It's too cold when your fingers turn black and drop off!

Excellent point Don. Technology is changing rapidly and re-writing the rules as it goes. I mean how long before we see 6MP in a phone? Probably happened already!

A couple of months back I attended an IT seminar where a "futurologist" from BT (British Telecom) predicted that we will see more changes in the next 10 years than we have seen in the last 100.

That funny wooshing sound is the future passing us by! I'm off to my lead-lined bunker (where I also keep my single malts!)

Of course it really comes down to the photographer and not the kit he is carrying, e.g. Michal Daniel http://www.640x480.net/album.php?posn=05_05_02_03_44_47pm&size=large

Oh goody, looks like I won't have to add a bundle more SD cards to the shopping list then.


And to answer the original question in this thread, No I wouldn't. I've never printed anything bigger than a 10x8, and don't expect to. Therefore the DS and K10D are more than adequate in sensor size and resoloution. I think that colour depth (can't wait for the K10D) are likely to be more persuasive in future than sensor size and number of pixels.

[quote="MattMatic"]Hmm, they reckon you can get 59 (compressed?) PEF images on a 1 GB card? I get about 90 10MB PEF's on a 1 GB card at the moment. I assume it's a typo.

Look out for the mAh rating on 3rd part batteries. I think the Pentax origianls are rated at 1650, some of the cheap NP-400's are as low as 1400 mAh. I have seen some 1750 mAh for under a tenner. I suspect the Hahnel are rated the same as the Pentax.

Hanel have a HL-150 equivalent to DL-I50 for £19.99 http://www.warehouseexpress.com/index.asp?photo/battpacks/hahnel.html

As they also do battery grips for Kanikons, maybe they'll produce similar for the K10D - with AA option?

These NP-400 batteries are listed on evil bay



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NP-400-Battery-for-Minolta-NP400-Dimage-Dynax-Maxxum-UK_W0QQitemZ130051878162QQihZ003QQcategoryZ50509QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (note their delivery costs though)

Dislaimer: Although I have purchased from the seller in the past, I have no connection to them....etc etc etc... Caveat emptor etc etc...

Same thing happened with the battery for my Optio WPi, the Pentax battery (used to be) £39.99, but was identical to an NP-40 at (when I bought the spare) £9.99.

Matt,

Wouldn't surprise me if it were a cluster, or if they were running some sort of cache in front of their main servers to reduce the load on the back-end.