Moved to Classified Ads. A price would be helpful.

The K-3 II has two card slots, and I suspect what you could be reading is that there is no card in slot 1 or 2, whichever you don't have a card in. Meanwhile, the card in the other slot is the one the camera selects and is quite happily using.

Moved to Classified Ads.

Free access for all is a great principle, but that doesn't mean we can take anything we want. I'm not sure it's a huge problem for most of us, it's possible to get too precious about things, but nobody changed the laws of copyright.

We know it's impossible to post an image and protect it from someone downloading it, regardless of where it's posted. As pointed out, the only sure way is to not post in the first place, but that does diminish the value of the internet.

Copyright isn't the issue, we own copyright in our own images. The issue is stealing other people's property, and that does apply to images as well as anything else.

I know that many people think that if it's on the internet it's free to take, but that isn't so and they just might end up with an invoice for the use.

Common sense does come into it. Someone I know very well took an image off my website, made a print and gave it to my Aunt. However, she's welcome in this instance, it's all a matter of common sense. If a company tries it for commercial use then they will get an invoice when I catch them! I'm not losing any sleep over it in the meantime.

Anyone who wants to check if their images have been lifted can use a reverse search engine such as Tineye.

Very interesting and common sense really.

Nonetheless, it is there, quoted above.

Nice shots! Thinking about sharpness, SR will enable slower shutter speeds if we are looking at camera shake, but won't help at all with subject movement. Birds and insects move quite a bit and need high shutter speeds.

Lenses do have a character that goes beyond test measurements. I'll be very interested to see how this new lens behaves. It hasn't arrived yet but I expect it will do in the near future.

If it's always the same people, or seems that way, then rise to the challenge and give them a run for their money. That's what competition is - and you have to enter to win.