OK so it is indestructible but does it take good pictures??? At nearly twice the price of other Optio 90s it needs to.

Well we've been flooded too, - at least in Spain it's a warm flood .

And yes I know Valencia is having problems with fires too.

It's just that when it is grey, and cold (13C) and wet and my arthritis is playing up Spain seems very attractive. Especially as we've had this weather for over a month now, and have another 7-8 months of it to look forward to. Summer left early this year after a brief appearance at the beginning of July.

Now to book my trip to Photokina.

We haz rain

We haz grey skies

We haz cold weather

My laundry is piling up

My arthritis is very painful



This summer is enough to make me move to Spain.

If, as is speculated, the K-7 is being kept in the Pentax range the price can't drop too much or it will be cheaper than the K-r - which has a starting price of $875 (728 GBP) apparently.

This thread is going completely over the head of this particular Atheist now .


Now to see if my damn car will start.

It was supposed to be going to Italy tomorrow, but it refused to start for my son this morning. Now he'd rather risk a broken timing belt (on his own clapped out Polo) than a car (my not quite so clapped out Kangoo) that may not start.
The belt should have been changed at the last service, but due to our usual garage burning down and having to go to a different one it didn't happen.

I'm just hoping on mine it is just the battery and not the dynamo . It started fine when I took the dogs this morning, and again when he drove off in it, but later it was as dead as the proverbial. He jump started it and returned it to me.

You must have it in cache T-T. I can't see the picture either, it has been removed from Flickr.
No doubt if you re-load the page you won't be able to see it either.

Congratulations on the camera and your wedding anniversary!

I'm looking forward to hearing more about the X90.

The colour is a good start.

People can give a sense of scale to a shot, so sometimes I am happy to have someone in a bright orange cagoule in the picture. Sometimes not.

The Dutch are getting a Papal visit too, in October - the Coptic Pope is visiting apparently.

I wonder if the Dutch tax payers have to foot the bill for his visit

What a threadbare set of jokes