recieved my K5 11 yesterday and put battery on charge, after many hours the light had not gone out and the charger was very hot to the point that the battery was starting to get warm. never had this with K7 or K5

i am right handed and use my left eye , it just seems natural for me, i don't have any problem with the controls mentioned as my thumb just drops onto them. i also wear glasses which i have not found a need to remove either, my left eye is my strongest so it could be something in the sub concious to do with that. i just tried righteye and found i was tying myself in knots to the point i could not even sight my eye over the viewfinder correctly

i had the mirror lock up with battery depleted showing, switched off and on still same ,switched off removed battery and mirror stayed up, fitted fully charged battery still same, did factory reset and mirror dropped. this has happened 3 times over a period of weeks, also had the shutter refused to operate same procedure did not cure it, changed lenses still the same, only after 3 factory resets did it clear and yes i did clean all the contacts first. was ok then for a while but then had another mirror lock up which cleared with a reset. just waiting for it to pack up altogether then it will be in the bin as no doubt the repair will be beyond the value of the camera, which has done half your shutter count of yours. i believe there have been various mirror faults since the K5 was released and they are still still appearing on the K3 it seems.

just go and look at the complaints and it is not people who only upload small files. it appears to be done on smaller sizes that are exported from there for viewing elsewhere.

how do they ever expect to be taken seriously?

it looks as though they do to the smaller sizes than the original, there has been a lot of complaints about it and flickr are doing nothing, the least you can do is cut the sharpening back to the absolute minimum or as some have done it seems do not sharpen what you upload to flickr.

even the image created from RAW data or film from the camera is not what your eyes saw , it doe not have anything like our dynamic range or brain capability. so "to get it right in camera" is in fact "i hope the camera and software/darkroom get it close to what i saw" and there is nothing you can do about that until technology gets us there, so the whole arguement is of no point until it does

don't know the K500 but if you look at the "birders" on here the main lens seems to be the DA*300mm plus ,sometimes, the Pentax 1.7Xaf converter and they get excellent results.

i think what David is saying is that it is either one or the other, you cannot have both in camera. you use a programme "PK Tether" to access debug mode and apply a global setting then either +or - as required. you do this with camera af adjust settings reset to zero before you start as you are in fact moving your start point + or - whatever you set in debug so if you set +10 you have moved your zero point +10 from what it was, THIS WILL BE APPLIED TO ALL LENSES. come out of debug and Pk Tether. if that does not cure it you can go into camera af adjust and adjust individual lenses if the "apply one" option is available and the camera recognises the lens.

others on here will probably know more about PK Tether and how to use it.

a bit late to this but here goes ,1. Beautiful shot but i would use the warp function in ps to level the walkway in the foreground, just a persaonal thing . 2. the eyes are amazing and i will go along with others about the dof but i don't find it puts me off in any way. 3. i have a similar shot and you have to work with what you have. i think because we read left to right it jars with our perception which if he could have been flipped horizontal it would not but the graffiti stops this as the lettering would reverse so the crop to put him on a third makes it easier to "read". an excellent set so far, waiting for the next installment