Well now - that should help

Good luck

OK - well thanks a lot for your views

They have made sense and I'm certainly not losing anything by shooting manually [ which is what I thought ] in as much as it will make me appreciate what the camera normally will do for me

I'm not going to get in a twist about this

I'll keep on practising shooting manually - but when I'm out and about I'll probably use Av most of the time - depending on the situation of course

and that's the second that's gone from my house , and I now have a clear attic [ nearly ] in which we have now found 5 or 6 wasp nests of varying sizes

The Insectorcutor has been left switched on and next week something will be done

Hmmmmmm

With apologies for the darkness - just downloaded straight from the beastie - was sheltered in my garage - this is part of a series of 6

Well - my 14 cu yd dustbin has bow been taken away

Got a nice wee series of pics on the Optio of that - didn't use the other beastie as it was wet

Skip filling is doing well

I'm using a Lexar Professional 133x from there - the Site shows it as a Class 6 , but for the second time when it has come it's been a class 10

Slightly more expensive I'll grant you - £16.99 for a 4GB one

Welcome Jon

The folk here are very kind and enormously helpful - and I know it

Well yes - I did realise because hopefully, if I shot manually, I would have got the settings more or less spot on and equally hopefully, they would be what the camera chose for me if I used Av or Tv or even Auto

Actually I seem to have erred with my experiment - I should have added Auto into it to see what it would have given me

I'll do that another day - just for my own education you understand.

Really I am relatively happy choosing my Aperture - note the use of relatively - I stay somewhere about 6-8 if I'm outside. If I'm shooting inside then I use as big an aperture as I can - depending on my estimation of the ambient light , and then I expect the K-x to sort out my shutter speed since I'm still struggling to relate those automatically .

Hmm having said all that - maybe this thread should now be closed so discussion moves to the other one

This is getting very interesting - and I'll say no more than that as I don't want to colour any further responses .

Please keep them coming for a while