Thanks Stefan, very interesting video.

And here's Day Two:

http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/The-Pentax-Q-Stress-Test-Day-2

This seems interesting:

http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/The-Pentax-Q-Stress-Test-Day-1

At least you can do that if you want to and they are quite open about it.

If you do send it back and it turned out they were then out of stock and couldn't fulfill your new order...things could be worse.

I think that's right - if they were shots from today we'd probably dismiss them out of hand as pretty poor images. The interest comes from the content, certainly not from the technique.

However, they still end up interesting despite their faults.

Off topic posts removed.

I have no problem with replacing the sky, but I do think the image is somewhat spoilt by the inconsistent lighting. The sky shows dramatic, bright lighting, but the foreground is dull unlit and bland.

When two images are combined, it's very useful for the lighting conditions on all parts of the image to be the same. Without this, we won't be convinced that the sky is really part of this scene.

Hope that doesn't seem harsh and that it helps.

Every RAW file is specific to a camera model, and this is true of all marques. So when new cameras are released, Adobe will release updates to ACR to enable Photoshop to handle the new version of the PEF.

You should update ACR, your CS3 raw converter. If as eventually happens your version of Photoshop is no longer supported then you will need to update Photoshop itself by upgrading to the newer version.

The alternative is you use the Pentax Laboratory raw converter supplied with the camera.

The same goes here as in the troubleshooting section. Please stop bickering. Any off-topic posts that continue this will just be deleted.

Will you please stop bickering. It should be possible to discuss a flashgun without resorting to personalities. Any further posts will just be deleted if they are not firmly on-topic.