What about the SMC Pentax-FA Zoom 24mm~90mm F3.5~F4.5 AL [IF] link Mattmatic had one for sale in classifieds some time back and I think one of the long lists in classifieds also has one. Very rare to find them on sale.

Strange....

"Are there any plans to release a camera with Wi-Fi?"
"Not that I'm aware of."

Some of the compacts are already made to use an Eye-Fi Card and even have an onscreen icon and controls for the card in the camera menus.

The Pentax Optio WG-1 is Fully Compatible with no problems.

http://support.eye.fi/cameras/pentax/optio_wg-1

The Optio W90 has had some problems for which Pentax issued a firmware fix.

http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/optiow90_s.html

All Pentax have to do to release a Wi-Fi camera is bundle it
with an Eye-Fi Card

This was a close up shot taken with the K-5 + Pentax DA 55-300mm + Pentax 1.4x-S TC
at 400ISO FL =300mm (x1.4) 1/400th at f/9 Handheld.

Not cropped and hardly any PP just a bit of sharpening.

I'd had a 28mm lens on prior to this and the SR was still set at 28mm

Another advantage of the 55-300mm is that it seems to let a lot of
light through.







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You can't zoom with a fixed 300mm which is a massive disadvantage
That means you can't compose properly

At f/8 you can't really tell much difference between fixed and zoom
in terms of IQ.

The Pentax 1.4x-S converter works well with the 55-300mm and allows semi-macro shots. I prefer that combo over the Da*300mm + 1.7x,
I normally MF anyway.

I posted some shots about 16 months ago taken with the 55-300mm
in this thread link

The last shot was taken with the Pentax-A* 300mm f/4 lens, which is almost identical to the DA*300mm in performance terms, but about
£400 cheaper. Most of the shots I took with that lens on that day
were too close to the ducks and I couldn't move back quick enough.

An old HP OmniGo Pocket PC or HP 200LX running a program called remcom could learn codes from remotes and be used in their place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSQH-Wc1KU

I've still got about four 200LX's , but never tried it with the camera

Yes it contains some other minor tweaks.

They seem to be doing a lot of communicating about the Q though?
New longer lenses planned for Q
It's easier to develop stuff for small sensors.
The IQ of the Q is very good...... etc.

No demand for tethering?..... can they produce the survey
that showed this?

Longer lenses (quote)

JC: If you look purely at what we're hearing from customers, there's a lot of demand for longer focal lengths. Something like 300mm f/2.8, something like that.

Err! that isn't a longer lens?????

Have Canikon bought Ricoh and Pentax just to shut them down!

Are Norton involved?

I can't believe that someone would pay thousands for
cameras and begrudge buying a proper remote for a few
quid

There are various free sfv checkers available

OR

If you have Winzip just ZIP the file up and read the
sfv value off the Winzip info screen.

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