See what you can achieve when you prize yourself away from this effin' forum?

Great work, congrats on the success!

Hope you have a good Xmas Stefan! Best of luck with the photography business, and I hope you can return here to keep us posted.

Plus all your edits would be lost when you closed lightroom. You'd have to start each image again from scratch when you reopened it.

I don't know how other people do it, but when I import pictures to the catalogue, I don't move the files. I maintain my own system of folders for lightroom, and to import new images I just manually drop new files into a folder from the SD card, select the folder in lightroom and synch it. The program then adds any new pictures to the catalogue. As I said at the beginning, the files don't move, lightroom simply remembers the 'path' to the source file.

I have recently gone from the Samyang to the Pentax f2. No regrets, the Samyang got left at home due to the size. I am not seeing much blue fringing in the sort of pictures I take with this lens, although I can see it in test shots of tree branches etc. The fringing isn't there at all by f2.8.

It's interesting the different approaches people have. For web sized images I typically choose a small radius (0.2 or 0.3) and a large amount, to sharpen fine details without creating large haloes. I also use Focus Magic plug-in sometimes, more for 'corrective sharpening' rather than fine tuning a resized image.

For prints I just tick output sharpening in LR3.

Oh I understand now . I would hope people don't get too hung up on it but it does seem a bit presumptious!

White may be take longer to sell, but I expect you could sell it for a little more if you found a buyer looking for one (I was looking for a white Kx recently, and would have paid a small premium for it - but not the silly amount people are asking!)

Personally I think it looks (and feels) great in white, feels a more 'premium' finish apart from the colour - who cares about resale?

Of course if 'the site' wanted to get behind a charity project and make it official, it could do so. If not, I guess such a project could be discussed here, in terms of getting the pictures together (just like we would talk about an external competition), but not promoted as such. For the running of it, and I would suggest, voting on the final picture selection, perhaps a small external site could be set up?

Pentax Calendar 2014?

Good luck with the sale! Just a tip though - using the stock photo isn't usually the best way to sell an item. Showing all the kit together, in a nicely done photo, usually works much better.

I think the choice of the 40mm as the kit lens was a pity, as I agree it's not really the optimal 'walkabout' focal length. But I think the reason it didn't sell was really that it just wasn't small or light enough, and looked odd. I think the project was a bit of a case of 'lets do this with the minimal amount of R&D we can possibly get away with'. Because it's basically just a DSLR body, sans mirror, and the 40mm XS lens is basically just a 40mm ltd. It's fine for what it is, but it doesn't seem much technical innovation went into it. Probably hence the 'designer camera' strategy.