As you're in photo mood and Christmas mode, don't forget the current Monthly Competition!

It seems Pentax are labelling this one SDM as well, so never say never regarding changing the optics. In truth, at this point we have no idea what they have or haven't done.

Moved to General Chat, the competitions section is for our own competitions.

Just a point about the poll. If you give two choices and neither is really the right one, some may be tempted to vote randomly as that's the only way to see how the results are going. This makes the poll meaningless.

If you want a poll, then making at least one choice of "no opinion" would enable some of this to be avoided.

I think it's worth practising using our eyes - such a simple thing that seems to have become lost. To do this, we need to make sure that the dioptre setting is correct for our eyesight or, for cameras with no adjustment, that we have the right glasses on to ensure easy, relaxed eyes that can focus on the focusing screen properly.

For example, I use my reading/computer glasses for older manual focus cameras. If they can be adjusted, then normal glasses can be used. I have avoided bifocals and varifocals as I'm sure they make focusing cameras more difficult.

Just turn the focusing ring until the image is sharpest and you should be in focus. Some do find this difficult I know, so just practice because the eye compensates and there can be some variation in the point chosen.

May I just remind everyone that Classified Ads are for the buying/selling process only. Anything else that gets into these threads is likely to disappear if it clutters the process!

Many thanks!

Moved to Classified Ads.

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The best thing is to phone them as I've no doubt e-mails will be dealt with between calling customers, so this may well cause a delay at some times. They are a shop so will be pretty busy at the moment I would think.

You've highlighted there the major thing that I feel makes a nonsense out of batch processing of images. What is the purpose of shooting a RAW image, retaining all the detail, if we are going to treat hundreds of them all the same as a batch.

I can see a point if we shoot the images and then select the ones we wish to process further, dealing with them each an an individual and crafting them accordingly.

We don't look at them all, only the best ones are presented for public consumption, so why process them all. My logic says do nothing except store them and deal individually with the ones we want.