at ISO800 late on a november afternoon

Also looks suspiciously like croc skin too, and you wouln't want the activists from PETA camped outside your door would you? This pimp my 'tax could go too far!

Golfie,

It didn't reset the counter on my DS.

What, like this?

So on the fabled K1D we want a big heat sink?

Interesting approach John, I think I'd prefer the music to be slightly fainter as I find it distracts from the rose on the keyboard, which is the main point of the image. I might also have cropped out the brown at the bottom of the picture, so the keys formed the base of the picture.

This afternoon whilst browsing the web, I stumbled across the following website http://www.apogeephoto.com/tech_archives.shtml and was very taken with the articles on gestalt theory by Michael Fulks (apologies to well-trained or well-informed members who have come across this all before)

In his article on Composition…A Primer on Positive and Negative space Michael Fulks ruminates on the distinction between seeing photography as a craft (i.e. technically well executed) and art. I think John's picture definitely leans to the artistic side, though craftfully rendered.

Edit:-
I didn't mean to suggest that John's picture wasnt technically very good too!

Silkypix now have a preview of 3.0.4 on their website. Only main difference seems to be related to "comfortable operation" that refers to a viewing or previewing mode - maybe they are trying to speed it up a bit?

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