Doh! Missed the boat again! Trouble with these assignment comps is I think 'ah, plenty of time' and then the time just goes! Love the winning and runner up shots, well done Darlene, JA and Tim.

This character (Mark) in my local park was very relaxed about having his picture taken, but pulled this 'tough guy' face when I got the camera out.



Pentax K7 - Sigma 30mm @ f1.4

It looks kind of like he's holding the camera - honestly, this is not a self portrait!

No not TTL. Put it on green or red 'Auto', select your ISO (shown as ASA on the flash), and then set your camera to the corresponding F-stop.

For instance on the red auto setting, the flash below is set up for 400 ASA and f8. (The selector should be positioned on red auto, not TTL of course!)




I hope that's right! What I tend to do is stick it on 'M', put my camera on 200ISO, f8, and 1/100 (in M mode) and bounce the flash. Too dark? I go to f5.6. Too light? Go to f11. You can also tweak ISO of course. Once correct, there isn't much need to change settings if you are bouncing the flash.

Glad you got it sorted. As noted, your machine is perfectly adequate, but perhaps third party software is worth a look in any case.

2, 7 & 8 for me. I've never seen Dovestones Res looking so good!

You should be able to update your Adobe software, but why bother when you can just shoot DNG?

Any lens that works on a Pentax will work in video mode.

There's a lovely stretch of heavily eroded limestone riverbed just below this reservoir... sadly my old photo on EPZ has been 'downsized' for some reason - http://www.ephotozine.com/user/willbrealey-23327/gallery/photo/afon-elan-1322457

I don't use the focus selection much either, but I think that's more to do with it being very awkward to change the point than it not being useful! If you want to change focus point, it's so slow to change it that by the time your done, the subject has moved. My phone has an optical trackball on the front, which you just drag your finger across to move the cursor on web pages etc, and I wonder if something like that would become more 'second nature' to use. It could double up as a second AF button.

Arrived this morning. Very happy with the condition of the lens and the speed of the transaction - many thanks Richard!