Nathan, sorry to be picky but manuals are quite hard to read sometime and the amount of information is alot to take in as well.
He simply misinterperted what the manual said and the camera acted not as expected wich create even more confusing. We all have it some times, no one is perfect.

You even start to talk about Av mode and Tv mode here while he was talking about the green button function in manual mode.
There you have Av shift and Tv shift and those work preciesly the other way around.

Trully stunning, the red of the rocks goes well with the green, it makes it interesting.

I only have the strange feeling that I've seen it already but I can't lay my fingers on it when and where.
It was on this forum I believe, there was also one with a chopper/plane in it... I might be mistaken though

okay sorry about gimp
I'm not throwing mud at it, it's just differend.
It's like comparing photoshop with silkypix, it simply isn't the same.
As far as I know the programs shipped with the camera is based on silkypix so why not used that? We aren't talking about image manupulation but polishing your photo you made, those are two differend things in my book. Tools against chromatic aberrations or white balance for example, those aren't normally found in such image programs but they are standard in any photo program so far as I know. True you can do those things inside an image program by certain ways but not like a photo program.
It's like racing in a standard car, good you go around the track but if you had a race car you might be faster and better.

Martin, yes you're right it was kort door de bocht mostly.
The basics are there and written from out my own experience, I basicly only half use lightroom.
I import and convert the photos from the SD-card to my harddisk, go through and polish the photos in the Development tab and that's it.
Everything else is done through Photoshop because I do some image manipulations that aren't possible in lightroom.

You're right about that it's database driven but it didn't occur to me that I should explain that, sorry. It is an important feature which is very handy. It trully aren't just a few extra's, it was an understatement of my part.

About the contest. Most or maybe even everyone do some PP before we submit the photo so in a way it's already in the competition. A wonderfull photo destroyed by bad PP will never win I believe.
It's just interesting to see how someone will handell a certain photo and to what kind of result he/she comes.

edit: typo

That was a part of the problem but it was of course great for the name to have a supersonic aircraft but it mainly costs money.
Also so far as I know the aircrafts needed to be upgraded to make them safer when it was discovered what was the cuase of the crash, since the aircraft cost money to begin with it wasn't word spending more money to keep them airworthy. This was the reason I got from KLM when I was an intern there, nothing official though.

Glad you got that sorted out
Now reward us with some amazing photos, okay

I'm using Hama (I believe) and they work great so far.

Never really used auto since I focus manually mostly or I use selective autofocus.

Screen protection... I've never used it and I don't have a scratch on it. The sceen protector gets far more easly scratch then the screen itself so you keep replacing them and the only thing it does mostly is down grade the image quality of the screen.

Hi Rob, wlcome to the forum.
How please of the DA* 55 are you so far I'm also looking at it but I don't know yet, I also want a 50-135 you see but don't have the cash for both

For outdoor shooting and flowers a polarizer might be usefull.
It makes the sky more blue and the gras more green, I use it all the time with my macro's also for that purpose.
If you're shopping for a pol get a good one though, B+W is my recommendation with RMC to protect the filter.

I was thinking pirateship : but I see it now, it indeed is in it

My teacher at the photo-club said the same thing, he also wants the original so that he can compare them, it would be a good idea to do that.

Every photo need some fine-tuning, even if they look great straight out of the camera you can always do something to make it look better and you need to do that I believe.
It's a totally different aspect from photographing but one which you need to get comfort with to create some better result.

Gimp isn't really designed to handel photos, it's better to use the programs you have from Pentax. Those are designed purely to polish your photos so use them are get silkypix or the likes. When you have used those programs a couple of times you see the benefits of shooting in RAW and you will get the hang of it as well.

It's basicly adobe raw, you have the same settings and namings but besides that you have a few extra's, like archiving, importing, exporting, slideshows, etc.
And with a press of a button it opens the image I worked at in Lightroom into Photoshop, just splendid if you ask me.

Martin, you can download a trial version of lightroom, if you like it give me a PM okay


PS. good idea about the photoshoping contest, DNG or tiff would be the best file format then.
If you wanna start I've some failed infrared photos that needs some heavy photoshopping

you can register maybe at the Dutch site for updates, I know I did it somewhere, it could also be the American site though.