To be fair, a good sales person will try to match what they can offer with what the customer needs. That may or may not be what they think they want. If these two things are matched then the customer should be happy and return again and again.

Of course there's no point in matching with something that can't be supplied, so we'd think it pretty strange if a Canon shop sent everyone away because they thought Pentax were better.

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Many thanks.

A few more from the wedding I attended on Saturday, as back up photographer for my son Michael.

A shot of Morecambe from the upper floor of the Midland Hotel:



And for comparison, one from the K-5 with SMX Pentax-FA 43mm f/1.9 Limited:



And a quick indoor candid of Amelia Jane, Michael's eldest daughter:

Many sales people still make the fundamental mistake of explaining the features but not the benefits.

Listening to people selling in camera stores can be excruciating at times, definitely on a par with those wonderful John Cleese films for sales training.

Try Amazon for these bulbs?

Absolutely nothing. You've linked to a story from March that didn't happen.

So much for rumours and there's little to get excited about in just another rumour.

You shouldn't be put off it's a great lens. I certainly wouldn't be put off by a YouTube video.

I've had a look and they both are the same width, or so close it makes no difference. The Q strap will be fine, albeit with the PENTAX name in the wrong colour! Q is red name, MX-1 is grey name.

Camera Clubs, or Photographic Societies, vary as much as personalities do.

I'm Chairman of ADAPS and we have weekly meetings of lectures and competitions. Sometimes we have events such as an upcoming Victorian Lantern Slide Show. Some members may even dress up....then there are Photoshop demos and other nights covering workshops on a varying frequency.

So, we have portrait nights and studio space in the clubrooms. We travel out, hiring a coach several times a year. Recent trips have been to Beamish, Lincoln, York, Whitby for Goth weekends, etc.

Add to that a web presence with a club website, an active club forum a bit like this one, and pages on Facebook, Flikr and YouTube. Something on every viable platform we can find.

Membership is from 16 years onwards, both male and female, and full of very active photographers.

But not every club is as active, and you may find that the stuffy, cliquey, male dominated clubs of yesteryear still exist.

I'm not sure why you're looking at the EXIF data - all the settings are in the camera menus.

Are the camera menu settings correct? If they are, then the images should display the correct way up in programs such as Photoshop.