That's great Chris. Really like it.

It's kind of what he meant anyway.

The way McGregNi describes "reducing the complexities" rather sounds like dumbing down though. just pressing a button to get an effect doesn't make art IMHO, it makes it a triumph of technology, designed by someone who did understand the whole process.

However, let's not be snobbish about it. There's nothing wrong in using, for example, a red eye reduction tool, or maybe an instant sepia effect. It's not the way to fine tuning though.

Someone mentioned High Pass sharpening. A perfectly valid sharpening technique, but I've never liked it much. I prefer modest Unsharp Mask, within which is also a wealth of control. Understanding even USM means a multitude of effects can be applied, either globally or locally to an image.

Channel Mixer is something that often gets missed from simpler programs than full Photoshop, which is a shame because it means I have never got on with Elements, which would have cost less. Ah well.

But thinking of the one way/multiple ways thing, taske for example Smeggypants's post a little way up. The way he describes the possibilities of Lightroom, whilst again totally valid, are not the way I work at all. The one size fits all solution doesn't exist IMHO.

If you have a manual lens and set the camera to AF then you can choose that the camera shutter will only release when the green hexagon is steady and hence the camera knows focus has been achieved.

There will be no danger of damage.

One of those tough questions - it depends on what you want. The K-5 has the magnesium alloy body, faster frame rate, more dedicated buttons, and generally is the more professional body.

In terms of image quality, we're not going to notice the difference in imaging engines at this level, unless we kid ourselves.

I'd buy the K30 unless I needed the K-5. We have two K-5 bodies and we originally bouight them fir durability and weather resistance. The K30 now has WR and also has a pentaprism, so it's down to durability as far as our requirements are.

Your requirements may be different.

Very few people get to see real prints these days. I have seen staggeringly good black and white prints and they are a thing of true beauty. Most of us dabble at the edges of such quality. I expect that genuine Adams prints would evoke a similar feeling.

Yes, a post has been deleted that quoted spam, hence the comment. However, unfortunately it's not possible to leave a marker.

There's more than one way to get to the result we want, that's for sure.

Peter's right - quoting spam just means an extra layer of work to remove the info in the spam.

I think you can adjust the length of time the screen displays, but if was on all the time I presume that would cause an unnecessary battery drain.

I did use the K-r for a while and the loss of top screen is not a major problem IMO.

e-mail disguised to prevent spamming.