350 euros?? Is that a typo???

1. I would expect that kind of support when buying a camera over £2k
2. Which accessories are Pentax not making? Or are you referring to third party accesories.
3. Top of the range dual slots etc cost money.

A pro friend of mine shoots Nikon, his D3s has now been with Nikon for four months for repair, they haven't offered him a temporary replacement and can't give him a date when he will get it back either. For the cost of pro membership schemes I would rather not bother and rent a replacement from SRS when needed.

ah I knew it was one if the early versions...

Have upgraded both ny mki and mkii from the previous firmware update and see no difference in af at all. Both bodies are set up exactly the same, tested in my lounge under 120 watts of household lighting. Mki still hunts under the table, mkii no problem as before. Above the table mk1 still hunts and eventually locks on, mkii locks straight on.

I can only assume some are updating from 1.0 which did have af issues and where fixes in version 1.02 I believe.

But camera makers are reliant on sensor makers, if sensor makers stop making APS C sensors as the price of FF sensors fall then camera makers will have no choice.

I think im correct in thinking Sony are the only sensor manufacturer who makes DSLR and they are hardly making a wide range of APSC bodies are they?

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http://madphotoassistant.wordpress.com/

As i said a couple of months ago, ff will become the normal sensor in DSLR due to economies of scale and technology improvements. I should think this will be within the next four to five years now Canon has said what its said. No doubt FF sensors will increase in size so we will see a range of FF sensors from 10 megapixel up to and past 100 megapixel.

If Pentax had improved the AF by firmware they would have shouted it from the rooftops, not just said added stability... I will update both my mki and mkii later toy and dont expect any improvement in AF. The AF on the mki I believe is limited by hardware not software.

Thats an amazing price to get 400mm 5.6 AF

For me a professional photographer is anyone who has to fill in a tax return due to their receipts from photogrsphy.