Have seen the Cash Back offer but can't seem to find how to apply for this. I thought there might be an online form or similar to send to Ricoh. Help Please

Received mine yesterday and upgraded the firmware to Ver.1.01, still something I'm never 100% happy with until the COMPLETE message come on screen then everything works as it should. First impressions good although the menu system is a little different but will get used to it. Can always set up User with frequently used settings. Just need to get out and take some snaps.
The provided manual will be used quite a lot over the next few days.


Thanks to Doug at SRS for making the part exchange a painless process and quickly dispatching the camera to me.

Fingers crossed mine will be here tomorrow. I'll have to ask Mrs Snap if she can hear those noises, I have the focus/timer "beep" quite loud on the K-5IIs. Any problems I'm sure SRS will be their usual helpful service.

Thank you Peter and Jeremy, appreciated

Thanks for the kind comment, Geordie and Gary, appreciated

I stopped subscribing to magazines because they do repeat themselves in the "lessons" for photoshop and lightroom. As a Pentax user there is no point in reading how good a lens is for canikon sony etc., but I do find it sad that the the lens makers Sigma, Tamron don't do lenses for Pentax. There a couple of Pentax lenses I would like but just too reassuringly expensive. Still trying to get the cash together to buy one of them. I went to an exhibition today and a great number of cameras had been used from pro right down to compacts but not one Pentax

I'm not in the market for triggers at the moment was just curious. If I read the ebay rules correctly there are really geared towards the buyer now. What I may be looking for is third party batteries for K7 and K5.

That ebay seller does have a lot of neg feedback, 24 in a month. Adverts don't specifically mention Pentax

Watched part of the youtube video but the guy doing the narration sounded like he had problems in his larynx and it really started to grate. In the part I did watch he made the camera sound like a really good buy. hope it lives up to this and doesn't turn out to be a bye bye

Thanks for the kind comments, appreciated

The shield on the left is the for best Interior shot displayed as a PPD (projected digital image)
The shield on the right is the Bob Thomson Trophy and is for a different set subject each year, displayed as a PDI.

A Chair - St Oswalds Church



Subject was Found Patterns. This was a wall of a building and one of the judge's remarks was "did things to my eyes



It was taken by a non photographer using my Pentax WG-10 compact (which was a prize in a Pentax Quarterly competition)