The K3 has given many people the specific 'improvements' or features that so many have been wanting and creating 'wishlists' for on here for a long time. I was impressed that Ricoh appears to have listened to & read about these things, and been able to provide so many on a single body.

Of course, it has increased the control complexity and operation choices to be made, but I doubt very much that many people here would be happy with an updated legacy model - an '*ist 's' perhaps?

Concerning the photographer technique issue, I have seen it written that larger sensors (say moving to 'FF') can be challenging in terms of camera shake and the increased resolution betraying that, plus lens imperfections.

But I've not seen these issues being identified as applying to sensors of the same size but with widely differing Pixel counts.

That's interesting - seems counter-intuitive in a way. Would not logic suggest more megapixels, a lot more image data in total, to mean 'more headroom' in processsing?

What aspects of PP have you found that show this Jules? My assumption wold be if there more pixels covering any given area of colour tones, then those tonal gradations would be smoother, giving increased adjustment latitude.

If its just DR you mean, then I guess this is a factor that is inherent to the sensor design itself.

I never found it cumbersome - the polariser has a slatted rim which allows easy movement with the fingers from top, bottom or both. And it can still be done even with another square glass filter fitted in front of it.

They'll be plenty of landscape situations where you'll want both a polariser and ND grad, and so the filter holder system remains most flexible in that regard. I take the point about extra light bouncing around possibly. But surely the holder with its slots is easier to manage than having to fit the step up/down rings and attach the filter again each time?

Thanks, I'll check out Jing

There hasn't been much said about the effectiveness of all the extra focus points - or the extra fine controls for narrowing the array down or moving it off centre. I wonder if any users have found these significant extra features to be useful?

Those are very impressive screen shots! I would like to be able to pull that trick sometime

Healing brush, or 'clone stamp', are the way to go for sure - I also don't remember any tools of this sort in PDCU - its more for the overall 'development' of the whole image really.

Photoshop Elements is a very competent 'Lite' version of Photoshop, and includes these tools - its also a lot less to learn with less options, but everything photographers need.

No, 12800 at least

Its an atmospheric presentation of the event, with very interesting colours. There is extremely high contrast on a number of the shots - it adds to the particular 'feel' for sure, but a negative to this I find is the rather sunken dark eyes of some of the people.

Looks like all enjoyed themselves very much, as did our photographer with his shiny new toy!

Its sounds like you already know this .. obviously the Cokin system type Polariser will prove far more flexible - the system allows the one (circular) filter to be used with all of your lenses.

When I used one I didn't find it any problem to keep the filter holder with polariser attached to the camera & lens, even when moving around with it all in a bag - Cokin provide a handy plastic front cover that fits in the fist slot of your holder and protects any filters behind it.