There is no focal length increase. It's a crop factor!

I'll go for a dunking in Guiness. With mouth wide open!!

By setting the camera to accept a lens in other than A setting, and using either the green button or the meter in Manual, you effectively have an apeture priority lens. Just another step to the process, no biggie!

The effect is the same, although the fine technical details are slightly different.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!

The Gaussian Blur feature in Photoshop is the same as a diffusion filter.

Actually, I'm glad that the new camera doesn't have all those silly Scene modes. My D has the basics, plus some sort of "green" mode which I tend to ignore.

The K10D only has a couple of more modes, and they're actual real useful modes. We'll wait to see the camera, but it sounds like a well thought-out peice of equipement.

As far as I understand it, the term "macro" originally applied to equipement that would let you acheive 1:1 or greater magnification on the film/sensor plane. A lot of lenses with close focusing ability, but not true "maceo" lenses, have been sold as "macro" over the years.

The 100mm f/4 lets you acheive half of life-size on the film plane, so technically it's not a true macro lens. But with an extention tube, you can go macro easily enough. It's also corrected to function best at close distances, so in a sense it's more of a "macro" lens than a regular 100mm lens.

I never understood why a still camera should be making videos. If you want to film a video, you use a video camera, right?

The whole thing is nonsense!

The two digital bodies that I have, the D and the K10D, both have a feature where you allow the lens not set to A, and use the green button to get a light reading (center-weighted). So you put the camera in manual, but you are effectively using aperture priority.

It seems to work just fine.

The 15mm lens won't be as wide as on a film camera, but it'll sill be plenty wide. The 85mm will also be cropped so that it's the sme as using a 127mm lens. Great for headshots and such.