The other thing that bugs me a bit about the scrollable galleries is the jerky way they scroll.

It's supposed to be a real showcase for the best of Pentax images isn't it?

It just seems clunky. The old version was slow, but I don't think there was much wrong with it apart from that? Admittedly I didn't go there very often, so I'm not really qualified to give it an in-depth review.

The pictures always seemed to have a real glow about them, which isn't the case any more.

It's very short sighted to rejoice at the bad luck of the other manufacturers.

I doubt our favourite retailers can sell enough Pentax to make up for the lack of stock from the rest.

I'm not even sure it's good for Pentax to feel that they're off the hook for a while.

Strange. It's ok here now in FF 7 too. None of the links did anything at all when I went there to start with.

It seems to scale the images to match the size of the browser. Completely unacceptable IMO.

I also don't like the way it dims the adjacent photos when you're using the arrows to step through a collection. I find them extremely distracting.

Can anyone use it at all in Firefox 7? It's completely broken for me. Ok in IE 9 though.

Well I have noticed this as the battery approaches depletion.

But it's not really the point, is it? It's no good if 'empty' really means 'wait ten minutes and you'll get a few more shots'.

There was never anything like this with the K10D. The battery lasted for ages - five or six hundred shots or more. With lots of reviewing too. A whole day at Farnborough airshow (1200 shots or thereabouts) and one battery change.

And people's experience seems to be that the K-5 battery life is better - not much, much worse.

Not a stupid question at all

Yes, pretty much. I realise that a brief period of 'off' will tend to let it recover, but I've been running it down to the point where it says 'battery depleted', and it refuses to do anything. And not by using video or LV, either, since I know that requires a lot more juice.

The thing is, such battery conditioning as you describe shouldn't be necessary.

It wouldn't do any harm I suppose... although will it install a firmware at the same level as the one already present?

Well, I've returned it to the default. Since the book values will presumably be published for default settings, I want to make sure I'm comparing like with like.

It's not a temperature issue, I don't think. The batteries are kept at room temperature and until very recently it's been pretty warm.

Thanks for the suggestions.

It's not quite right, since the sunset is behind, and the foreground isn't showing any signs of backlighting.

But hey... so what. I can imagine some fill-in front light source.

I love it. All the more since usually I don't like this sort of thing.

I'd speculate that they chop the feature rather than fixing it when there's something wrong that can't be fixed properly quickly.

A bit like the K-5 AF during video recording - didn't the beta firmware support it?

"Oh dear, that makes a right racket. Hmm, we never thought of that (and it's even louder than the SR). I know, we'll just remove the feature."

Comment out a couple of lines of code, problem solved. But it does make them look a bit thick, to say the least.

Yes, two of the three charges I've had were from the Pentax one that came with the camera, the other was a 7dayShop 'equivalent'.

A bit early to say, but they seem much of a muchness. I'm on to the fourth charge with the Pentax battery now, so I'll see how it goes. I've reduced the instant review from 3s to the default 1s, and the auto-power off from 3 min to the default 1 min, but I can't help feeling neither of those is going to turn out to be the culprit.