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Basically any lens with the A setting (PKA, Pentax A) and any autofocus lens (F, FA, DFA). DA lenses can be used but are designed for the smaller sensor of a DSLR, so most will vignette on film.

Did you try the highest noise reduction settings in ACR as well? Would be interested how they compare.

I've always suspected that the alleged 'poor' performance of the k7 was mainly to do with the jpeg processor in the camera. In RAW there seems to be more of a level playing field, and the RAW noise graph of the K-7 on DPR's review looks about the same as the D300s.

Using a combination of your friend's shoulder as a camera support, and the K-x's great ISO 1600, you probably can get away without flash or tripods etc even in the most dimly kit places.

Amen to that Hefty. It's not helped by the 'stranger danger' set of paranoias either on the part of the parents. And the kids who do buck the trend and play in the street, are treated with intolerance and suspicion by their elders.

Oooh-oooh! (Raises handbag).

Predictive farting... my partners already got that one covered

T9 is brilliant. It's like learning to ride a bike. You got to trust it. I'm writing in T9 now, and its as easy as typing. And it makes you type the correct spelling or it doesn't recognise the word. Get it wrong, and you have to back up and start again. This is why text-speak is dying out.

Perhaps people with bad experiences of T9 just can't spell very well!

Hmmm that story just refers to an interschool sports day, for primary schools. The type of thing that would have scarred me for life if I had been forced to participate! I enjoyed egg and spoon races and other silly games on our school sports days, but an over zealous, old school sports teacher put me off competitive sports for life. I even go dry mouthed when someone suggests a kickaround at the beach. So naturally I feel that, at primary school, a softer more inclusive approach to sport is better, although it must be hard for people who are naturally good at sport to undertand.

Interesting set, but not greatly distinguished photographicallyimo. The second to last is the most satisfying shot, for me.

I don't know which papers Tim's been reading, but I can confirm that competitive sports are alive and well in the school system (i work in school design (or did until the government scrapped BSF).

As for boxing, it's making a comeback in a lot of schools but its undertandable why many schools find it incompatible to their school ethos or don't have the resources to provide it (requires a very experienced coach). For me, people beating seven bells out of each other for entertainment is pretty dubious however you dress it up, and positively repellent where the participants are under 10 years old. It does seem to have a positive part to play past to play for some adolescents though I admit.