To be fair Alan, it's OK to participate here and in every club by observing and not necessarily producing.

At ADAPS we have maybe 25% of the club who actively enter competitions. We have a different 10% who actively make up groups to do field trips. We have a different 60% who will travel to a location for a meeting.

In other words, different people join in indifferent ways, and get different things out of it. But everyone gets something, or they wouldn't join at all.

You're entitled not to like bird pictures, so I guess we won't be seeing you with a book on bird photography!

Bird photography is a challenge. It's not easy to do well. The subjects are also colourful. So it's little surprise that they should be a natural target for our cameras.

What is your preference for subjects Richard?

Sorry, got distracted! I would try updating firmware. Try shooting both RAW and JPEG to see if the problem lies with one or both. Try a different SD card. Make sure the card is formatted in the camera before use.

If all these things fail, then a return to JPS under warranty or for a quote, as apprpriate, seems the likely outcome.

Hope that helps!

Weatherproof lenses are designated WR or DA*

Spammers. They post and they get removed, so by the time you arrive to read their new post, they can be long gone.

Learning how to process film and print pictures is a very long process indeed. I spent many years printing every night, and it's also very expensive in terms of good paper, chemicals and of course high quality film. No point in being cheap with the materials, even if you could be these days. There's no ex-Government black and white paper in 2013!

A friend of mine was an excellent printer and that was because he spent 20 years making 300+ prints every day. And I've seen better than his efforts as well. It's a very fine craft and can be taken to a very high level.

The last shoot I did on film was medium format in the studio and it cost me a fortune. My colleagues shot digital and it cost them nothing. The results from both paths were fine, no difference at all.

Print for fun, for the experience, to try new techniques, but not I think to save money!

The obvious choice is the SMC Pentax-DA 10-17mm Fisheye zoom lens. It ticks all the boxes!

Closest focus remains the same.

Your problem may be that the only account with that name was called Polo_3 - is that one yours?

SRS will not charge you for sending the K-5 to you in the UK and you will get the £100 extra trade in allowance till the end of January if you go for the K-5 II or K-5 IIs, so I wouldn't dream of looking for a shop in Liverpool. It will probably cost you a lot more than the postage to SRS!