Does anyone has experience with this magazine?
I came across it in the shop today and bought it and I like it so far.
It's mostly about the photos with a interview with photographer but it also has an article about film vs digital, a book review, a list of exhibitions and an auction report. Just to let you know what kind of mag it is.

The reason why I'm asking your opion is that I'm thinking about a subscription but need to do that before November but the next issue is due in June (once every 2 motnhs) so not enough to get a full feel of the magazine.
The one I've now is only B&W but I've seen coloured covers for the other issues, so don't know how to define the magazine yet and if it also has coloured work in it.

ps. for the pros here, they have a folio special each year and you can apply and get some of your photos in it if you're selected. Tere is no fee to apply but if you get picked out to be in the folio there is a fee though.

Here is a link of the site http://www.silvershotz.com/ it doesn't tell you much about the magazine though but you can find the guidlines about the folio editon I talked about.

Don't forget to order Matt's e-book about the Pentax flash system, it's very helpfull. link

Looking for a pol for the DA*50-135, it's going to be B+W no question about that but they have the Kaeseman and normall polarizers.
Schneider does explain somethings, they are talking about a higher efficiency, better cemented and sealed edges.
They cost roughly the same so think I will go for the KSM but I'm curious about your experience with them, I've a normall B+W for the other lenses so I know they preform very well.

I've readed your problem in the other topic Richard and it could be many things.

You said your photos are leaning to the right, I also have that problem because you press the button so you induce the lean yourself.
It might also be that the focus screen is putt in straight you could test that by aligning a photo on the tripod with the marks on the focus screen and one with using the sides of the viewfinder.
If all of the above isn't the problem your prism, mirror or SR needs to be realigned.

The Pentax service is now this month not send to Pentax anymore but handeled by another company.

It's always a pleasure to watch them have a go at it, they have a differend view on things and the results are most of the time quite surprising.

The photos look pretty good some have a framing and/or focus problems but surely not bad at all.

Yes better Andrew, It was quite a big bright spot and it was taken your eyes away from the leafs in the middle.
It seems you've put more contrast (I believe) in it for the depth, it does his job and it looks better.

I've a K10D and never had an istD but with the K10D you get to see the firmware version when you press and hold the meneu button and turn the camera on you see the firmware version.

If you've the new firmware and you still got the problem your camera is simply broken and need to be fixed. The reinstalling of the firmware and what John Riley said are the only things you can do for yourself the rest needs to be taken care of by a specialist.

You just wait till your brain is as old as mine[/quote]That will never happen you're older then me and you'll always be or do you've found the way to not age anymore

To go a bit off-topic here, how many of you've customize their camera.
I'm not talking about 2 or 3 settings but more.
I've for example have taken away the AF of the shutterrelease, have 1/3th EV steps, finer ISO options, remapped the E-dials in all half-automatic modes and did more things, I believe that hardly any setting is on his default value.

Almost everybody take the same crop, it might be interesting to see something differend and try to out the most of the abilities of RAW, I thought that was the attention afterall or is it simply who makes the prettiest image out of it?

Putting fresh frimware on it might also help, if that isn't the case the fault is probable in the hardware.
The system to move the mirror is very precise so I won't try to fixed it yourself but simply send it away to get fixed, don't know if it's worth it though since you probable need to pay for it.