Just a suggestion - would it not be better to have a thread for each item? Then only the OP needs to be involved. So OP says "would anyone like to borrow my Pentax item?" Replier 1 says yes please, OP can decide to send or not, and when the item gets home the thread can be removed.

Nobody else gets involved, and nobody takes any resposibility apart from the posters. Caveat Emptor. Let the "buyer" and indeed the "seller" beware.

I can see this could be full of potential problems and sooner or later you will lose your item. I suggest it would be better to just sell your item to someone and let them sell it on when they've finished with it. You don't have to charge much, but you might find someone buying it to put on eBay....

Be careful out there.....

Looking back to the original thought, which I think was that the OP did not like the appearance of sodium lighting, but did like the alternatives that are sometimes used.

Soium lighting is used as I understand it because it's relatively unobtrusive and encourages the eyes to open (good for night driving) and not to close down. The worst thing about it IMHO is that as soon as it rains all the road markings virtually disappear.

I've seen different lighting in Chipping Sodbury some years ago, and those were mercury vapour lamps I think. Very blue, quite another problem.

However, the scene is the scene, so it's only within certain limits that we can change it. I would suggest trying for dusk or dawn, probably the former, when people start to turn on their lights but maybe the sodium lights are only just coming on. A mix of slightly more natural light and some building lights might be a lot easier to correct.

In addition, many night shots benefit from having some light left in the sky.

Conversions are quite common in the USA, where IR photography has a stronger following than here. I have friends who have had the conversion done, removing the "hot filter" and replacing it with a similar but transparent piece of glass. Then you do indeed have an IR camera.

For casual use, the *istDS was good, the K10D very poor and the K20D I haven't actually tried. The R72 filter is the one, but don't forget that lens focus needs to be adjusted for IR light. So focus manually, realign that distance to the IR focusing mark on the lens if it has one.

If there is no IR focusing mark then you'll have to guess, just making the focusing point slightly closer than it would normally be. This could be tricky as there may be some variation with lens design, but as a starting point a 28-70mm FA zoom means that at 70mm the infinity focus point for IR is around half way from infinity to 12 feet. At 28mm it is about 12 feet.

This shows that the sharpness point can vary quite a lot from the visual point of focus. It is worth trying though as good IR images are very atmospheric.

Smileys are essential IMHO, to convey subtelties of language that not everyone has the skills to convey within the words.

So is that statement an impatient one? Or is it to be taken as a friendly confirmation of agreement with one side of the argument? Or is it offered slightly tongue-in-cheek to lighten the mood of a brewing storm?

IMHO without the smileys we could never be sure.

I think tastes have changed and we've come a long way from Cokin filters.

I've not read all of that, but it could just relate to the meagre £100,000 of compensation that the shareholders of Jessops were offered as part of the refinancing deal with HSBC.

It involved winding up Jessops as was and making a new company I think.

The PEF is pentax's own RAW format, so it won't be recognised by Windows.

You need a RAW converter and a simple one was provided with your camera - Pentax Photo Laboratory.

The forum is really for private sales, not commercial sites. They can advertise for themselves I guess....

Sorry, I don't have the time to start shipping items all over the place! This is way outside the remit of the forum - it would have to be a casual member to member thing.

So what good design would you postulate that is more efficient than a clever bit of technology that will help improve the results of lots of photographers. And certainlty make things no worse for anyone else.

Obviously indeed it's most relevant where DOF is limited, but that's what it was designed for.