We will wait and see as I seem to think someone else on the forum mentioned a similar K5 noise, which from what you say sounds as if it may have also been the AF motor drive not engaged.
Regards David

I think it would be worth an email to Pentax Technical to make them aware of this. I would expect the lens to fit and align the AF drive without having to fiddle like this. Hopefully they may bring out a fix
Regards David

I'm pleased you asked, I was afraid to. Thanks to all of you, now I know how to paste links.
Kind Regards David

PS I have just noticed I am listed as "Site Veteran" how did that happen?

Does this mean your sorted for now with no explaination as to the previous problem?
Regards David

Had my K7 for about 6 months, toyed between spending £300.00 more on K5 as was worried image noise would bother me. Image noise has never been a problem for me, image sharpness not brilliant before processing, probably due to me and kit lenses more than camera. Brilliant camera in all other respects.
Regards David

Just in case the PC is not showing them to you, reformat a memory card. Check and note the card free space, then take one image in RAW + JPEG and see how much space has been used, if its more than a single JPEG there is a good chance that for some reason your PC is not seeing the RAW image.

Also see if the camera shows a difference in images available when changing it from RAW to RAW+JPEG

Regards David

I'm still confused about the benefits of paying for membership.

* Is there or will there be new issues of the Pentax Mag in PDF format?
* Are Pentax trying to force us to pay up by blocking some articles to non paying members.
* Apart from the unlimited photo uploads are there any other photo upload benefits. IE full resolution image upload/album storage.
* Anyone know who I should I be asking these questions?

Regards David

As a novice to RAW I have to say I am amazed at the amount of detail which can be found hidden in an image after a RAW image is processed. The only problem is the time it takes to get the best out of RAW. I usually shoot RAW + JPEG and sometimes find even after much time spent on RAW files odd JPEG images seem marginaly better straight from camera in than the edited RAWs.
On the whole I have to say if you want to be sure you dont miss a chance always shoot RAW + JPEG. You then have the best of both worlds, and apparent blown out or underexposed areas can often be recovered.
PS anyone know of a tutorial for Pentax Digital Utility, I still havent got to grips with it much prefer PSE.
David

HELP!
I edited some RAW files with PSE 6 RAW editor, I clicked done and opened the images in PSE organiser then exported them as JPG files and then deleted the original RAW files. The problem is that when I try to further edit the JPG files they open up in PSE RAW editor. Where they have very strange tones, burnt out, over cropped etc. In addition when loaded up to my Pentaxuser portfoli they have lost all their exif data, however in PSE organiser the data is still there plus they show as JPGs.
Please see link to image in my portfolio
https://www.pentaxuser.com/photo/user-12009/siblings-27914

Any clues what can cause this?
David

Talent and this area on your door step, what can I say but you have the perfect life. Keep showing us these views, I will never tire.