The 18-250mm is a highly desireablt travel lens. Its only real drawback is the f6.3 maximum aperture at the long end.

Off topic posts removed.

Does anyone know if the term "Toy Lens" has a different connotation in Japan than the one we seem to be sometimes getting here?

Whatever it does mean, the idea of Lens baby and other Toy Lenses seems to be a growing interest these days. Holga is another.

As I've mentioned before, David Hamilton made a very good living out of using a rubbish 50mm lens on his SLR.

I can answer for myself Alan, all sales and costs are duly noted, profit declared and tax fully paid. No dodging means clear accounts, a clear mind and restful sleep....

It sounds like a rechargeable battery for the camera settings has given up, but it may just be that you are leaving the batteries out for too long? This will happen if there's no power for a long period of time.

To be sure, whu not contact one of the repair houses and see what they say?

Pull it back folks and show some restraint please.

We don't mind alternative views, but please don't keep repeating yourselves incessantly, especially when the facts are wrong.

The ground rules are that it's a Pentax User forum and is intended as a resource for Pentax Users. As such, other marques are off topic unless there's some relevance to our Pentax photography.

Convinced or not, that's the brief of the forum.

Leads to Deals is pruned regularly so that all the threads are current offers and we don't have to trawl through a mass of outdated material. Please see the Guidelines at the top of the section.

Of course this means that discussions will disappear too if in that section, so the place for those is elsewhere in their appropriate sections.

The Leads to Deals section has recently been tidied up and any no longer available offers removed. I think the K-5 one had become rather mixed up with lots of offers that were or were not available.

If we can stick to one offer for one thread it will help in making sure the odd still current one doesn't get zapped along with the defunct ones.

Nothing else has gone as far as I'm awar, unless you can tell me differently, in which case drop me a PM and I'll check it out.

I thought we'd established that this isn't accurate. The Q uses the latest version of the same type of sensor might be more appropriate. And of course totally different image processing.

usually Av or M, the latter when using flash systems. I never use AWB, preferring my shots to render the available light as it is, so Daylight is my usual choice.