Using a card reader is the most efficient way to download your pictures, but card readers can be faulty, as can computers.

Do you only have one USB connection?

In any event, it will only take a few moments to check it out and try to download from the camera.

It isn't really Pentax's area to solve computer problems so you really need to check it out. After all, no point getting a different camera and then finding out you have the same problem.

Have you considered the other possibilities? Faulty SD cards, card readers, video cards....?

It's not really a question of effort, more of reality. For eample, you are in Switzerland and I'm in the UK. The chance of your stolen lens being offered to me is pretty remote.

As regards knowing if things are "hot property" it's a matter of commonsense. If I'm offered a Gold Pentax LX for £50 in the local pub then clearly something is amiss. If I'm offered it via auction by someone with a good eBay track record who clearly deals in classic cameras and knows what it's all about then I'm pretty sure it's OK. Also, in the latter case it's very public and absolutely available for anyone who thinks it isn't OK to take the appropriate action.

In fact, some well known and well trusted sellers are members here and I would buy from them confidently.

"Self Discipline" was taught as a concept when I was in school in the late 1960s but I'm not so sure it has the same emphasis now. Perhaps we have some teachers who might comment?

Unfortunately we now have so much monitoring, checking and supervision that the message seems to be more that nobody can be trusted unless they are being watched. Who watches the watchers is always a problem, but I assume they watch each other. Computers are part of this problem. But just because we can track and monotor people doesn't mean that we should. We could trust them instead.

The chances of any item listed as stolen being offered to anyone on this forum, being noticed and then subsequently resulting in any positive outcome are truly so remote as to be virtually zero.

I really think the only option is to leave it to the Insurance Company to reimburse the value and let it go.

The longer term solution is to make a better society, starting with Education and the serious teaching of the concept of Self Discipline.

You can of course mark your property with your postcode using one of those UV-visible inks. The trouble with that is that if you want to sell the item at some point the prospective buyer has a marked item. You can actually see these markings without the UV light and it spoils the cosmetic condition of an item.

Clarky, I was very sorry to hear what happened to you and I hope you have felt some encouragement with all the support that has been offered here.

That sounds a bit contadictory. Does it mean 3fps in RAW up to 9 images?

Things have just developed from the time when a zoom was a new comcept and there was never a need to describe a lens that had one focal length.

They have come to be known as primes, but in addition I notice that AP has started to describe them as monfocals.

Language does change as requirements change, but the important thing is that we know what each other are talking about.

I've no doubt that they will.

Food photography is actually a very difficult area to do well, so for those who decide to seriously have a go it will be a challenge.

Hopefully we are all preparing our ideas now ready to be photographed and posted as soon as we can. Mine will be in by the deadline, but it could be quite late.

Don't Panic!

I was thinking that as well, Chris!