I saw the AP test too. Of the budget ones the Koods came out best - very slight green colour cast. Shoot RAW and you can correct this at the conversion stage if it worries you but I haven't really noticed it with mine. What I have noticed is instantly better exposed skies with no need for combining shots in PS, which can be tricky sometimes. I use both methods and I think neither is clearly better than the other.

Wow David! No. 1 is stupendous, but no.3 has utterly blown my socks off! I bet you were in heaven photographing that!

Wonderful images Ralf. I would have voted for those in a heartbeat. My criteria for voting is would it would it be the kind of image I would expect to see in National Geographic, or on a gallery wall. I don't see much heavily PP work that I have to vote on, but far too many poorly composed shots, and banal shots of geese etc i'd rather see a heavily PP shot than that sort of toot tbh.

Hey, thanks! I typed it in fury on my mobile phone on the way to work- didn't expect it to be published! Was there any response from Damien?

There are still some excellent articles, such as the recent insect macro one. That was the sort of article you don't see in many other places. Scouring flickr for interesting Pentax users around the world might be a good way of generating further similar articles. What about our own members, like Lilly or Pauly for example.

Chris- I agree! I find it worthwhile subscribing but it is a bit lightweight - I suspect its a bit of a shoestring operation and contributors put in a lot of their free time so I cut it some slack. I wish there was more content for advanced/aspiring users who have got past the basics. More in depth equipment tests. The K-x one focussed more on its special effects filters than its image quality. Testing its performance on a night shoot or indoors might have been interestin.

Aren't we lucky to be able to use these older lenses at a fraction of the cost of a new cheapo zoom, let alone a new prime. Looks like a very decent lens.

Yes to the first question, probably no to the second, as i'm sure noise reduction is pretty standard practice.

Totally unscientific of course!

The poll is running at 55% in favour of the K-m, but the gap is closing. I voted for K-m just to see the results. Bearing this in mind, and that the K-x has only been out around 5 months, it looks like the K-x is attracting new Pentaxians at least as well as the K-m did.