Yep, Harrow Technical did a sterling job on 3 on my cameras! Top class service.

I have recently switched bags from the Lowepro Slingshot AW 100, which was a great bag and had plenty of room for my day kit (simular to your day kit). However, it lacked versitility for me which the replacement has - the Kata 3n1 - 20. This is bigger then Lowepro but still very compact. It has the sling option and backpack option - both I find very comfortable. My most often carried kit is my K10D, Metx 48 flash, 16-50 on camera, 50-135 and 1.5 tele converter. Heavy but not too bad to carry all day. I can even stow the camera with the 50-135 attached - not possible with the Lowepro.

Thanks for this, very informative. Is this the same process that will be used for outside location shoots?

Regrets over equipment - I don't actually have any. Frittering money away on chocolate, cups of coffee, cakes and other unnecessary things purly for pleasure I do! 'Cos I could buy a K-7 today if I hadn't!

Sorry Martin Note to self: must learn to type properly

I was in Currys the other day playing with the K-M and the K200D!

I think I would buy Pentax to the end. I like being different! If Pentax dissappeard, then I would ensure I had a new version of their latest DSLR and hold on to that till it failed. I would still be able to get lenses second hand. My Pentax does all that I need it to and more - I'm the spanner in the works!

Wouldn't Acetone stand a chance of removing some of the colour from the leather?

Mine doesn't understand! As for forgiving - I believe she is, or at least she is good at making me believe that she is!!

You beet me to posting on this. I generally found I liked Will Cheung as he did actually use a Pentax in the extended test (using one for about a year) they ran. Also he was a fan of the DA*200.

This review is very poorly crafted though and contain some of the worst review photos I have ever seen, not to mention the poorest quality Pentax photos - My K10D does better except when I mess will all the quality settings in camera. Also, the reviewer only goes on about the in camera Filters and does not mention any of the other innovations. He almost pans in camera SR

As a perspective buyer, I would not be getting the K-7 based on this review, luckily I know better and have seen better results.

As for High ISO noise, I have read reviews that have compaired the K20D with the D300. If this review was to be believed, I would have concluded the noise level of the K-7 to be worse then even the K10D

There is no mention of this being a pre-production model, but as far as I can tell, this must be! The magazine is missrepresenting Pentax if they have used a pre prod model and not categorally stated that!

Milo1961, what was it you said about the previous editor? I am sure this drivel would not have made it in under Will.

I will be writing to them to protest. Perhaps we all should!

I was suscribed as a present over a year ago, I rescribibed and I think the mag has changed into something I am less comfortable with under the new editor. I am not likely to renew.

One point I have not been able to clarify, does the K-7 focus in video mode - PM says it does not. If the production version does, then I would like to include that in my 'factural' response to PM. So if any one knows, please let me know.