Hey Gwyn, welcome back
Hopefully the forum has calmed down enough for your liking, it seems the new year and Christmas has done wonders here and maybe the message when you left did also some good.

Yes they indeed say that OS in the lens is better but now with the K7 I think the in camera has the edge since it can compensate for more directions of movements. It can compensate for camera roll which a lens based OS would never be able to do.

I know you had an eye for the pentax version for when going on holidays.
The sigma version has HSM if I'm not mistaken, I really missed the quick-shit with the DA and it was quite slow with AF so hopefully HSM does the trick for the Sigma.
I haven't found a review about the lens that compares it to the Tamron or Pentax version, but it's quite some time that I've searched.

Mhuni, you can't truly make an HDR since the DR stays the same as your RAW file and it's the tonemapping that makes the WOW effect of HDR photos.
If you look at my HDR photo (the middle one) it looks very bland to what HDR normally looks like, it's just the way you process the photo.

And yes I'm also amaze with what you can do with curves and exposures, with my photo for example you've hardly any details in the windmill since it's too dark but you can pull out a lot of it.
With the normal one you've no idea that there is a door there but you can see it clearly with the first photo with even details in it.
But the halos you get from this pulling and squeezing isn't so great

Indeed, that would be great.
We can do it on the Dutchforum for some time now although bit limited, youtube and flash only but it's enough for most users.

Fun movie you have there Don
Still thinking of getting a K7?
Video also sounds fun in my ears, my uncle has the K-X but gives nothing about the video mode in it and I want to use it every time.. it's so unfair

Yes Kris you're right
The remote also triggers DSLR though, here is an overview from the UK site.

So Robbie just get the F you've no use for the zoom.

I know what you mean Kris, it's all a bit trial and error but you can do a lot with a RAW converter and a good RAW photo. Most photos I see here that have been through an HDR was not needed in my eyes. But everyone has there own way of working.

I've done this with one photo in lightroom.



And this a HDR with 3 photos but with the tonemapping most HDR programs use, well it isn't HDR any more but I still have the HDR file though it's 130mb I believe.



This the middle exposure that I used for the first (lightroom) image.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1812.jpg[/IMG]

It seems Remote E is discontinued though...

tadatada Remote E



Remote F is the same but without the focus button, I don't know if the focus button works with the Remote E though.

First of all extraxting two images from one file and combining them would not increase your dynamic range, so you will not be able to pull out more details that way by working with two copies instead of just one.

It does make your life a bit easier if you know how the HDR software works or are good with a masking layer, but all can be done with the help of curves and other tools you've to progress RAW for exposure.

Welkom terug
It's surely a good surprise to see you back!

More like over compensate would be the word, if you move a bit to the right the one in the camera compensate and the one in the lens.
You're most likely better of with non on then have both on.