With temperatures like that I could put away my long sleeved shirts. Of course winter in Lowestoft was always more pleasant with Eastely winds, blowing directly from the Russian Steppes

I like them all but #1 - #4 are my favourites

At first glance I thought she was on a balanced diet, a glass in each hand Both nice shots

I have two genuine pentax batteries, one supplied with the K7 and the other supplied with the K5, both slightly different label, and surprise surprise both made in China. I also have a cheepo from Amazon, about £5 and one given to me by another member, both made in China. So far they have all worked equally well and if using Live View they all seem to lose power quickly. I also toyed with buying a pentax spare but think they are way over priced.

Me too, and probably a lot of others.

I don't think there's any right or wrong with any of the settings Barrie. It's personal choice, like Green Mode, P, AV etc. I would hazard a guess if we used the same settings etc we would stil have slightly different results

Thanks for the feedback ref Hitech ND's David. I'll have to send a letter to Santa methinks Several members have said the same ref 55-300mm and I've barely used it since, last time was on Newcastle Quay and I was quite pleased with the photo, two men on the roof of the Sage. I have the kit lens 50-200mm or the 150-500mm which I tend to use instead, but the 18-135mm seems to be on my camera the most.

I like them all but #3 especially, there is just something about the colours that draws me back to it for another look.

Thanks John and David, I think it will be staying in the bottom of my junk draw. At least the yellow cast wasn't as bad as the black crosses I got the first time I used it. This time I had dialled it to total black then eased it open till I guessed it was right yellow tint instead of black X.
I usually take any filters off now before taking photos, especially the 55 - 300mm which has given disappointing results, some of them down to me, but on a tripod with SR off I think they could/should be better.
The only good thing is it wasn't an expensive experiment. I think Charlotte has bought some Hitech ND's so will see what she says about them ?

No money

K5 Pentax 18 - 135mm

All the photographs I took on Sunday using Raw when opened in ACR seem to have an As Shot Temperature of 9200 giving a very yellow cast to the image. As far as I know the WB was set to Daylight and Fixed. I was using a 7dayshop VariND Filter.
Today I took a couple of shots in the garden without the filter and they seemed to register 'normal' in ACR as shot 5450, ACR daylight 5500, ACR auto 5600. I took another two using the filter which gave in ACR the same reading except for the Auto which read 4650
I'm wondering if I have a bug in the camera on long exposures. The 'yellow' photos were taken at various shutter speeds in different light and I am sure I never touched anything to do with the WB so wondering if anyone else has suffered this phenomenon or have a "Probable Cause"