Thank you all for pulling through. Now I know I'm not mad or jinxed and I can stop spending money and getting nowhere and start figuring how best to work around the behaviour... like errr use the LX on manual.
It is disappointing to discover a flaw/bug such as this but better to know than not. I think Pentax knows but won't admit. The technical Supervisor kept telling me 'the camera is functioning correctly and to manufacturers specification'. He didn't mention that the specification includes unusable Auto at 3200 & 1600 On a happier note, surely this is the PDML (I'm a new member) at it's very, very best. How else could I have confirmed this so quickly and diversely, thank you all once again and a final thank you to Robin of Harrow Technical for going way beyond the call of duty and replacing everything he could think of to try and fix my LX Anton _______________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime, only �13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890
