Colin,
It's the 60-250/f4 that's coming around December...
Matt

Noooooooo

More goodies as well maybe then??

And a 77mm filter on the 16-50

But why, oh why, would you want to wipe off "cosmetics" from the front element??

Matt

Rubbish.

Schools love to quote this one. It's utter nonsense.
There's a couple of PDFs on www.ico.gov.uk - just have to find the url...
Here:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/pressreleases/2004/new_guidance_on_taking...
and
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/detailed_speciali...
and
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/pressreleases/2005/press_release_photogra...

I carry copies with me just in case

Matt

Always recoverable with Zero Assumption or similar product.
Formatting is never the end of the images on SD/CF media... but then most don't realise that
Matt

But note very carefully the transfer rate of SHDC cards. Most of them are 2Mb per second. Compared with 20Mb per second of the 133x cards

Even the highest speed SHDC cards are only 6Mb per second

I'm sticking to 2Gb cards. Cheaper than Fuji Provia was!!
Matt

David, sorry to disappoint...
Just bought a Sandisk Extreme III 2Gb for £19.90
www.picstop.co.uk

Matt

That wasn't my aim, but maybe the evidence points to that. The OP says the GX10 was frustrating because the user couldn't change settings while it was writing to the card. However, my K10D definitely allows multitasking in that way.
I don't suspect the electronics is any different - but there are obvious differences in the user interface, and perhaps not so obvious differences in the internal firmware.

But in either case it may all be a bit of a red herring. I strongly suspect that it's the image preview that's confusing everyone. Unlike the *ist-D, the K10D allows you to zoom in on the preview (so you don't have to enter playback mode) and check the histogram etc. When in this mode, the dials change their function temporarily to allow these operations.

So.... if you want to twiddle the dials immediately after taking a shot, either disable the image preview facility, or as John rightly says, half-press the shutter button to immediately cancel the preview

Matt

Just found a really, really slow SD card (a 64Mb Boots card ) and I can confirm that the Pentax K10D can multitask very nicely.

Took about 20 seconds to write a DNG and in that time I could adjust anything (menus, dials whatever) all while the red LED was lit.

No problem then
(Maybe the Samsung doesn't multitask???)
Matt

In that case, you might want to try disabling the preview feature in the menu
(Set the image preview to 0sec)
Maybe that'll solve the "problems".
Matt

Might be a difference in firmware... ?
Will - what version are you running? I'm running v1.1 and will try it out later
Matt