Ergonomics to one side i would say the k-30 and especially the k-50 / 500 technologically leave the k-7 behind in their wake.

Why would you repeatedly pulg and unplug a backup device? Surely leaving it permanently attached is less risky.

the wd software is very good. I also have a Seagate backup drive which also allows backup to Flickr. I have a spare free Flickr account which gives you 1tb free

I was shooting the festival for an agency rather than a publication and some of the artists have a strict no agency policy. There are also some artist which require a strict contract signing which may have limitations with regards to times or even rights grabbing, before access to the pit and on these occasions I would rather shoot from the crowd? Jesse J was no agencies so in the crowd it was...

I dont mind shooting from the crowd, however a popular artist tends to draw bigger crowds, so with huge glass, monopod and steps escaping out of the crowd before the set is over is near on impossible. So you are literally stuck there for the whole set. The crowd for jesse j tended to be teenage girls who where very interested in the photography and enjoyed the view from my steps, which tended to be a fair trade for big old me being in there way

Number three i really like...

The fa85 goes for more money than the da* 300mm on the used market, would you use it more?

I think thats the difference when you have the advantage of the pit and shooting from a static position around 60 metres away

It was a hard shoot. I think i am going to add a piece of meta to my steps to stick the monopod in

Oh and bumped into another Pentax tog shooting for a magazine....

For £500 less you could get a Windows Surface Pro which is full 1080p IPS and is even more portable