Good work Spidey!

Gouranga

Hells Teeth! If people have that much time to waste, there's a pile of ironing in the corner of the room I can point them at!

Matt,

I'm not familiar with the software that runs the forum - I didn't know if it allowed you to enable captcha's when people try and sign up .

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha for the non-geeks)

Just noticed this on the forum

"The newest registered user is cialisvsviagra".

The phrase "yeah, right" comes to mind. I'd like to see the size of his lens. Moderators, do we need a new tool to block spammers?

If Pentax had swamped their dealers with kit, all you would see are stories about how the K10D launch "flopped", together with complaints from those dealers, and sniggers from the Kanikon people. From a marketing perspective it is always better to have slightly too little stock available to create the perception of an item being in demand, then you can run lots of stories about how popular that item is. Common thing with toys at xmas. In this case, Big Boys (and Girls) Toys! It's not poor planning from Pentax, it's clever marketing, and the same marketing strategy everyone uses. Well done Pentax for learning how to play the game.

Here's someone who has gotten hold of a K10D http://www.shadzee.com/photos/index.php?showimage=285 and the results look good

Chris,

Any updates on the K10D bodies?

Pete,

How about advertising in the pentax user magazine classified adverts or their web equivalent?

https://www.pentaxuser.com/pages/classifieds.htm

For accurate focusing and controlling the depth of field, it is worth investing on a focussing rail (e.g. http://cgi.ebay.com/Macro-Shot-Focusing-4-way-Rail-Truck-4-Canon-Nikon-Fuji_W0QQitemZ320049644754QQihZ011QQcategoryZ30070QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD7VQQcmdZViewItem which you can attach to a tripod. The wheels allow you very fine control of the position of the camera. However most bugs move too quickly, so using a rail is only useful for static objects.
e.g.
http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/galleries/extensiontubes/slides/pound%20coin.html

In the example above, the coin is slightly angled as I didn't have a way of getting it square on to the lens, and you can see the effect of the shallow depth of field.

Does that mean knowledge and thinking are dead? Will skool lessens in the future just consist of learning to use google?!