Ian - I suspect the only thing you might notice is the colour rendition, one camera giving off slightly warmer tones than the other. Unless your inkjet cartidges are about to run dry on you, I don't think you will notice any significant "banding" at that level.

Could be that Ricoh Pentax have only maybe pencilled in a stand at CeBIT, Hannover where they will exhibit their full product portfolio, which will include medical equipment too. It's years since I done the CeBIT, so I hope none of our customers are exhibiting!! I'm getting too old to drive a 7.5 tonner across to Germany, and help set up the stands!!

Angela - you did say that you'd probably need a bit of practice to get the hang of doing fimware updates!!

Vic - my guess would be that when you are taking a landscape shot (for example), the camera "knows" what the subject is intended to be, so rather than focussing on a distant horizon, it chooses to focus on an object situated "middle-ground", and possibly incorporates a degree of DOF to the image....

OR, IT MIGHT BE NOTHING LIKE WHAT I'VE DESCRIBED!!

Update...

Looking at the "blurb" on the Panasonic website (link), the image that refers to intelligent zooming seems to infer that it can pick out your subjects in a field, and "home-in" on them. The British Army calls them snipers, I believe!!

OIS is Optical Image Stabilization, I'd imagine.

In reality, firmware updates are performance tweaks. In order to get the best performance from our computers, we (or experts on our behalf) will tweak settings within the main console, or dig deep into the registry in order to get that improved performance. These firmware updates may not necessarily provide visible improvements, but they are improvements nonetheless, so I'd advise to update in order to keep your camera performing at its peak.

The one reason why I wouldn't buy the WG-3 GPS would be the choice of colours. I mean, the purple one looks a bit "girly" (no offence, ladies!), whilst I have fears that the green one would get mistaken for the fluorescent tabard I sometimes have to wear at work. Somehow or other, I don't see BA Cargo security staff accepting a green WG-3 GPS as proper health and safety workwear, despite it being a bit "hi-viz"..!!

The orange WG-3 is a sexy little number though!!

It's true what they say - one man's trash is another man's treasure!! Nice pics!! I agree wholeheartedly with everyone here - a lovely touch of humour to brighten up the day!!

Yes, the .EXE is simply an uncompressed version which contains the .BIN file. When you see the .BIN file (you should see it displayed in a dialog box), right-click it, then COPY to the SD CARD. You will see the SD CARD displayed in the left-hand column along with other links to folders, etc. Single (left)-click on the link to the SD CARD until it is highlighted (it will have a pale-blue bar through it). Keep your mouse pointer hovering on this link, then right-click and PASTE it in. To confirm you have done so successfully, double-click the link to the SD CARD, and you should see the .BIN file there (and NOTHING else). If you have all that, then you are "good to go".

After that, follow the instructions that I previously posted here.

Michael - if you are still having problems opening the pix shot on the Q, reload your Silkypix software disc, and click REPAIR. Hopefully, that will resolve your problem.

Michael - you should be running version 3.0.0.3.

You can check that by opening the program, click HELP, then ABOUT. If your version is 3.0.0.2 or lower, update from the pentax.jp website.

Here's the link

Note that the K5 and the Kx uses Pentax Digital Camera Utility, not Silkypix.