I spent a long weekend in the Kruger National Park whilst I working in South Africa in 1977. I was armed with a Super-A and 50mm and 70-200mm lenses.

Now if I could go back with some of the kit I have now . . .

Enjoy the D700. It would probably be my choice if I wanted a different system.

I routinely have +0.7 EV comp set on my K20D's for the same reason.

You need to change the EV steps to 0.3 in custom settings to get 0.7.

I know the feeling

I was actually referring to the topic title Gwyn.

The system tray is the bar at the bottom of your screen, below any application windows. The rightmost Icon shows the time/clock.

Somewhere to the left of that is a loudspeaker icon. Right click on it, select recording devices. In the next window, right click microphone (mic, not mike) and select disable.

Follow the same procedure to enable it when needed.

The system tray may not appear if you have it set to auto-hide, or it is not forced to stay on top of other windows.

In either case, close all application windows, move your mouse cursor to the very bottom of the screen to show the system tray, then right click on it and select properties where you can change these behaviour properties.

It's always interesting to know which systems people move to, and why.

I doubt it contravenes any forum rules to mention this information, but you may have your own reasons not to.

Any particular maker or model cannot hope to satisfy every users needs in every situation.

So my K5 is less than a week old, and the manual is out of date already

Updated to V1.10 firmware with no issues.

I've only had my K5 for a couple of days and not used it for anything other than test shots yet, but AF speed is faster than the K20D. It also focusses better in low light too.

Noise control is very good, but I never really had a noise problem with my K20D's and was happy to use it up to about ISO800. You have to work within it's limitations.

A Cannon is a rather large gun. The photocopier makers name is spelled Canon.

I'm not too familiar with Canon products, but I think that only EF and EF-S series lenses will fit.

Perhaps the best place to ask this question is on a Canon forum.

Park Cameras shows it in stock, but neither Sigma UK or Sigma US have it listed for Pentax mount.