Would that be the indigenous Canarian breed of sheep/cattle dogs? Sturdy looking short-eared beasties? One of my guidebooks has a couple of pages on them.

Picasa will let you resize your pictures, no need for another website:
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I would use the 'Resize for Export' method and save the smaller images in a new folder.

Not sure about the battery issue. Perhaps the Alpine subzero temperatures aren't helping?

Funnily enough we were thinking of Gran Canara first, as its also pretty cheap to get to, but Tenerife looked slightly more impressive. Yes i'll be avoiding Teide itself, period. But the caldera it sits in is massive, hoping I can escape the tourists in the lava flows. Probably better to look at Teide from a distance than from close up anyway

Would have loved to go to La Palma but I couldn't find cheap flights.

But hopefully we'll be able to get across to La Gomera on the ferry for a day at least. May even see some whales

Off to Tenerife in a weeks time!

Easily the most exotic place we can get to for less than 200.00 each flights+hotel. We are staying in the south of the island and I'm very excited about going to places like Las Canadas del Teide, Masca, and Punta de Tena. Anyone have any special must-see spots / walks they'd be willing to share?

Going to the north of the island looks like a must, but I want to minimise driving, so I wonder if any Tenerife experts know whethre/how we can see the best of the north in a couple of afternoon trips (setting off from near the southern airport).

Well I came from the K200D, and got the front wheel, metal construction, external buttons, better LCD, live view, video, faster fps and lots of other stuff which was quite a step up. It'll be an innovation on the body which persuades me to upgrade next time - flip out screen, hybrid viewfinder etc. By then high ISO and DR performance will be a 'given'

Stefan, I am sure Ken didn't mean pain as in 'emotional turmoil'.

He probably meant pain like a nagging toothache or someone constantly drilling into the wall next door!

You don't really need to give an apology, but if you want to, it doesn't mean anything if you have to ask people to PM you to explain why they feel they need one

Do you mean high?

Not me! The K-7 is easily good enough a camera for me (and then some).

But I am very happy about what lies in wait a couple of years or so down the line.
Next year maybe the new body will be even better!

I would go for the 50-200mm WR for travel. Smaller, lighter, cheaper.... and WR! I had a 55-300mm once but didn't like the size, noisy AF, or the way the lens extended when you zoomed.

I don't have the 50-200 but it's about the same compact size as the 'good enough' Pentax-A 80-200mm I have, and I can hardly imagine it would be worse!

Maybe the whole discussion ought to be shelved for now Stefan? You started this thread because you infringed the 'unwritten rule'. Therefore the whole thing just looks like you are being argumentative and difficult like a child who has been told off. Its impossible to have a neutral discussion when you just keep forcing the issue....

I do kind of agree that if you're not allowed to hotlink images from other sites - except of course your own images hosted on flickr etc, perhaps it ought to say so on here somewhere!

And maybe mods would be so kind as to edit hotlinked images to regular links, to avoid this sort of confrontation and so the thread still makes sense.

Interesting(ish) comparison here:
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Seems to confirm my comment above. You'd be hard pushed to tell the difference until you start 'pushing' the exposure digitally.