It's an online hosting service where you can lodge your images. This means that you can create a link between your image on Photobucket and the forum here at PU. So your images can be shown in the forum.

Photobucket is a lot more things besides that, but you need to have a look because I haven't tried any of the other features.

It's free, so I don't see any downside for the purposes of this forum.

If it's a web order, quote your username in the comments box and they will deduct the shipping.

Otherwise, just order by phone and tell them you're a PU Forum Member.

Yes, better. It makes a big difference I think.

Being compared to David Lynch movies is a great compliment as well.

The other factor we haven't mentioned is exposure time. Someone shooting macro subjects with long exposure times, or night shots, will use a lot more battery power.

The 16-45mm is definitely a step above the 18-55mm, but the kit lens is actually very good.

For big enlargements and critical work go for the 16-45mm.

For web use and smaller prints go for the more compact 18-55mm.

If you need a wider angle than 18mm then the choice is also clearly in favour of the 16-45mm.

Bear in mind that the 18-55mm focuses slightly closer and also shares a usefully small 52mm filter thread with the equally good 50-200mm.

Well you're way down on expectation, so maybe you spend a lot of time focusing on various things, or maybe use the rear screen more than average?

I presume you rotate the batteries so they all get used?

I've never noted the number of shots per charge that we get, but it seems to be many hundreds at least, certainly not as few as just over 200.

The 28-200mm may not fetch mega-bucks but the 17-28mm is more hopeful because of its rarity.

I do quite a bit of buying and selling on eBay, and I rarely see the 17-28mm.

In the 1950s quite a few people were affronted by the increasing amount of colour in photography. "Do we need colour?" demanded R G Mason is AP.

35mm was no good either, everyone needed a Rolleiflex. Before the Rolleiflex, glass plates were the thing. The world ended with the demise of the Lantern Slide. Or maybe it didn't.

Autofocus? bah! Obviously no good and will never catch on. Auto exposure? Even the more-sensible-than-average "Photo Technique" was actually surprised that the Pentax ES exposed their slide film very well.

Video in a DSLR? Whatever next....

Everybody still is friendly. We might get excited about things Pentax, but we're very friendly!

I had the perfect shot, it was even called "Celebration!" but I've already used it in a previous weekly competition.

That's life!