Happy New Year!

Get well soon Gareth.

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone! Here's hoping we all have a fantastic 2023!

A link should work, but I don't think embedded video will. To be sure, make a report and ask IT and there will be a definitive answer.

So I disovered a few months ago that I rather liked Rye bread, although it is quite difficult to source around here. It can be bought on Amazon maybe 12 loaves at a time, but we don't have the space to freeze it. Plenty of Sourdough about, plenty of mixtures such as Wheat/Rye but no pure Rye bread as such. Then we came across some Pumpernickel bread in Morrisons, and that's also a small, very dark loaf with a heavy texture. Delicious, and after investigations I find that Pumpernickel is a sweet Rye bread.

So I discovered yesterday that I rather like Rye bread and Pumpernickel bread, life just gets better all the time. It must be Christmas.

Every single page of Pentax User has a 16-step stepwedge at the bottom. If you adjust the brightness so you can clearly see all the 16 steps then you won't be far off.

It's very easy to become over-complex, but if we stick with sRGB and a good stepwedge then that should be fine for most web use. And a good IPS monitor of course. Mt preference is for Dell monitors and they work well straight out of the box. I also have some benQ, but find they need their profile adjusting to give a similar reproduction to the Dell.

Very different to the crowded Goth weekend! Nice set of images, I'll bet it was cold though?

ePHOTOzine, the sister site to this one, carries reviews of smartphones, so you might find something of interest over there.

Personally I use a Pentax MX-1 for carrying everywhere and it still offers great quality despite only having a 12MP sensor. Or have you decided it must be a smartphone?

Agreed. I use mine regularly on the K-1 and it's fine.

The blue versions can look quite good. The white just might be good for shooting weddings, it's in keeping with the theme of the day.

Pentax are not the only ones doing colours these days, for example Nikon have a large range of colours for their retro Zfc, including an all black one. The all black Pentax K-3 III does look rather good.