I can't agree with this - manufacturers are always vieing with each other for better, bigger, brighter....it sells cameras just like anything else.

The AF we have already is brilliant - certainly in terms of focusing accurately in low light. It can focus in light as good as I can see in to hope to do it myself. Deep in the gloom of old buildings there's never a problem, except with the usual subjects that are just nor suitable for AF. Such as smooth featureless walls or certain types of pattern.

I suspect it's high speed focusing on high speed moving objects that is causing grief to some, which comes down to the sort of photography you do. I don't really shoot sports, although some wildlife. Some things are tricky to get right withy AF, but practice improves things considerably, and MF is an option that people managed with very well for a very long time.

Why not shoot RAW+JPEG and apply the in-camera settings to the JPEG file. This is then saved as a new file, keeping the original.

You then have eaten your cake and kept the original cake intact...

I would just give them a call first and ask. If you send the original, don't forget to keep a copy for your own records.

Ghosts of Shoppers Past:
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OK, that sounds reasonable. As my composite was older than 2 weeks, I'll start agin though.

I relised that the image was older than two weeks. If you want to change the rules to forget the two week limit, I can always put in back! That decision is up to the current judge.

Photoshop Elements should do you jst fine and offers plenty of control without costing a fortune.

GIMP is available as a free download and I understand it's quite good, but I have no personal experience of it.

I personally use Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS2, almost always the latter now that we have new and faster computers.

The purpose of the green highlighting is just to indicate something that someone found particularly useful. It doesn't indicate anything more than that and certainly doesn't mean that every other comment is irrelevant.

From the MTF curves, the Pentax is the better lens, but we know that anyway from anecdotal evidence. The Pentax kit lenses are probably the best of the bunch.

Private sales between individuals are not subject to the same laws and regulations, so the only requirement is to describe something fairly and accurately.

Caveat emptor.