Doesn't seem to make any difference. I have no real problem using the screen in sunlight anyway.

It's nothing to do with your part of Europe. I have had nothing but very positive experiences dealing with Slovenes and Slovenia is high up on the list of favourite countries I have visited. It's much more to do with not having the money to buy this lens.

ACMAXX 3" screen protector from ebay.

I can't really add much to what's on the diagram. Three are self-explanatory. From what I understand the mount cap lens is a bit of plastic with a hole in.

In 2012 or later. Three sensible lenses in development and one very silly one.

That's possible but the work ethic is questionable.

Nothing for my simple needs. Fewer menu options. I wonder how many photographers who need the capabilities of a K5 actually process their RAW pics with it, for example. Has anyone cropped a photo using the camera's processing?

The return of the on/off SR lever would be nice.

It will be interesting to see what Pentax strategy is given that the Nikon D600 could shake up the marketplace somewhat.

Just dandy

Given that there are gadzillions of photos already taken there is probably not much left that isn't a cliche.

If I want to go and photograph oft photographed things then the fact that my photos will be similar to many others before me isn't going to put me off as they will still be my photographs. Furthermore you can still take a better photograph of the same thing than everyone else. The fact that I haven't yet just means I can keep trying.

Thanks Chris for the suggestion on the browser, which was indeed the problem. I have investigated how to change the display settings to optimise photo viewings and the uploads look as I would expect now.

The text on this site does look rather small compared to other sites and I need to zoom in to read the content comfortably. However, I have discovered that I can enlarge text only without also enlarging images and that I can set up different display settings for different websites.

I only intended this thread to find out why pictures looked soft to me, not as a general discussion on the quality of those pictures. However, regarding the photos here, all of us are at different stages in our photo journeys. I recall some of my first uploads here, they were pretty bad. I've still got a very long way to go, wherever that may be. I'm just pleased now that I know my photos look as I intended them to look, whether that be a good or a bad thing. Looking at the gallery there is lots to like in there.