The mirror is already treated by the manufacturer - add other liquids and the effect on those coatings is unknown.

Two fair additions to the list.

The instructions are found at the top of the Your Photos forum.

Generally, it's best to use 800 pixels as a maximum if you link an image into a post. You will compromise quality if the forum software does it for you, or you may stretch the forum size to the inconvenience of everyone.

As for the Gallery, I use the same size as my e2 EPZ photos, 1000 pixels on the longest side. Any more is a waste and just wastes time loading images. Very large files may refuse to upload anyway.

Sorry Stefan, I didn't edit your post, I pressed the wrong button!

It can be a fixed value if you set the camera accordingly.

To draw any conclusions from the OP's comments though, we would need to see the two images, complete with EXIF.

The first thing I do with JPEG capture is to change the setting from Bright to Natural, and already you would have a less severe result. Then set daylight as the WB, to retain the natural colour of the ambient light. +1 sharpness in camera. Then expose correctly and we have it.

Done properly, RAW and JPEG capture will both yield superb images and it will be very difficult to tell the difference.

In terms of travel I've come around to using zooms, basically because time is always short and they are far more versatile. Ideal travel lenses are the 18-55mm, 16-45mm and 12-24mm. The 16-50mm is IMHO very fine but heavy and bulky compared to the 16-45mm.

With such stunning high ISO performance these days it's perfectly viable to simply up the ISO and a loss of one stop won't really be noticed. In any event, wide aperture lenses are often not used wide open so their only advantage is ease of viewing and focusing in dark conditions.

Impressively crisp results.

I can imagine that walking down this road feels great, surrounded by that canopy of green. From a photographic point of view, the biggest weakness I find is that the brightest areas leak out of the top left, dragging us that way rather than down the road.

The solution might be to darken that top left corner and make sure the lightest green is way down the road, thus concentrating our attention there.

It's a pleasant but unexceptional scene, so maybe it needs something else to create more in the frame. A figure in the distance may do the trick.

You'll have to decide what you do for yourself, but to be honest it discourages me from buying second hand DSLRs that some users do seem to be over-zealous in their treatment of the presision mechanisms.

ACR sharpens 25% by default, so if you don't want that you need to switch it to zero.