Yes, it's a nice lens and I would be happy to use one.

Much faster than the K20D and locks on immediately.

I'm actually getting very impressed with my W90 - waterproof, shockproof and coldproof. Compact enough for the pocket and there's a dedicated neoprene case available for it that is also excellent.

If you go to Your Photos section at the top of the list of threads you will find instructions on how to link in an image.

In essense you post the image to your webspace, the easiest free one being Photobucket, and then use the image link and paste that into the message box.

Your image will be displayed as by doing this you have instructed the forum software where to look for the picture.

I'm not familiar with Lightroom as I usually use Photoshop, but have you checked that Lightroom is set to control the printer, rather than the printer driver doing it?

Have you also checked that both the camera and Lightroom are set to the same colour space? That is, either sRGB or AdobeRGB, but certainly not mixing them.

1. Natural
1b. No, any adjustments are made in Photoshop.
2. I use daylight anyway, wanting generally to reserve the quality of the ambient light.
3. Premium JPEG always.
4. ISO200 as standard, could easily be ISO400 for the K-5.
5. It slows the camera down. Plus sometimes a bit of barrel distortion on wide angle shots can enhance a picture.
6. Never use it.

Yes, thanks, I didn't notice the link. But it's pretty conclusive evidence in favour of the Pentax battery, is it not? I'm not sure how you know what the camera will take as a reasonable capacity though?

That one's easy to answer. Because the manufacturer (Pentax) has specified its requirements and these are to a very high standard and the opentax guarantee of quality stands behind that. This even extends to the finish of the batteries, which are superbly made. Cheap alternatives with the writing rubbing off after light use do not suggest that their quality requirements are as high. I've even seen someone prising batteries and cards out of a camera with a knife as the fit was so poor. Still it was cheap...

Yes, there is feedback from the battery to establish when it's fully charged.

The figures quoted above by the way were not borne out by actual measurements. Someone published some test results not long ago and the highest rated was the Pentax battery, better than some with nominally higher ratings. As I recall the second best was the Inov8 but even that did not meet its specification.

I only have two batteries for each K-5, both Pentax, and absolutely no need for more than that.

Off topic posts removed, please keep to the subject.