Apologies to anyone who may have emailed me as opposed to a PM and not had a response, I have just discovered a problem with my mailbox, for some reason legitimate mails have been labeled as SPAM and sent to that folder (which I usually delete without reading) sorry if yours have been deleted unread and consequently not responded to.

Pete, you have shown us some good images, and even some fantastic images, I cant understand why you would want to spend so much time manipulating someone else's, be proud of what you have achieved yourself........and save up for a trip to NYNY, so good they named it twice

Have got those on my MZ7, they make such a pretty display of coloured lights when the camera is switched on , fortunately my istD didnt have them and the K10D doesnt have them either.

The only "mode" that got used on the MZ7 was "Auto" and that was when I handed it over to the wife .

I did try them out just to see if they did what they were supposed to do, and they did, so full marks to Pentax

For anyone who's not sure what their doing I think theyre brilliant, for anyone else I think there a waste of time. IMHO of course.

C'mon guys!

Its bad enough having to argue about Canon and Nikon v Pentax.

I personally cant see any problem, Samsung have obviously collaborated on the development of these cameras so deserve to sell it a whatever price thay want, its a given fact that their going to discount it to get recognised in the DSLR market place, Pentax will rely to a certain degree on their name to sell to joe public who doesn't know a pixel from a pretzel.

Personally I would have bought the Pentax badged model anyway, (brand loyalty I suppose), but if someone wants to buy the Samsung then I say go for it.....(but dont post on this forum......TRAITORS )

Yeah. PP has done away with the blob system and has advanced to a much better star system.

Lilly, is it a 1500mAh battery? or the same as the one supplied with the camera 1620mAh
It will have the details on the back.

God doesn't know how long your hair is......

He just knows how many you've got

But Pentax know who's using Non branded batteries, cos' you just TOLD THEM!

ROFL with visions of users rushing to edit their posts

It may be worth pointing out that the battery on offer from the morrisphoto link was also listed as 1500mAh and it is supposed to be a Pentax battery, either morrisphot have got it wrong or Pentax are offering the battery in two "sizes"

At the moment i'm with lenscape, I'll manage with the one for now (could probably manage all the time anyway), and if Argee doesn't post any tales of woe about leaking/exploding/poor performance batteries then I may follow his suggestion and buy a cheap back up.

I wouldn't get too depressed Pete, it was a lucky grab shot through a space in a crowded street. And the lighting on it isn't all that brilliant anyway.

And that Bullring shot of yours is tremendous, I'm depressed now.

Keep up the excelent work

and its ALAN (its in my profile if you search hard enough)

Just one more suggestion Pete.

If your going to try it again then try to place a darker coulour to the corners of the frame, this will have the effect of "holding the image in" as judges like to put it.