Also a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

yeah the DA* 60-250 & DA* 55

Do you've it Gwyn?
It's always busy with christmas so it might take just a bit longer.

I'm waiting for the DA* 55 to come to order it from Chris, it seems I would save also that amount of cash.
Therefor I'm curious on your experience with Chris after delivery.

Make an overexposed photo with a high f-number, you will see almost everything that's on the sensor or the lens.
You should be able to compare the result with that of the dust-alert.
I hope you'll find out what it is.

They are basicly the same but Pentax has a very good service I believe.
I have no idea how the service of Samsung is but it's unlikely that they are better.
Pentax cameras also hold their value better than Samsung that is also a point worth to think about if you want to sell it over a while.

What's the price of the GX10 these days btw, they are very hard to find?
Maybe if you stretch your budget a bit you can pick up a Pentax K20D they are now £579 and you also get a £100 cashback on them.
www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk

off topic.
I've heared that Samsung doesn't really see breath in the DSLR market so they are going to stop producing them but they will continue making and developing sensors.
Can anyone confirm this, I can't find the page and I ain't so sure anymore if it's true.

Don't have any experience with Enloop but I use Varta for my flashgun and they seem to keep there charge very well.

I have 2 sets and once the are depleted, my spare set goes in the flashgun and I recharge the other ones and they go as spare in my bag again.
The battries are still very charged after 4 or more weeks when they go into the flash again and I haven't really notice any difference compared to freashly charged ones.

These are the ones I use Varta Professional they are 2700 mAh,
Enloop doesn't come further then 2000 mAh I believe so Varta will keep your K200D powered a fair bit longer.

Well okay but the colour, come on
The diamond version was even better


Look at the wonderfull strap, who wouldn't want to be seen with those.

I can see why Pentax are doing such things with there entry level camera but like I said the colour ,
it would have been better if they had a more subtle colour that looked more expensive.
This just ain't going to do it for most of the people on the this forum and for others I believe.

This is a good example on good colours, somthing Panasonic did well because they look chique.

Would you think, it would really help for the sales?
Since when is a DSLR a fashion item btw
I really thought that Pentax wouldn't be effected by the I-pod effect, I thought pentax had some class...
The good thing is they didn't go the full all the way and made it out off shiny plastic.

The Panasonic DMC-G1 comes in 3 differend colours (nice colours I must say),
it would be interesting to know how many have bought it because of that.
I personally think that no one has bought a G1 because of that though.

The only good thing about this, is the free comercial pentax gets from photography sites and the likes, covering the announcement.

Is this for real, please comfirm this is real?
It looks... just say it isn't my style.
I was really hoping for something more then this star wars themed K-M.

Yes you're very probable right Gwyn,
I've never used one myself so I've no experience with them but I've used these on accosion link and those are 5m acurrate under ideal circumstances.

The upcoming European system "Galileo" will offer a far better accuracy of less than 1m and you can also use ground stations to bring the accuracy down to less than 10 cm.
They will even know then in what room you where in and what floor, only too bad it doesn't work indoors though

You can test it a bit at home if you want to check how it looks.
Simply enlarge a very small photo (or crop of it) with a factor of 1.55 and you can print that to have a idea.