Thank you for the awful green award Doug

Did you know we got some thing called the slurptax here, it's a taxation that's relative to how green a car runs

BtW the best thing is you can make the award avatar 600px wide here

You should have looked a bit further. link

Nah it's just a community where being popular is more important then taking good photos, it's always a problem with such sites.

I think red bubble isn't that bad though but I never almost hang out there so could be wrong.

But tilting up and down is enough right?
So this would do


I find this less of an option though


I know it's handy you can fold the screen away so that it can't scratch but it's strange at such a low angle and if you place the hinge at the side you can't place buttons there.

Yes something like that would be great (also build build flash control in the camera as well!) and of course you can use the GPS in the phone for geo-tagging.
And maybe a feature to upload low res photos to your phone so you can put them up to facebook, twitter or something like that.

And for me bleutooth would be the best, certainly for the flash control thing since it's far more power efficient then WIFI.
WIFI would be better for transporting the full res files but I rather use the cable for that.

Don't worry, not a native speaker so I might say some things in a strange way

Someone else posted about a difference in white balance 2 or 3 weeks ago and that's where it came clear the pre-sets weren't fixed values but more auto-white balance recommendations so to speak.

With RAW the camera adds some extra information and one is a suggested or set white-balance setting and the "as shot" setting in lightroom use those settings.

If you want consistent white balance you need to use manual setting, something between the 5200 to 5500 kelvin is mostly fine for daylight but it may vary from 5000 to 6000 kelvin actual daylight light.
You can also upload RAW files with a pre-set in Lightroom, you can say it should set the white-balance to daylight for the photos you upload and things like that.

Yes went from 1.30 to 1.31

It seems it's just me ^^
I never use AF a lot so that could be it...

3 out of 5 lenses you named where limited lenses though

The Pentax DA12-24 is just gone up with the recent price hike in the UK that it's just silly to get one for that money if you ask me

If you want to make a comparative lens group you should get a normal zoom, tele zoom and a 50mm prime and a 100mm macro, that's what most people will buy i believe.

All prices from SRS.

DA 17-70mm F4 (couldn't find the 16-45 on SRS) £479
Nikon 16-85mm F3.5-5.6G AF-S DX VR £429

DA 55-300mm f4.0-5.8 £279
Nikon 70-300mm F4.5-5.6G AF-S VR £415

DFA 100mm f2.8 Macro £519
Nikon 105mm F2.8G AF-S VR Micro £599

FA 50mm f1.4 £319
AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 £299

Pentax total £1596
Nikon total £1742

ps. I just see how good of a value the DA55-300 is compared to Nikon, that's where the differences is.
Anyone know why the Nikon 70-300 is so expensive?

Paul you skipped my comment

The white balance setting "daylight" is not a fixed value on the Pentax camera's it simply limits the range of the white balance to daylight values.
The same is true for other settings, if you truly want to have a fixed value you need to input them manually.

so it's not you who are doing something dumb nor is it lightrooms fault, it's simply the camera doing it

The reasons why not to use a fixed value is because a colour temperature is not a fixed value, the daylight colour differs depending what time it is, seasons, how close to the equator you're ect.
The same is true for tungsten light, one lamp can give a slightly different colour then another lamp, that's why there is room for the camera to change white balance even if you chose a pre-set.

Personally I don't think so but if I compare to others I think I'm though
But hey they are items to be used and the more it can move and the more parts you put into it the more there can break, the simpler the better I think.

I believe Sony has some screens that can tilt, they felt more robust then the swivel kind of screen.