A promising start, but all seem too light, so a reduction in brightness might help considerably.

Images from yesterday, shot at Gwydir Castle in North Wales. Reputed to be the most haunted house in North Wales, we have stayed overnight and walked its dark corridors. The Duke of Beaufort's Room was very spooky and disturbing, but we stayed in the King's Room and had an untroubled night.

You can still attempt to recover images from a formatted card, providing that particular part of the card has not yet been over written.

There is free software on the web, so why not have a go.

OK, so we've probably established for the OP that eliminating the cheaper battery from the equation is at least worth looking into. Hopefully that will be helpful, if not then it's the phone call to SRS.

I've modified the title as this isn't a fisheye lens. It's a very high quality rectilinear lens, based on a Zeiss design.

Your original thought may be right though. Granted some can use non-Pentax batteries and be OK. But some of them perform poorly. Certainly if you measure the capacity the Pentax ones come out best, and the only ones that actually come close to meeting the specification.

Yes, SRS will honour the warranty, but perhaps see if the Pentax battery delivers and removes the problem. That might be possible if you use the camera extensively over the weekend.

Lovely, you've captured that solitary beauty perfectly.

Yes, Bank Holiday Monday is almost upon us.

In days of yore long traffic jams trailed into North Wales and the Lake District, maybe to Blackpool, snaking their way slowly in single file along narrow A roads. Once arriving, kids spilled out of cars, screaming and shouting after all those hours cooped up in a metal box. Parents would reach for newspapers and the packet of sandwiches, buy saucy postcards, lie in a deckchair and sleep.

We won't be doing anything like that on Monday!

It's not grim here Gwyn, the sun is shining....so far.

The photography is fine, shot with a Nikon so not really relevant to PU, but we'll let that go in context.

You've named someone on the internet Honesty, so do please be careful not to libel them. It's not unknown for people to take great exception to any slur on their reputation. Please stay on the right side of the line for your own sake.

The pictures are fine as far as I can see, nice portraits that I'd expect the sitters to be very pleased with.