Very funny although it does make me think that some people have far too much spare time!

Cineva vorbiti Romanesti?

As regards Oggy's post, the second half of that piece of research is that badly punctuated sentences are difficult to follow and understand. Without fullstops and capital letters etc. it is hard to break the words down into meaningful phrases. As an ex-typographer I get vexed that people misuse hyphens, en-rules and em-rules!

As to double negatives, the problem is that if you take them literally, the meaning is different to the intended one. "I don't want no bananas" actually means, "yes, I'd love bananas" whereas it was probably intended to mean "I don't want bananas". Many languages, however, require the use of a double negative. Thus, in Romanian "nu vreau nimic" literally translates as "I do not want nothing" but means "I do not want anything". Just to add to the confusion, if one says "You don't want to go to the shops, do you?", the answer in English would be "no" meaning "No, I don't want to go to the shops". In Romanian, the answer would be: "Yes" meaning "Yes, I do not want to go to the shops". Confused? You soon will be...

I'll now stand back and allow people to correct my grammar.

Stefan... I once accidentally said in Romanian, when offered a second slice of cake: "No thank you, I am very annoyed" instead of "No thank you, I am full." Luckily, the lady laughed and corrected me. The dictionary had given two alternatives for the verb "to have had enough" without differentiating between their meanings!

That seems to account for the annoying delay which occurs with some P&S cameras which means they fire somewhat after the thing you wanted to take a photograph has happened. I took my first digital camera to Switzerland and kept trying to take pictures out of the window of various trams, trains, cog railways and cable cars only to get a blurred picture of trees because the f... thing wouldn't fire.

Thanks to a kind offer from another forum member, I have been browsing through some old PU magazines from the early 90s. I found the second hand kit pages very interesting. Unsurprisingly, the camera bodies were going for much more then than now. Lenses are, however, often going for about the same price. The AF converter? About 50 quid then compared to 200+ now.

Perhaps Pentax's R&D team should take note!

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment...

Well you got off to a good start. That lens has had some excellent reviews.

The 43 Ltd is superb. The DA* 55 might be superb but has yet to prove itself. The 43mm is full frame and has an aperture ring so is very flexible. The DA* 55 is not full frame and does not have an aperture ring.

Cheers, Kris.

It is for changing the aperture on cameras which do not have the ability to do so from the camera body, like older film cameras (ME Super, MX, LX etc etc). On your K10D you do not need it, just leave it set to A and change it from the camera body.

You would do well to read a couple of introduction to photography type books, there are lots out there.

If you are going from lightroom to CS3, why not go back to lightroom when you have finished the edits in CS3 and use the lightroom export function? Much better workflow that way and keeps your lightroom library up to date.

Cheers, Kris.

No

It annoys me too.