I like the crop of the first one the best, the wall is a good oof background, but I must admit I do like Ken's Messing about the most .

You have to get brave T-T and start playing with your PSE or other software.

There is really nothing new in that link to the earlier speculation on this forum.

I still don't think it will go on show at Photokina on 22nd September - that is day two of the show being open to the public, and 2 days after the press day.

If it does go on show for the first time on the 22nd I guess the Pentax stand will be crowded when I am there.


There is of course nothing to stop you buying your K5 in Europe if the VAT rate is better somewhere else. The EU are tightening up the guarantee rules regarding cross border purchases so that it applies no matter which country you are in or have bought from.

There are five speed bumps in our street. It is a one way street, maybe 250 metres long, and residential only, yet they put 5 bumps in it. Everywhere here there are bumps, and roundabouts seem to be sprouting like mushrooms now too.
Though on one main road they did put a roundabout back to traffic lights because the queues were worse with a roundabout.
Having failed to learn from that mistake just one junction on they are currently building a roundabout to replace traffic lights. I give it a year...

An it all makes work for the working man to do, and it all gets paid for by the taxpayer .

If it is only 18 months old you still have 6 months guarantee on it. I'd take it back and get it repaired under guarantee rather than start playing with it myself.

But that's just me. No point in having a guarantee if you don't make use of it.

Someone we know was recently burgled and lost all their photos - the thieves stole amongst other things the entire computing set up, including two hard drives they used for photos. They were on holiday at the time and the thieves seem to have been able to take their time.

So it got me thinking about somewhere else to store photos. I could give a hard drive to a son I suppose and update it say once a month, but that is not ideal. So then I thought about a cloud (must be all the rain we're having :lol.

Does anyone here use a cloud? If so which one do you use? Are you confident it won't suddenly evaporate taking your photos with it?

It's not that easy sadly.
There is no Pentax shop around here. It's about an hours drive to one of the big shops, and they would expect a sale since they would have to unpack one for me.

They have most Canon, Nikon and Sony models on display to handle and play with, but never have Pentax on display, or even unpacked as a demo .

Well it looks like it will be announced before Photokina at any rate so I might get to see it next week.



As far as the 18-135 goes, I don't know where it leaves the 17-70 - on the shelf possibly in my case. It will depend on IQ of course.

I am not sure it has been a popular lens tbh.

Raining cats and dogs again. So I am soaked again. Very much autumn here. Way too early imho but what can you do?

Maybe we'll get a good October???

The one thing I don't want this winter is snow. I hate snow. It is fine to look at but daily life is just horrible in snow.

Also put the camera into manual so you keep the same exposure.

A good tip with panoramas is to take a photo of your finger then the series of panorama photos followed a photo of two fingers, so you know which ones you intended for the panorama, and don't miss any out.

PSE 6 and above do a fantastic job of stitching panoramas. I believe the later PS does too.

There are lots of tutorials on the web of how to stitch in PSP.

Mine too, but I may get the kit if there is really is an 18-135WR option, instead of just the body.