Wait for the hands to appear in the viewfinder, I'm trying to train myself a bit to wait for it but it's hard

Does the bigma has two OS modes?
I know the Canon 70-200 f/4 had two modes and how to set himself.
One was to constantly have OS on and the other was to wait for when the shutter was half-pressed and they also had a mode for panning I believe.

Come be a bit more creative, duo, tri, quad tones and maybe a theme like vintage, IR photos also require PP.
I also remember we had a theme commercial for the fortynight, I believe it was Hefty who came up with that one.

I had the same thought, Cactus V4 are rated up to 300 volt which would be enough.

Here is a list of trigger voltage link
Depending the type of 285 it should work on Pentax without a problem, it looks like you have to knowledge to check it.

Pentax don't want to give a rating but from topics on Pentaxforums.com it seems like Pentax has said that it is confirm with the ISO for the hotshoe and that one is rated for 24 volt.

Thank you for the photo Tim, never knew that loop was for on the plate that fits on the underside of the camera, never came up with the idea to loop the shoulder strap through it

Yes that was me, it was about the DOF, focal length, ISO and shutterspeed all in one.

You said you like the 85mm f/1.4 on the Canon the equivelant for Pentax would be 55mm f/1.4 but since that's a short focal length the DOF at f/1.4 is wider. At points where the DOF would be too small you can shoot around 1 stop faster with APS-C so that means a differnce between ISO800 on APS-C or ISO1600 on 135formatt.
It was just to show that the gain in low light from a 135format would not be so much as it appear at first depending on your lenses and shooting style.

If you like flash controll you need to look at Nikon those have the creative lighting system and you can controll the off shoe flash wirelessly from out the camera.

I'm with Matt here the DA17-70 would be a good walkabout lens or the DA16-45 together with your DA50-200 would also be very versitale.

You also have the DA21 you might think about getting the other limited lenses like the DA40 or DA35 and if you can stretch it also a DA70.

Chris that was an informative comment, at first I had also too tight but now I even have it looser than on your photo and it works very well.

Wow if they find that already a problem what would they think of this a statue in Rotterdam.

These guys use a lens with the same range for portrait, just to give you an indication http://lightenupandshoot.blogspot.com/

Spider, not really my type of girl