My wife and I try and work as a team wherever possible. I back up to the laptop throughout the day but always keep the SD cards on me and do not erase them until after I have multiple backups on; laptop, desktop and external HDD. Later, finished JPEGs are uploaded to a secure online storage provider and a backup DVD is burned with the images as well and kept off-site. I do need an off-site backup HDD for raw files though.

The data is more important than the kit. I can replace any bit of kit. I can't magic up the data again if it is gone.

Damn! Couldn't they introduce this two weeks ago?

Oh well, at least we have K-5s. We'll just be a little poorer. LOL

I have no problem on an HTC Desire. Best thing is to get Opera Mobile or Mini as you can open tabs quickly, easily and have them open in the background. That way I can open all the threads I want to read and work my way through them. The standard browser is not as good.

Erm, that only shows which have a mount gasket. That is like calling the 17-70 a WR lens! It says nothing about which have other seals/gaskets.



Someone I know has coloured in the lettering on their cameras and lenses with permanent markers. Think it may have something to do with deterring thieves.

Yes, you do get some occasional odd looks, especially now that we have the big letter neoprene 'PENTAX' straps on all cameras.

Having said that it was a whole different experience shooting on the continent. Covered a German wedding and there were very few cameras to be seen. Although we still had the obligatory N**** pro-body shooter who kept getting in the way.

But most people were more interested in having a good time than snapping away constantly like in the UK.

Also, how many N**** or C**** lenses would survive guest drinks accidents and be washable after too ?

What a good idea but perhaps getting Tungsten focusing to actually work would be better. Just use CDAF ad PDAF doesn't get it often enough.

If I were only allowed one lens to any such event it would be the 50-135. I think you will find similar sentiment from others.

Having just given the two K-5s a full 16 hour workout for a wedding I can say I am impressed with the battery life. 400 shots with reviews, 200 of which were live view on one Pentax battery for the main camera.

Changed batteries on reaching low but not dead, just in case, for an other 70 or so.

Metz 36? It is a half decent P-TTL only flash that can be had cheap if you get the version 4 although the new v5 is not too bad.

Photoshop Elements (PSE) and Première Elements (PRE) package is very good. I use PRE for DVD and Blu-ray slide-shows set to music. I don't have any videos uploaded anywhere due to music licencing constraints though. (It is too expensive to produce something for 'broadcast' be it internet or otherwise.)

It takes a while to learn how to use these packages properly.

If you have a Mac though, then it is much easier with iMovie although I don't know how flexible to tools are compared to frame by frame editing available in PRE.