Earlier this AM I took ninety eight shots of BIF in the field at the rear of my home. Of the ninety eight, eight / eleven were worth taking a closer look at. Of these, I've kept six to post in the gallery, under 'nature/wildlife' section. All of the shots will be posted as taken with no Elements editing at all.

I have posted the first one into the gallery for everyone to pass judgement on. I'm only allowed one shot per day until I decide to join the paid ranks. Personally, for the equipment that I've got, I don't think that it is too shabby, considering it is my first 'go' with the equipment. The main problem seems to be the constant hunting of the lens. My way of dealing with it was to allow the lens to hunt forwards, back and then forwards again. It then seems to settle down to allow me to take my shots.

I'm wondering how much of an improvement the Pentax 55-300mm or the 70-300mm, I'm not sure there is a 70-300mm Pentax lens, will be. Has anyone any views on the two, please?

Please take a shufti at the photograph, I do appreciate all views and inwardly digest same. I'm making a concerted effort to shew that decent BIF shots can be taken, by a novice and with just the K-50 and basic zoom lens, in spite of the hunting problem. Muchly thankings.

Good morning all. John, please forgive my lack of PC knowledge, etc. This is where I am.

1. I've got the Firmware download, a white rectangle with the name, Fwdc222b.bin on it. It is on my desktop.
2. I've got a SD card, formatted in my K-50, in my PC's card reader slot.

From here onwards, I'm stuck. There doesn't appear to be any way that I can get the Firmware download onto the SD card. I know that there is, somewhere.

smudge. I think that this is the bit I'm doing wrong. How do I find the root (top) directory of the SD card? When I insert the SD card into the PC, I don't know where to look to find it. What a 'Rodney'!

I'm trying to update from version 1.0 to 1.02. I can get as far as the firmware update screen but no further. The screen remains white lettering on a grey background. Pressing the right controller button, as directed does nothing. I have the SD card in the camera.

The update has downloaded onto my PC into my downloads folder. It is from here that I'm going wrong, I think. I have a newly formatted card in the PC card reader and I then just coy he file onto picture drive but I'm not sure that that is correct. I think I have followed the official download instructions but I'm probably wrong. Can anyone help with some idiot proof instructions please or does updating not really matter?

Thanks guys. The site seems to be faster this morning. I was wondering if you always have to wait for them to load before you could move on. Also, does being a 'paid up' member allows the site to be faster?

Good morning all. Regarding queries about the Pentax 'stuff' I'm waiting for. I would have preferred a better starting point but it all came down to keeping the cost down. My income is severely restricted now and the K-50 and the Tamron 70-300 was really my only option. I appreciate and recognise your concern though. I am wondering myself but am hoping that what little I may have learned over the past year or so will hold me in good stead.

Only too happy to oblige stub. Hopefully over the weekend I shall have some BIF shots to post. Although my wife is insisting that I get the five square yards of turf laid in the back garden as well. Yippee!!!

Thanks chaps. I was wondering if it is because I'm not a 'paid' member this time around or if I have a problem with my broadband, although other sites I use seem to be as normal.

Am I the only one to find that the site is rather slow?. It has taken me five minutes to log in and finish typing this post.

Belay the password question. Found it.