this is what I was talking about when I said the moderators were fairly even handed....
it would have been easier to just delete the thread as opposed to taing the time to clean it up and put it back.
Thanx JR.

just read the fine print, as there might be one guy selling pictures of the lenses for $500.00

It has been below -30 c all week.
it is cold outside.
What else have I got to do?

get a mac

I see the k5 as a nice upgrade from the k10, and will buy one as soon as Gerri lets me. She counts the beans.

on shots like that, where the camera is moving, the stationary object (house) which is further away should appear sharper than anything closer to the camera... (I suspect this example has been cropped and the original has the house more centered in the frame)

(it is the same with human vision... sit in a car while it is moving... look out the window to the side and everything seems blurry and appears to be moving fast. then look ahead... the further you look ahead, the more steady the objects appear... and it feels like you're moving slower than you actually are...

On my motorcyle at speeds over 180 km/hr you have to look waaayyy far ahead to be able to see anything sharp... you get a blurred tunnel effect on everything not straight ahead in the distance...)

also noticeable if the object is moving and the camera is steady.... a car moving across the frame at speed is gonna blur more than a car moving towards or away from the camera at the same speed.

This month I got spreads in two national magazines, an ad campain for a paint company and a photo being published in a uk alternative model magazine.

Lucky for me they didn't read all those reviews you did, or they'd know my k10 is crap, and takes lousy photos...

micro lenses? on the sensor itself?
if you want to find maniacal, ocd rants on everything wrong with Pentax, may I suggest you check out Ricehigh's Pentax blog?
it is the camera, it is documented. apparently...
still an easy to fix issue if you shoot raw, and I'm sure a firmware fix will address the issue in jpegs in the near future... along with the low light focus issue...

if you are a jpeg shooter the pf/ca may be problematic, but raw shooters have the ability to profile thier cameras and use a specific "default" set of processing settings that are applied on import with programs like Aperture...
I can set the CA settings once and add it to the default import settings for that particular camera and never see the CA again.

I just one of my lighter tripods... it says Tri -pod, but they also do Bi-pod and Mono-pod depending on how many legs you extend...