Picked up my K10D from SRS this afternoon. Nice to meet Chris and his team. By a weird co-incidence the Nikon rep had chosen today to call (and was looking a little bit sick!)

Just charging the battery and reading the manual like everyone else. It feels a nice sturdy bit of kit, however................ what a rubbish strap Pentax put in the box! I have changed it for my Op/Tech strap. Is this why we never see people with "Pentax" round their necks and get the impression that Kanikon rules the world?

When finances recover I'll be back to see Chris about a couple of lenses (Watford traffic not withstanding!)

Welcome Linus. AFAIK the 645D is due mid-2007.

Seems about the same speed as the previous version on my PC, George.

Maybe kanikon let him keep the kit and Pentax ask for it back?

I seem to recall that a couple of years back, just before I bought my DS, the reviews mentioned softness of the DS's images. Isn't this just history repeating?

The only review of importance to me is......mine! (When I get my hands on one)

Looks like Chris's delivery is lost in the xmas post.

I just had a thought - if IE was behaving so badly for him, how on earth did he manage to post in the forum?

Hmmm, at work I beta tested IE7. As a result we switched to Firefox!

Yes it looks like the K10D uses the same remote control and cable release as previous pentax digital SLR's.

AFAIK the speed of a card has more effect on the card-to-pc transfer than on the camera-to-card speed. All my cards of various speeds (up to x133) seem to take a similar length of time to recieve the image from the camera (DS) (judged by the length of time the little light remains on). It's a bit subjective as I have never actually bothered to time it!

the quicker cards do transfer the files to the PC much more rapidly though.