Agree re the composition.

Any chance we could see a larger version? (They removed the 550px limit a couple of weeks back.)

After I readjusted my K10D's viewfinder recently, I discovered that skills acquired during long years of manual focusing with slow lenses that resulted in black discs in the middle of the viewfinder, had not entirely left me, and they got better with a bit of practice.

So yes, skills unused become lost.

Photographing bits and bobs I'm selling on eBay, I always use MF, although this could be related to the fact that the lenses I use for this are not AF.

For anything moving, AF is usually better, and AF-C is a lot better than I expected it to be.

Just as I can barely sign my own name recognisably these days, since I make 98% of my non-cash payments online, AF is the future, as is online banking.

It's software, written by bad people, for popular operating systems.

I bet not all.. here's mine:

Next time you feel the inclination to spend money on software, resist it and send the money to me instead

Just out of interest, other than getting into Debug mode without using an undocumented Russian program where all the buttons are in Russian, why would you want to regress the firmware?

I'd be interested to see some of them!!

Whatever solution you end up with, I'd add my voice to Matt's.

Norton, (or indeed McAfee these days), should not be part of it.

Personally I think the only reason they're still around is the advertising budget, coupled with the deal they've done with some of the big PC makers to preinstall their products. Which suckers you into giving them money at renewal since it's so natural to believe that (a) they're big, so they must be at least Ok, and (b) it's easiest just to renew.

Such a shame - do you remember the original 'Norton Utilities'?

I'm sure George is right. I don't know anything about non-Pentax cameras or lenses.

But there is a madness about some eBay buyers.

Recently, I've seen my own (originally John Riley's) 75-300 go for more than the new price at the time from SRS.

And I watched an imported scanner (with only a US warranty) go for more than the Microglobe new price for the same thing.

I can only conclude that there are plenty of daft buyers out there that can't be bothered to do even a little research into what they're buying.

Indeed, and I've found no evidence for worse results with SR on, on a tripod.

It's not quite as simple as this, though, since when you release the shutter with your finger, even on the tripod, there is shake, caused by the act of pressing the button.

I wish they'd publish a specific, clear reason for why they say you should turn it off.

Yes of course. I'd forgotten about the filter. Thanks.