Deryn, invest in an Arctic butterfly brush, you really won't regret it.

You could try getting the dust removal system to do a couple of extra shakes of course, just to see if that helps, but otherwise a brush or the Pentax pads are the way to go.

If you opt for the Eclipse system make sure you get the right fluid as the original Eclipse fluid will damage the sensor coating.

A great set. Makes me want the 60-250 more than ever .
I love the tiger, and the red panda, but then I am just daft about red pandas .

Try the Missing Manual by Lisa Snider.
I have the PSE6 version which is excellent. I'm sure the CS4 version is just as good.

If you can stand his style Scott Kelby has books on CS4 too, but you have to like his way of writing to get the best from them.
I like him, but lots of others can't stand him.

I have shot a few. Not with a pano head though so they are not that brilliant. I use my 17-70 for it at about 30mm, and stitch them in PSE 6.
PSE 6 does struggle with big panoramas though .

I prefer a stitched panorama, even without a pano head to the 10-20 perspective to be honest. The 10-20 makes everything look a bit squashed even when cropped to look like a panorama. One reason it's on my list to go.

It looks similar to the problem Prieni had.
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/K20D-vertical-banding-8841/p-0

It didn't on my Ds either. Looks like you got a bargain - or it's been round the clock already.

I just bought the K-m for my husband. I am very impressed with it. It offers an awful lot for the price.
He is using my Tamron 28-300 on it, though we did buy the kit lens with it as well.

Good question Mike!
I want to get the 60-250, but to do so will probably have to sell the 50-135. I too am curious if people still use both.

Whilst his music never did anything for me it is always a tragedy when someone dies at such a relatively young age.

I do not however understand the mass outpourings of grief for him, any more than I did when Princess Diana died. How can you grieve so for someone you never personally knew? A feeling of sadness at his passing yes, but such grief is incomprehensible to me.

It is his children I feel most sorry for. The infighting over who gets custody has already begun. Two can go back to their mother, but the third and youngest one?
I just hope they don't end up with their grandparents to be turned into performing monkeys like their father was.

Can we also remember Farrah Fawcett in this post too. She may not have been the greatest actor but she did have some very good roles and her passing has been eclipsed somewhat by MJ.

I have the 17-70 too. I got it as soon as I got the K20D, instead of a kit lens as I wanted a bit more range (and a lower price) than the 16-50*.

I love it, it is my main lens now. Most of my US holiday photos were taken with it.
You won't regret buying it.

Now I must sort out the other lenses I have and put them up for sale. I'll probably not put them on here though because of the complications of sending them abroad.