I'm sure the young woman would be delighted at that comparison But yes, very effective and tightly cropped portrait John, and its good to be able to see such detail, both on her face and the tube-like surrounds in her head-dress. Could benefit from a little extra brightness & sharpening to her eyes ?

OK, glad you've sorted that out - sorry, can't contain myself .... looking at your picture there on the left as you say this, I do think the problem is entirely understandable!!!

I had a similar experience once with the K7. I hadn't had it long, and had taken it to work on a night shift to photograph a site where I had to wear a hard hat ... well, I just couldn't get the pop-up flash to work. Kept trying all the settings, nothing! Then when the hat came off it suddenly started working ... doh!!!! took a while to realise, the peaked front was just touching the flash and pushing it down a little bit without me realising

You mean that may not actually be him :

So what is a good 'ultra-wide' on FF? Do you mean maybe a 20mm or 21mm prime? Am I right that Pentax had an old 15mm in the film days? If so, wouldn't that just be a ridiculously wide angle on FF? I appreciate that many must have actually used it!

Looks like a new picture altogether! You've got a lot of control over the tones and how they change the presentation. PP is really an essential part of the digital image process I believe.

Here, if you wanted to, you could restore the depth of the deepest black by a slight nudge on the 'blacks' slider (or 'black clip' whatever LR may label it). On the histogram this will nudge the end of the data back up against the left side.

Ken, after eliminating the cause as being the result of crossing the equator, I had therefore assumed it was one of those special artistic, right-brain type of images that I don't really understand!

That's doing a great job then! I like the colours, punchy, and you don't seem to have lost any contrast with the converter. Sharpness looks good too.

That would be the problem with any auto-rotate type function ... ideally you need to wait until the models have GPS as well, in order to confirm that the equator has in fact been crossed.

I'm assuming you're talking about the modes changing when the camera is actually on and being used? The only other thing to rule out is that its not going into sleep mode, or you're not talking about these changes occurring after switching off & on again .... if that is happening then you should check the 'memory' item in the camera menu - here you can configure exactly which settings you want to have 'fixed' after switching off, and which you would like to return to the default.

David, if its good image management you want (without having to change the actual editing workflows you use) then take a look at the excellent imatch programme, which I use. It has brilliant cataloging and exif editing features, as well as providing a one -stop solution to the physical organisation of image files. You can set up right-click links to your editing software to directly open an image from imatch.

RAW thumbnails (PEF & DNG) are automatically displayed, and you can configure the amount of details you see about each photo. The 'tree style' catagory functions and 'smart-category' creation is very sophisticated and individualised. link