When I use the camera on a neck strap , I find that the LCD comes into contact with various jacket buttons and maybe the zip. For this reason I use a self adhesive protector which I bought from a local camera shop and in just over a year I have replaced it once as it was apparent that it was getting some wear and was less translucent than it had been originally. When the time comes to sell or part exchange the condition of the LCD will certainly come into the equation. I also use a strapbuddy attached to the tripod bush which makes the camera hang lens downwards rather than straight ahead and this is an alternative solution.

Yes that makes sense to me!

I will try a drastic underexposure and see what results. Thanks for suggestion - it could save a lot of time, if it works for me!

I have been using a package called Zoner which is a sort of PSE clone from Eastern Europe. It seems to have a very good exposure merging and tonemapping facility which offers quite a lot of control and I have been pleased with the look of the resulting images. My previous attempts at HDR church interiors has been using the inbuilt HDR facility in the K5 which were not in my eyes quite as successful.

Last week I took some bracketed exposures in a German Cathedral ( 3x 2ev) , but I realise that I should have gone beyond three exposures - certainly 5 and maybe 7 as John Riley suggests. I have had no problem aligning 3 handheld images but wonder whether 7 would require a tripod.

I find that the HDR setting gives what are to me rather unnatural looking results. On the other hand dusk and night shots of city lights are more successful. For daytime shots I find that exposure bracketing + HDR software gives you much more control over the output and enables you to avoid the 'HDR' look which can be tiresome after the initial novelty has worn off.

Sorry my post does not make sense! I meant to say that the 15mm Ltd ( not the 70mm) seems to be at its old ( but still rather high) price and I was speculating what that lens might rise to!

This seems to be the strategy at SRS currently as I notice that the 21mm and 70mm Ltds have risen steeply in price but the 35mm 2.8 and the 40mm Ltds remain at their old price together with the 70mm Ltd - heaven alone knows what the latter might rise to if and when the current round of increases is applied. I am thankful that I have recently acquired the 15, 21and 70 Ltds as I might not have been quite so keen to do so now and I suspect that I might have stuck with my trusty Sigma 17 -70. I feel that increases of this size are rather disappointing and existing Pentax users may well feel rather let down and even disillusioned.

I must say that I am very surprised to see the rather negative comments on the 15 and 21mm. Both seem to me to be exceptionally sharp on my K5 and I do not recall photozone complaining about their resolution. Maybe one should not take these lab tests too seriously - after all the 18-135 was slated by photozone and yet the other forum is full of people singing its praises.

I enjoy this photo especially the sky and reflections, but wonder whether it would not have been helped by a centre of interest such as a boat - somewhere on a third.

Having just bought a DA 15mm as well as two other primes within a matter of weeks, I was beginning to feel that I needed some sort of treatment, but I can see that there are more advanced cases of LBA around for whom treatment might come too late!