The obvious ones are SRS, Amazon and Park.

www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
www.parkcameras.co.uk

They turned out really well. I'd be tempted to turn the second one into a Christmas card. I'm sure Vistaprint have a template you could use.

Thanks Barrie, I think that brings us back neatly to explaining the benefits of making sure everything is sRGB, camera and Photoshop/Lightroom.

EPZ has lots of reviews of other marques, so that might be helpful too.

Anyway, as has been noted the MX-1 looks remarkably like a version of a camera that's also used as the Olympus ZX-2. If that is the case it bodes very well for the lens, which is excellent.

Add SMC coating and Pentax processing and there could be a winner there. The one crucial thing about other marques is that they don't have that Pentax colour quality. That is a key feature for me.

As for Q vs Quality Compact, I don't believe it's a contest as the cameras are intended for totally different purposes and approaches.

Welcome aboard, you've found us now!

For an individual it might be, but it still has to be declared and tax paid.

The fee gives security (mostly) against counterfeit notes and the need to shift large amounts of cash. There are costs to companies dealing with cash and electronic methods may actually be cheaper.

It's the current DPI standard for L&CPU competitions. We moved to it as a club so we could conveniently use any images contributed in all competitions.

If anyone ahould ever want a 1024x768 version, then it's a simple crop with no change in proportions.

Yes, you do need to observe copyright issues. If you're going to use anything that is accessed publicly in any way then either copyright-free music, or you pay for the privelidge of using someone's work.

After 50 years I understand music becomes copyright free, although some Four Seasons tracks are marked "copyright renewed" but I don't know how Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli did that.

The mass of compilations of 1950s music are presumably copyright free though by now, and that will have extended to about 1962/3. Wasn't Cliff Richard quite annoyed about this?

It,s a little odd because the size now used is 1400 x 1050 pixels.

Thanks, very interesting. It has consequences for inter-federation competitions.