Macro images generally need lots of light so that you can use faster shutter speeds to 'stop' motion, and/or smaller apertures for larger depth of field.

For static subjects like flowers, additional lighting is not always necessary. For bugs, you'll quite often need extra light from a flash and suitable diffuser.

If you have any kind of filter fitted to the front of the lens, remove it for best results.

To actually check the sharpness of your lens you'll need a fancy chart like this one.

This explains all.

I've asked for a delay of the start of my PU Plus membership or a refund until the benefit that tempted me to subscribe is actually available.

I also found it odd that the Paypal merchant to whom my subscription was paid, is Peter Bargh and not Pentax User.

This is probably one for the web bods, but one of the benefits of joining PU Plus clearly states "Magazine PDF Downloads", and that is the one and only reason I paid for a subscription. I have yet to find any PDF's to download. The article you describe John, is just that, an article, which I was able to read before paying for a subscription. I can't find any "Magazine PDF's" to download.

I feel I have so far been mislead. If PU Plus is still work in progress, why is it being sold so soon?

When I pay for a subscription, any subscription, I expect it to deliver what it promises now, not at some time in the future.

Not to me.

Can you explain how I can read your article on the MZ series from the Winter 2010 Issue 4 (current) magazine, for example.

No it hasn't.

I now have the magazine option in the menu, but I'm unable to view magazine PDF's.

Not funny at all. What point are you trying to make? The next Pentax K? will probably easily beat the K5 as well.
This is a Pentax forum where we discuss Pentax equipment. D700, 800, 900, whatever, is not Pentax. We go to Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus forums when we want to discuss their equipment.

Pentax have already re-joined the pro market with their 645D, larger than full frame body.

They certainly do have a mechanical shutter. Look into the mirror box with no lens attached, and operate the camera with the mirror lockup enabled. You'll see the shutter.

You'll need to use the AF280T in one of it's auto modes, or on full power with manual camera settings.

The angle of flash & lens coverage will be important.

C'mon PentaxExpert, who are you, really? David Bailey having a laugh perhaps?

You've only written A S for your real name. Is there a missing S?

I was once of the opinion that Pentax might produce a full frame digital body. I no longer have that opinion because :-

1) Any pro's requiring full frame will already have a huge investment in equipment from other makers, Nikon and Canon. Pentax does not have the range of lenses that pro's think they need. I doubt many would switch to Pentax from Nikon/Canon even if they did.
2) Pentax already has a large sensor body in the 645D, it doesn't need to fill a gap where no gap really exists.
3)APS-C bodies and lenses are for the majority of users from newbie photographers to advanced amateurs. Medium format bodies and lenses are for the really serious pro's and amateurs having more money than they know what to do with. Full frame is a very small market in between the two.

I don't think Pentax will ever produce a full frame body and a range of lenses to go with it.

If they do, they will surely sell some, but will they sell enough to make it economically viable? I doubt it.