great to hear LR3 also gets it, wasn't sure but it would be wonderful.
Hopefully pentax take the time to make some profiles after all they have them already for the K7 and the KX.
With the K7 you also get the K20D so they only need to do the K10D and they would have almost all cameras of the last 3 years.

Wonderful what you did that Techno and I can only give you kudos for that.

About what happened now is different since you're not directly involved and you've no idea how the interrogation went so it's hard to say anything for outsiders but it's a question I think that needs to be investigated to be honest.

I agree fully with you but to be honest I don't think that the boys and girl where really sexual active so to say, and from what I understand the mother of the girl saw it and interpreted it as rape. At least that's how I read it but we only know so little of course.

Here Tony read this. link

I believe that's along the line what you say or not?

Same thought, I mean when are boys of 10 year sexual active to begin with?
And them in a way that will haunt them for the rest of their live seems to be wrong.
They probably don't even know what they were doing and that only the motehr saw it is rape... of course we dont know all the details.

[quote:3496ace15f="Pentaxophile"I heard a report on the radio about a norwegian case similar to the infamous Bulger case. The mother of a child murder victim told the reporter very adamantly that she did not expect the killer to have been locked up like an adult, even though the youth, who had received psychological treatment rather than a jail term, and still lived locally, had started to harass other members of her family.

I was very impressed by the way she didn't give in to what would be an understandable desire for retribution.[/quote]Didn't hear about that one and indeed the victim is pretty strong.

Thank you John now only a bit deeper into the matter.

I mean if you want a natural distortion of the face you would want a lens that does not "magnify" I thought 50mm was that lens but that it simply looked better with a longer lens, there are even pro's that use 600mm lenses and use a megaphone to communicate. That surely isn't my style but they must be using those focal length for a reason.

I even have a portrait book that suggest using a 200mm lens.

Has anyone heard about the news off the two boys that were found guilty of rape... it all seems to be a very strange case to me link

Bit more outside view. link

I always thought that the longer the lens the better but now I've heard that because of the tele-effect that isn't true because it makes the faces flat. I wanted to know more about this but the discussion became heated and no one wants to explain it anymore (not my fault this time).

I'm wandering what you've to say what focal length is the best for portrait and why?

Hopefully someone here can also explain the tele-effect a bit more and why that's bad

With dirty I mean a straight forward shot without any thinking about how artistic the photo is.
So take a simple shots of the racks, they are square so it's easy to see any distortions you can expect and than simply take some shots to see how the lens handles and if it's what you expect it to be.
You can always ask if it's al right if you bring the lens back if it didn't fulfil your expectations, most are quite willing to do that, that's the reason I buy lenses from the local shop here.

I dont think it's a good idea to go with a netbook in the shop to test lenses.
There are enough sites that show which one is sharper and what not so simply go to the shop and test how a lens handles in your hands and you can take some dirty shots of the racks to see the distortion.

To be honest there is no such thing as a sensor cleaning kit since you never actually clean the sensor but the protective filter that's on top of it.

For dust the Pentax kit will do or articbutterfly, you can also use a bellow but I never had much success with that.

For greases you need to use a liquid based cleaning like swabs link

The only thing I can think of is to place the focus chart as close as you can since the closer it is to the camera the shallower the dof would be.