Most of us don't need to upgrade at all. It's only recently that we moved from CS2 to CS5, but that was more to do with needing some features for a job than anything else.

I was offered a teaching post where they were still using CS2, but that's more than adequate for most things. It's certainly fine for teaching basic Photoshop skills.

I think CS5 will do us fine for quite a while yet. Having said that, I prefer it to CS2, but there's a difference between need and just some things being quite nice to have.

Changing the standard K-5 battery is so quick and painless, why mess with four AAs, then having to fit them ensuring correct polarity?

At least two original batteries for any Pentax camera that uses Lithium battery packs and you should have no problems whatsoever.

If you upgrade to the K-5 body and replace the Tamron and Rikenon lenses with Pentax then the rest is up to practice, practice, practice.

The way to come back with pictures we are happy with is not new equipment though - it's dependent on the photographer practising and perfecting the necessary skills.

Upgrading will certainly improve some quality aspects, but the imagination is all our own.

There are only a few menu settings that can be changed in green mode and the rest will be greyed out.

You change setting in P or Av or Tv or some other mode, but not green. I suspect you can't switch off SR in green mode and it is actually still operational.

I'm enjoying using it Adrian. The Fish-eye lens arrived the other day, so tomorrow I'll be trying that out, possibly at Anderton.

The Chinese ERC arrived today. It's incredibly cheap, but the quality is superb. It fits camera and 5-15mm zoom perfectly.

Sorry, post deleted. T&Cs specifically ask us not to ask for sponsorship, charity events, etc.

There are more in the pipeline, icluding a pinhole "lens" and a longer zoom.

You are in inappropriate territory and you seem to be the only one making these sort of remarks, so let's just hold it there and move on.

I see what they are saying, but viewing the image before you press the shutter release might be more accurate than capturing. If you use the back screen on any digital camera you are viewing the image before you press the shutter release.

Staedy on Dodge69, your statement is just as fallacious as the fallacious argument you are refuting, but in reverse....there's no evidence to support it either. :