Overdone I think to the point where the image holds little interest.

It's perfectly relevant to apply some processing to a batch of images. WB, colour correction, lens correction, and others.

An example: I shoot cars at night at a racetrack. I use flash mostly, and 90+% of them have a bright flash foreground fading to dark. I apply a pseudo ND grad to one, when I have it right, I apply that to all. It saves me probably a couple of hours editing from 100 - 200 shots.

Noise reduction and sharpening are other adjustments that I apply to many images.

Then, I work on them individually to crop and make other subtle changes, but not many.

At the risk of repeating myself, Adobe Lightroom could be, and is, easier. It's just one operation.

The 'little red light' is showing you which of the focusing points is being used to determine focus. In the case of manual focus lenses, only the centre focus point is used, irrespective of where the focus point selector is set. The green hexagon indicator in the viewfinder will tell you if the subject at the centre focus point is in focus or not. If it's lit, you have focus.

The K5 has a button on the back labelled LV (Live View). Press it and check the rear screen.

Also, can I respectfully suggest that you spend some time reading the user manual

There's no need or benefit in propagating spam by repeating it, just send a report in and they'll all be deleted, unlike your post.

I could understand if it had had a hard knock, but it hasn't. I lat used it two weeks ago and it's been in my bag sitting on the bedroom floor ever since until I took it out yesterday.

Really odd.

I shoot images for a racing club at our local oval race track and I usually use two cameras. K5 with Sigma 70-200mm for car action, and K20D with DA* 50-135mm for closeups of the winners.

Last night I was unable to use my K20D because the tray that holds the focussing screen became unclipped, dropped down, and the screen fell out into the mirror box, jamming the lens such that I couldn't remove it until I'd figured out what might have happened.

As the view in the viewfinder was looking very weird, I deduced that the above had happened, tipped the camera upside down and heard the screen moving inside and I was then able to remove the lens.

I couldn't refit it at the track due to lack of light, no tweezers handy, and numb fingers from the cold.

Once I got home it was easy to refit it but I noticed that the spring clip that latches the tray closed was not as positive as I thought it should be.

Anybody else had this problem?

BTW: I got all the photo's I needed by using only the Sigma lens, I just had to stand back a bit further

I don't think the profiles are damaged Steve as the issue is raised by others in the above link and the one I have edited and saved now behaves partially correctly in that it is automatically applied to images taken with it (Siggy 70-200mm).

It seems that Adobe Lightroom behaves differently when OEM (Pentax, Canon, Nikon etc.) and third party (Sigma, Tamron, etc.) lenses are used.

I'm going to be busy for a few hours now but I'll get back to this a bit later.

I'm happy to try your profiles though. PM on its way.

Having tried the suggestions in the link above, I have been able to make Lightroom choose a Sigma lens profile automatically, but the lens is still not named in the EXIF data.

To accomplish what I have so far, I simply selected an image froom my Sigma lens > Develop Module > Lens Corrections > loaded the profile manually > Changed the Vignetting from 100 to 0 to 100, then saved the profile as the default for that lens.

When selecting other images from that lens, the profile will now load automatically.

This may be the answer to our problem.