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Sold.

Now on Ebay.

Penatx 18-250mm in excellent condition. Clean optics and body, boxed only. Supplied with Kood 62mm UV and Jacobs 62mm CPL filters worth £30
£245 inc RMSD delivery. UK only

I said I was going to try and move on from the raw vs jpeg debate and I really want to, but can I just clarify something.
When I said earlier that I hate heavily processed shots in some Flickr groups I was referring mainly to garishly overdone HDR images.

I have seen shots which are fabulous examples of composition,timing and light wrecked by over the top HDR processing which does absolutely nothing for me. I even left my home island Flickr group because for me it was becoming littered with stuff that would contend for the Turner prize.

Many thanks to John and MrB/Philip for the advice and link.

Oh boy, can we get back onto subject instead of raw vs jpeg.
Thinking about it now the question I should have asked is this,
The K30 has shadow correction and highlight correction settings, so why would you NOT have this switched on ?
Do either of them affect the image outside of the obvious effect on shadows and highlights,is there for an instance an increase in noise ?

I dont want to get into the raw argument either,in fact I even have Lightroom, just never seem to have the time to sit and pp.

Funny thing is that not doing raw has never been raised by anyone visiting my flickr page,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donaldm/

Jings, thought no one at all was going to come back so many thanks for taking the time.
Well, here goes,I shoot entirely jpeg and post process in Picasa and am happy with the output. I have had pretty harsh comments over the years for not doing raw,but hate with a passion the heavy pp'd shots that litter some groups on Flickr.
So if anyone shoots jpeg with a K30 and would like to share settings it would be appreciated.

I shoot mostly landscape at base ISO but am curious about how other users have the K30 set up with regards to shadow and highlight correction. I would also be interested to hear from anyone who has experimented with sharpness and noise reduction, etc

Its been a superb offer and Pentax are to be commended in my opinion for dropping the price in the first place. I take it SRS will have sold one or two - are you allowed to share how many have been sold since the price drop ?