As far as I know GPS is a passive system Andy, you don't send info to the satellite so... how should the camera send info to you?

It's quite normal to ask 2/3 of the new price for such new lenses.
You can send him a PM with your offer of course.

I think that the resolution is good enough though or might it be that they are shrank down to send over the net?

If you send the normal jpg straight out of the camera to them and and the resolution he has is the same then you don't gain any quality with increasing resolution so why do you want to do that?

It's better he increase it then, you can do that with most image manipulation programs, gimp is such program and it's free.

There is a new screen in the K-7 and a new 77 metering system so Hefty your prayers might have been answered.
That Danny (unlocker) didn't test it with the K-7 he had for testing

Wonderful photos, quite like the dramatic effect in photo 3

Glad to know you still want to print some, I'm also looking for a good shop I can trust.

I've been thinking to let a professional print be made here link
It's in Den Haag, also a bit out of the way but closer and the price looks reasonable.
They say "afwijkende formaten mogelijk" so they probable also can print panoramas.

I truly have no idea how good there prints are.

You had it sometime ago about Kodak if I'm not mistaken do you have a link?

Same here, can see them too when Martin and Gwyn said it, didn't really looked for it before. The middle four joints can be seen but the outer ones are so good as unnoticeable here.

Would you like to denote the photo for a test Clarky, I'm curious if Autodesk Stitcher does a better job for that money.

Gwyn you asked quite sometime ago about printing panoramas, how did that ended?

Okay just what I thought John and what I've read, just wasn't sure about the point and shoot cameras.

For these a wider lens then 50mm is more pleasant most of the time, it can surely be done with 50mm though but 50mm is better suited for portrait and the likes.

28mm are good for your type of photos and are easy to get secondhand.
If you want to thread yourself get one of the limited lens, 21mm is perfect for landscapes and architecture where as the 35mm is more a general lens.

You have the 18-55mm so try to find out what you would like the most by simply setting the zoom on one length and use that for a day.

Indeed but as far as I know everyone is welcome to join the forum regardless if you have a pentax or even a camera for that matter.
I find this a very cosy forum so why not talk to the interesting people here?

Are Samsung point and shoots btw allowed to enter competitions and post photos?