I enjoyed G's thought provoking comments, and just took Doug's remark as a bit of banter. There's no general opposition to genuine (even if that means negative) constructive comments on the forum that i've noticed.

Where there have been arguments, that has very rarely been the cause.

I also agree with Tim! I like the luminous quality to no.1, but the lighting is too severe for the last two. I wonder if the black background does the subtlety of the rose any favours.

The K-7 won you over in the end then!

You could copy and paste the edge of an orange petal (and adjoining background) from elsewhere. Probably a bit quicker than cloning.

Well then perhaps the money would be better spent on trying to create a viral marketing smash on Youtube... get those K-7s (and 645ds) into the hands of budding film makers (and photographers)... think up something really innovative that would hopefully get people's attention and at least raise the brand profile a bit.

Along that line, I wonder how many sales of the k-x have been influenced by nolasck over on Youtube? You can see that this guy is a great brand ambassador to the legions of young gadget geeks who perhaps might not be so aware of Pentax. He's no expert but that's kind of beside the point!

It wouldn't matter what colour they are if punters hardly ever see pros use them!

Since Panasonic Nikon and Olympus are marketing themselves on tv quite heavily, I'd like to see Pentax ads on tv, perhaps they could use 'user generated content' like the excellent, arty K-7 movies we have seen on Youtube. Or talking heads featuring the pros who have switched to the 645d (advertise the premium product for 'trickle down' brand credibility to boost sales of the lower end cameras).

I had a go with MattMatic's technique a few days ago - it's very easy and works extremely well!

To avoid painting over the orange flower, use the magic wand to select it and then invert the selection. (Adjust the tolerance value of the selection wand to get the whole flower).

Well it made me larf, anyway! Can't see that shooting Pentax would have helped that poor (sorry, stupid) tog though.

How is great 'better' than excellent? From the context, it's obvious that 'great' was being used informally to mean 'good' as here link

The same dictionary defines excellent as EXTREMELY GOOD here link

Well the signs are that under the new government the decay is really going to kick in over the next 5 years. Already they've cancelled Labour's progressive school building scheme - leaving schools and communities in the lurch, not to mention thousands of jobs on the line. I'm a bit concerned about where we're going.