Sorry I didn't support this competition Rob it was an excellent subject and one I would normally have enjoyed entering. But time has been hectic these last couple of weeks. Low entries but super quality so congrats to all the people who entered and especially to Glyn for a great winner and to Aliengrove and JudithAnn.
David

I was talking to Will Cheung yesterday, Saturday, and he raved about the 645D which he has just had to review.
David

Sorry Ted, I don't have one of him.
David

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I've never noticed it on other photos, but most are posted 800 wide which saves them being reduced again.

I'm glad it had nothing to do with the K-5 [/quote]It seems sighs of relief are due all round.
David

I've just done a double check - Unlocker was correct. I assumed the lens correction facility would be OFF until I turned it on. In fact it was ON. I took it off and the camera fired away with 10 continuous shots in RAW and it seemed to go on forever in JPEG. All these were shot at 200 ISO on a San Disk Extreme 111 card.
Sorry for not checking this basic detail before posting my previous post. And thanks Unlocker.
David

I've just done some continuous shooting tests on the K5, this time with a San Disk Extreme 111 card. No difference whatever from the basic San Disk card. In RAW and on the Hi setting still just 3 rapid frames then lock up while the buffer clears.
The hand books says it should deliver approx 8 frames continuously in the Hi setting and up to 10 in the Lo setting with RAW. All I get in Lo is the same number of frames, 3, but at a lower speed per second.
I switched to high resolution JPEG (***) and got just 4 continuous frames before lock up compared to the staggeringg 30 frames promised in the handbook. It made no difference whether I set the camera to 100 or 800 ISO.
Roll on the new firmware someone has written about in this Forum because at these speeds the K5 will not be much use for fast action such as sports coverage.
David

I had this problem yesterday when I tried opening my RAW files from the K5 in Faststone. The thumbnails were there but I couldn't open the images. I then went to the Pentax Browser, which I believe is Silkypix, and they opened up fine.
David

I posted mine today as well - for the K5+18-55mm kit lens. It was a better deal to buy the camera and lens than the body alone because of the higher cash back offer for the kit.
David

My monitor is an LCD screen and there are no jagged bits showing on it.
I've enlarged the picture and then reduced it in size but the lines in the picture are still clean.
David

I haven't changed any factory settings such as you mention so I assume none of these are turned on.
I severely cropped some of the speeding train pictures to blow them right up to give the imprression of using a really long lens as opposed to the 50-135mm. Shooting at 400 ISO and without any noise reduction in Photoshop the pictures are clear, sharp and of a remarkable quality compared to similar attempts in the past with the K10.(I won't bore you with them here)
David