Very far from dead in terms of units sold flossie! We're talking a lot of cameras and no-one will want to have no share in that market.

Camera phones are not high enough quality yet for more than very casual snap-shotting.

There is a 16 level step wedge on ePHOTOzine at the bottom of gallery pages. A much better one than the dpreview one.

One entry has been deleted because it was a non-Pentax image. Do please remember to use a Pentax camera. An exception is made to include the Samsung equivalents of some DSLR models.

Also please be careful to post the correct version or image because if you delete you can't repost in that competition.

We've been here before, so no point in reiterating the same things. I shall leave it to individuals to make their own interpretations of what they read.

It's important to not be misleading, but bear in mind that other evidence was provided directly by Chris from SRS who told us that a small number of cameras was affected. And it's soon been solved. That 50% figure is pretty much pulled out of the hat.

You might think I'm being pedantic, but I wouldn't want anyone to be misled, pretty much for the reasons Don expouses above.

Statistics are fine, but they are a very dangerous tool and need proper interpretation. They get bandied about in the press rather too loosely.

Most images do benefit from some tweaking in Photoshop (or similar) but equally well the camera settings can be altered for those who don't want to do post processing on the computer.

We can't assume that what we see in the gallery is not exactly what the poster wanted. It may or may not be what we would do ourselves, but art being art it's up to the individual to offer what they feel fit to offer.

Feedback is useful and I would always encourage people to comment on images and share ideas about them.

I think what may have been meant is that issues can be raised without going OTT. Shouting about things rarely gets a good result, but reasoned discussion might.

We've already discussed the polls and statistically all they told us was that some people had cameras with a problem and this was whatever percentage of those who chose to answer the polls. It did not tell us that 50% of the initial batches had the fault.

It's a real nuisance when minor problems occur - do we wait for it to get worse, can we live with the minor inconvenience...sometimes it's tempting to put up with things rather than be without an item for a while.

If your camera is under warranty then it's probably a good idea to have it sorted, if not then maybe it can be lived with, but only you can decide.

I'm sure anyone in their right mind would "do a deal" for a major multiple purchase.....you could offer any you didn't want in the Classified Ads section....

Tokina and Pentax have co-operated in the past, but whether or not they still do I don't know.

We just wish there was a Pentax version of the 80-400mm!