All in all he did make 44 exposures of around 15 minute each.
11 monochrome
11 green
11 red
11 blue
(seems a bit high though 44x15 = 660min = 11 hours.)

So yes I think it's possible to get too much details if you make so much exposures.

What we are getting with our camera's is truly only around 1/3th of the sharpness we could get because we use a bayer pattern in-front of our sensor, he doesn't, so his resolution is around 3 times so great.

Wait till you see the photos

I believe that landscape lenses should have little falloff in the corners, since it's the whole picture that's important and not just the centre.

Pity though, you just bought a machine for that and it will be sitting on a shelve gathering dust if you don't use film.
Maybe you can get a MF to get some high quality prints!

Have done that this summer vacation, we had a house near the woods so simply took one lens for a walk and the next day took another one.
I also often only take the DFA 100mm macro on hikes but now that's replaced by the DA*50-135 most of the time.

Yes of course but at what price?
For ban of bucks the older Sigma 10-20 is very good but also the Tamron 10-24 is very good, maybe even a tiny bit better. It's cheaper (here at least) and it has the edge in most things except CA and is a bit soft wide open but no one is perfect right?
Some Tamron 10-24 shots link

Thank you Amin
All ended well like Amin said, we all have a slippages of the tongue sometimes.

To go on with the original topic, Pentax has been very active the recent years when Hoya took it over.
We first saw the K-M a year ago and half year after that the K-7 came competing directly with the Canon 50D and the Nikon D300(s) and setting some standards for the rest to follow and now we got the K-X.
We also saw the DA17-70, DA*55, DA*60-250, DA18-55WR, DA50-200WR & DA-L55-300
For next year the 645D will be coming and also two lenses for that and we might see a long telephoto lens later that year for the APS-C format.
Saying they are dying is simply silly since they haven't been so lively in years.

Pentax also still has some trump cards the others doesn't have, for example;
- SR that also compensates tilt, non of them has that.
- Better movie mode, the K-7 has 1536 x 1024 @ 30 fps against D300s 1280 x 720 @ 24 fps, only the Canon 5D is better so far as I know but that's a different class of camera.
- AF sensor that automaticly adjust to lighting conditions, AF that doesn't have that will focus differently outside in the sun then inside because the colour of the light is different.
- cold resistance?
- forgot to at a silent and fast mirror return system.

There were some cash back option at that time, maybe that's why they where so cheap?
at least if I remembered correctly...

If you've a pef file from the camera it also shows you the manufacturing date.
15038 is my shutter count so yes that seems like a good deal you got there.

15038/2years = 20 photos a day... I never thought I shoot that much

About other software??? that's the only one I know that you need to have and it's free as well.

Well I got two reviews for you link link

resolution of the lens seems to be better and the HSM really makes a difference with the lower F-number to get a solid AF results but the rest isn't so good it seems.

If you need the fast AF, higher resolutions and will use it on the long ends instead of the wide ends then get the new version, if not then get the older one, it's better at wide end.

Just a thought but have you looked at the Tamron 10-24 already?