Comet are not a main supplier of Pentax, so their plight isn't really related. In fact their photographic section is really pretty insignificant.

Cameras are selling, so better perhaps to look at overall camera shipment numbers.

I have taken in the last of the Pentax User magazine back issues, rather than them being recycled. I will be dishing these out to camera clubs as I go, so they will steadily dwindle as I spread the word about the website.

If anyone wants any issues I will send them out at 50p per copy, plus postage. When you decide how many copies you want I'll advise the postage cost.

The issues I have are as follows, with very few copies of some issues:

2000 April, July, October,
2001 January, April, July, October
2002 1, 2, 3, 4
2003 1, 2, 3, 4
2004 3, 4
2007 1, 3, 4
2008 1, 3, 4
2009 1,
2010 3, 4

The 50p cost per issue covers all the packaging and general fuel and lugging about...please move quickly to secure any issues you especially want and I'll update the list from time to time until they are all gone.

Please order via PM, or in this thread if you are too new to PM.

Sometimes the negative opinions seem to come across as being quite bitter, as though Pentax have done something that deeply offends. However, that's fine, people are, after all, entitled to their opinions.

As regards the web images, my two most successful EPZ uploads in this past week have been shot on a Pentax W90, with the direct inbuilt flash. Not the most auspicious technique, but the reason is of course the content. Apart from that, the images are as sharp as the DSLR ones, at least at 1000 pixels wide.

Compact users have a lot of fun and take a lot of pictures, more than some DSLR kit owners do, and if the Q brings out the joy in sonmeone's photography that's fantastic.

Well I've read the blog and the comments and it's surprising how negative people can be, even before something is available to test.

Why not be a bit more open minded, wait until the Q appears and then see what it can actually do?

As for small sensors, they are terrific for macro shots and indeed I use an X90 for all my eBay images. Diffraction limited? Yes, all lenses are. I can quite happily use my DSLR lenses at f22 though, when that is what's required. They don't become useless simply because performance is being limited at that point by diffraction.

In fact, a high class lens will show a definite rise and fall pattern from open aperture to optimum aperture to smallest aperture. Theory tells us that the lens performs best wide open. We know it doesn't. That's because our lenses are not perfect lenses.

Are you working in RGB? If you are in CMYK or Lab then you won't save as a JPEG.

OK, that's enough of the adverts....we know where you are.

Hammering a car like that is not good for the long term. Treating it gently for the first 1000 miles or so will reap benefits later on.

This forum is provided as a resource for Pentax Users, with a particular mission to help people to improve their photography. The general section is not a free-for-all and is intended for items of interest to Pentax Users that don't easily fit in elsewhere. It is still photography based, which is a breath of frsh air in the sense that we don't have totrawl through lots of irrelevant stuff to get to the purpose of the site.

Some leeway exists, but politics and religion are generally off limits as they always lead to friction and arguments. Likewise, we don't discuss Canon, Nikon and other marque matters exceptas it pertains to Pentax.

This is a specialised forum and if we have to ask if our Human Rights are being violated, then Ithink we're maybe not looking at it in the right spirit. It's all common sense really.

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This is OJ, resplendent in Tango Orange orange. So much so that the door interior panels are made up of actual Tango cans.
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