Agreed.

But once you've rotated it, you can't digitally zoom in on the shot in its newly rotated state - without, as Mongoose pointed out, pressing Ok first. If you don't press Ok first, it flips it back to its original orientation before zooming.

I did say this in my original post.

As I see it, having the camera know which way up it is, and automatically display the picture accordingly is a great option. It means that you can take a shot in portrait, and have it come up in portrait in playback mode. You may not want it to do this, so having it as an option is excellent.

None of which has anything at all, AFAICS, to do with wanting to rotate the image manually on the LCD for viewing convenience after the fact.

Well, Ok. Not quite as annoying as I thought then. I hadn't noticed that way of doing it.

It needs to write to its memory somehow first, before it'll let you zoom rotated. And sure, you can rotate it again, hit Ok and zoom it again the original way up.

But as a UI it is a bit clunky.

Just discovered my first actual gripe with the K10D.

The 'rotate' feature available in playback mode, by clicking the 4-way controller 'down', is great.

The digital zoom feature is also great.

But if you've rotated a shot, digital zooming flips it back up the original way.

Also, it seems that rotating a shot at all on the LCD is only possible if the camera is in 'auto image rotation=1' mode on the Custom menu.

Grr. Seems a pointless restriction to me.

PS Sorry, meant to post this on K10D wish list thread. Mods feel free to move it if you like.

Just in case anyone's interested, I sent them to Colab in the end. They were all fine, although most of the photos were quite disappointing. Shame I didn't have the K10D's shake reduction then...

A few years ago I took several rolls of (mostly Kodak Ultra 400) film on the day the Concordes flew into Heathrow for the last time.

Stupidly, I never got round to getting them processed, and they've been sitting about at room temperature in their original plastic pots ever since (October 2003).

Any recommendations as to who to get them processed by? I'm a bit concerned that they might've deteriorated since then, and I want to have the best chance of good results.

TIA

Don't mind the second one (apart from the shadow on the fox's left side), but when I saw the third one I thought "Ugh".

I think it looks completely unnatural. Much too much additional saturation, too, IMHO - looks like someone's tipped a pot of green paint over.

The saga of the 400mm lens has come to an end (hopefully ), with good news...

I bought Mannesty's lens from him, and it's great. Better than my old one.

I also managed to get my old one fixed - for the princely sum of £44, by a local guy who happened to have a set of the iris blades.

So I've sold my old one to my Dad, now also a K10D owner

Thanks to everyone who offered advice, and especially to Mannesty.

I'm on the case!

Update on this: I rang Sigma, and they don't have the iris blades.

Would really appreciate any other ideas as to who might be able to repair it. Long shot, I know, since it's pretty old, and the spares must be like hens teeth.