Dunno if any of you might be interested, but OnOne are giving away some of their software, plug-ins, etc. link

Whatever next??!!... A drop test from the back of a Hercules Transporter plane as it flies over Tora Bora in Afghanistan?..

I suspect that Pentax would have involved somebody such as the International Standards Organization (ISO), or equivalent to test this model to destruction in order to substantiate any claims of the camera's rigidity and ruggedness, so as testing goes, this is more of a stupid stunt.

I'm only guessing here, but because a JPEG is compressed image data, then there will be a sort of "bleed-through" of colours, and sharpening a JPEG is in reality just telling the camera to be a bit less "keen" with its compression.

Since a RAW file is "raw" there should (in theory anyway) be no "bleed-through" in the colours.

... Or, I could be a blithering idiot!!

Possibly, you have the camera set to record "best performance" on the card thus the sd card has a lot of data to record, which might explain the "lag". Either adjust the recording settings (if you are set on 3-star performance, drop it to 2-star), or consider a Class 16 sd card. Pretec link have a series of these cards, which offer quicker read/write speeds.

Also, if it's possible to update the firmware on this camera, try that too.

** I just had a look at your camera's specs... My guess is that your video card on the lappie is struggling, or you are probably playing back the video in WMV format, which I find to be unstable from time to time. If you have something like Adobe Premier Elements, try converting the video files to either MPEG-4, or AVI. On A desktop with a blu-ray burner, you could probably get a stable playback if you convert it to a Matroska video (MKV) file.

Are they there to guard the missiles for the London Olympics??

Do the unemployed get any kind of discount for joining the Royal Photographic Society then??

Welcome, Barry!! I also have the Kr, but Mrs 9761 has kidnapped it, and is holding it to ransom over in Thailand at the moment!

I hope that maybe one day, she'll let me use my Kr!!

Gwyn - What I was trying to say was that it's fine to call yourself Joe Bloggs, FRPS. It's just the "blow-hards" who preen themselves on it that I dislike.

John - I take on board your very valid point about having to pass muster to gain those qualifications, however I can buy a diploma online for just about any qualification, thus I could pretend to have taught Prof. Stephen Hawking everything he knows because I have a piece of paper to prove it. It then comes back to the ability to prove you are indeed qualified, thus I'd be more likely to ask yourself to take (for example) baby photos, christening photos, etc since I "know" you through this forum, rather than taking some FRPS guy on trust.

Static would have wiped the card out totally. Static electricity and electronics are not a good combination, I'm afraid!