Subjects are bound to come up again. Does it matter? We can always look at something afresh.

It's called Quality Control. All sorts of parameters on cameras and lenses are set at the factory. They have vastly expensive equipment to calibrate and adjust.

There's a section marked "Pentax Ricoh Cameras" that's fairly new and was intended for the compacts.

Whatever section there are, some posters seem to put their opening posts randomly sometimes!

There are permissible tolerances that are very fine. These tolerances are designed to fall within the depth of focus. As long as they do, then all will be well. I'm talking here of Pentax cameras with Pentax lenses. The manufacturer knows how much leeway in manufacture is permissible.

Now if we are talking about Pentax cameras with other makes of lens, then it's quite possible that some will fall outside the tolerances and benefit from adjustment.

We seem to cover this every now and again. I haven't ever found a lens that didn't focus where it was supposed to.

Even the camera instructions caution against calibrating unless it's really necessary. There are so many variables, including length of focus travel, direction of focus, distance, zoom setting....

Call me old fashioned, but they should be set at the factory. This was never a problem until recently, and it's only become one since the mechanism to fiddle was made available to us. I think they made it available because some people were messing in the service menus anyway.

Long walk in pouring rain - my daughter has polished off two cameras in this way.

For me, weather sealing is now pretty much an essential feature for the DSLRs.

Pentax cameras will be on the LCE stand L70.

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Title sorted.

Yes it can make a difference, depending on how the browser deals with it. The internet is an sRGB environment so if we want our images to look right on all devices that's the way to present them.

There was a small news item in AP, quoting the MD of Ricoh UK. He was saying that the focus of all their efforts in 2014 would be to build up the Pentax DSLR ranges and make Pentax a much bigger part of Ricoh.

He also said that it was their intent to work on pulling buyers away from Nikon/Canon/Sony.