I have been driving up and down the East lancs Road (A580) for years and kept seeing a scene I wanted to shoot. Always in a hurry, I never have. So today I drove to the spot, and although the lighting was blazing right in my eyes (and the Q 8.5mm)I did make two exposures.

The first is a corner of a field with old caravan and horses. I still need it lit properly, but the backlit version shows promise as a subject:


The second was shot as I walked back to the lay-by:

For this sort of reason I use two pairs of glasses - one for distance, one for computer/reading. Either pair can be used for photography by adjusting the dioptre correction of the viewfinder.

If anyone on here has been making videos with their Pentax I'm sure that they will have told us about it in General Chat?

A section for video has been mooted before but so few people ever mention video it's hardly worthwhile. It is subsumed everywhere else in the relevant section to the exact subject.

By contrast, we had a section added for Mirrorless straight away, while there was still time to handle all the threads popping up and move them into it. An immediate and obvious demand and an immediate response to it.

A couple of posts removed, do please remember that discussion of other marques is outside the Pentax User remit. Many thanks.

I can tell you that I have seen versions of the MX manual where it does exclude lithium. Or it might be one of the edtions of the Pentax Way.

Lithium batteries do need some caution and correct use, as Boeing are currently discovering and as we found out a whiloe back in Sony laptops.

I would leave well alone. Annoying though it may be, specks on the mirror or screen won't affect the image. It happened with film cameras too. It's possible the specks may move again anyway, but I'd just avoid messing unless it becomes essential.

Hope that helps!

Just use a blower, cautiously, such as the Rocket blower. The mirror and screen should not be wiped as they are very fragile components. They are best not touched at all.

Just a word of caution that lithium batteries are not suitable for use in the MX and ME type cameras. I think they are OK from Super A onwards. The reason may be heat generation, or maybe voltage, but their use is specifically excluded in later instructions.

I've read the review and it doesn't seem that confused. The only thing they don't understand is how to adjust the metering if anyone feels the images are too light. Their implication is we have to make an adjustment to spot metering and use exposure compensation as and when we need to "if we have time" which is ludicrous.

The technique I would suggest is to use Av and centre weighted metering all the time and simply adjust exposure compensation as we would anyway for unusual subjects.

Actually it isn't so bad - images used on ePHOTOzine at 1000 pixels look absolutely fine when projected by a digital projector. I suspect that the Powerpoints you have seen have just not been prepared properly.

If you are used to using Powerpoint, fair enough, but if not you might consider using Pictures2Exe instead. This program makes slide shows. So what I do is make my images in Photoshop and if text is needed then that can be made in Photoshop as well. If you are copying 35mm slides then the JPEG scans can be dragged and dropped into P2E. You might tweak them first for the best results.

There's no reason though why you can't use 2000 pixel images if you want to, although make them too large and it just slows the computer and can make the slide transitions a bit rough.