The pun was so good, that I knew immediately what I was going to see when I clicked the link.

What did you do to get it to look like molten metal, though? I like it.

Careful... much as I love my Eye-Fi card, it's not the same as tethering.

The image files don't go directly to the computer - they go via whatever is providing the wireless network, usually a wireless router.

It does work brilliantly, though. I've found several times now that I put the camera down, get distracted, and the images are on the computer before I remember that I'd taken them.

A lot of people these days could do with a bit of anger management therapy.

It's 'shoot first, ask questions later' more often than not.

The slightest hint of anything that can be interpreted as offensive, and the standard response seems to be righteous indignation, coupled with a generous measure of getting one's retaliation in first.

Not just in the Daily Mail either.

Where did this supposed right not to be offended come from, anyway?

.... says the man that's planning to take the battery out during a firmware update...

I had a look through those 'recommended' settings, and I disagree with a lot of them. I'm not saying my opinion is any more 'right' than anyone else's, but the point is that what people find is right for them varies from person to person.

The first thing I do with a new camera, for instance, is turn all the damn beeping off. But that's a preference, nothing more.

Personally, I just don't 'get' the notion that anyone would buy an expensive camera, and not be interested in digging through every single menu item, finding out what it all does. There's a lot of pleasure in the discovery, IMO.

Well said, sir.

If you just select a bunch of settings 'recommended' by someone, there's no learning whatsoever. And who's to say they're right?

RTM, learn what the settings do, experiment and make your own choices.

Now you've got a K-5, there's no point treating it like a Point-and-shoot, with settings mostly chosen by someone else.

+1

I must say, on this occasion, I agree with those suggesting a softening.

Is there a reason for it being such an aggressively tight crop in the first place? There's simply no escaping the skin texture - it's very contrasty, and framed by the dark surround. The camera emphasises things in a way you'd never notice if you were just looking.

With Lidy's PP I think it's very good, but without it, it really emphasises the things she probably doesn't want emphasised.

It's not so noticeable in the second one, but the same treatment would transform that as well, bringing out the personality without the distractions.

Hell, I edit photos of myself, if I can, before showing them to people, especially if I was tired at the time. Why do you think I prefer the viewfinder end of the camera?

Are you suggesting the I-10 is a bit naff, John?

That's the second time in a few days I've caught you suggesting that something Pentax might not be the very tip toppest of tippety top.

Are you sure you're feeling Ok?

I voted for the joke option, because I felt the whole thing is a little ill-conceived.

The thread title is "Classifieds selling with images, compulsory??".

As I mentioned, I do not think it should be made compulsory, since it would give an illusion of confidence only.

Of course classifieds are better with carefully taken and presented images of the item for sale. That much is unarguable.

But to force people to add an image who would otherwise not be prepared to, is to invite images that are either not of the article, or photoshopped, or just taken from angles that conceal the things you'd really want to see.

As I said, I think the seller's willingness to offer comprehensive and accurate details of their items for sale, including images, says a lot about their bona fides - information which would be lost, if posting an image was a condition of posting the ad.

That said, if long standing members such as Mike-P or Mannesty, just to pick a couple of examples among numerous others, advertises a lens in mint condition, I'm more than happy to take both their honesty and their judgement of what 'mint' means, for granted.