Why would that be a good idea? Is it not a solution for a non-existent problem?

Don't foget this is a Classified Ad thread. If someone wants to say "I'll buy it" and the seller agrees then that's fine. The seller is quite at liberty to decline or to accept and sell. Many times offers are made and then nothing comes of it, the sending of a PM from one person doesn't mean that everyone else stops to see what happens before making their own offers.

Having said that, if there's more than one offer made it seems fair that the first one is the accepted one, providing it meets the price asked. Waiting to see if a better offer comes in causes dissatisfaction also and should be avoided.

If you phoned after an ad in a newspaper it would be simple, and it should be so here as well.

Interesting.

It may not be as straightforward as stated, as I have heard that Sony sensor production has been affected. If that's true, there may be a supply problem with sensors anyway.

Pentax also produces at least many lenses in Thailand, but I'm not sure where those factories are in realtion to the problems.

You can send a PM as well, after all we don't kinow if the PM contained an acceptabloe offer.

I'll keep an eye out to see if I experience something similar, but nothing so far. If it continues as a problem, do please file a report, with as much specific deatil as possible.

It's working normally most of the time, but sometimes notififications seem very delayed. This happens with more than one forum so it may be an internet traffic problem.

If you check the online version of your e-mails you might find that they are being caught by the spam filter. This happens quite a bit with Virgin.

Just thinking about the auto shut off, I have this set at 30 minutes, so that is unlikely to be the problem.

I'd be wondering why. Fortunately Sue uses the same kit and her battery performance should be about the same as mine. This proves to be the case.

It seems you may have some unexpected drain, but the other alternative is a battery that's not up to spec for some reason.

I'm not sure yet how the battery life on the K-5 is going compared to the K20D - it can be very difficult to judge as it depends so much on how much focusing we do, how much reviewing, how much messing in menus....

Having said that in a week's holiday shooting maybe 200-300 images per day only one battery change was required. The second battery was still going strong at the end of the week. That doesn't seem too shabby.