Welcome to the site, AdaMarie!! I'm sure you'll find it useful, and you'll definitely find the members will go out of their way to offer you tips, advice, comment, and critique on any photos you may post. Although I now own a Kr, most of the small amount of photos in my PORTFOLIO were shot on a Pentax compact. I'm pleased with the quality Pentax compacts offer - I'm sure you'll feel the same about yours too!

Could just be a file corruption if you haven't tampered with the settings. Try loading your installation disc, then reinstall - if the installer offers the repair/modify option, choose this. Hopefully, that will correct it.

Pic #2 for me!!

Even without the light streak from the lantern, this image looks good!

If you reckon you are competent at doing this repair yourself (assuming your Kr is out of warranty), then the following link might be of interest to you. I'm guessing a professional repair, with a probable 6-months repair warranty will set you back in the order of around £50.00, or thereabouts.

Hope this helps!

I don't need Alan's services quite yet, but I've bookmarked him since he's relatively local to me, and my ops supervisor lives in Shepperton too.

Sometimes, useful info such as this just "falls into one's lap".

Watch out for Hoya and Kenko as reliable brands. I have both brands - the Hoya was an Amazon purchase, and the Kenko was bought from a fellow Pentax User member. I think the Hoya cost me 24.00 GBP, and the Kenko about 20.00 GBP.

I'm going to wear a luminescent-green "mankini" (like the one Borat wears in his movie), and drape my Kr around my neck. I'll then walk around heathrow's terminal buildings like that, waiting for the first person to say "Nice camera!!.. Are Pentax's better than Nikon and Canon??"

Maybe he had one of those laser "tape-measures" that uses a beam of light instead of a conventional tape measure?.. link

If so, it wasn't exactly the brightest idea, was it? It's been well documented in the media about kids using laser devices (usually pens/key-rings) to temporarily "blind" pilots on approach and take-off! Still - Definite overkill by Plod, methinks!!

Having a spare moment here at work, I had a browse at both the CIVIL AVIATION ACT 1982, and the AVIATION AND MARITIME SECURITY ACT 1990, I cannot find any specific references to cameras and photographers.

Where a person is photographing military aircraft, I can understand the need for enhanced security (espionage, sabotage, etc), but at an airshow, where no doubt the general public would be permitted to look inside the cockpit, engine cowling, etc...??

Right behind my place of work is the OS military mapping offices, and we get regular visits from Chinooks, and the occasional Westland, and it's never been a problem. I can also go up to Hatton X tube station at heathrow, and stand amongst plane-spotters who, funnily enough, usually carry cameras AND specialist radios that lets them "eavesdrop" on conversations between the pilot, runway control, and air-traffic control. I've yet to read of and arrests for that either.