In Cheshire it's still against the law to park a vehicle
wheel any closer than 6 inches from a kerb, because WATER
has a "Right of Way"

I heard that they are going to change the
name to Ricohigh in order to get
better write-ups on a certain blog

For Jpegs I always use in camera sharpening and usually contrast
boost.

The RAW image looks OK, you just need to alter the in camera
settings to give the same for the Jpegs.

A 35-70mm Zoom has only a 2:1 range which isn't stretching the
design enough for it to be soft at the ends. Some 35-70's are
actually better at the 70mm end. Try to use f/8 which is the
optimum for this lens.

You seem to be a lot better than me at finding bargains lemmy
The 35mm f/2 for £100 was certainly a good find

I don't know why the sellers of 400mm + lenses generally can't include what camera the lens fits?

This one: link
SIGMA 400mm 1:5.6 APO Tele Macro HSM which would be £300+ in Pentax fit went for ONLY £167 which is an absolute bargain. I suspect it was a Canon but also suspect that the other 250 people who looked at the list wouldn't know that and just moved on.

Looking at the bids... one bidder with 2546 transactions bid £84.35??? apart from it being ridiculously low he would have lost out to someone bidding £84.50 or £85 ?

Maybe all the K-5's are sold!

Try a distant/landscape shot on manual focus using the 35mm end
of the zoom and set the focus on the lens at infinity.
Use f/8 or f/11 and 200-400ISO everything from about 6-8m
to infinity should be in focus.

If you are able to zoom the preview look on the camera screen
to see what's in focus. Take another shot slightly back off the
infinity mark if infinity doesn't look in focus.

The shop that you go to for that once in
a lifetime shopping experience!

The kit lens is a top lens and better than most others, but I
would have thought the 35-70mm would have been almost the same.

Is the glass clear some 'A' series 35-70mm's suffer from problems
with the cement holding some elements together, but they still
usually work OK.

There are plenty Pentax 28-80mm ish lenses available quite cheaply
but the 35-70mm is usually better optically.

The users and reviewers will only complain if anythings left out.....
Being logical/sensible doesn't come into it

I love my Ricotax *..* (pronounced star-do-do-star)