Fascinating. How long did it last, do you think?

Also, were you taking lots of long exposures of the storm, and happened to get that one, or was there something that made you take that particular shot?

I must say, what a privileged view you have. Thanks for sharing it.

Actually, I'll qualify that...

It depends how faithful to the original you want the cloning to be...

[IMG]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/chris5gd/Technical/Tyronet-CNV00011-1.jpg[/IMG]

Agree that cloning would be a nightmare. The crop is unbalanced, though.

Sadly, this is one of those shots it's just not worth devoting time to.

I must admit, I was disappointed with the content of this thread, having read the title.

I've downloaded it, and will be installing it on a VM as you say. I'll report back in due course.

My main problem is that the dev tools only appear to be in the 64 bit download, and for various annoying reasons, my host OS is 32 bit.

This rather limits me to a VMWare VM, which will be slow.

Yes, I know. That doesn't change the fact that the amount of actual evidence for it being a problem on Pentax cameras is pretty much zero.

Correct.
The fact is, the camera turns SR off automatically in all remote and delayed modes. So unless you habitually use the camera on a tripod, by physically pushing the shutter release button, it's not an issue.

And if you do that, you'll get finger-induced shake whether you've got the SR on or not.

As I've said before, I've lost far more shots by forgetting to switch SR back on, than I ever did because the camera invented shake that wasn't really there.

I don't think this would improve anything. There's already a 'last page' button, and a 'last post in thread' button in a number of places, so there's no trawling required.

And if you want to read through several pages of a thread, in cases where you aren't checking the recent posts every 30 seconds, the old-fashioned 'top to bottom' layout is hard to beat.

I don't think its broke, tbh, so no need to fix it.

There are two separate settings under MUP on the Drive Mode menu (the one above the Ok button, where you select single/continuous/timer etc).

One of the two MUP modes has a little 'remote' icon.

They both work the same way - one click (on either the shutter button or the remote, respectively) to raise the mirror, and another to take the shot.

I can't see any way of locking the mirror up, taking several shots, and then releasing the mirror.

I suppose you get a bit more control over exactly when you take the shot with the separate MUP mode, but since the mirror has to come down after each shot, as far as I can see, it means you can't take a succession of shots with the mirror coming down only after the last one.

Not entirely sure why they bothered, to be honest, unless I'm missing something. The '3s delay' method of locking the mirror up before taking a shot still works the same way as it did with the K10D.

Edit:

I only have the single button Remote Control F. There's a new one it seems, from p349. It has 3 buttons by the look of it. Any idea what they do?

Love the handling.

Really compact, barely longer than the 18-55 when closed up. Quite quick and quiet to focus, quite a stiff zoom, but smooth.

The MF ring is a little strange to start with, up against the body as it is, and it doesn't have a stop at either end of the throw, which was momentarily disquieting. It gets slightly stiffer, and then keeps rotating.

Too early to say really, on the IQ.

So far, I've mostly been finding my way around the menus and making sure it all works, which it seems to.

I'll report back on the 18-135 when I've got something to judge by. So far, the camera feels very comfortable, but I still feel like a novice with it, and that it's got me on probation

No, there appears to be two settings... p149.

[quote="p149"]Use the Mirror Lock-up function if camera shake is evident even when the
remote control or cable switch is used with a tripod.
For Mirror Lock-up Shooting, press the shutter release button to raise the
mirror up and press it again to release the shutter.
[/quote]Mirror-up with the remote seems to be separate.