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<p>Hey Justin, thanks for your detailed answer.<br>

The story about the K10D on the antarctic cruise sounds really interessting. Do you remember where you read that and could provide me with a link?<br>

Thanks and Cheers!</p>

<p>Justin, thanks for pointing this out.<br>

I personally never experienced any damage to my lenses too (altough the only non-sealed lens (Sigma 17-70) I used during heavy rain has been in Machu Picchu, under constant rain for more then 2 hours.. no monsoon though ;).<br>

What I meant is shown in this picture (the right one is a DA* 50-135 where you can see the rubber ring sealing at the outer lens mount contact):<br>

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o3HmHKlnpPE/ShKjodzmVRI/AAAAAAAAAD8/woxZTBdPaSs/s1600-h/Samyang_Vergleich_DA535_Bajonett.jpg<br>

If this one is missing on your lens, you might want to consider it getting service..</p>

 

<p>Btw I have a similar "problem" as Ted.. I created an online petition to convince pentax to put full control over the video mode in the K-7/x firmware.. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/pentaxk7xfullvideocontrol/</p>

<p>On the one hand, I would like to have the attention of a higher grade manager, because I feel the lack of "support" from the Pentax support itself.</p>

<p>On the other hand, it is quite ridicoulus to think that Ned Bunnel will deal with such an issue himself. E.g. if I am not happy with my pension, I cant blame it on Mrs. Merkel..</p>

<p>Justin, be careful with "the camera is still weather tight with or without a sealed lens", because a e.g. DA* 16-50 has a rubber ring which mainly seals at the lens mount contact.</p>

<p>Well.. a lot of video editing suites have some sort of dust/noise filters, color-enhancers, etc or can be extended by appropriate plugins (starting from virtualdub, going up to Vegas or Premiere..), just fire up google..</p>

<p>For avisynth there is a plugin called DeSpot (freeware), which could be what you are looking for. Personally I dont have any experience with that.. sorry. Have a look: http://avisynth.org.ru/despot/despot.html</p>

<p>If it is really a serious issue to you, you may also have a look at "HS-ART Diamant" (http://www.hs-art.com/html/products/diamant.html).. may be really pricy software though and you definetily want pro support! Btw, they used this in restauration of "Metropolis"..</p>