I'm OK for 1pm. See you on the steps. The wife says that'll give her time to settle in front of the telly to watch the rugby. I don't think I'll miss much!! The cricket sounds vaguely more interesting, not that I'd watch it.

Room for another :

Have you decided exactly when and where you're meeting yet :

Sounds like the Museum car park is a definite, but the time seems to be mid afternoonish. Is this right?

I think Daniel's probably right, and we shouldn't be overtly carrying cameras. I would suggest we wear a 4" square white badge with PUF in red across the top, and our forum tag and Fore name on it.

I will probably have a small rucksack, but not a photographic looking one. I'm 5'10, short grey hair and beard.

Seems like the Mags are now getting their hands on K10Ds for full reviews.

Will Cheung is generally complementary, but comes up with a problem with the autoexposure. This Pentax seems better than ever, and I've never had a problem with the AE. Yes, it can be fooled by backlighting, all white or all black backgrounds, but less so than previous cameras.

His ratings of most other features are pretty positive

I find his comment " Straight Lines come out as curves using Pentax's 10-17mm f3.5 fisheye" a little strange. I thought this was a "feature" of fisheye lenses, which has to be used to enhance the imagery.

I did the same, and as my main activity is landscapes, I used auto ISO but limited to 100 to 400, and optimised for small appertures. Then as I like to grab action and wildlife shots, I thought I'd set the User for this, so auto ISO, but 400 to 1600, optimised for higher shutter speeds. Initially I've set the capture to JPEG so I have the option of continuous capture as fast as the shutter speed will allow, but I may change this to RAW, to increase the shadow detail ability. I didn't find the 'bright' setting, but have set +1 sharpening (Mostly because of the reviews that abound).

I don't suppose it will stay like this, I'll just have to see whether I find these settings useful.

There was an instance very recently of one class camera being released with an ineffective IR filter. It had the effect of causing many dark or black items to have a magenta colour cast . The company in question is offering a free "Upgrade" (correction) and (I think or was it OR) free IR blocking filters in the choice of thread sizes. It wasn't even a Canikon.

Sony camcorders with their "niteshot" capbility had very much reduced IR filtering, and many people have used them to take IR video. One has to be fairly careful about what clothes people are wearing, as some materials don't block IR too well.

The focusing point in visible light and infrared are different. This used to be marked on the lenses (in red), but most lenses do not even have a distance or DOF scale on them. How do you change the focus to ensure you have the right focal point, without these guides?

I've been looking for the highlights etc (lowlights??) in playback, and notice in the manual, page 186 that it can be selected from the Playback Menu. This is available within the playback mode, but I've not seen how to do this. Haven't got the camera with me at the moment, so can't experiment. Has anybody else used this?

When I check out that link I get an unrecognised URL. Have they changed, or are they defunct?

I'll try again, but I've had several tries so far.

I know somebody who's been looking for a system for a while. They don't seem to come on the market very often, even though they're not competetive in terms of quality or convenience.

I really think they're dinky (I hope that word doesn't have other meanings ), but maybe I'd find it hard to justify, if not to me, then to the boss

I'm mostly right handed (and dyslexic) but left eyed, and I've recently discovered that my daughter is left eyed. Normally I'll put the camera to my left eye, but this usually leaves a greaasy mark on the LCD. My proboscis is obviously not so prominent as Gwyn's hubby.

If not using the Grip, which way do you all hold the camera for portrait? : Usually I hold it right side up, but for no apparent reason, sometimes I find I use it the other way up, probably because it fits to my left eye better. I am actually ambioptical??, as I have to shoot right eyed. I didn't realise until relatively recently that using my left eye like this was symptomatic of a left eye preference, I just supposed it was normal and everybody used either eye.

Back to the subject, and ignoring pwynnej, although there is something in what he says, there's a lot of antiphathy towards BMWs, and I think some deserve it.

What do Pentax have to do? Well, I've just read the AP review, and Damien seems to be routing for Pentax in a way. I think the problem is that the brilliant Pentax cameras come along and almost surprise everybody. It's only the faithfuls that have been waiting for this event say"well, I knew one was coming"

Pentax need to keep the brilliant cameras coming

They seem to rest on their laurels after a signifacant release, and the world overtakes them again. The K10 is my first digital SLR, and I was reasonably happy with my Pentax SLR film cameras and digital compact, waiting till a worthwhile Pentax Digital SLR was released. If I was more serious or a professional, maybe I wouldn't have waited, and would the previous Pentax Digital SLRs have been attractive enough :

I do hope Pentax listen to our ravings, there are a lot of people routing for you, but keep them coming. Here a tweak, there a tweak, and some great innovations along the way.