Thanks Bill. Its now back to normal.
David

I'm a member of Durham Photographic Society which has more than 100 members. While the majority are 1,Canon and 2, Nikon users there are at least 7 or 8 other Pentax users here (three of us are members of PUF) which seems to reflect the average position Pentax hold with the other two in international sales.
Interestingly a lot of my camera club friends have been downsizing to mirror-less cameras, most notably Olympus, over the last year or so, jettisoning their great heavy full frame Canon and Nikon gear because of weight issues. And just when Pentax are seriously getting into the full frame game.
David

Help. Can anyone tell me how to turn off the electronic level display on the rear screen of my K3. It's started popping up every time I turn on the camera and I just can't get rid of it.
David

Thanks for the thanks and to Glyn for his kind comments. But my satisfaction when judging these competitions is to see how different people interpret the various set subjects.
Over the past year or so I've been disappointed at the drop in entry numbers for the weeklies. I've been on this forum for almost nine years and I've always enjoyed the competitions. In my early days it was quite common to get 30-40 entries every week. Now 20 seems to be about the best you can expect. This is despite the fact that membership of PUF is now considerably higher than a few years ago.
I wonder if its time for a change in the format. Setting a subject and picking a winner is quite easy, the hard part is writing comments on every entry. I know this puts some people off. Is there another way of doing it - perhaps a voting system where the winner is chosen by popular choice. All the entrants in a competition could comment on their favourites, leaving that week's winner to just select the next subject.
Just a thought, any other ideas?
David

Months late I know, back in October of 2016 when my wife was very ill, I had other matters on my mind. These are superb, taken in North Wales, an area I love, and featuring the landscape and narrow gauge steam trains. What could be better. Your single lens challenge worked very well, this is an escellent set of images. I just wish I'd seen and commented on them earlier.
David

A few more have trickled in = keep 'em coming.
David

Use some made up names on some of the 152 new pics. That would boost the entry and make my job much more difficult.
David

Just five entries so far... and there was me thinking this would be an easy subject with plenty of opportunity for variety.
David.

I've had DA* zoom lenses for almost ten years and they have been used extensively so when the SDM packs up (twice with the 50-135mm and now the 16-50mm is playing up) and Johnsons fix them quickly and efficiently I put it down to wear and tear, cough up and get on with it. Paying for the repair is a lot cheaper than buying new lenses.
But I do wonder about converting to screw drive auto focus. I recently used my Sigma 10-20mm for the first time in ages and it snapped into focus on the K5 in a split second.
Does anyone know if Johnson's do retro conversion to screw drive?

Thousands of years ago, don't ask me how many, the wheel was invented and for human inhabitants of planet Earth it was the start of a technological revolution that gathered momentum and changed lives.
This week's competition is to celebrate wheels - any sort. Vehicle wheels, wheels inside machines, for instance clocks, wheels-within-wheels bits of wheels, colourful wheels, black and white wheels ........its up to you.
Usual rules apply, Pentax cameras, or closely related clones only, you must be prepared to set and judge next week's competition if you win.
Deadline midnight BST Sunday June 25.