Thanks, George!

sRGB livens up images a bit and ensures total compatibility with all likely devices, which is why I use it and recommend it.

It might RR, but they might also be a bit offended, so I don't think I can be that specific.

I'm afraid I get very single minded about my Photoshopping, so no music when processing images for me. Or indeed when on the Internet.

You all have my full attention!

My ePHOTOzine gallery has been unveiling the images for a week or so, so you can find me there under my username of johnriley1uk

Or follow the link on the home page of www.johnrileyphotography.co.uk

If you use a tripod with the head left untightened it offers some stability whilst retaining the ability to move the camera. Very useful for long telephoto shots of nature subjects.

A couple of questions there to answer.

The subject matter was quite varied - lots of landscape, some natural history, some transport, some night shots. Some very fast action shots of birds in flight.

I've always been a bit mystified by the complaints about focus speed because I find my Pentaxes lock on very fast without any problem, even in light where I'd find it difficult to manually focus. I use centre spot only and very rarely find a problem. If AF doesn't work, usually because of the subject matter, then a quick change to MF does the trick.

I viewed the results back home on my monitor, which delivers colour about the same as the printers do.

I can tell you that with 300mm, there is no comparison between SR on and off. It makes the difference between sharp and not sharp, even at quite high shutter speeds.

I don't know about anyone else, but by 200mm and beyond my steadiness is about as good as a leaf being blown about in the wind. SR plus supporting the camer on something usually saves the day.

The other day I was resting the K20D on some handy lobster pots. It worked.

We've been working alongside some other photographers just recently and had a chance to have a long look at the different results from Pentax and Nikon cameras.

One thing that did stand out was that the colour from the Pentax K20D cameras was so much better than from the Nikons. All cameras were used shooting in JPEG and all were set at Cloudy and the Pentax colurs were really very consistent and very impressive.

The other thing that came out of this was that for most purposes the results from Vivid settings (on all cameras) were very OTT and not attractive. Natural or bright seem to be preferable on the K20D and the same seemed true of the Nikons.

As for AF, then virtually all the Pentax shots were in focus, whereas the same was not true of the Nikon ones. It may be that speed of focus is achieved by compromising accuracy in some circumstances.

Nothing conclusive in these musings of course, but I thought the colour was exceptional and worth a mention.

I have always preferred 100mm macro lenses and this must be fairly general as there are always more of them to be found than the 50mm ones.