You may imagine that, but everyone knows it isn't true.

Whenever a point of grammar arises, there is the Spirit of George, whether you post or not.

The people may moan at some of the more acerbic Georgist comments, but excise you they won't.

I think Ken has missed his vocation.

He should give up moderating forums, and join George and myself on the Dark Side, where there is endless fun to be had scrutinising all things pertaining to grammar and spelling.

No one would dare spell 'lens' 'lense' if he did.

My one's Ok too in this respect. It's not particularly new either.

Milk, and penalise with poor QC in their rush to get the product to market.

Pleasure, hope you enjoy it.

I'm really wishing I'd kept one now, but there it is. I can borrow my Dad's one I expect

Top tip: get a written quote, before telling them you're a PU member.

To be clear, for those that haven't read posts on this thread, both these lenses have now been sold and shipped. They are no longer available.

Campkins Camera Exchange? Rings a bell, I seem to recall walking past looking at some very old cameras in the window.

I bought my first Pentax camera, a Super A, round about then. Mid 80s or thereabouts.

It's easily done.

The best thing, I find, when I can't make up my mind whether I've been messing with a photo too long on the computer, is to leave it till the next day.

I usually take one look, and go 'aaaaaargghhh'

Amazing the difference a fresh look can make.

I'd be inclined to go in there and carefully remove the light dots altogether. They're so small that they don't add anything, and almost look like hot pixels.

Much better now, though. Very nice, in fact. I wouldn't have guessed there was any flash at all, if not for the dots.

Respect to you, btw, for leaving the different versions up. Sometimes, people replace the earlier versions, rendering the thread a bit pointless. Hopefully it'll help someone.

I think if a camera or a lens develops a fault within warranty, and especially within a very short time of purchasing it, I'd initially take it up with the retailer.

If nothing else, it gives the retailer a chance to form a view of the proportion of kit going bad.

The retailer is probably also more motivated to lean on the supplier if the QC is questionable, than Johnsons, who are presumably paid by Pentax for each warranty fix they do.

I know that Pentax will be able to see the amount of warranty work they're paying for, but it's just numbers. I'd rather have the additional chance of an actual person at a retailer being in a position to hassle an actual person at Pentax should it be necessary.