That's a shame, it unfortunately is the only thing we have to go on.

In the menus there will be a set up of date/time and it's worth having a look and setting both accurately. It's a long time since i looked at the menu on an *istDS, so that's as specific as I can get right now. Hopefully it should be fairly obvious.

A couple of images have had to be removed. One was dated 2005 and the other was shot on an iPhone.

The FA 50mm f/1.7 is a very fine lens. The FA 43mm f/1.9 may well have a slight edge in performance and has a different level of construction, but it may be a subtle difference. Either of these lenses makes a much better approx. 50mm lens than any large zoom will, in terms of size, speed and optical quality.

I'm not sure that I'd bother changing the 50mm, but I'd be looking at replacing the Sigma 50-150mm with a Pentax lens, perhaps the 50-135mm.

They're not bad in terms of sharpness, but IMHO the shutter speeds you are using are far too low. It's not so much a matter of camera movement as subject movement and this is taking the edge off the sharpness.

I would be looking at a shutter speed of at least 1/1000sec if at all possible.

I have never experienced any "camera snobbery" anywhere, under any circumstances. There's certainly no need to escalate it either. Whatever people choose to buy should be absolutely fine, unless it's in good natured jest of course.

People stand in front of other photographers all the time, sometimes even watch us waiting to take a shot. It's probably just that it never occurs to them to move rather than any deliberate slight. Fortunately, there also exist plenty of people who wait before crossing the line of sight or even scoot out of the way to allow a shot to be taken uninterrupted by their presence.

Such is life!

Good to hear that David, and good to hear that some Pentax product training has arrived at Jessops.

If you want more sharpness straight out of camera, then increase the sharpness setting in the JPEG choices.

Otherwise, the MX-1 will deliver that very nicely as well.

I don't have time to test it out now, but I think we get one chance to untick the box, that is, when we post in a thread for the first time. So I'm afraid after that it's back to just ignoring the thread if we don't like it.

That's very interesting, where has it gone?

Canon entry has now been removed.