Personally i would never use a cloud service that's linked to an ISP. The uncertainty around these things puts me off and your experience is a classic example of this. I do pay for a pro Flickr account and i have a number of free Flickr accounts marked private for backup purposes. I think the social network aspect of Flickr is now all but over due to the changes they made, i know its virtually unworkable on my windows phone and the lack of an iPad app is just silly really in this day and age.

Back up the catalogue regularly but also create a new catalogue for each project. You can then duplicate the catalogue and merge it with a master catalogue giving you an extra layer of backup capability.

I agree algi i cant see how they managed to fit any electronics into the teleconverter. Look at the size of Nikon and canons teles which do have some electronics inside and they are very large.

Da 35mm posted RMSD today

My 400mm f/4 weighs 2270 grams so not far away from the FA 300mm 2.8 which very rarely comes up for sale...

Yes it is, but if Sigma can make one why can't Pentax? I only think Pentax went with an f/4 300mm to keep the weight down of the system which is a shame really.

Think you're being over optimistic there

New prices

K-5 and grip £260
35-80 £30
80-210 £35
DA 35mm 2.4 sold

So close to the k-3 now I can taste it

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I hope they start work on a 300mm 2.8 to go with this converter....