I think unless you are very lucky you will have to pay a premium price to get one until some one releases a version that works with HSM these are just going t go up and up in price...

I can totally relate to the comments above.

Having a photography qualification on my cv helped me get my first photography job I didn't really learn much about photography, I learnt a lot about art.

I am now doing a business degree specializing in marketing exactly for the reasons m42geo posted above.

I would recommend doing an A level photography course first. only costs £100 to £200ish per year compared to the cost of a degree & also only takes up 1 or 2 nights a week so no way near as much commitment.

Some examples of what can be done with RAW which I think would be difficult in jpeg to recover, these are all ISO 2000 low light non flashed shots.

All on k-5

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Can't you use the Pentax af360 on the NX11???

Still for sale, price reduced to £110 or would swap for Metz 48 or AF360 flash

You keep saying dont take this thread to seriously & it is a light hearted discussion but it is you that included the quote in your original post

"thats a challenge to photographers who shoot RAW because they have no idea about how to operate their camera!!"

Now when I see a quote like that on a photography forum, that happens to have some excellent photographers amongst its ranks I find that offensive.

You may have taken that back in the post above but but I still find it an arrogant comment to make. You even stated above yourself you shoot raw when needed for pro projects, so you have answered your own argument, so why even bother starting a thread like this in the first place??

@Sprocketdog23 Get yourself a copy of lighroom, learn workflow within lightroom & you will end up shooting raw permanently.

My lightroom is setup to auto noise reduction depending upon ISO speed & which body I shoot with. Adds just a few seconds to the import process.

Yes thats the one, sorry was on phone when I wrote that & it replaced mm with NM doh!!!

50-135 NM is the perfect portrait lens or 77mm Ltd which will cost more...

I still don't know how to work my camera though