Lynton it makes sense what you said.
The problem with bird photography is that you use long lenses 300mm+ most of the time that means that movement you make becomes very visable at such lenghts then you also have the problem that the bird doesn't sit still.
The high iso lowers the shutterspeed so that you freeze the movements you make and the bird.

Yep the markII is sharper across the frame where the normall one only is sharp in the center, if you've the normall one it depends on your photography if it's worth it.
For landscape it's worth it but for portrait not.

Wow that looks quite amazing, why have you never been around it
It's probable against the law to climg over the fench but who cares if it makes good shots

If you're lucky of findeing one and have the money to buy it there is a FA*250-600 f/5.6
Maybe a redsign of this lens is the upcoming pentax superzoom, would be a nice lens nex to the DA*60-250, all we can do is hope.

I'm sure it would be a fine camera all i'm worried about with new products are the faults with production, with the first batch they learn a lot about that and things are most of the times smoother with the second batch, don't need to be better always better.
Also money is the point, when you wait a month or two they are often a bit cheaper, certainly during the holidays.

here is a photo of the controll on the back, looks intersting.


LV=liveview I believe.
Then the top one would be timer or maybe a button to change shoot modes.
left white balance
middle looks like a zoom button, maybe we finally have 1:1 pixel view when previewing photos.
Right is a new one to me, looks like the focus conformation you get in your viewfinder, maybe it's an AF option.
bottom is flash of course.

Looks like we don't have a FN button anymore.

We will see what float my boat, the K10D will surely do for now and buying something that is just new isn't always the best thing you can do.
The first batch might be the one with the most faults so I simply wait for the second or later batch with less faults and with some hope also for a firmware update.

Simply spend some time around and you will get used to it quite fast, the forum is put together quite logical.
There is nothing required, there are only some rules for the compitions but that is it. You're welcome every where without limitations.

No so you're going to buy one?

I was thinking to buy the new model around christmas time since I skipped the K20D so still have a bit of time to save for one.

Yes sorry a little bit of Dutch came through.

They all look quite impressive but still nothing compared to Gunkanjima, you can walk their into a home and find shoes, cups, tv's, clothing... just liked they all left in an instance, very weird.

Here are some buildings in the UK link
Here is a Dutch site for the members in the Netherlands and Belgium link

hehe you should know, and then to think that KLM has one of the beter serviceses. They're one of the few that do major overhauls for Japanese aircrafts.

Companies in Canada has one of the best maintenance in the world so if you're scared of flying, fly with one of them.