I'm sure it does. Down here in the south east we seem to spend many months of the year under a threat of drought restrictions

Glyn

Its in the K3 manual, Page 86, Section 6, Appendix, Troubleshooting:




I think a similar statement was in some of the previous model manuals as well. It is certainly in my K-5 Manual on Page 354, a much thicker manual!

I do though feel a bit sceptical. I think all of my recent Pentax DSLRs have locked up occasionally requiring the battery to be removed. My K20D was by far the worst. I can not really believe that all instances were caused by static.

Perhaps, however, it is just more humid and/or damp where John comes from .

Glyn

Looking at the customer reviews on Amazon for the Lightroom 5 upgrade there are definitely at least two people that indicated that they upgraded from Lightroom 3.6. Here is one quote:

"I upgraded from 3.6 to 5 (having skipped 4) and it is well worth the upgrade. Some reviewers are griping about the price, but £59 is very good value in my opinion. The installation and upgrade process went very smoothly and my 3.6 catalogue was automatically updated to 5 during the installation process very quickly and with no issues at all"


LR5 upgrade on Amazon


Hope this helps,
Glyn

P.S. It is currently £53 on Amazon

I'm not convinced. A quick snap of my K-5, with the non-HD equivalent lens, in a similar take looks about the same. I think the K-3 is tilted down a bit as it looks like the back might be sitting on its strap which I have tried to replicate:




I think its also interesting to see the differences in the body shape, particularly the extra thickness or extension to the front of the flash housing, behind the Pentax logo, which I had not noticed before.

Glyn

Many thanks Michael for a great competition that attracted a lot of entries, the very nice set of comments and, of course, the judging .

Lots of thanks also for the first place. This was very unexpected as there are a lot of fantastic reflections in this collection. I really liked simonarron's chaotic reflection of Monte Carlo.

I certainly had a lot of fun blowing, capturing and photographing soap bubbles and definitely learnt something new.

Congratulations to my fellow podium members mudge and JAK, those highly commended and everyone else for such a beautiful set of well crafted images.

Glyn

Here is the place for any discussion on weekly competition #325 - Signs & Symbols.

For this challenge I would like to see images that contain a sign or some sort of symbol. It could just be a sign or a symbol or, for example, be a landscape that has a sign in it or an object that has a symbol on it. All interpretations will be considered.

The usual rules apply. Entries must be shot with a Pentax, or the re-badged Samsung equivalent.

As is traditional I will stop looking in this thread once the first entry has been posted.

Good luck,

Glyn

Many thanks for such a good competition.

Congratulations to our winners and everyone else for a great set of inspirational images.

Glyn

Me too but I got it to show by disabling Adblock Plus on that particular page in Firefox. Then doing a page re-load.

(Firefox - Tools - Adblock Plus - Disable on this page only)

I also had to do this on the larger version of the image.

I assume it was because the image has "Advertising" in its title.

Glyn

Oh gosh. I left this thread after the first entry was submitted soon after I had set up the competition and have just crept back in here to say that the results have been posted.

Certainly not influenced by this thread I am however happy to find I am in agreement with Ken about Andrew's image .

Thanks to everyone that entered. It is a great collection of images and I found the judging unusually difficult.

Glyn

Check that the little slider switch on the side of the card has not got inadvertently moved into the locked position while you were inserting it?

Glyn