Nice sheep and a nice gritty image. I like the rim of light that separated them out from the background.

Glad to see you're on the way back Gareth. I like the picture, especially the tinges of blue.

Last week we were on holiday on Anglesey, staying in a gorgeous windmill near Llangefni. Unfortunately, for the purposes of this forum, I had a few lenses with me to review and they were not Pentax, but on the way I did manage a few image with the Q-S1.
A robin posing on the tyre of a shuttle bus:



Same robin making friends with my sister-in-law Diane:



The fisheye lens at Penrhyn Castle:



Bold monochrome:



Some simple opulence!



And an imperfect shot of a red squirrel, but the best of an evening stroll in The Dingle at Llangefni. It was great to even see the red squirrels and to get any picture was a bonus.

Not at all mad. The Q is perfectly capable of an A3 print and I've had some very successful competition entries with it. Nobody has batted an eyelid as the pictures have been viewed alongside much bigger format cameras.

The content will be much more important.

I was away last week and someone did spot and remove the image mentioned, but unfortunately didn't delete completely. There's generally not much spam on here because we remove it routinely.

Reports are great if we miss something, but the downside is that it then needs a reply to every report as well as removing the spam, which all takes time, so I'm happy when I catch it first!

There have been times when in excess of 100 spurious postings were happening every day and that was a bit arduous, but hopefully that will stay at the trickle we see today.

If you see something has been missed after a day then it's really been missed (nobody can spot everything) and that's the time a PM to me or a report would be fantastic.

There is a report button at the bottom of every page.

However, no need to report as we will see it when we do our next sweep of the forum. Sometimes quickly, sometimes not, depending on what else is capturing our attention at the time!

Initially a dry clean cotton or microfibre cloth would be safest. It does sound like an issue with the conracts on body or lenses.

It's not really a very good survey as there were only just over 450 responses out of 5000 enquiries. 4500 people didn't respond, we might assume because they didn't have a problem. If we rejig the analysis based on that assumption we get a very different picture.

Clearly there are failures though and these should be addressed under warranty if at all possible, certainly within the two year warranty period.

I use one for all the Q system accessories. Adapters, extension tubes, etc. It's just a nice case that can be used for many things apart from the intended use.

Our cameras don't sleep until 30 minutes is up. The battery life isn't a problem.