And even at 10mm, it's not too bad once corrected:

As taken

With most of the barrelling removed in PhotoShop

You lose a tiny amount of the frame (but nowhere near as much as you lose going from 10mm to 12mm), so you wouldn't want to go right to the edge with your composition, but it's worth persevering with, I think.

I quite like it apart from the enormous expanse of grey path on the left. I can't help feeling I'd prefer to see the path either cropped to the same proportion as on the right hand side, or the camera position moved right a little.

But I'm not really into the whole fish-eye thing, so probably best to ignore me.

I was away last weekend so I missed this - yes, I'd buy it too.

At what price? I don't know, but I can't imagine you'd price it unreasonably.

Maybe not that stupid, then. ISTR the K10D prices plummeted shortly before the K20D was announced.

It was there earlier - it basically had a load of marketing guff, and pictures of the items listed by the OP.

If a dealer said that to me, I would wait.

[quote="EPZ"]assisting customers directly[/quote]I hope this isn't some new definition of 'assisting' that we have yet to discover.

My vote is for 'Bo' as in 'Bo Peep', and "Que", as in "Fawlty Towers".

Come on Clarky, enough of these static subjects. They're obviously no challenge to you any more.

We want to see Jumping Spiders jumping, not sitting around posing for you.

Well I read that blog, and I'm afraid the cynic in me can't see it as positively as you do. He seems to see the discovery of Debug mode as a big mistake...

[quote="NB"]In fact our biggest mistake was being sloppy and letting this "Easter egg" be discovered.[/quote]... which just forced them to include the AF adjust as a proper feature in the K20D, in order to keep the level of flak down from the user base.

To still see such 'sloppiness' as a 'mistake', rather than a blessing in disguise, seems bad to me. The subtext is that they'd rather they'd made Debug mode much harder to find (and indeed they made it much harder to get at after 1.1 - why, for heavens sake???), and then they wouldn't have had to bother putting it in as a feature in the K20D. Customers that continued to complain about their K10D not working could just be repeatedly fobbed off until they went away, as seems to be almost official policy from Pentax Service, from the experiences of it I've read.

Hopefully, I'm being over-cynical, and the majority of cameras sent in to Pentax come back promptly and perfectly fixed. But I'd take some convincing.

And why, if
[quote="NB"]the discussions about the de-bug mode actually allowed us to convince our engineers to make this a feature in the K20D[/quote]...did the engineers need convincing in the first place. Were they under the illusion that the cameras were all going out the door perfectly adjusted?

These engineers need some convincing about more things than this. Removing the option to switch off dark-frame subtraction seems an insane decision to me - unless there's a hell of a lot of noise coming off the sensor that they need to hide.

Yeah, I know... My "it would be cool if" wasn't accompanied by any particular expectation.

Shame they don't release the source, though, after a period of time. Obvious why not, though.

Quite so. It's pointless making a huge deal out of the low-light AF hunting when there are techniques that make the problem much less of an issue. And if it's still a huge deal, well, low light AF is simply not one of Pentax's strengths.