Too cold for Hoegaarden.
I'll have a bok.

Thanks Mike.

Glad to see you are amongst the living again, no longer lost in the land of the K5 undead .

If you use a remote or the delay timer SR is switched off automatically. I always use a remote when using a tripod, so SR is always off for me.

In fairness to Rab it is easy to sit at computer and say "why didn't you complain, I would have done immediately" etc etc, but I doubt many of you really would have done anything about it at the time in all honesty. You weren't there, you don't know the circumstances, and lets face it most people would either be too polite, or dumbfounded to complain then and there. It's always easy after the fact to come up with an answer, a complaint or whatever, but at the time, especially if the guy helping you makes a joke of it, the inclination to kick up a fuss just isn't there. Only afterwards does indignation set in.

My mobile phones can be used to call people, or to text them, albeit hands free with Bluetooth. That's as far advanced as I've got with phones.

We bought our son an iRig and app for Christmas. He'd probably say that is his favourite app.

I hope you both enjoy your new cameras.

I bought a universal charger and a spare battery for my K5 so I was ready to go the second it arrived.
The charger is also very handy with the RZ10 batteries. The K5 came with a European charger as well as a UK one, the RZ10 didn't, and I couldn't be bothered to find a UK to Europe adapter, though we undoubtedly have several knocking around here.

Congratulations1

At this rate you'll have a body per lens .

I agree John.

The reasons I chose the 17-70 were the longer range, and the SDM - I had a K20D and wanted to an SDM lens for it, but, at the time, I couldn't afford the 16-50*.

Hope the bone scan was OK Tony.

I agree about waiters. Kids go to school for three years here and get qualifications to be a waiter. They learn all aspects of the restaurant trade of course, but waiting is the main thing.

You can really tell a trained waiter from a just-doing-it-until-something-better-comes-along waiter.

Of course the "wait staff" in the US are amongst the worst, but expect the biggest tips. .

Sunny and cold here too. Lovely.