Bugger...

I do wish pentax would make their cameras so when a grip is attached an ac adaptor could be used to plug in and charge both batteries within the body and grip. Stops the ridiculous situation of having to remove the grip to charge the body battery up.

One of things that impressed me about the 50mm was just how sharp it was at 1.8 but i guess that depends on the body its to be used on. On my k-5 mkii it worked fine.

I would wait and see what is anounced on thursday...

I have actually been looking at this scenario and recently launched FF DSLR by other brands are less than a £1000 now, definitely pause for thought...

Bump for the 500mm price reduced to £75 inc postage

Could be down to the body used to test it on, at 18mm wide its a going to be a small point in the scene that gets focussed on.

Still an amazing feat of lens engineering.

I liked 29

Theyre all sharp and well exposed but I think the cropping needs to be more carful, number two is too lose and number three is too tight cropping the ball and the other player. Number three would have been better with just the blue player I think with the player in red cropped out all together.

Do like number one though. Ive only ever shot one football match and that was at Old Trafford. Talking to the pros there they always shot from behind the goals as thats the direction the players where always heading.mthey also suggested trying tomget the ball as closed to the player as possible unless it was goal bound off course. I hope to do some local stuff this season so will be practicing mysel