Seems a very good price.

You need to extract the file first. Double click on the .exe to extract the .bin which is the then one you copy to the SD card root directory (ie: it sits alongside the DCIM folder rather than inside it.

Well that's not a bad start. I really like the 12-24, the one zoom I couldn't be without.

I got a quote for £48 to clean an 85mm lens with a sticky aperture from Asahi Photo.

Tried it just using the 01 prime. I found it remarkably difficult to get accurate results. I find doing it by eye is much easier.

Welcome. Fabulous location, look forward to some images.

Surely that's not a bad experience. Everyone makes mistakes, it's how those mistakes are dealt with that is the measure of customer service.

From a legal standpoint it is absolutely correct to contact and pursue a claim with Amazon and then to take them to court to resolve the issue. Your contract is with Amazon, and not Pentax and you should not have to have anything whatsoever to do with the manufacturer. The law is woolly, I agree with this too, and the onus is on the customer to prove that a there is an inherent fault with the goods provided. Reading through the law and the various commentaries upon it leads me to conclude that the almost inevitable result with a general retailer, such as Amazon, is independent arbritration.

My recommendation, which was after Amazon's original dismissal, to contact the General Manager of Pentax UK, was not intended as the legally or morally correct procedure or because I believe Amazon should not have any further responsibility. On the contrary it was recommended because I thought that it was the most expedient way to achieve a positive result and that was based on my personal experience of problematic cameras and dealing with the the retailer and various levels within Pentax's management hierarchy. Living in France I had to deal with returning faulty Pentax cameras to the UK EIGHT times - this involved four repairs to one camera and then three futher faulty cameras. This was unbelievably frustrating and I wouldn't want anyone else to go through a similar experience. Following that experience my advice on this forum has always been consistent. 1. Buy through SRS who are an excellent retailer and very supportive of the customer . 2. If you don't and you run into problems then go asap to the GM of Pentax UK who I found to be extremely reasonable and willing to put things right. As an aside my previous headaches with Pentax goods were as absolutely nothing compared to my problems with a new car purchased from Ford which was an absolute dog, effectively scrapped after only six years and cost me and other consumers unlucky enough to buy the same model many thousands. So I am no supporter of big business, quite the opposite. I fully support your case and I have always thought you are fully justified in your complaint. I wish you luck in your pursual of Amazon, my point was really that I can fully understand their point of view in the context of the soga and the fact that Pentax offer a one year warranty, in their position I would probably act in the same way. Thta doesn't mean I side with them at all. I just think the best way of resolving an issue is the quickest way, not the by the book way.

I think the discussion in this thread is relevant and of potential benefit to anyone with problems in future. I'm sorry you don't see it that way and I shall say no more on the subject.

Very useful indeed. Old lenses are great.

Given the location there is an obvious expectation of more spectacular scenery. However, disregarding the location then I think the scene still needs much more to grab the attention. There is no particular foreground interest, the distant mountains are too distant to have much of an impact and the semi-silhouetted vegetation on the promontory is a bit nothingy. These elements just combine to give a rather flat scene. It's in no way a bad image but it just isn't memorable. For that I think a different viewpoint is needed to lead the eye on a journey through the landscape and ideally combined with soemthing special about the light.