No it's not wrong. Administration is different. It is also a legal procedure and creditor protection takes precedent. You can try and get the goods repaired. However, the administrator is under no obligation to offer you a refund and shop stuff are instructed not to give refunds for faulty goods. You are just another creditor of the company and you can lodge a claim with the administrator but you are way down the list and stand little chance of anything. Indeed, if the administrator were to authorise a refund then it would be treating your case in preference to a secured creditor, which would be wrong.

Thanks.

...and 'oh bother' (or words to that effect).[/quote]Ask whoever bought it how they bought it. If it was on a credit card they might be able to get their money back.

Generally I'm saddened. The main Edinburgh store had a lot of good staff, many of whom had been around a long time. All that knowledge gone to waste.

On the point of vouchers and closures, the company is in Administration which means, in effect, PWC are running the company. They have an obligation to everyone who is owed money, which means customers, suppliers, the staff and the taxman.

They need to go through the accounts to see what the balance sheet looks like and who has to be paid first. Give them a few days before assuming that vouchers are lost.[/quote]Administration is about legally protecting a company from its creditors, thus enabling it to be run as a going concern to give time to find an alternative to liquidation. The administrators are thus legally entitled to refuse customer refunds for faulty goods and to refuse to honour gift vouchers. Sometimes they are honoured, other times not. This is where credit (and some debit card) protection is useful. I would urge anyone to be aware of what protection is available always take advantage of it. Plastic gets bad press but used wisely it is very beneficial.

Customers come way down the pecking order. If card protection isn't available (and that is less likely for small amounts) then a claim needs to be made to the administrators. But that is way down the pecking order so I wouldn't hold out much hope. The people to be paid first by the administrators/receivers and liquidators are themselves. And very handsome their fees are too.

Good lens. I've got three f1.7's and an f2. Not sure why.

Good question. I'm a little moist but only because I have been outside photographing in the drizzle.

My answer is it won't but I'm not bothered about that.

I'm more interested in making use of the different crop factors, I will then have an FA43mm and an FA64mm, two top quality prime lenses for the price of just one. For example. Etc.

But it's about much more than that anyway. The 16-45 is quite a bulky lens and f4. A prime just has a completely different feel, takes you into a different mode of viewing and you have faster options for different situations and types of image.

My two favourite primes in that range are the K35f3.5 and the FA43Ltd. Image quality is a quantum leap from the 16-45 although I no longer have that lens to provide examples.

Depending on walkabout subjects there is a good choice of manual lenses to consider too.

Then a Q would be the better option. Personally I've never seen anyone use a compact with a whacking great flash.

It seems that the Olympus XV-2 has the same sensor and the lens looks very similar. So that is a guide to the image quality.

I'll stick with the Q (subject to a wide angle prime coming in the not too distant). However, I'd be seriously tempted with an LX-1 with a 1" sensor.

If this is is the first of the Ricoh projects then it bodes very well indeed.

Scaled up to APS-C would give 155Mp by my reckoning. No wonder some lenses struggle.

It has a fast lens with the ideal zoom range, a mode dial, ev compensation dial, sr, it shoots raw and the screen tilts. That's all I want from a compact. Well done Pentax.

It looks great.

It will do well to compete with the RX100 on image quality, but if it gets close then I would go for it over the Sony.

When they 'fixed' my sensor banding problem the camera came back with the same problem, twice. However, I did find them to be very amenable and generally efficient with the attempted repairs.

The seller sounds like a chancer. You have enough evidence there to win a dispute in the event the seller refuses to refund you.