It´s a help button. Press it and any other button and it tells you all about it.

Have to take the netbook! I've only got two memory cards at the moment as I lent the rest to my daughter-in-law for her Australia trip. She has the image tank too. So the netbook is essential.

I'm not buying more cards - she has 5 of mine and I have two here, plus one in the P&S.

The logger will actually be in my pocket - and cleaning stuff is a couple of lens cloths .

With the K5 I'm not sure I'll miss that extra stop tbh.

OK. I agree. It stays home. One less thing to lug. .
Thanks everyone.

Well I'm leaving the Bigma behind .

The 50-135 is faster on the K5.
I'm not taking a macro lens. I doubt there'll be much use for it.

So I am nearly ready for my trip to Norway on Wednesday. Everything just about fits in the suitcase, though it will be a squeeze to get the tripod in too. I could take a bigger case, indeed I may yet do so - no room for souvenirs as it is - but the cabin is pretty small I think, so I'm trying to travel light - ha!

I am allowed only one piece of carry-on, which will be my Tamrac Expedition 5 (which is just about carry-on legal). That has to hold cameras, lenses, batteries, chargers, GPS logger, cleaning stuff, netbook, tickets passport.... well you get the picture.

I am definitely taking the 17-70 and the 60-250. I am debating taking the 50-135 too, mainly for it's extra stop, and the weatherproofing, which the 17-70 doesn't have of course (allegedly).

Since my Sherpa is going to France, I need to be able to lug everything myself and am really in two minds about it.

Don't suggest I get the 18-135 (though it had crossed my mind until I saw the price here in NL :shock or some other lens.

Does the 50-135 stay home or go Troll hunting?

15 million cables (well OK not quite that many) now all reconnected, labelled and rolled up neatly with rip-ties.

We went out for dinner last night. I had wild boar, he had cod. Delicious.

It's been cold here for days - but sunny blue skies cold. Very nice while it lasted. Cloudier tomorrow, and maybe snow on Wednesday - when I am leaving for warmer climes - it was warmer in some of the ports in Norway than it was here yesterday .

No time for photography, still trying to put the house back together after the radiator work. Plus our new TV cupboard arrived out of the blue this morning so we have been playing with cable knitting all afternoon, getting everything installed in that.

It was just the initial batch(es). All new ones are checked. You can always ask to do a check in the shop when you pick it up if it will set your mind a rest.

I agree with Graham.
And be ruthless too - if you have three of Johnny as a baby which are similar just keep the best one, and so on. It is hard to do, but needs doing.
Also label them with who is in the photo. I have seen so many family photos where we don't know who the people with our parents are, or which baby is which. The same will be true for your children or grandchildren.

Barrie, RAW won't affect whether you can see the marks or not.
Have you cleaned the sensor?
Maybe you could post the photos in question?