yeah but if your dog starts telling you bs.... who really cares what he has to say.... the fact that he talks at all...

this camera is only the first.... pentax and samsung could do it right!
journalists, fashion, and wedding photogs/videographers, will kill for one that gets it right....

http://www.casio.com/products/Cameras/Exilim_Pro/EX-F1/

Please, please, Bring me a kmount body that can do 60 frames/sec at 6mp, and can shoot hi def video....
I don't want to make my next big purchase another Sony camcorder, and I never dreamed I'd be giving serious scrutiny to a Casio.....

never seen that before..
but there has been some concern in northamerica about entire hives dying from mysterious cuases....
could be of scientific importance....
hope somebody knows what those are.

I work with Aperture and there is a new plug-in from the makers of noise ninja......
sorry I got nothing that would work for you
George.
maybe this:

http://flickr.com/photos/arena5/sets/72157605032098773/detail/

was it shot near water?
looks to me like he's stretching is new wings.
tips are bent

Well I for one don't see anything wrong with what you're doing, and as long as you're having fun...but I got an ADD attention span, and could easily find something else to do, while waiting for the camera to come back...... my kids never liked playing toss up (or hide and seek) with me..... toss 'em and then go watch tv....

I want to see the the photo from the toss you don't catch...lol
let me guess, you're lookin to upgrade to a new kit....
$50.00 and I won't tell your insurance company, what I know...javascript:emoticon('')

seriously, one small 6x6 inch square of plywood, some cord, a bolt, and an extensible paintroller handle can get the same angle with more accuracy and less risk...(you drill 5 holes in the board, mount a ball head to the center hole, and a peice of cord through one hole in each corner....tie the four peices together and tie that to your pole).

didn't pentax used to sell a microfiber cleaning cloth that was a near perfect shade of grey?

compare the grey card cost to the cost of a handheld meter.....

Badbrother....
I don't understand much of the trouble you've had.
I sell mostly 16x20 to 20x30 inch prints.
I have both the kit 18-55 and the 16-45.
your results don't sound right.
and as for the "portrait mode issue" in depressing review...well...don't they only publish Pentax reviews once a year...on April 1st?

the only way a lens could be sharp in landscape mode and soft in portrait mode would be if the software used to view the image, screwed the file up while rotating the image.

anyway they are both good lenses.

my sample of the 16-45 doesn't have that wobble some reported...

for me the reason for choosing the 16-45 was the constant aperture and high image quality.
the 18-55, came as a kit on a k10 my spouse bought...both items we got great deals on.

so for me, the only reason the 16-45 gets more use, is I use a hand meter and don't have to guess about exposures.
Many shots are near impossible to tell which lens was used by looking at the prints. but where it is possible to tell it is usually the 16-45 that outperforms!