One has to agree with you Gwyn, but think of the howls of mockery if we all start to talk like that!

Batteries eventually die, so first I would check another battery to see if that is the problem.

I haven't heard such murmuring either. It goes against the grain of decades of manufacturers wanting to make smaller formats, not bigger ones.

If there's a demand for FF then no doubt it will be fulfilled, but I doubt that I would be taking it up.

PMs stay in the Outbox until read and then move to the Sent folder.

You can't initiate PMs when a new member (to stop spammers spamming inboxes) but you can respond to a message.

eBay could be the answer. A well presented auction may find a buyer somewhere in the world. It is a slight risk that the end price will be too low, but it usually works out OK>

Do you not have a family member who would like to take it over?

It's possible to look at Amazon sales rankings in various countries and I've just had a look at the UK, USA, France and Germany. Of course, it's only what Amazon sell and it depends how competitive they are with any particular model.

What struck me as interesting was that their No 3 best selling CSC is actually the Pentax K-01. It doesn't sell as well for them in the other countries, but having said that in terms of numbers the USA one could be a higher one despite a lower ranking.

The Q seems to do well. All the options have different rankings, so add them together and it could be interesting.

The K30 is building itself up and the K-5 is in there as well.

It's far too complex a picture for any comment as such, but it makes an interesting browse.

Absolutely right Andrew. You just mimic the effect by using the one exposure.

It's possible of course to tone map even a single exposure - Photomatix will do that in later versions.

There are also a wide variety of presets and we have our favourites for certain types of image. Sue is getting some very good rersults using the Creative preset. She then opens the image in Photoshop to finish it off.

Sue and I both have the K-5 and we won't be upgrading yet. Partly because we always wait for the price to drop a bit and partlky because the K-5 IIs isn't quite here yet and we need to see what that will bring.

I have a feeling that portrait photographers may be better with the K-5 II and that landscape and architecture photographers may benefit from the IIs, but at this point that is pure conjecture and I could be totally wrong.

As things stand right at this moment, the K-5 is an amazing bargain. While it lasts!

The weekly competition images can be any age, it's the fortnightly that had the time limit. This has now become the monthly in the competition section.

Not to worry, I'm sure we'll have a stab at at, it can't be too difficult to contribute something!

As for seascapes, I'd have to see the picture to make a guess.

However, using one RAW file it is possible to make three differently exposed images and then blend in Photomatix. No blurring then.

It is even possible to do this with one JPEG file, but it can be pushing it a bit.