Now this could be the last fortnightly competition, so the new Monthly needs to start on 1st July to give everyone a full chance.

If you want the winner of this to start the monthly one off then the end date will need to be 30th June. Alternatively, I can start off the new monthly as a separate issue, which I think might be a safer way to get it started without any glitches.

Any thoughts?

Highlands and Islands and much more, but a bit of research will reveal all. Websites, Lonely Planet Guides, there's no shortage of information.

Back on topic please, this is Pentax User, not Olympus User....

Try cleaning the contacts on the camera mount and the lens mount, using a soft, dry cloth to remove any traces of dirt or grease.

Then remount the lens, making sure it seats positively with a click.

Also, check the AF lever on the camera is firmly set to AF and not caught half way between AF and MF.

There is little else to be done, so if that doesn't work it may well need returning.

If I found the two going cheap I'd probably buy them both, try both and move the unwanted one onwards to here or eBay.

They are very different cameras, so not really a "which one" choice that has any equivalence.

I have added the word "rumoured" to the title to avoid any misunderstandings.

I have responded to womble's fears and redirected this to the correct forum.

Excellent, some others have chipped in as well. Keep 'em rolling in!

The turnout for recent competitions has been a bit thin, so time perhaps to get our enthusiasm going and enter this one. I've started it off and it can't be that difficult a subject that everyone can't find something suitable to enter.

Go to the top menus Gallery>Competitions and you'll find the competition there. Don't forget, Pentax images only.

The real reason as I see it for using a setting like Daylight (which is the one I usually use) is to preserve the changing colour quality of the ambient light. If we use AWB all the time, as the colour of the light changes so the system will try to negate that change.

So, using Daylight, as I like to make best use of interesting natural lighting conditions, helps me to keep those qualities in the pictures. In extremis, a red sunset will stay red without AWB trying to bring is back to a neutral grey.

Incidentally, an even warmer look can be obtained by setting to Cloudy, which is not so far off the effect of using an 81A filter on colour film.

When we did use film, the colour balance was set for a particular film, so setting to a fixed setting is rather closer to that. Finally, don't forget, if you really want to have a setting fixed, to switch off the camera function that varies the fixed setting over a small range.