No you missed out the IMG tags. The fourth option under the thumbnail in Photobucket includes all the right tags - you just click on it and paste it here.

Otherwise copy the URL for the photo from Photobucket and click on Image below the add a comment box, and insert the URL between
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Have a look at the sticky in the Your Photos section of the forum - all is explained there.

Is there maybe another Pentax User member in your area with an SDM lens and a K10D/20D who you can meet up with maybe, just to try it our on another camera and to try another SDM lens on your camera? How far is Impotentspider in Leeds from you for instance? You could try contacting someone by PM.
Otherwise I would contact the shop you bought it from or Pentax UK and talk to them about it - as Spider says you have more rights than just the 12 months guarantee.

A lovely photo Susan. We spent a wonderful holiday on the shores of Loch Fyne a couple of years ago. Argyll is one of my favourite places!

You'd have been better off driving to Watford

Stefan, no there really is nothing in Amersfoort or Hilversum. My local camera shop in Soest is listed as a Pentax dealer but refuses to help me at all, he thinks I am mad to have bought Pentax and makes no bones about saying so. Great customer service .

There is a shop in Utrecht which sell Pentax but they are pretty useless in my experience, and that is getting to be beyond local as far as I'm concerned. It means I have to take at least a half day out just for that and I can just as easily go to K-E in that time.

So if I want to play and hope for some reasonable advice it is either a trip to Amsterdam, Kapelle a/d Ijssel, Den Ham or Urk.

So I'll stick to internet shopping and especially to SRS. I have the advantage of having family in the UK whom I visit occasionally so unless it is something I desperately want (like the 50-135*) then I can have my order sent to a relative for me to pick up when I visit them.

The Sigma 10-20 doesn't have HSM in Pentax mount!

Lucky you!
I wish I could shop locally, but there are no camera shops near me that stock Pentax, even though one of them is listed as a Pentax dealer by Pentax NL . They won't even order stuff for me, just try to flog me Canon or Nikon or Sony instead.

I see no sense in my driving for an hour or more to one of the camera shops which does stock Pentax just to buy a camera, or a lens, if I can have it delivered for less than the petrol money.
The last lens I bought from SRS because even with the postage from the UK they were more than €100 cheaper than I could find it here.

I like the composition of the first and the third particularly.
Do you have a mucky sensor though? On the first one, in the centre about a third of the way down is a blob - could be a bird I guess, but looks to be muck. On the last one slap bang in the centre of the sky there seems to be a strange blurry dark blob, which looks horribly familiar.

It would be great Rob, but sadly it ain't gonna happen. (With a few notable exceptions :wink

I have seen a lot of Pentax gear for sale on a second hand goods website here in the Netherlands where the reason for sale is given as switch to another manufacturer.