Thanks for the comments and advice guys, much appreciated
Cheers
Neil

I have a K100d DSLR and have shot a lot of live performance - dance / drama, so utilsing ISO 1600/3200 a lot without flash. I noticed for a while two 'stray' coloured pixels which were visible in the same place on the pictures. Then last week I shot a dance show from a balcony on my 50-200 lens(so quite a distance from the stage), this time there is about 12 stray pixels all various colours in the same places on all the shots!! I've gone on the forum and read about hot/dead/stuck pixels followed link to wikipedia. Anybody offer any advice what i can 'actually' do, in laymen terms!! Can I remap if so howdo I do it ? or is it a case of getting the local London Camera Exchange to have a look!!
Cheers in advance

Neil

I've got a K100D and the same Tamron lense 70-300. I know what you mean about lacking in AF speed, so I bought a 50-200 Pentax lens from ebay and I prefer this one. A couple of weeks ago there was a Motorcross event local and I took this lens out and tried a few things. The AF shots were disappointing-wasn't always focussing in time,so i went manual and a lot of the manual focussed ones I liked. i tried different parts of the course and focussed manually for certain jump areas, this seemed to be the best way as the depth of field on longer telephoto lenses are so narrow,difficult to get it sharp in time. Also advantage of Motor sport if you miss them once make sure you get them next time around..lol.

Thanks Matt, that makes sense!! I did check the manual before - but guess I missed that... whoops...it says P-TTl or TTL is automatically set when the flash fires ..so I guess I'll have another go!
Thanks
Neil

Hi Everyone I bought my K100D a year ago as I wanted a good camera,easy to use, reasonable price able to take low light shots without flash in the theatre - drama that is where I work for dress rehearsals. I have been really pleased with the results.
I now own a AF360FGZ flash and would like to get a bit creative and use 'trailing-curtain-shutter-sync' mode. Can anyone give me any advice on how best to set it up?. So far I have been using the P-TTL mode for my flash shots, I had a little go using the same mode but it didn't seem to work.
Many Thanks
Neil