It never crossed my mind to send it directly to get repaired, I've always taken things back to where I've got 'em. Wondering now, as a 3 week wait doesn't sound fun.

Hopefully there won't be a next time, but I'm also wondering what they do to fix it, and will it happen again....

Well, less than a month after picking up a K5, the lens release button stopped working, stopped being on the camera in fact.
Yes it springs off when you put a lens on. Luckily it happened when I was in the house or I doubt I would have found it again, it was hard enough finding it in the sofa.

No trips or projects planned so I could laugh about it, it reminded me of one of the dad inventor gadgets in 'Gremlins'.

Credit to SRS, within an hour and a half of phoning them Parcelforce came and picked it up the body to be fixed.

Hope they don't take too long, back using the Gx10, while the results are pretty much the same IMHO, I do really miss the compact form or the K5.

Like the design, like keeping the K mount, but why no EVF?

We've got the Sony sensor, why not the Sony EVF?

Yeah there's just a lack of 'contrasty punch' for me. Sky's like this are not necessarily photographic poison, e.g. if you like your minimalist images, however as has been said the landscape is far too textured and busy in this case. Conversely I wonder if there had been more haze or some mist it you might have been on to a real winner

(Fantastic composition and reflection though of course!)

Wise words, seems the best landscapes come from guys who just 'live there', be it on Skye, the Lake District etc etc...

I too am a little surprised this thread is still going, but in a good way.

The mentions of Ansel Adams and HCB reminded me of question I should have asked back on page 2, if she had 'coloured in' one of their photos, what reaction would we have had then? An HCB image coloured in? I can feel the my oesophagus swelling with vomit at the thought.

But lets be clear about the most important point raised, very clear. No American teenager, or American of any age uses the word 'pants' as a derogatory metaphor. That would be like a Briton saying Keira Knightley was a flat chested as a 'sidewalk'.

LOL why the car chase?

"Only hot bohemian babe risk takers use Pentax"

Mmmm sounds quite good actually, put me down for that new compact.

Well that's nuts! Just what I've always suspected, Pentax users are more likely to be 'users'

Pass the dutchie & the FA31Ltd to the left hand side....

Kinda like that Dukes Cab 'abstract' shot for some reason, and the 'vintage' looking dark monos - great work guys

That's an idea. I've never got the blu tac mear on the eyepiece, but it does leave residue on the rubber surround. I'm thinking of switching to a piece of black electrical tape attached to the flash cover.

LOL - I use the same thing.