Wonderfull photo of the train but not the right camera, he build his own panorama camera and that is what he used for that photo probable.



Those other photos also look very well, certainly for colour from that age.

Peter you aren't looking at this one right


that's the K-M in the foreground and the K-7 in the back

this the K-7


Two buttons (preview + trash) moved up, leftside of the viewfinder and the info + menu button are moved under the 4-way button I believe.

Here are all the photos btw link

No it's real 3 prints of it were hanging in 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris he won the "The Grand Prize of the World" that's quite hard to do without a photo

I believe that most of the money went into the lens and the camera needed to be transported so bricks?

Max it depends on what programs you're used to work with, if you've photoshop you have ACR in that so no need to buy one or get lightroom that works really well. Silkypix is a very good program for that money but I'm used to Adobe so couldn't get my head around it.
I believe that free programs as picasa also can work with RAW not sure though.

Spot meting only meters a very small part of the photo so yes the rest of the photo the exposure might be off but that small part should be correctly exposured. My spot meter is coupled with the focus point so where ever I focus only that part it meters.

The AF and AE-L lock, Peter already explained AE but yes I also don't see the point in combining AF with EA-L lock.

then off even if it's handheld

The K-M also have such kind of 4 way button, don't know preciesly how it works though.
I believe that when the camera is in shooting mode that they are a sort of FN shortcuts, so no more going into the FN menu and press down, ok to go into the flash menu but simply press the flash button. The problem is that you also use the 4 way to select your focus point... maybe you need to hold the button for a second or you need a combination of button (just like ISO in M-mode, so FN + 4 way button).

That's what I do and simply leaves it on.

The limit of the Manfrotto 785b is 1kg so far too little, it wouldn't be very stable and not pleasant to use with the K20D it's simply to flimsy most likely.

£50 is also far to little to spend on a tripod, a good one will last you your life time and a £50 you might throw away after a year in search for something better. Believe me save a little more for a good one.

btw the Velbon CX-460 Mini is £28.70 at amazon.co.uk and they have it in stock

Richard that Velbon Ultra looks also quite nice.

ps. Just looked up the price of the gitzo, it's only $2500,00
Fine piece of equipment though

Shim, I couldn't found the photo, I'm curious as well to be honest.

Once again a very nice shot and very nicely panned.
This prove that you can do sport with Pentax