There has been a second attempt to cause dissention by the same person as before. This new identity created for the purpose has now been banned as well.

I suggest you all ignore any further intrusion.

If it happens again then I shall have to refer it for more serious action.

I would suggest use Matrix metering to start with and perhaps Centre weighted when you are more familiar with what the camera is doing.

I wonder if this was a victim of unfortunate timing, and in fact a K7 cover had been planned. But then the test was delayed, the other reviews have already appeared and the K7 is no longer front page news.

On the other hand, the Nikon D300s was a first look ahead of the other magazines, and hence a "scoop" even though it was only the briefest of looks at it.

That's my speculation with the conspiracy theories removed, anyway!

Accidentally being set to spot metering can cause problems if the user doesn't understand the techniques needed. This is why the original Spotmatic came to market without its spot meter and with averageing metering instead,

There are reasons for this. Basically allowing a small amount of crop in the viewfinder gives a bit of leeway to avoid bits being chopped off images, but the real reason is more probably that a slightly smaller pentaprism/pentamirror becomes possible and that reduces the size of the camera slightly, reduces the weight and may reduce costs as well.

User banned after being banned already under another name, two follow up posts deleted, nothing wrong with them per se but the matter has been dealt with and we don't want to prolong it.

The reviewer, Angela NIcholson, wrote a very bland piece in a way, and I think she was trying very hard to be fair and unbiased. So much so that little emotion comes across. This may be because AP have been given a hard time about this on their own forum, Damien Demolder as well joined in the threads and I think they have tried to rebalance.

I suspect she would be surprised if anyone thought she was biased.

Any further posts in this thread should now be on the subject of the K7 review.

It seems it doesn't take much these days for the bickering to break out again, so, again, it's time for everyone to cool off and give this one up.

Move on please.

It seems to be an ongoing bone of contention, but the forum policy is quite simple.

If someone jumps ship, so to speak, then they are still welcome to join in the forum discussions, but should behave with proper courtesy and not abuse our hospitality.

Pentax pictures are the expected fare as this is, afterall, Pentax User.

If anyone can't do that, then ePHOTOzine is a sister site to this one and is not marque-specific. Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Sony and others can be freely discussed there and not be out of place.

Hope that helps.