1st of all, download it to your pc's desktop, then open it so that you can see a .bin file. Copy the .bin file on to a fresh sd card. With the camera switched OFF, insert the card, then (whilst pushing in the menu(?) button) switch the camera on. Make sure you have a full battery to do this!.. Give the firmware update a couple of minutes, then you should see a message on the rear screen letting you know that the update is complete.

I find Google Image search a useful tool when I get a scammer sending me photos of "themselves", then the image search confirms that they are a scammer when the image is posted onto numerous websites, such as scam-date websites, and porn websites (where the scammer probably stole the pictures from in the first place). I suppose it re-raises the issue about whether to watermark your images, or not.

This might be one for the PU web admins to look into, as it appears that the site "allows" all images to be publicly searchable. Perhaps an "inclusion" box could be added so that when we upload an image here, we are offered the option of opting-in to making our images publicly searchable, or not.

Ken - I think Google only uses the images as part of their search function. My view of this is that it can be useful at times when you think that website X is using your images, and will show you what it found in the search results.

I'd suggest going to the website where you originally posted these images, and change your settings there so that they become unsearchable.

Thanks, David! If this fuse on the flash circuit is interchangeable, I may well pop into Maplins to see if that's a part they stock. That being the case, I'll change it, then screw the gubbins back up and go from there. In any case - lesson learnt! I'll be putting myself in the market for a K30/K50, plus some WR lenses. It's a pity I don't have a spare £550 (or thereabouts) lying handy - the missus is in Thailand, and Big Camera in BKK is selling a K30 + 18-55 + 50-200mm (non-WR) for 29,990 Baht (approx. £550), so she could have collected it for me, and I could do the customs clearance on it at this end.

I've had a chance to hook up a lens to the camera, and try running it. Basically, the function dial appears to work okay, the 4-way switch is fine, as is the ability to use the menu and info buttons. Rear screen is fine, and the internal info screen in the pentaprism's all there - but I'll be damned if I can get the pop-up flash to fire! Mounting an external flashgun to the hotshoe works too - it's basically down to the pop-up flash that's now the problem.

Andy - for the record, the admin and return fees came to £24, so £30 might be somewhere close to the mark, although obviously, as well as getting a replacement screen, you would have a replacement casing and other "non-volatile" parts such as replacement function dial, and the plastic switches too. As I said - I'll fire in the battery later, and see how the camera functions now that JP have opened it out and possibly dried the innards.

Prior to sending it to JP, I was able to switch the camera on, but the function dial wasn't changing the shooting mode, and the pop-up flash wouldn't fire. The rear screen is in good nick though. Now that JP have sent it back, I'll pop the battery in and run a few more checks to see if their opening it out and drying it down a bit has changed its behaviour in any way. As for price - I'm not sure what it's worth to somebody cannibalising for parts, but the body is in good nick, so I suppose I'm looking for a reasonable offer to try to recover some of my losses (JP's admin fee, for example). I don't want to start some sort of "bidding war", so I'll judge each offer on its merits.

I sent my K-r up to Johnsons after the camera got caught in a bit of a rain-storm. Despite using a plastic covering to keep the camera dry, some water seeped in to the body. Now Johnsons tell me that it is an "uneconomical repair", so if anybody is looking for a K-r to cannibalise for parts, etc - make me a reasonable offer for it.

Sounds as though something along the lines of PK TETHER is what you're after. That would allow you to hook your camera up to a laptop/netbook (not sure if it would work with iPod/Tablet pc), ans you will be pretty-much seeing what your camera's sensor is picking up.