The decision was made to limit to one chance only as there were some who were replacing their images.

This was thought to be potentially unfair - after all, I could look at how the competition was going, decide my image wasn't as good and put a better one in in the light of the rest.

Unfortunately it means that there's one chance only. If your colour is wrong, make sure you're working throughout in sRGB colour space and not mixing it with AdobeRGB.

I think so too!

We're all talking about different things, but we seem happy....

It's not a Classified Ad, so it's here till it becomes one!

SDHC card reader are not expensive, so SRS, Amazon or Jessops or anywhere really.

No you're not alone!

Actually what I said was:

which meant that the "majority" as quoted elsewhere amounted to just 39 out of 8400 total membership, which is omly 0.46%. Not sure how this was to my advantage as we've agreed to trial the section anyway. It was a comment that on a very low turnout indeed you can't claim that 39 voters is any sort of real majority.

You seem to have taken it the opposite way around, as though I was defending a statistic for some reason, but please correct me if I've misunderstood you!

This is being initally run on a trial basis to make sure it runs smoothly.

The idea is that you can post a link, with a brief explanation, to something you think the membership in general could benefit from. The recent deal on the 100mm Macro lens is a good example. Please don't link in images, just post links.

Any commercial ads will be deleted. Anything we suspect is a scam will be deleted. New members who join just to sell their wares will be deleted. In general, items should be related to Pentax in keeping with our general policy.

Hopefully our usual good sense will apply but the section will be moderated very strictly so no grumbles please about that!

Having said that, let's hope this is as useful as anticipated and that members will benefit when something beneficial is spotted.

Please note that expired deals will be removed, so please don't post discussions in these threads or they will be lost when the deal runs out.

I'll add to these notes as and when needed.

The K value is something that defines the grey point of a meter. Traditionally this is 18% reflectance, but increaasingly manufacturers used 10% to boost shadow detail on colour negative film.

So...with all the elctronic wizadry now applied who knows, so many rules are being rewritten as we go.

Does it matter? Not really, when it comes down to it if a camera produces results that are too light then we just use exposure compensation to taste and apply -0.3EV or more as appropriate. And so on.

This isn';t going to be an exciting open letter for many is it?

I think Quick Shift is a superb feature and I miss it on any lens that doesn't have it.

It's now been discussed and I'm pleased to tell you that the idea is going to be trialled.

There will be a sticky of ground rules and strict moderation, so no grumbling if something gets removed please!

Watch this space....